Gymnasium Ohmoor: Hamburg, Germany

Hello All Global Water Samplers!

Looking at the map of the participants in the Water Sampling Project (http://k12science.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/water97/) we seem to be the "bridge over troubled water".

Hamburg (http://www.hamburg.de/) is a town of about 1.700.000 inhabitants in the North of Germany. Situated at the river ............ (please add the name yourself, to know what region we are talking about) it is a big harbour and with that a place for trade and merchandizing. Connected with that there are different problems with the ecology in that area. There are some hints in an digitalized Environmental Atlas (http://www.hamburg.de/Behoerden/Umweltbehoerde/duawww/dea8/about.htm) our administration prepared.

Our school is situated in the South-East/ North-West (decide with the help of the satellit image (http://www.desy.de/~btissler/ and a click on one of the computersupported projects at our school). Unfortunatelly there are only a few pages written in English, but you may get an impression on your own follwing the pictures and links.

As you see there are different activities concerning our ecological work at school. Since 1990 we are collecting datas from the river Tarpenbek. Carl.Bautsch (http://home.t-online.de/home/Carl.Bautsch/index.htm) gives you a short impression of our work we are doing in cooperation with G.R.E.E.N. (Global Rivers Environmental Education Network, http://www.desy.de:8888/~btissler/projekte.html#GREEN) and GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment

http://www.globe-germany.de (national)
http://www.globe.gov (international)
http://www.desy.de:8888/~btissler/projekte.html
http://www.desy.de/~btissler/globe.html

I was /am coordinating in Germany.

We are cooperating with other schools around the world in the GLOBE Program (http://globe.fsl.noaa.gov/GSI/NAV/MAP/Virtual.html?Init), have a twin-school in Sweden (http://www.fredrika.se/ )and partnership to the Columbuscenter (http://www.columbuscenter.org) in Baltimore /USA. We are just starting the "field to flask- Project" (http://www.columbuscenter.org/~adam/f2f/index.html) at our schoolpond, later spreading these methods to our schools at the river ELBE ( ;-) ) (see: http://www.rivernet.org and http://www.umwelt.org/elbeprojekt/ ) from the source in the Czech-Republic to the Nothsea.

So long,

Bernd Tissler
use: b.tissler@umwelt.ecolink.org