Dominik Bahlburg

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PhD student

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Dominik Bahlburg

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Chair of Forest Biometrics and Systems Analysis

Chair of Forest Biometrics and Systems Analysis

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Research interests

After jumping from sea bird ecology to fisheries science to theoretical ecology, I landed in polar marine ecology with a main focus on Antarctic krill. I like combining tools and data from different fields such as experimental and field ecology as well as mathematical modelling or physical oceanography in order to get a mechanistic understanding of the system/organism I am working with.

My doctoral research study is part of the project 'KRILL'. The goal of KRILL is to develop an individual-based model for Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and couple it with an oceanographic model of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. The project aims to answer questions related to spatio-temporal population dynamics of Antarctic krill as well as improve the understanding of krill life history and its response to a changing Antarctic ecosystem in the light of global warming. Antarctic krill is one of the most abundant species on earth, the key component of the marine Antarctic food web as well as the target of an increasing international fishery which. The project is run in cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig/Halle and the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge.

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Abridged CV

• 2012-2016 B.Sc. Environmental Sciences, Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg
• February-July 2016: Visiting International Research student (hosted by Dr. Mary O’Connor), University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• 2016-2019 M.Sc. Marine Environmental Sciences, Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg
• July-August 2017 Research student in lab of Dr. Øyvind Fiksen, University of Bergen
• since 2019 PhD-student at Technical University Dresden/Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig

Field studies

• March-May 2018 RV Polarstern cruise PS112 to Antarctica
• July-August 2015 RV Walther Herwig III ICES-IBT-GSBTS fisheries survey
• October - November 2014 RV Walther Herwig III Greenland Survey
• September 2013 RV Solea CRANGON project
• April 2013 RV Solea CRANGON project

Publications

Peer-reviewed journals

• Bahlburg, D., Meyer, B., & Berger, U. (2021). The impact of seasonal regulation of metabolism on the life history of Antarctic krill. Ecological Modelling 442, 109427.

Posters

• Bahlburg D., Fiksen Ø. (2017): The clogging of salps - starving in a cloud of food
• Bahlburg D, Gutt J. (2014): Biogeographic patterns of epibenthic communities in subpolar Greenlandic shelf waters