Projects
Projects
Current projects
WSMPA (2022-2026): Weddell Sea Marine Protected Area (2022-2026): Designation and Management of the Weddell Sea Marine Protected Area Extended Project Area: Krill Stock Assessment and management, funded by the German Ministry of Nutrition and Forestry (BMEL).
OysterClock (2022-2025): Exploring the drivers of Ostreaedulis phenology to understand their resilience and resettlementsuccess in the German North Sea, funded via the Program INSPIRED of the Alfred Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
KrillBehav (2024-2026): Seasonal variability of the daily vertical migration behaviour and biology of Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, funded via a fellowship from the Shanghai Ocean University.
Completed projects
CHASE: CHronobiology of changing Arctic Sea Ecosystems (2018-2020) - Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
KiGuMi: Krill Gut Microbiome project (2020-2023) - Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
MEMAREs: Understanding the MEchanistic bases of MArine clocks and Rhythms in the Antarctic key species Euphausia superba (2021-2024) - DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm “SPP1158 - Antarctic Research with Comparative Investigations in Arctic Ice Areas” of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
PEKRIS II: The PErformance of KRIll vs. Salps to withstand in a warming Southern Ocean II (2019-2022) - Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
KrillBIS II: KrillBestandsforschung Im Südpolarmeer II (2019-2022) - German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
PEKRIS: The PErformance of KRIll vs. Salps to withstand in a warming Southern Ocean (2016-2019) - German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
KrillBIS: KrillBestandsforschung Im Südpolarmeer (2016-2019) - German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
POSER: POpulation Shift and Ecosystem Response – Krill vs. Salps (2016-2020) - Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (MWK)
PolarTime: Biological timing in a changing marine environment: Clocks and rhythms in polar pelagic organisms (2013-2018) - Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Helmholtz)