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Uwe Kils (b. July 10, 1951) is a German marine biologist specializing in Antarctic biology. He is currently an associate professor of marine science at Rutgers University. Before his academic career in marine science Kils worked as a bricklayer, then studied to become a luthier. His father was a master-photographer, and Kils apprenticed at his father's atelier. He studied informatics and computer sciences at college in the United States, then returned to Germany to finish Gymansium to gain his eligibility to study biology.

He finished Biology with Herre and Tischler and was accepted into the Institut for Meereskunde. He was offered a position to join an expedition to Antarctica. On 1979 May 16 he reached his Doctor Title in Marine Biology with a work on behaviour and physiology of krill in antarctica under Gotthilf Hempel] graduating summa cum laude and opus eximium. His dissertation was translated and published in English as a book.

Kils was instrumental in working together with Loki Schmidt in raising the funding for the new German polar program and the RV Polarstern.

Titanium microengineering and optical raytracing at Joseph Menke and Dynat.

Aquaculture and pollution work in Norway and Finland with Kari Rouhunen and Timo Meakkinen.

1987 he received Habilitations and venia legendi in Marine Biology and Fisheries Biology from the University of Kiel under Gotthilf Hempel and Walter Nellen with the highest grades.

His work led to the development of various instruments for in situ observation of the underwater fauna for field research, including the ecoSCOPE and the first ever software for full speed video processing dynIMAGE. Later work at Kiel included the study of predator-prey interactions of juvenile herring and plankton, for which a floating laboratory was built called ATOLL The ATOLL was composed of three curved fiberglass elements, each 25 m long and having a draught of only 38 cm. For towing, the elements could be assembled in a long S-shape; in operation, the elements would form a horseshoe shape surrounding 150 m² water surface and was developed and deployed in the Bay of Kiel.

Work there led to the discovery of severe case of oxygen depletion Template:Inote and to Kils' involvement in an initiative to repopulate the Flensburg Fjord with herring as part of the project "Saubere Ostsee" ("Clean Baltic").

His work was honored by the HEINZ MAIER LEIBNITZ PRIZE, the HEISENBERG PRIZE and the 500 000 BIOSCIENCE PRIZE of the VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION. He is founder and president of the private KINDER UNIVERSITYand ELITE UNIVERSITY.

Subsequently, Kils was invited by the INSTITUTE OF MARINE AND COASTAL SCIENCES at Rutgers University via an EB1 Visa (for such 4 greencard visa you need a major internationally recognized prize in the same class as the Nobel Prize, where he became a tenured associate professor in 1994 helping to set up a "Virtual Institute for Marine Sciences" at Tuckerton with online underwater cameras via fibre optic cables. He wrote the article about antarctic krill. A few days later it became cover page article, a few days later cover page in Danmark.

He programmed the virtual microscope. He worked with glasseels at the project Longterm Ecological Observatory and created the web server eelBASE.

He still works with high resolution images and develops online projects like the lecture Biology of Antarctica at Wikiversity .

• Small lecture room on board with international students in a course on aquaculture technology
• In situ image taken with an ecoSCOPE. A green spit ball is visible in the lower right of the image and a green fecal string in the lower left. Nobody ever reached this resolution.
• Slow-motion macrophotography video (50%) of juvenile Atlantic herring (38 mm) feeding on copepods—the fish approach from below and catch each copepod individually. In the middle of the image a copepod escapes successfully to the left. The image-frame is shifted to make it easyer for our eye to follow the ultrafast process.
• Glasseel totally transparent - the video is so sharp that you can see when the glasseel flips over a sand grain

References

• Kils, U.: "Swimming Behavior, Swimming Performance, and Energy Balance of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba, translation of Ph.D. thesis in German from 1979, College Station, Texas; 1981. Available free via Wikisource
• List of winners of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 1978 - 2003, from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ("German Research Society").
• Kils, U.: The ecoSCOPE and dynIMAGE: microscale tools for in situ studies of predator-prey interactions. Arch Hydrobiol Beih 36: 83-96.
• Kils, U.: The ATOLL Laboratory and other Instruments Developed at Kiel; U.S. GLOBEC NEWS Technology Forum Number 8: 6-9.
• Mentioned at .
• KILS, U., KLAGES, N. (1979) Der Krill. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 10, 397 - 402
• Kils, U. 1987) Verhaltensphysiologische Untersuchungen an pelagischen Schwärmen - Schwarmbildung als Strategie zur Orientierung in Umwelt-Gradienten. Bedeutung der Schwarmbildung in der Aquakultur (Habilitation), Universität Kiel, Ber Inst Meereskunde, Kiel 163: 1 - 168
• Kils, U. (1983) Swimming and feeding of Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba - some outstanding energetics and dynamics - some unique morphological details. In: Berichte zur Polarforschung, Alfred-Wegener-Institut fuer Polarforschung, Sonderheft 4 (1983). On the biology of Krill Euphausia superba, Proceedings of the Seminar and Report of Krill Ecology Group, ed. S. B. Schnack, 130 - 155
• Kils, U., Marschall, P. (1995) Der Krill, wie er schwimmt und frisst - neue Einsichten mit neuen Methoden. (The Antarctic krill - feeding and swimming performances - new insights with new methods). In: Hempel, I., Hempel, G., Biologie der Polarmeere - Erlebnisse und Ergebnisse. Gustav Fischer Jena - Stuttgart - New York, 201 - 207
• Kils, U., (2000) IMAGES: Krill Stuff. ed. Kayser j., Science 290 (5496): Net watch online publication ecoSCOPE.com - enhanced IT tools and translation of Kils, U., Marschall, P. 1995
• Kils, U., (2006) So frisst der Krill How krill feeds. In: Hempel, G., Hempel, I., Schiel, S., Faszination Meeresforschung, Ein oekologisches Lesebuch. Hauschild Bremen, 112 - 115

Footnotes

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External links

• Publication list
• short CV

Template:Fishery personality topics

• 1951 births
• Living people
• German scientists
• Oceanographers
• Fisheries science