Klaas Gerdes

Guest Scientists, Dept. Crustacea
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Academic degrees:
Since 2015
- PhD student, Centre for Natural History (CENAK), Department German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB) in the project "INDEX" in the Indian Ocean
Research project:
The characterisation and community structures of the deep sea megafauna of active and inactive hydrothermal fields on the South Central Indian Ridge and the South Eastern Indian Ridge.
2011-2015
- Master of Science in Biology (Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg): Deep-Sea benthic megafauna of the southern Central Indian Ridge: The community structure of active and inactive hydrothermal vent fields and it´s periphery based on video imagery and photographs.
2008-2011
- Bachelor of Science in Biology (Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg): Diurnal emergence and recolonization of harpacticoid copepods in an intertidal sandflat of the Island of Wangerooge.
Travel abroad and research stays:
2017
- Exploration of massive sulphides in the Indian Ocean - INDEX 2017 with RV Sonne - Colombo (Sri Lanka) - Cape Town (South Africa) - 25.08.2017- 13.10.2017.
2016
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Exploration of massive sulphides in the Indian Ocean - INDEX 2016.2 with RV Maria S. Merian - Port Louis (Mauritius) - Port Louis (Mauritius) - 28.11.2016- 22.12.2016.
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Exploration of massive sulphides in the Indian Ocean - INDEX 2016.1 with RV Pourquoi pas? - St Denis (Reunion) - St Denis (Reunion) - 03.01.2016- 03.02.2016.
2015
- Exploration of massive sulphides in the Indian Ocean - INDEX 2015 with RV Pelagia - St Denis (Reunion) - St Denis (Reunion) - 19.11.2015- 13.12.2015.
2013
- Exploration of massive sulphides in the Indian Ocean - INDEX 2013 with RV Sonne - Port Hedland (Australia) - Port Louis (Mauritius) - 23.10.2013- 21.12.2013
2012
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Monitoring of the bottom fish fauna in the German EEZ of the North Sea with the FFS Solea (Voyage 665) - Cuxhaven - Cuxhaven - 30.11.2012- 20.12.2012
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IBTS (International Bottom Trawl Survey) and GSBTS (German Small Scale Bottom Trawl Survey) with FFS Walther Herwig III (voyage 356) - Bremerhaven - Bremerhaven - 19.07.2012- 16.08.2012.
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Hydroacoustic recordings to determine the pelagic fish distribution in SD 22 and SD 24 with the FFS Walther Herwig III (Voyage 353/ 2nd Leg) - Warnemünde - Warnemünde - 18.04.2012- 25.04.2012
Publications:
- Alexandra Segelken-Voigt, Klaas Gerdes, Achim Wehrmann, Pedro Martinez Arbizu, Thomas Glatzel (2017). Light or tide? Effects on the emergence and recolonization of harpacticoid copepods from sand flats of the Wadden Sea (southern North Sea). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.08.008.