On May 15, 2025, numerous scientific and educational institutions from the Rostock region once again hosted the “Long Night of Science” at various Rostock city locations. Guided by the motto “Curiosity never sleeps!”, the interested public was invited to chat with researchers between 4 p. m. and 10 p. m. The IOW participated with an info station in the physics research building on the Südstadt campus of the University of Rostock.

In its presentation, the IOW focused on marine measurement technology, long-term data series from the Baltic Sea as well as on modelling and simulations regarding various Baltic Sea topics. Main eye-catchers were a special measuring buoy that is used in shallow water areas, a touch table for presenting long-term data, a model experiment to illustrate a major saltwater inflow from the North Sea into the Baltic Sea and data on the methane leakage from the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which were sabotaged in 2022.

Several hundred interested visitors of all ages made sure that the IOW team was busy until the very end of the science night event. Both, the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the Research Institute of Farm Animal Biology (FBN), presented themselves at the same venue.

Programme of the Long Night of Science 2025 (in German): lange-nacht-des-wissens.de