Available courses

The objective of the training is to deliver practical lab (and minor bioinformatics skills) on a small and relatively affordable DNA sequencing device, the MinION from Oxford Nanopores Technologies. We go from tissue to COI reference DNA barcode within the WAMBA-net summer school 2024 at the Université Nangui Abrogoua, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Although this lab focused training targets the generation of a reference DNA barcode database, the same protocol can be used to monitor biodiversity with eDNA.

The KoboToolbox is a robust and versatile tool for data collection in remote areas. It has been developed and introduced in 2005 by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and is specifically designed to support data acquisition in challenging conditions. It is an open-source tool and can be used for free on the main KoboToolbox server or run on own servers. The application does not use much battery and the app design is simple requiring minimal graphical performance. The possibility to collect data while offline and dataset management opportunities on the server are specific strengths of the tool.

This online training will present basics on data collection as part of the data research life cycle, and teach you in practice how to set up an own KoboToolbox survey. Contact alexandra.nozik@leibniz-zmt.de for feedback.

This course offers asynchronous training on GIS (Geographical Information System) applications.

Monitoring the Status of Marine Coastal Ecosystems

The workshop is scheduled for September 26 – October 21, 2022. Foto© by Jordan Casey. Please visit the ZMT website for further information. Here you find a short report.

Marine Research in an Inter- and Transdisciplinary Environment. The course aims to introduce participants to ZMT´s mission and vision and to establish a relation to their own research project. This includes a reflection on the research design of their project and on concepts of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity which are central to ZMT.

Eventhough it was initially designed for Doctoral candidates we feel that also Postdocs, especially when they are new at ZMT, can profit from the course - and be a contribution to the course at the same time. 

Beim deutschlandweiten Girls / Boys Day (auch Zukunftstag) beteiligt sich das ZMT mit diesem digitalen Angebot. Hier wird Arbeits- und Informationsmaterial bereitgestellt. Im begleitenden Videotreffen am 28.4.2022 werden exemplarisch Berufswege vorgestellt und Raum zur Diskussion gegeben. Beispielhaft werden am Thema Korallenriff und Nachhaltigkeit Arbeitsfelder des Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung aufgezeigt.


Marine Research in an Inter- and Transdisciplinary Environment. The course aims to introduce participants to ZMT´s mission and vision and to establish a relation to their own research project. This includes a reflection on the research design of their project and on concepts of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity which are central to ZMT.

Eventhough it was initially designed for Doctoral candidates we feel that also Postdocs, especially when they are new at ZMT, can profit from the course - and be a contribution to the course at the same time. 

Marine Research in an Inter- and Transdisciplinary Environment. The course aims to introduce participants to ZMT´s mission and vision and to establish a relation to their own research project. This includes a reflection on the research design of their project and on concepts of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity which are central to ZMT.

Eventhough it was initially designed for Doctoral candidates we feel that also Postdocs, especially when they are new at ZMT, can profit from the course - and be a contribution to the course at the same time. 

Beim deutschlandweiten Girls / Boys Day (auch Zukunftstag) beteiligt sich das ZMT mit diesem digitalen Angebot. Hier wird Arbeits- und Informationsmaterial bereitgestellt. Im begleitenden Videotreffen am 22.4.2021 werden exemplarisch Berufswege vorgestellt und Raum zur Diskussion gegeben. Beispielhaft werden am Thema Korallenriff und Nachhaltigkeit Arbeitsfelder des Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung aufgezeigt.