Kristin Kaschner
M.Sc.
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Ph.D.
(University of British Columbia, 2004)
Kristin Kaschner’s main research interest is the application
and development of large-scale habitat suitability modelling approaches to
investigate potential impacts of anthropogenic activities on marine mammals.
She became a team member of the ‘Sea
Around Us’ Project in late 1999, when she began her PhD research under the
joint supervision of Daniel Pauly and Andrew Trites. For her PhD she
investigated spatially-explicit first order prey overlap between marine mammals
and fisheries on a global scale using an ecological niche modelling approach
that she developed. Global predictions for 115 marine mammal species
distributions generated by this model can be viewed through the Sea Around Us
pages and, in the near future, will be made available through the OBIS-SEAMAP portal, the marine mammal,
sea birds and turtle data-node of the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS). Kristin is currently employed as a
post-doc at the Research
and Technology Centre Westcoast (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel),
but continues to work with researchers from the Fisheries Centre on a number of
different projects. In addition, she is collaborating with FishBase to modify her niche modelling
approach for other species groups. In 2006, she will be working with
researchers from CREEM,
University of St.Andrews and the FMAP
team at Dalhousie University to further test and improve her global niche
modelling approach to investigate potential hotspots of marine mammal
biodiversity in the context of large-scale marine protected area design.
Research Interests
- Large scale patterns of marine biodiversity
- Presence-only habitat suitability modelling approaches
- Investigation of anthropogenic impacts on marine mammal populations
at very large scales (resource overlap, bycatch, climate change, noise pollution) - Ecosystem-based fisheries management
- Bioacoustics & underwater acoustics
- Conservation & Marine Protected Areas
Kaschner et al, 2004, Poster presentation at
Ocean Biodiversity
Informatics conference, Hamburg, Germany 29/11 – 1/12/2004