Speaker: Dr. Ulrich Niermann
Date: 6 July 2012
Time: 3.00 p.m.
Venue: Meeting room 107,
School of Biological Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract:
The sea walnut (Mnemiopsis leidyi), a comb jellyfish, was transported accidently in ballast water of petrol ships from its native habitat America to Europe. It invaded the Black Sea during the late 1980’s. It spread over the Caspian and Mediterranean Sea in subsequent years and conquered the northern European Seas during 2006. Dr. Niermann studied behavior of this comb jelly in one of its native subtropical habitats in the waters off Belize a little state south of Mexico. This state owns not only extended Mangrove areas but as well the second largest barrier reef of the world (after the Great Barrier Reef of Australia). Dr. Niermann will introduce these unique coral - and surprisingly colorful Mangrove ecosystems and will inform about their basic structure, their meaning for the human and of changes during the last decades due to climatic impacts and extensive anthropogenic exploitation.
Biography:
Dr. Ulrich Niermann
State: Germany
City: Heiligenhafen, close to Hamburg
Education: University of Hamburg
phD-thesis: 1990; Fluctuation of the Macrofauna in the South-eastern North Sea 1984 – 1988
Work:
1981 - 1991 Biological Institute of Heligoland, Hamburg, Germany
1991 - 1996 Middle East Technical University, Turkey, Ankara
Since 1997 Expert, Consultant for Marine Ecology associated to the Technical University Lübeck, Germany
Projects: Worldwide projects related to benthic and pelagic communities. More than 30 scientific expeditions (15 expeditions as leading scientist) to Atlantic Ocean, Arctic - and Antarctic Ocean, Mediterranean-, Black -, North- and Baltic Sea
Publications: more than 70 publications in scientific and public journals
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