PD Dr. Markus Pahlow
Scientist in the research unit Biogeochemical Modelling
Office:
Room: 5-5.510
Tel.: +49 431 600-1907
E-Mail: mpahlow(at)geomar.de
Address:
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstr. 1–3
24148 Kiel
Germany
Research Interests
- optimality-based and trait-based (adaptive) modelling of plankton organisms and ecosystems
- interactions between biotic plankton processes and biogeochemical cycles
- modelling evolution and maintenance of biodiversity in plankton ecosystems
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turbulence in the surface ocean
Education and Employment
- since 2012 Research scientist at GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
- 2007 – 2012 Postdoc at IFM-GEOMAR
- 2002 – 2006 research associate at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- 2000 – 2001 NSERC fellow at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Canada
- 1999: Postdoc at AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany
- 1995 – 1998 PhD student at AWI and University of Bremen, Germany
- 1988 – 1995 Biology studies at the University of Kassel, Germany, University of Maryland, USA, and University of Bremen, Germany
Projects
- EMS FORE International Helmholtz Laboratory "Eastern Mediterranean Sea as a model for Future Ocean Research", a German-Israeli joint project
- DynaTrait, DFG Priority Programme (SPP 1704) "Flexibility Matters: Interplay between Trait Diversity and Ecological Dynamics Using Aquatic Communities as Model Systems", subproject 13, Modelling seasonal vertical migration in marine zooplankton.
- SFB754, Climate-biogeochemistry interactions in the tropical ocean, phase 2: Teilprojekt B2, photoautotrophic responses to changes in nutrient stoichiometry (abgeschlossen)
- OSS2015, Ocean strategic services beyond 2015 (Siebtes Rahmenprogramm der EU): work package 22.3, limiting factors of phytoplankton growth (abgeschlossen)
