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GAME-Alumni projects I - II - III

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GAME-Project III: 2004-2006

Name: Mauricio Cifuentes Navarro
Interests:
Community ecology; Invasion ecology; Experimental ecology; Fouling communities; Pattern of succession in natural benthic and fouling communities;
Job/Location:
Ph.D. candidate at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Links:
rfouling.com
GAME-Project
: III and IV
Team: Chile
Contact:
Primary email address: mcifuent@gmail.com, other contact: mauricio.cifuentes@vuw.ac.nz
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Name: Mohamed El-Metwally
Interests:
Marine pollution, biomonitors, biomarkers.
Job/Location: Assistant Researcher in the National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Red Sea branch, Hurghada, Egypt
GAME-Project: III
Team: Egypt
Contact:
meto1980@yahoo.com
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Name: Carolin Herbon
Interests:
Benthic communities, Isotopes, Food webs
Job/Location: Researcher, Bremen, Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie / Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
GAME-Project: III
Team: Malaysia
Contact:
carolinherbon@web.de
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Name: Anne Lührmann
Job/Location: Master in Sustainable tourism in Eberswalde, now Medicine Student University of Greifswald
GAME Project: III
Team: Portugal
Contact:
luehrman@gmx.de
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GAME-Project II: 2003-2005

Name: João Canning-Clode
Interests:
Global diversity patterns in benthic communities; Biofouling; Antifouling; Modular experiments in community ecology; Estimation techniques of species richness; Functional diversity; Invasion ecology
Job/Location: Postdoc, IMAR - DOP, University of the Azores, Center of Oceanography, University of Lisbon, Portugal and Research Associate at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), USA
Links:
GAME-Project: II, supervisor in GAME VIII, IX, X
Team: Portugal
Contact:
jcclode(at)fc.ul.pt
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Name: Astrid Heidemann
Job/Location: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Institut für Katholische Theologie, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Links:
GAME-Project: II
Team: Chile
Contact:
astrid.heidemann@uni-due.de
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Name: Claas Hiebenthal
Interests:
Global change, Stress ecology of marine benthos, Interactions in the marine benthos, Marine bivalves, Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Characteristics of bivalve shells as proxy for palaeoclimata
Job/Location:
Post-Doc, ºÚÁÏÊÓÆµ, Kiel, Germany
Links:

GAME Project:
II, supervised GAME IX
Team: South Africa
Contact:
chiebenthal@geomar.de
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Name: Tanja Miethe
Interests:
Fish and fisheries, ecology, evolution, marine reserves, demography, modelling
Job/Location:
Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Rostock, Germany
GAME Project: II
Team: Japan
Contact:
tanja.miethe@googlemail.com
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Name: Maya Pfaff
Interests:
Benthic ecology, physical-biological coupling, marine virology, phytoplankton, upwelling
Job/Location:
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Oceanography/Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
GAME Project: II
Team: South Africa
Contact:
maya.pfaff@gmail.com
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GAME-Project I: 2002-2004

Name: Janja Ceh
Interests:
Coral Microbial Ecology
Job/Location: PhD candidate, School of Biological Sciences & Biotechnology, Faculty of Sustainability, Environmental & Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Australia
GAME-Project: I
Team: Australia
Contact:
J.Ceh@murdoch.edu.au
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Name: Christine Güldenzoph
Job/Location: Coordinator GAME, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Kiel
GAME-Project: I
Team: South Africa
Contact:
cgueldenzoph@geomar.de
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Name: Uli Kunz
Interests:
Artificial reefs in Kiel bay (settlement and fotographic documentation of organisms on and near the structures)
Job/Location:
Freiberuflicher Forschungstaucher, Fotograf und Lektor auf Polar-Kreuzfahrtschiffen
Links: , , ,
GAME Project: I - experience report by Uli Kunz
Team: Sweden
Contact:
uli@kunzgalerie.de
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Name: Olivia Langhamer
Interests:
Artificial reefs, biofouling, colonization patterns, environmental impact, offshore renewable energy (wind & wave power)
Job/Location:
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
GAME Project: I
Team: Sweden
Contact:
olivia@langhamer.de
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Name: Kevin Linnane
Interests:
Intertidal ecology, subtidal benthic ecology, fish ecology, marine mammals, nature conservation, marine renewables, ports, wind farms, environmental impact assessment
Job/Location:
Marine ecologist working as consultant for RPS Planning and Development, Chepstow, Wales, UK
GAME Project: I
Team: England
Contact:
Kevin.Linnane@rpsgroup.com
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Name: Erasmo Macaya
Interests:
Algal ecology, taxonomy and aquaculture, biogeography, DNA barcoding
Job/Location:
Departamento de Oceanografía, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepcion, Chile
Links:
GAME Project: I
Team: Chile
Contact:
emacaya@oceanografia.udec.cl
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Name: Ika Neven
Interests:
Inorganic carbon uptake of Antarctic phytoplankton in response to climate change / rising atmospheric CO2
Job/Location:
completed PhD at University of Groningen, The Netherlands; now coordinator of 2 MSc studies (Biomedical Technology and Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences)
GAME Project: I
Team: England
Contact:
i.a.neven@rug.nl
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