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The Haus des Meeres awards from 1.9.2008 the "Rupert-Riedl" price (PDF in German) for supporting marine researchers in Austria and the "Ferry-Starmühlner” award (PDF in German) for supporting the research of fish.

Exploration of the sea in the concrete tower: On the 6th floor of the tower is a research station, which conducts valuable scientific work.

Jellyfish invasion at the Mediterranean. Scientists of the Haus des Meeres discovered that the jellyfish newcomer phyllorhiza punctata already breed in the Mediterranean.

“Jellyfish polyps” are the bottom living form of a Jellyfish. At the end of their life they produce at the end of their life hundreds of microscopic tiny Jellyfish.

“Success model” white-spotted jellyfish, which previously lived only in the tropical Indopacific.

In the Haus des Meeres valuable research on seahorse nutrition is done.

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Plankton algae are the basis of our artificial food chain. In big cylinders different plankton species are raised for the youngsters.

Copepod prior to egg deposition.

Precious plankton: the Nauplius stadium of a copepod.

The Haus des Meeres also supports marine research by providing marine organisms. Thanks to that, the University of Vienna was recently able to analyze flatworm via electron-microscope.

On this list, you can find the species which are currently available to research.

Furthermore the Haus des Meeres plans cooperation with the company SeaLife Pharma GmbH, which searches for pharmacological active substances at the sea.