Dr. Jessica Gier

Education and experience

2023 - today
Project Manager, SOOP, GEOMAR Helmholtz - Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Kiel, Germany

2022 - 2023
Executive Director, SOLAS / Programme Director MSc on Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate (MSC-OAC), University of Galway, Ireland

2018 - 2021
Executive Director, SOLAS, GEOMAR Helmholtz - Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Kiel, Germany

2017 - 2018
Project officer, SOLAS, GEOMAR Helmholtz - Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Kiel, Germany

2016
Certification project management according to GPM
Kiel, Germany

2016
Research associate in Physical Oceanography, GEOMAR Helmholtz - Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Kiel, Germany

2012 - 2016
PhD in Marine Biogeochemistry, GEOMAR Helmholtz - Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Kiel, Germany
Thesis topic: Benthic nitrogen fixation in oxygen minimum zone
Mentor: Prof. Tina Treude

2010 - 2012
Master of Science in Biological Oceanography, Christian-Albrechts University and GEOMAR Helmholtz - Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Kiel, Germany

2009 - 2010
Fellowship for two master semesters in the Sino-German Initiative on Marine Sciences, Ocean University of China
Qingdao, China

2006 - 2009
Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany

Projects

2023 - today
SOOP - Shaping an Ocean of Possibilities for science-industry collaboration

2022 - 2023
Master Programme Director, Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate (MSC-OAC)

2017 - 2023
Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS)

2012 - 2016
Sonderforschungsbereich 754 (SFB 754)

Events and Activities (selection)

Activities under my lead

• SOOP Evaluation, Kiel Germany, 20-21 Nov. 2024
• SOOP Annual Meeting, Lüneburg, 24-26 Oct. 2024
• SOOP Partner Meeting, Sylt, Germany, 2-3 Nov. 2023
• SOOP Strategy Workshop, Kiel, Germany, Oct. 2023
• SOLAS SSC meetings: 2023, hybrid on Crete, Greece; 2022, hybrid in Cape Town, South Africa; 2021, online; 2020, online; 2019, Jozankei, Japan; 2018, Victoria, Canada; 2017, Bologna, Italy
• SOLAS Summer School, Mindelo, Cabo Verde, 5-16 Jun. 2023
• Eddy covariance air-sea fluxes workshop, in collaboration with ESA, ICOS, and OASIS, organising committee member, 28-30 Mar. 2023
• SOLAS Open Science Conference, hybrid in Cape Town, South Africa, 25-29 Sep. 2022
• Virtual SOLAS Summer School 2022, online, 13-17 Jun. 2022
• EUMETSAT-ESA-SOLAS workshop on Remote sensing for ocean-atmosphere interactions studies and applications, organising committee member, online, 1-3 Dec. 2021
• SOLAS Indian Ocean meeting, online on Zoom and YouTube, 30 Sep. 2020
• SOLAS Open Science Conference, Sapporo, Japan, 21-25 Apr. 2019

Professional Meetings

• Meeresumwelt-Symposium 2024, Hamburg, Germany, poster, May 2024
• 6th Symposium Marine Environmental Science, Townhall: SOLAS in the new era: Harnessing partnership and transforming science into solutions, organiser, online, Jan. 2023
• UNFCCC COP27 side event, Fire risk increase, a challenge for earth system and socie-ties, organising committee, Nov. 2022
• Sustainability, Research and Innovation, Future Earth & Belmont Forum conference, representation of SOLAS, Johannesburg, South Africa, Jun. 2022
• An Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) for a Clean Ocean, UN Ocean Dec-ade Laboratory Satellite Event, organising committee, online, Nov. 2021
• UNFCCC COP26 side event on Ocean carbon removal, SOLAS and Future Earth in col-laboration with the Foundation Prince Albert 2 de Monaco, Center for Climate Repair, and World Ocean Council, organising committee, online, Nov. 2021
• Fall AGU meeting, Town Hall on Full Steam Ahead: The SOLAS Midterm Course Correction, presenter, online, Dec. 2020
• First Global Planning Meeting UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2019
• Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, USA, Feb. 2018

Publications

Thomas, JL, Stutz, J, Frey, MM, Bartels-Rausch, T, Altieri, K, ... Gier, J (2019) Fostering multidisciplinary research on interactions between chemistry, biology, and physics within the coupled cryosphere-atmosphere system. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, 7: 58.

Gier J, Löscher CR, Dale AW, Sommer S, Lomnitz U, and Treude T (2017) Benthic dinitrogen fixation traversing the oxygen minimum zone off Mauritania (NW Africa). Frontiers in Marine Science, 4:390.

Gier J, Sommer S, Löscher CR, Dale AW, Schmitz RA, and Treude T (2016) Nitrogen fixation in sediments along a depth transect through the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone. Biogeosciences, 13, 4065-4080.

Sommer S, Gier J, Treude T, Lomnitz U, Dengler M, Cardich J, and Dale AW (2016) Depletion of oxygen, nitrate and nitrite in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone cause an imbalance of benthic nitrogen fluxes. Deep Sea Research Part I, 112, 113–122.

Dale AW, Sommer S, Lomnitz U, Montes I, Treude T, Liebetrau V, Gier J, Hensen C, Dengler M, Stolpovsky K, Bryant LD, and Wallmann K (2015) Organic carbon production, mineralisation and preservation on the Peruvian margin. Biogeosciences, 12, 1537–1559.

Bertics VJ, Löscher CR, Salonen I, Dale AW, Gier J, Schmitz RA, and Treude T (2013) Occurrence of benthic microbial nitrogen fixation coupled to sulfate reduction in the seasonally hypoxic Eckernförde Bay, Baltic Sea. Biogeosciences, 10, 1243-1258.

Expeditions

Mauritania, Atlantic Ocean
RV "Meteor" M107, 29.05.-04.07.2014, Fortaleza (Brasil) - Las Palmas (Gran Canaria), Project: SFB754, Project: SFB754, research topic: biogeochemical processes in oxygen minimum zones.

Peru, South Pacific
RV "Meteor" M92, 05.01.-03.02.2013, Callao-Callao (Peru), Project: SFB754, research topic: biogeochemical processes in oxygen minimum zones.

Plus diverse field trips into the Eckernfoerder Bay with RB "Polarfuchs" and RB "Littorina".