Uwe Kils is a German

marine biologist Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifi ...

specializing in Antarctic biology.

Career

His work led to the development of instruments for ''in situ'' observation of underwater fauna, including the ecoSCOPE and the first software for full speed video processing. Later work at Kiel included the study of predator-prey interactions of juvenile herring and

plankton Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms found in water (or air) that are unable to propel themselves against a current (or wind). The individual organisms constituting plankton are called plankters. In the ocean, they provide a crucia ...

, for which a floating laboratory was built called

ATOLL An atoll () is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely. There may be coral islands or cays on the rim. Atolls are located in warm tropical or subtropical oceans and seas where corals can gr ...

.Kils, U.: ; U.S. GLOBEC NEWS Technology Forum Number 8: 6–9.

Awards

Photos by Kils

File:Salmonlarvakils.jpg, Salmon egg hatching (''Salmo salar'') File:Amphipodredkils.jpg, Amphipod image (possibly Ampeliscidae) File:Krilleyekils.jpg, Compound eye of the Antarctic krill ''

Euphausia superba Antarctic krill (''Euphausia superba'') is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. It is a small, swimming crustacean that lives in large schools, called swarms, sometimes reaching densities of 10,000–30,000 ind ...

'' File:Icefishuk.jpg, Larvae of an Antarctic icefish

Selected publications

* 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

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* 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

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)

(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., (2006) "So frisst der Krill" How krill feeds. In: Hempel, G., Hempel, I., Schiel, S., ''Faszination Meeresforschung, Ein oekologisches Lesebuch''. Hauschild Bremen, 112–115.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kils, Uwe 1951 births Living people German marine biologists Fisheries scientists 20th-century German zoologists 21st-century German zoologists