Sophia Hirschmann
PhD Student
Helmholtz Changing Earth Topic 6: Marine and polar Life
FB 2: Marine Biogeochemistry
FE Biological Oceanography
Office:
Building: 5, Tower 1
Room: 2.114
Phone: +49 431 600 1553
E-Mail: shirschmann(at)geomar.de
Adresse:
Wischhofstraße 1-3
24148 Kiel
Research Interest
Projects
LTER HAUSGARTEN (Long-Term Ecological Research in the deep Arctic Ocean) part of the PEBCAO (Plankton Ecology and Biogeochemistry in a Changing Arctic Ocean) group.
Arctic Century multidisciplinary expedition (atmosphere, cryosphere, marine and terrestrial environment ) studying rarely accessible and remote areas in the Kara and Laptev Sea as well as on Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya in the western Arctic.
Education
Since November 2022 Doctoral researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (FB2/BI/MB)
June 2022 – September 2022 Marine Biology Station of Funchal, University of Madeira (ERASMUS+ Traineeship).
October 2018 – April 2022 MSc in Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Science, Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fishery Science (IMF), University of Hamburg
August 2017 – December 2017 University of Bergen (ERASMUS Semester)
October 2015 – October 2018 BSc in Biology, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology (IPM), University of Hamburg
Expeditions
PS143/2 LTER HAUSGARTEN (Long-Term Ecological Research in the deep Arctic Ocean), RV Polarstern, Fram Strait - Arctic [July 2024 – August 2024]
PS143/1 LTER HAUSGARTEN (Long-Term Ecological Research in the deep Arctic Ocean), RV Polarstern, Fram Strait - Arctic [June 2024 – July 2024]
PS136 LTER HAUSGARTEN (Long-Term Ecological Research in the deep Arctic Ocean), RV Polarstern, Fram Strait - Arctic [May 2023 – June 2023]
SO285 TRAFFIC2 (Trophic TRAnsfer eFFICiency in the Benguela Current) RV Sonne, Benguela Upwelling System - Atlantic [August 2021 – November 2021]
SO283 Mooring Rescue, RV Sonne, Benguela Upwelling System - Atlantic [March 2021 – May 2021]
AL540 Fisheries and plankton survey + preparation of instructional videos and other teaching material due to Covid, RV Alkor, Baltic Sea [July 2020]
AL524 Fisheries and plankton survey + student training, RV Alkor, Baltic Sea [July 2019]
HE534 Student training cruise, RV Heincke, North Sea [June 2019]
Publications
Spieck E, Sass K, Keuter S, Hirschmann S, Spohn M, Indenbirken D, Kop LFM, Lücker S and Giaveno A (2020) Defining Culture Conditions for the Hidden Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacterium Nitrolancea. Front. Microbiol. 11:1522. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01522
