Louisa Alina Schulz (PhD student)

Expertise

• Sampling and taxonomic determination of macrozoobenthos from the North Sea and Baltic Sea
• Macrozoobenthos monitoring and ecological assessment (BQI and MarBIT) for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and HELCOM in the outer coastal waters of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• Scientific diver

CV

since 12.2023 - today: PhD student at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde in the working group "Ecology of benthic organisms", BfN project ArKoBi: "Investigations on the contribution of the ocean quahog (Arctica islandica) to carbon storage and biodiversity in the Baltic Sea"

2022 - 2023: Research assistant at the Institute of Fish and Environment

2019 - 2021: Master's degree in Marine Biology at the University of Rostock

2016 - 2019: Bachelor's degree in Biology at the Free University of Berlin

2016: Abitur

Projects

Project ArKoBi

Investigations on the contribution of Arctica islandica to carbon storage and biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

Project funding: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

Project duration: 01/12/2023 - 30/09/2026