Dr. Mischa Schönke
Position: Postdoc
Seestrasse 15
18119 Rostock
Expertise
Marine Geophysics • Marine Geology • Hydroacoustic • Habitat Mapping • Remote Sensing • Signal Analysis • Data Processing • Geographic Information System (GIS)
Link to my Research Gate Profile
CV
OTC-SMART (BMBF Project) | since Jul. 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
“Development of a real-time AI assistant system for autonomous hydroacoustic data acquisition and validation.”
Ocean Citizen (EU Project) | Jul. 2023 – Jun. 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
“A multidisciplinary approach linking science and society for the restoration and protection of marine forests.”
WaveTeam (DFG Project) | Dec. 2022 – Feb. 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
“Investigation of sediment wave formation processes on the northwestern African continental slope.”
MGF-North Sea (DAM Project) | Jun. 2022 – Dec. 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute
“Impact of the exclusion of mobile bottom-contact fishing (MGF) in marine protected areas in the North Sea.”
MGF-Baltic Sea (DAM Project) | May 2020 – Apr. 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
“Impact of the exclusion of mobile bottom-contact fishing (MGF) in marine protected areas in the Baltic Sea.”
SOCLIS – SONNE (BMBF Project) | Jan. 2019 – Apr. 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
“Investigation of the South China Sea as a natural laboratory under climatic and anthropogenic stress.”
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) | Mar. 2016 – Mar. 2020
At the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, in cooperation with the University of Greifswald
Focus areas: Marine Geophysics, Hydroacoustics
Thesis: “Combined analysis of mm-scale topography and acoustic scatter to improve the remote survey of marine habitats”
M.Sc. in Geophysics | Oct. 2013 – Feb. 2016
At Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Focus areas: Marine Geophysics, Signal Analysis
Thesis: “The Importance of mm-scale Seafloor Roughness for Habitat Monitoring: Development and Application of an Underwater Laser Line Scanning System”
B.Sc. in Geosciences | Aug. 2010 – Dec. 2013
At Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), in cooperation with WTD 71, Kiel
Focus areas: Coastal Geology, Marine Geophysics
Thesis: “Characteristics of the Depth Distribution of Backscatter as a Function of Tidal Currents”
Publications
2026
- Schönke, M., I. Schulze, M. Gogina, C. v. Dorrien, D. Oesterwind and P. Feldens (2026). What AIS misses and Acoustics reveal: Monitoring seafloor disturbance and recovery from bottom trawling in the southern Baltic Sea over five years. Ecological Informatics 94: 103638, doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.103638
2025
- Packmor, J., K. H. George, M. Schönke and P. Martínez Arbizu (2025). Baseline studies on meiofauna in the Baltic Sea before bottom-trawl fisheries exclusion I: comparison of communities in the Fehmarn Belt (western Baltic Sea), with special reference to the Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda). Mar. Biodivers. 55: 11, doi: 10.1007/s12526-024-01488-8
- Schulze, I., M. Schönke, P. Feldens and S. Papenmeier (2025). Temporal evolution of anchor tracks on a silty seafloor (Eckernförde Bay/Baltic Sea). Front. Remote Sens. 6, doi: 10.3389/frsen.2025.1576192
2024
- Böttner, C., C. J. Stevenson, R. Englert, M. Schönke, B. T. Pandolpho, J. Geersen, P. Feldens and S. Krastel (2024). Extreme erosion and bulking in a giant submarine gravity flow. Sci. Adv. 10: eadp2584, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adp2584
- Rooze, J., M. A. Zeller, M. Gogina, P. Roeser, J. Kallmeyer, M. Schönke, H. Radtke and M. E. Böttcher (2024). Bottom-trawling signals lost in sediment: A combined biogeochemical and modeling approach to early diagenesis in a perturbed coastal area of the southern Baltic Sea. Sci. Total Environ. 906: 167551, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167551
2023
- Dellwig, O., A. Köhler, F. Kurzweil, M. Schönke, A. Wegwerth, S. Krüger, R. Mars, S. Plewe, I. Schuffenhauer, R. Zhang, H. C. Frazão, J. J. Waniek and H. W. Arz (2023). Behaviors of redox-sensitive tungsten and molybdenum in the northern South China Sea: From the Pearl River to the continental slope. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 292: 108485, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108485
- Reineccius, J., M. Schönke and J. J. Waniek (2023). Abiotic long-term simulation of microplastic weathering pathways under different aqueous conditions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 57: 963-975, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c05746
2022
- Schönke, M., D. Clemens and P. Feldens (2022). Quantifying the physical impact of bottom trawling based on high-resolution bathymetric data. Remote Sens. 14: 2782, doi: 10.3390/rs14122782
2021
- Schulze, I., D. Wilken, M. L. Zettler, M. Gogina, M. Schönke and P. Feldens (2021). Laboratory measurements to image endobenthos and bioturbation with a high-frequency 3d seismic lander. Geosciences 11: 508, doi: 10.3390/geosciences11120508
2020
- Czechowska, K., P. Feldens, F. Tuya, M. Cosme de Esteban, F. Espino, R. Haroun, M. Schönke and F. Otero-Ferrer (2020). Testing side-scan sonar and multibeam echosounder to study black coral gardens: A case study from Macaronesia. Remote Sens. 12: 3244, doi: 10.3390/rs12193244
2019
- Schönke, M., L. Wiesenberg, I. Schulze, D. Wilken, A. Darr, S. Papenmeier and P. Feldens (2019). Impact of sparse benthic life on seafloor roughness and high-frequency acoustic scatter. Geosciences 9: 454, doi: 10.3390/geosciences9100454
2018
- Feldens, P., I. Schulze, S. Papenmeier, M. Schönke and J. Schneider von Deimling (2018). Improved interpretation of marine sedimentary environments using multi-frequency multibeam backscatter data. Geosciences 8: 214, doi: 10.3390/geosciences8060214
- Häusler, K., O. Dellwig, B. Schnetger, P. Feldens, T. Leipe, M. Moros, F. Pollehne, M. Schönke, A. Wegwerth and H. W. Arz (2018). Massive Mn carbonate formation in the Landsort Deep (Baltic Sea): Hydrographic conditions, temporal succession, and Mn budget calculations. Mar. Geol. 395: 260-270, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2017.10.010
- Stevenson, C. J., P. Feldens, A. Georgiopoulou, M. Schönke, S. Krastel, D. J. W. Piper, K. Lindhorst and D. Mosher (2018). Reconstructing the sediment concentration of a giant submarine gravity flow. Nat. Commun. 9: 2616, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05042-6