Rostock’s Eleven 2023: Frederik Furkert took second place

For the 14^th time, the association [Rostock thinks 365°] organized the competition in science communication "Rostock's Eleven", which offers young scientists a stage for their exciting research topics. Coordinated by the association, eleven science journalists from all over Germany get an intensive insight into the research of eleven young scientists and into highly innovative research projects of the eleven scientific institutions involved. At the end of the event, the participating journalists award prizes for the presentations.

First place this year went to Annkatrin Pahl, research associate and doctoral student at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) Dummerstorf. In her lecture "Best friend, stupid cow - about the social relationships of cattle" she explained that a better understanding of the social life of farm animals is essential for improving animal welfare.

Frederik Furkert won the second place with his presentation "Fishing for Data - Ocean Monitoring as "Desirable By-Catch" in Fisheries". He showed that science and industry need significantly more data about the oceans than is currently collected. He presented the project HyFiVe as a solution with which the spatial and temporal resolution of hydrographic data can be significantly increased. In this project, as an engineer at the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, he is developing an open-source measuring system that uses fishing nets as a measuring platform ("vessels of opportunity"). This is done in cooperation with partners at Leibniz-IOW and Hensel Elektronik GmbH from Rostock. The measuring system essentially consists of a sensor carrier that is mounted on the fishing gear and a deck unit that transmits the data. Onshore, the data is automatically checked and made accessible to users in international databases.

Projekt HyFiVe

More Informationen on Rostock`s Eleven website (in German)

Contact: Frederik Furkert