Frederik Furkert
Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries
Fields of Activity
- Scientist in the working group Fisheries and Survey Technology
- Working in the project: Hydrography on Fishing Vessels (HyFiVe)
- Development of a hydrographic measurement system for autonomous operation on fishing vessels, consisting of
- a modular data logger for CTD + O2,
- a deck box for positioning and transmitting the data and
- a server for data processing.
- Carrying out the entire development process from definition of requirements to manufacturing a series of 10 prototypes
- Development of a hydrographic measurement system for autonomous operation on fishing vessels, consisting of
- Development of the shrimp sorting grid KingGrid from the initial idea to the production and testing of prototypes
Research Interests
- Ocean technology
- Measurement technology
- Research and development, product development, hard- and software development
Scientific background
2021 - Sep 2024: Scientist at Thünen-Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries in the project „HyFiVe – Hydrography on Fishing Vessels“
2018 – 2021: Project leader at Baltic Diver (Baltic Taucherei- und Bergungsbetrieb Rostock GmbH)
2015 – 2018: Scholarship from ‘German Academic Scholarship Foundation’
2015 – 2018: Master in environmental engineering science at University Rostock
2012 – 2013: Two semesters aboard at Lund University, Sweden
2010 – 2014: Bachelor in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin
Publications
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Björner M, Furkert F, Hermann A, Wagner R, Neubert S, Naumann M (2024) Evaluation of low-cost hydrographic sensors for increased monitoring density in coastal oceans. In: 2024 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium : July 23-25, 2024, Naples, Italy ; IEEE SAS 2024 Symposium Proceedings. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE, DOI:10.1109/SAS60918.2024.10636439
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Hermann A, Furkert F, Björner M, Naumann M, Stepputtis D, Gag M, Klein S (2024) HyFiVe: hydrography on fishing vessels ; A new monitoring system enables cost effective and scalable ocean monitoring. J Applied Hydrography(129):12-18, DOI:10.23784/HN129-02
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Hermann A, Stepputtis D, Furkert F, Björner M, Naumann M (2023) Hydrography on fishing vessels - a feasability study leads to an open source development. In: Proceedings of the 15th international workshop on methods for the development and evaluation of maritime technologies (DEMat), 12.-15.09.2022, Rostock, Germany. pp 91-101
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Santos J, Furkert F, Stepputtis D, Schütz A (2023) Neues Sortiergitter-Konzept zur Beifangreduktion in der Krabbenfischerei. Fischerblatt 71(12):21-25
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Björner M, Naumann M, Furkert F, Stepputtis D, Hermann A, Gag M, Eilek S, Wagner R (2022) Using an open source approach to remotely collect reliable environmental data. In: EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria & Online, 23-27 May 2022., DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2722
Further Publications
- Development results of the HyFiVe project under open source license at
- 2nd place in the competition for science communication „Rostock’s Eleven“ 2023 with the presentation “Fishing for Data - Marine monitoring as ‘desired bycatch’ in fisheries”
- Winner of the public poster exhibition “Research Supporting the German Fisheries and Aquaculture” of the VDFF e.V. at the Deutscher Fischereitag 2024 with the poster Hydrography on Fishing Vessels (HyFiVe)