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The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) is a non-university marine research institute. Its research covers coastal and marginal seas with a special focus on the Baltic Sea ecosystem, organised into five departments: Physical Oceanography, Marine Chemistry, Biological Oceanography, Marine Geosciences and Marine Observations. It also operates research infrastructure for the scientific community, including the ODIN 2 measurement database with more than 90 million entries since 1877.

The institute is a foundation under public law and a member of the Leibniz Association, funded jointly by the Federal Government and the Länder. Its 2025 total budget was 28.4 million EUR, of which 18.7 million EUR was institutional funding and 9.7 million EUR third-party or other income. Its clients are the scientific community and public research funding, and it offers publicly advertised jobs, awards, scholarships and internships.

The institute is located on the Warnemünde seafront in Rostock, Germany, and operates the research vessel Elisabeth Mann Borgese, which is in operation around 200 days each year. As of 31 December 2025 it had 262 staff, including student assistants, of whom 148 were researchers. Current listings include a full-time finance and third-party funding management position.

Product: Marine research, Baltic Sea research data and the ODIN 2 measurement database