Programme 04.04.2024

14:00 Welcome - Mitchell G. Ash, Heiner Fangerau
14:15 Introduction - Karen Kastenhofer
14:45 The organisational role model: Naples (chair: Karen Kastenhofer)
Katharina Steiner: Science from Below? Knowledge Production at the Naples Zoological Station 1880-1913
Fabio De Sio, Heiner Fangerau: “The peer and leader of them all“. Scientific mission and internationality of the Naples Zoological Station after World War I

16:00 Break
16:30 Northern Adriatic Sea: Trieste, Chioggia, Rovinj (chair: Wolfgang L. Reiter)
Gerhard Aubrecht, Josef Dalla Via, Fritz Schiemer, Verena Stagl, Manfred Walzl: K.k. Zoologische Station Triest 1875 until 1915 – history of foundation, management, research and co-operations
Johannes Mattes: State- and/or privately-run research? The Natural Scientific Adriatic Society in Vienna, (inter)nationalism and research vessels in the Austrian Littoral, 1900–1914
Elena Canadelli: Biological stations and the study of marine life: Umberto D'Ancona and the Hydrobiological Station of Chioggia (1940–1964)
18:30 Break
19:00 Keynote (chair: Johannes Feichtinger)
Pam Ballinger: Who owns science? Transnational entanglements in marine science and the case of the Rovinj Biological Station, 1891-1930

Programme 05.04.2024

09:00 Northern Sea: Kristineberg and Helgoland (chair: Heiner Fangerau)
Frankie Ekerholm: Domesticating science by the sea: social and organizational aspects of the Kristineberg Zoological Station, 1877-1892
Christian Salewski: Die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Biologischen Forschungsstationen um die Jahrhundertwende am Beispiel der Königlich Biologischen Anstalt Helgoland (1892-1918)
10:15 Break
10:45 Northern Sea and Atlantic Ocean, White Sea and Barents Sea (chair: Karen Kastenhofer)
Marion Maisonobe, Niki Vermeulen: Connecting marine observatories: the Station Biologique de Roscoff and the Scottish Marine Station for Scientific Research
Julia Lajus, Erki Tammiksaar: Marine biological stations on the Northern Seas of the Russian Empire
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Experimental stations and limnological stations in Austria, Switzerland and Sweden (chair: Fabio De Sio)
Klaus Taschwer: Die Biologische Versuchsanstalt in Wien: Zu einigen Besonderheiten einer ungewöhnlichen Forschungseinrichtung
Astrid Schwarz: Claiming the lake as a laboratory in the field: experimental aquatic research in Switzerland and Sweden
Thomas Mayer: Süßwasserwissen. Die Anfänge der Biologischen Station Lunz
15:30 Break
16:00 Concluding panel facilitated by Carola Sachse
17:00 Outlook and farewell

Conference language: German and English
Contact: Karen.Kastenhofer@oeaw.ac.at