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Freelance Marine Biologist

Profile Summary

I’m a marine biologist with a strong background in deep-sea ecology, systematics and conservation. My expertise spans detailed morphological identification of macrobenthic organisms, isopod crustaceans in particular, data analyses, but also strong bilingual writing skills to communicate science to peers, policy makers and the general public.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biogeography
• ☆ Marine Ecology
• ☆ Biodiversity

Services

• Writing
• Consulting
• Product Development

Work Experience

University of Łódź

January 2020 - Present

Marine Biologist - Freelancer

Deep-Sea taxonomy

2018 - Present

Exist Business Start-up Grant

Senckenberg am Meer Wilhelmshaven

May 2017 - September 2017

Post doc

Senckenberg am Meer Wilhelmshaven

2013 - 2016

Post doc

National Oceanography Centre

April 2013 - October 2013

Post doc

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Wellington

2012 - 2013

Education

PhD (Zoological Museum)

University of Hamburg

2005 - April 2009

PhD

British Antarctic Survey

October 2007 - September 2008

Diploma studies (Zoological Museum)

University of Hamburg

2001 - 2005

Vordiplom

University of Hannover

1998 - 2000

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Stefanie Kaiser, Lidia Lins, Marina Malyutina, Sadie Mills, Anne-Nina Lörz(2020). Diversity and composition of benthic asellote Isopoda from two different New Zealand continental margin habitats - implications of habitat heterogeneity, productivity and depth . Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. p. 103368. Elsevier {BV}

Stefanie Kaiser, Hector M. Guzman, Vincent J. van Hinsberg(2020). Accumulation of trace elements in leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) eggs from the south-western Caribbean indicates potential health risks to consumers . Chemosphere. 243. p. 125424. Elsevier {BV}

Stefanie Kaiser, Anne-Nina Lörz, Graham Bird, Marina Malyutina, David Bowden(2018). Benthic boundary layer macrofauna from the upper slope of the Chatham Rise ({SW} Pacific) . Marine Ecology. 39. (5). p. e12521. Wiley

Kaiser, S., Brix, S., Kihara, T.C., Janssen, A., Jennings, R.M.(2018). Integrative species delimitation in the deep-sea genus Thaumastosoma Hessler, 1970 (Isopoda, Asellota, Nannoniscidae) reveals a new genus and species from the Atlantic and central Pacific abyss . Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 148. p. 151-179.

Riehl, T., Kaiser, S., Brandt, A.(2018). Vema-TRANSIT – An interdisciplinary study on the bathymetry of the Vema‐Fracture Zone and Puerto Rico Trench as well as abyssal Atlantic biodiversity . Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 148. p. 1-6.

Kaiser, S., Lörz, A.-N., Bird, G., Malyutina, M., Bowden, D.(2018). Benthic boundary layer macrofauna from the upper slope of the Chatham Rise (SW Pacific) . Marine Ecology. 39. (5).

Cuvelier, D., Gollner, S., Jones, D.O.B., Kaiser, S., Arbizu, P.M., Menzel, L., Mestre, N.C., Morato, T., Pham, C., Pradillon, F., et al.(2018). Potential mitigation and restoration actions in ecosystems impacted by seabed mining . Frontiers in Marine Science. 5. (DEC).

Brandt, A., Scholz, J., Allspach, A., Brenke, N., Brix, S., George, K.H., Hörnschemeyer, T., Holst, S., Hoppenrath, M., Iwan, F., et al.(2018). 200 years of marine research at Senckenberg: selected highlights . Marine Biodiversity. 48. (1). p. 159-178.

Kaiser, S., Smith, C.R., Arbizu, P.M., Kaiser, S., Smith, C.R., Arbizu, P.M.(2017). Editorial: Biodiversity of the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone . Marine Biodiversity. 47. (2). p. 259-264.

Jones, D.O.B., Kaiser, S., Sweetman, A.K., Smith, C.R., Menot, L., Vink, A., Trueblood, D., Greinert, J., Billett, D.S.M., Arbizu, P.M., et al.(2017). Biological responses to disturbance from simulated deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining . PLoS ONE. 12. (2).

