Alliance for Freshwater Life (AFL)
The Alliance for Freshwater Life (AFL) is an interdisciplinary network of scientists, conservation professionals, educators, policy experts, creative professionals, and engaged citizens, working to improve the conservation and sustainable use of freshwater ecosystems and the biodiversity therein.
Contact: Sonja Jähnig and Michael T. Monaghan
AlterNet
Alternet brings together international natural and social science researchers from 21 European countries to integrate the understanding of biodiversity, ecosystems, and the services they provide to society and to create a platform for communication with policy-makers and the public.
Contact: Sonja Jähnig
AQUACOSM
The EU network of mesocosms facilities for research on marine and freshwater ecosystems is open for global collaboration. More than 60 different mesocosm facilities throughout Europe are involved, representing aquatic ecosystems ranging from Sub-Arctic to Mediterranean, from mountains to lowlands, from freshwater to marine, and from ultra-oligotrophic to hyper-eutrophic condition.
Contact: Stella A. Berger and Jens C. Nejstgaard
Association for the Science of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, formerly known as the Limnological Society of America and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, is a scientific society established in 1936 with the goal of advancing the sciences of limnology and oceanography.
Contact: Hans-Peter Grossart
Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research
The BeGenDiv serves as a central hub for scientists in four Leibniz institutes and two universities who use genomics and bioinformatics to study the ecological and evolutionary processes shaping biodiversity.
Contact: Michael T. Monaghan
Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)
The main objective of the Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB) is to provide the required knowledge to tackle the fundamental, global challenge of rapid biodiversity change. To achieve its goal, BBIB crosses traditional academic boundaries through integrating competences in ecological, evolutionary, social, and political sciences available in the Berlin region. BBIB is designed as a flexible institution of four universities and five non-university institutes of the Leibniz Association.
Contact: Mark O. Gessner, Hans-Peter Grossart and Jonathan Jeschke
Citizen Science Working Group of the Leibniz Association
The Citizen Science Working Group aims to pool the activities and competencies in the field of Citizen Science within the Leibniz Association and to actively introduce the topic of Citizen Science into the scientific and strategic discourse.
Contact: Franz Hölker
Climate Change Center Berlin-Brandenburg (CCC)
The CCC offers a network for climate-positive solutions in the metropol region Berlin-Brandenburg.
Contact: Dörthe Tetzlaff and Sibylle Schroer
DWA
The DWA – the network of experts for water, wastewater and waste – is a political and economical independent association for sustainable water management, promoting research and development.
Contact: Dörthe Tetzlaff and Jörg Lewandowski
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
The European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) is an academic society that brings together more than 1,500 evolutionary biologists from Europe and the rest of the world – researchers, lecturer, students, as well as journalists and other persons interested in evolution.
Contact: Matthias Stöck and Justyna Wolinska
Freshwater Information Platform
The Freshwater Information Platform provides up-to-date information on freshwater science as well as an array of research resources and tools for the assessment and management of freshwater ecosystems. The platform's focus is on Europe. Its perspective, however, is global.
Contact: Vanessa Bremerich and Sonja Jähnig
Future Earth - EvolvES
EvolvES (Evolution for Earth Sustainability) is a global research network (GRN) of the Future Earth Network. EvolvES connects evolutionary biology and diversity to human well-being, promotes the development of new strategies and tools for documenting biodiversity and studies the causes and consequences of diversification.
Contact: Luc De Meester and Sibylle Schroer
German Hydrological Society (DHG)
The DHG advances hydrology and water resources management in research, education, and practice. The core topic areas include: Hydrology, water resource management, water and solute fluxes, water pollution control and ecohydrology, inland and coastal waters, groundwater.
Contact: Dörthe Tetzlaff
German Society of Limnology
The DGL promotes limnology as an ecological discipline in teaching, research and practice, and pools the water ecology expertise of its members and communicates this to different sectors of society.
Contact: Michael Hupfer and Hans Peter Grossart
German Water Chemistry Society
The Water Chemistry Society associates chemists, biologists, limnologists, hydrogeologists, hydrologists, engineers, water research institutions, water and waste water authorities, water technology institutes and companies.
