CLIMATE AND EARTH
SYSTEM SCIENCES
Photo: UHH/Denstorf
30 May 2022
Photo: Raphael Scheffold
We are proud to announce the successful disputation of our SICSS member Maike Scheffold
Her dissertation “A carbon perspective on higher trophic leves: How do animals contribute to the organic carbon cycle and stock in the Baltic Sea?” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Inga Hense and Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann.
Maike worked on a better understanding of the role and contribution of higher trophic levels to the cycle and stocks of organic carbon (OC) and took first steps to assess this contribution in the Baltic Sea ecosystem. To this end, she combined conceptualisation, quantification and a theoretical comparative study. Her thesis suggests that fish, as an example of higher trophic levels, are more than just food and that the inclusion and that incorporating the different roles of higher trophic level organisms into policy and marine governance could help promote co-benefits for climate, biodiversity and society. For more information, check out her published works in Frontiers of Marine Science and Ocean Science.
Maike’s future plans?
Maike has a Postdoc position within the BMBF-project APOC since April and is working on quantifying the OC stocks of the North Sea at the moment.