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May

Campervan travel in New Zealand’s Northland

Oceans / Photo & Video / Travel / 0 Comment / 6. May 2019

A short trip to New Zealand’s Northland . where we travel this magnificent country with a small campervan and stop at its most beautiful places.

Dec

Artisanal and subsistence shark fisheries in Fiji | New paper

Science / 0 Comment / 23. December 2018

While sharks are fished virtually in every coastal state of the world catch statistics are usually poorly documented, completely lacking or incomplete. That is true for large-scale commercial fishing fleets, artisanal fishers (small-scale commercial) and […]

Dec

A moment in the Solomon Islands | New Travel Video

Photo & Video / 0 Comment / 12. December 2018

Over the past month, I was able to follow up on some projects I have been wanting to do for quite a while. Part of that was also to utilize the footage I shot during […]

Jun

First scientific paper published | Shark aggregation area in Fiji

Science / Sharks / 2 Comments / 26. June 2018

Finally, after more than a years work excluding the actual fieldwork itself, my first scientific publication was published yesterday in Ecology & Evolution. Titled “Discovery of a multispecies shark aggregation and parturition area in the […]

May

REPICORE Feedback Expedition to the Pacific | #2

Travel / 0 Comment / 22. May 2018

After we landed back in Suva we made our way down to the Coral Coast to spend the weekend in one of the hotels there. While Amanda, Janne and I packed all the gear into […]

Apr

REPICORE Feedback Expedition to the Pacific | #1

Travel / 3 Comments / 9. April 2018

The last months have been quite busy – after coming back from French Polynesia, I was working throughout December and January and then embarked on a five-week Pacific Expedition at the beginning of February. I joined […]

Apr

Fiji Shark Diving 2018

Sharks / 0 Comment / 5. April 2018

During our last expedition to the Pacific in February/March I got the chance to pay the team of Beqa Adventure Divers a few visits and join their shark diving. I had great memories from the […]

Jun

Shark Research Project IV – Analysis and Lab work

Science / 1 Comment / 21. June 2016

I am back in my everyday routine in Germany: I wake up, have my morning coffee(s) and then head to the ZMT, where I spend the day in the laboratory. By now, I have finished all […]

May

Shark Nursery Project, Fiji – Update III – Preliminary results

Science / 5 Comments / 25. May 2016

A little more than three weeks ago I came back to my home country Germany after spending almost seven months on the Fiji-Islands, where I conducted my master thesis fieldwork concentrated in a potential shark nursery […]

Nov

Global Climate March 2015 in Fiji – Adressing Climate Change all around the world

Environment / 0 Comment / 28. November 2015

This morning I joined the Global Climate March here in Suva, the capital of Fiji. With the biggest UN Climate conference of this decade, the 2015 Pairs Climate Confrerence (COP21) starting the 30th November and lasting […]