Fritz Richard Karbe

Extensive Metocean fieldwork, Management of offshore operations Build, setup, servicing and repair of a vast range of oceanographic and other equipment including real time weather observation systems Preparation of technical documentation and establish technical procedures Preparing HSE documentation and leading HSE meetings offshore Cost control / economic discipline Advise project managers on technical details and vessel requirements for specific work

Project management and event planning, advise customers about technical possibilities. Extensive event engineering, installing and controlling light and sound technologies, stage and scenery building.

Research Associate with the Institute for Environmental Physics. Extended field work on several Research Vessels. Strength and Variability of the deep western boundary current off Flemish cap. Estimation of transports using moored measurement arrays. Tutoring Bsc Environmental Physics candidates. Lecturing and tutoring physical Oceanography. Lecturing and tutoring physical-chemistry Lab courses for Physicists and Mathematicians.

Extended field work on several Research Vessels. Microstructure Measurement Probe development and data interpretation. Tracer release experiments in the tropical Atlantic to survey oxygen minimum zones. Strength and Variability of near bottom hydrography and currents at the Logatchev-Hydrothermal-Vent field. Importance of diapycnal mixing, tidal advection, entrainment and background currents in the vicinity of active hydrothermal venting sites.

Physical Oceanography, Theoretical Oceanography, Marine Biogeochemistry, Climatology. Diploma-Thesis: „On the Estimation of Turbulent Mixing from High Frequency Lowered ADCP Data in the Tropical Atlantic“.