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Dr. Birgit Kleinschmidt


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Scientific Career


Since 01/2020

Research Assistant at ZEU, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen

2019 - 2020

Scientific employee at BioConsult SH GmbH & Co.KG, Environmental Consultancy

2015 - 2019 Research assistant, Working group "Behavioural ecology and ecophysiology" at Dep. Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University
2013 - 2016

Scientific employee at BioConsult SH GmbH & Co.KG, Environmental Consultancy

2012 - 2013

Scientific employee at OECOS GmbH, Environmental Consultancy

2006 - 2011/

2000 - 2001

Animal keeper, environmental education at Wildpark Lüneburger Heide

 
Academic Education & Teaching
06/2015 - 10/2022

Ph.D. student, supervised by Prof. Dr. P. Quillfeldt
Thesis: “Seasonal distribution, movement patterns and diet selection of red-throated divers (Gavia stellata) captured within an important wintering habitat, the German Bight“

12/2016 Bioinformatic Training to analyse sequencing data (NGS) within the research project DIVER, University of Sheffield, NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (UK)
06/2016 - 11/2016 Training "Diet analysis based on molecular tools, barcoding and Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)", Cardiff University, School of Biosciences (UK)
07/2015 Animal Movement Analysis course (2EC), University of Amsterdam (Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosytem Dynamics)
2003  - 2011

MSc. Biology, University of Hamburg

 

Further Information


Affiliation Member of ZEU | Doctoral Candidate | Research Assistant
Focus Area Climate & Environmental Change
Fields of Interest Telemetry of Birds, Animal Care, Environmental Education
Project Involvement DIVER – Satellite telemetry of Divers (Gaviidae)
Publications
  • Heinänen S., Žydelis, R., Kleinschmidt B., Dorsch M., Burger C., Morkūnas J., Quillfeldt P. & Nehls, G. (2020). Satellite telemetry and digital aerial surveys show strong displacement of red-throated divers (Gavia stellata) from offshore wind farms. Marine Environmental Research, 104989.
  • Kleinschmidt, B., Burger, C., Dorsch, M., Nehls, G., Heinänen, S., Morkūnas, J., Žydelis, R., Moorhouse-Gann, R.J., Hipperson, H., Symondson, W.O.C., & Quillfeldt, P. 2019. The diet of red-throated divers (Gavia stellata) overwintering in the German Bight (North Sea) analysed using molecular diagnostics. Marine Biology 2019 166:77.
  • Burger, C., Schubert, A., Heinänen, S., Dorsch, M., Kleinschmidt, B., Žydelis, R., & Nehls, G. (2019). A novel approach for assessing effects of ship traffic on distributions and movements of seabirds. Journal of Environmental Management, 251, 109511.
  • Kleinschmidt, B., & Kölsch, G. (2011). Adopting bacteria in order to adapt to water—how reed beetles colonized the wetlands (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae). Insects 2: 540–554.
Selected Presentations
  • Kleinschmidt, B., Dorsch, M., Žydelis, R., Heinänen, S., Morkūnas, J., Burger, C., Nehls, G. & Quillfeldt, P. 2017. From efefcts to impacts: Analysing displacement of red-throated Divers in relation to their wintering home ranges. LPO Actes du Seminaire Eolien et Biodiversite – Artigues – pres – Bordeux.
  • Kleinschmidt, B., Dorsch, M., Žydelis, R., Heinänen, S., Morkūnas, J., Burger, C., Nehls, G., Moorhouse-Gann R., Symondsen W.O. & Quillfeldt, P. 2017. Untersuchung des Beutespektrum von auf der Nordsee überwinternden Sterntauchern (Gavia stellata) mit Hilfe molekularbiologischer Methoden.  Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft - Jahresversammlung 2017 Halle (Saale).