Prof. Dr. Ulf Riebesell Professor for Biological Oceanography   Address: Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) Marine Biogeochemistry - Biological Oceanography - Düsternbrooker Weg 20 24105 Kiel Phone:  049 431 - 6004444 Fax:     049 431 - 6004446 e-mail: uriebesell (a) ifm-geomar.de   Personal:   Date of birth: October 15, 1959 Family status: married, two children Citizenship: German

• Sensitivity of marine organisms and ecosystems to ocean change
• Ocean acidification (Peece)
• Ocean warming (Aquashift)
• Changing redox conditions
• Oceanic carbon cycle
• Stoichiometry of marine elemental cycles
• Biomineralisation
• Biogeochemistry of stable isotopes
• Paleoproxy-calibrations

•  Future Ocean
  
•  Die Zukunft ist sauer 
  (SPIEGEL 14/2006)

• Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide is Killing Cold-Water Reefs

• Abenteuer Wissen - Gefährliches Treibhausgas

• Nature Study: Scientists discover biological mechanism for enhanced carbon consumption in the ocean

 

EDUCATION

1988	M.S., University of Rhode Island, USA
1991	Ph.D., University of Bremen, Germany

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008 - present	Vice head of research section Marine Biogeochemistry, IFM-GEOMAR
2007 - present	Head of research unit Biological Oceanography, IFM-GEOMAR
2004 - 2007	Chair of scientific council, IFM-GEOMAR
2003 - present	Professor of Marine Biogeochemistry, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel University, Germany
1997 - 2003	Head of the biological section, interdisciplinary carbon group, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven
1995 - 2003	Senior scientist, AWI, Bremerhaven
1994 - 1995	Research scientist, AWI, Bremerhaven
1992 - 1994	Post-Doc, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
1991 - 1992	Post-Doc, AWI, Bremerhaven
1988 - 1991	Graduate studies, Ph.D., AWI, Bremerhaven
1986 - 1988	Graduate studies, Master's, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, USA
1985 - 1986	Graduate studies, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
1983 - 1985	Graduate studies, Institute for Marine Sciences, CAU, Kiel
1981 - 1983	Undergraduate studies in Biology, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel

 

 

1995	Lindeman Award of the American Society of Limnology & Oceanography
1994	Wilhelmshaven Award for Marine Sciences
1985-1986	Fulbright Scholarship

 

 

       

• Co-Editor for Biogeosciences
• Chair of IOC working group for preparing a Guide for Best practices in Ocean Acidification Research
• Coordinator of German coordinated project proposal on Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification (BIOACID)
• Deputy coordinator of European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA)
• Member of Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) writing group commissioned to develop a UK programme on ocean acidification
• Member of U.S. National Research Council (NRC) commission for preparing a research strategy for Ocean Acidification Monitoring, Research, and Impacts Assessment
• Member of scientific advisory board for Chinese project Carbon cycling in China Seas - budget, controls and ocean acidification (CHOICE-C)
• Member of UNESCO-IOC consultative group on Ocean Iron Fertilization
• Member of organizing committee for symposium The Ocean in a High CO2 World II (Monaco, 2008)
• Leader of subproject B2 of Collaborative Research Centre Climate –Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean (2008 – present)
• Member of executive committee of Excellence Cluster The Future Ocean, speaker of Theme A Ocean Change, (2006-2008) coordinator of research topic A1 Ocean Acidification (2006 – present)
• Theme leader of BMBF Coordinated Project Surface Ocean Processes in the ANthropocene (SOPRAN) (2007-present)
• Contributing author to German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) special report 2006 - The Future Oceans – Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour
• Contributing author of Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report (2006)
• Co-organizer of the IGBP-SCOR Fast Track Initiative Ocean acidification, atmospheric CO2 and ocean biogeochemistry: modern observations and past experiences (Lamont, 2006)
• Member of Royal Society report group for Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (London, 2005)
• Session chair of symposium The Ocean in a High CO2 World I, (Paris, 2004)
• Co-organizer of sessions at various international conferences (EGU, AGU, ASLO)
• Member of SOLAS implementation group Focus 3
• Member of SOLAS/IMBER Joint Carbon Implementation group

Referee for:  

• German Ministry of Science and Technology (BMBF)
• German Science Foundation (DFG)
• U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Natural Environment Research Council of the United Kingdom (NERC)
• Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
• Nature, Science, and various other scientific journals

Last Update this page: 23.02.2009.