Katrin Schmidt

Academic profile

Dr Katrin Schmidt

Research Fellow Marine Ecology and Biochemistry
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Katrin's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 14: SDG 14 - Life Below WaterGoal 17: SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

About Katrin


I'm currently employed as a Research Assistant in the NERC-Project: 'Quantifying the contribution of sympagic versus pelagic diatoms to Arctic food webs and biogeochemical fluxes: application of source-specific highly branched isoprenoid biomarkers' (PI: A. Atkinson, Co-PI: S. Belt). This is one of seven UK funded contributions to the 'Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate' (MOSAiC) led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany. 

Supervised Research Degrees

2001, Nicola Plathner, University of Rostock, Master thesis: An experimental study on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionationby Meganyctiphanes norvegica– the influence of food source, assimilation efficiency, growth rate and turnover. Degree: 'cum laude'
2002, Christina Augustin, University of Rostock, Master thesis: Salinity tolerance of the copepod Pseudocalanus spp. in the North Sea and in the Baltic Sea. Degree: 'cum laude'

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