Contact: Stephanie Spahr
Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ)
The Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Gesellschaft für Ökologie, GfÖ) is an independent scientific organisation that aims at promoting basic and applied ecological sciences, encouraging collaboration across ecological disciplines, improving communication among ecologists in German-speaking countries and beyond, facilitating education in ecology at universities and institutions of higher education, fostering application and implementation of ecological knowledge in practice, and representing ecological interests in the public sphere.
Contact: Jonathan Jeschke
GLEON
The Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) conducts innovative science by sharing and interpreting high-resolution sensor data to understand, predict and communicate the role and response of lakes in a changing global environment.
Contact: Jens C. Nejstgaard and Sabine Wollrab
International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR)
The International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) is an independent organisation of engineers and water specialists working in fields related to the hydro-environmental sciences and their practical application.
Contact: Alexander Sukhodolov
International Society of Limnology (SIL)
The International Society of Limnology (SIL) was founded in 1922, currently consisting of 1250 members from 70 countries. It integrates fundamental research-driven understanding into practical questions of the use of freshwater ressources.
Contact: Thomas Mehner and Martin Pusch
Invasion Dynamics Network (InDyNet)
Since its launch in 2015, InDyNet is a network of scientists studying temporal changes in biological invasions and their impacts.
Contact: Jonathan Jeschke
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) is a science-based network of more than 10,500 volunteer experts from almost every country of the world, working together towards achieving the vision of, "A just world that values and conserves nature through positive action to reduce the loss of diversity of life on earth".
Contact: Sonja Jähnig and Jonathan Jeschke
Leibniz Research Network "Integrated Earth System Research" (iESF)
The iESF develops innovative principles of integrated Earth system research. It investigates the oceans and their use, biodiversity, environmental migration, urban-rural relationships and the potential of the bioeconomy from the perspective of the Earth system.
Contact: Dörthe Tetzlaff
Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity (LFN)
The LFN bundles and networks the expertise of 18 Leibniz institutions in the environmental, life, spatial, social and economic sciences. Since its foundation in 2008 (as the former Leibniz Research Alliance Biodiversity) the LFN has been a pioneer in the development of global and regional models in the field of climate and land use and also offers comprehensive expertise in molecular biodiversity genomics in central facilities.
Contact: Hans-Peter Grossart and Sibylle Schroer
NEOBIOTA Council
NEOBIOTA is the European Group on Biological Invasions, founded 1999 in Berlin as a consortium of scientists and environmental managers aiming to enhance integration of invasion research and strengthen approaches to counteract negative effects of introduced organisms on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human health.
Contact: Jonathan Jeschke
Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI)
In the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), data from science and research are systematically accessed, networked and made usable in a sustainable and qualitative manner for the entire German science system.
Contact: Sami Domisch and Hans-Peter Grossart
Society for Freshwater Science (SFS)
The Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) is an international scientific organization whose purpose is to promote further understanding of freshwater ecosystems and ecosystems at the interface between aquatic and terrestrial habitats (wetlands, bogs, fens, riparian forests, and grasslands). Applied aspects of their science include habitat and water quality assessment, conservation, fisheries and invasive species management, integrated water resource management, and restoration.
Contact: Mark O. Gessner and Michael T. Monaghan
Water Science Alliance e. V.
The Water Science Alliance is an initiative to strengthen water research. IGB has been a supporting member of the initiative since 2013.
Contact: Dörthe Tetzlaff and Luc De Meester
Working Group on Science to Support Conservation, Restoration and Management of Diadromous Species (WGDIAD)- ICES
The WGDIAD (formerly WGRECORDS) coordinates work on diadromous species. The network helps to deliver the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Science Plan.
Contact: Jörn Geßner
World Sturgeon Conservation Society e. V.
The WSCS acts as an international forum of scientific exchange for all those interested in pertinent issues on sturgeons while at the same time seeking opportunities for close cooperation at an international level. It was founded in 2003.
Contact: Jörn Geßner