In October 2023 Baltic TRANSCOAST conducted an Autumn School on the wadden sea island Spiekeroog for internal and associated PhD candidates to amend the mostly Baltic Sea focussed curriculum with lectures and excursions on tide dominated coastal systems.

On the way to the island, we visited the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (Wilhelmshaven site) and got very interesting insights into scientific topics and facilities by the working groups there.

In addition to lectures about for example physical oceanography of the Wadden Sea, dune succession and coastal protection, the highlights were a lecture about Subterranean Estuaries and a complementing visit to the DynaDeep field sites with Prof. Gudrun Massmann (Univiersity of Oldenburg). Furthermore, an introduction to the sea4society project by Dariya Bayko (University of Oldenburg) and excursions on Geology, Ecology and Ornithology of the island with local experts form Nationalpark-Haus Wittbülten and NLWKN.