Gollner, S., Kaiser, S., Menzel, L., Jones, D.O.B., Brown, A., Mestre, N.C., van Oevelen, D., Menot, L., Colaço, A., Canals, M., et al.(2017). Resilience of benthic deep-sea fauna to mining activities . Marine Environmental Research. 129. p. 76-101.

Kaiser, S.S.M.(2015). A new species of Regabellator Siebenaller & Hessler, 1981 (ISOPODA, asellota, Nannoniscidae) from the Amundsen sea shelf (Southern Ocean) . Crustaceana. 88. (4). p. 405-421.

Janssen, A., Kaiser, S., Meißner, K., Brenke, N., Menot, L., Arbizu, P.M.(2015). A reverse taxonomic approach to assess macrofaunal distribution patterns in abyssal pacific polymetallic nodule fields . PLoS ONE. 10. (2).

Douglass, L.L., Turner, J., Grantham, H.S., Kaiser, S., Constable, A., Nicoll, R., Raymond, B., Post, A., Brandt, A., Beaver, D.(2014). A hierarchical classification of benthic biodiversity and assessment of protected areas in the Southern Ocean . PLoS ONE. 9. (7).

Riehl, T., Brenke, N., Brix, S., Driskell, A., Kaiser, S., Brandt, A.(2014). Field and laboratory methods for DNA studies on deep-sea isopod crustaceans . Polish Polar Research. 35. (2). p. 203-224.

Kaiser, S.(2014). New species of Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler 1977 (Isopoda, Asellota, Nannoniscidae) from the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (equatorial NE Pacific) . Zootaxa. 3784. (2). p. 101-119.

Connolly, S.R., MacNeil, M.A., Caley, M.J., Knowlton, N., Cripps, E., Hisano, M., Thibaut, L.M., Bhattacharya, B.D., Benedetti-Cecchi, L., Brainard, R.E., et al.(2014). Commonness and rarity in the marine biosphere . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111. (23). p. 8524-8529.

Timm, M., Kaiser, S., Brandt, A., Timm, M., Kaiser, S., Brandt, A.(2013). A new species of acanthaspidia stebbing, 1898 (isopoda, asellota, acanthaspidiidae) from the bathyal Weddell Sea (Southern Ocean) . Zootaxa. 3692. (1). p. 238-258.

Kaiser, S., Brandão, S.N., Brix, S., Barnes, D.K.A., Bowden, D.A., Ingels, J., Leese, F., Schiaparelli, S., Arango, C.P., Badhe, R., et al.(2013). Patterns, processes and vulnerability of Southern Ocean benthos: A decadal leap in knowledge and understanding . Marine Biology. 160. (9). p. 2295-2317.

Moreau, C., Linse, K., Griffiths, H., Barnes, D., Kaiser, S., Glover, A., Sands, C., Strugnell, J., Enderlein, P., Geissler, P.(2013). Amundsen sea Mollusca from the BIOPEARL II expedition . ZooKeys. 294. p. 1-8.

Lörz, A.-N., Kaiser, S., Bowden, D.(2013). Macrofaunal crustaceans in the benthic boundary layer from the shelf break to abyssal depths in the Ross Sea (Antarctica) . Polar Biology. 36. (3). p. 445-451.

Zemko, K., Kaiser, S.(2012). Thambema thunderstruckae sp. n., the first record of thambematidae (isopoda: Asellota) from the Southern Hemisphere shelf . Polish Polar Research. 33. (2). p. 163-179.

Brandt, A., Błazewicz-Paszkowycz, M., Bamber, R.N., Mühlenhardt-Siegel, U., Malyutina, M.V., Kaiser, S., de Broyer, C., Havermans, C.(2012). Are there widespread peracarid species in the deep sea (crustacea: Malacostraca)? . Polish Polar Research. 33. (2). p. 139-162.

Riehl, T., Kaiser, S.(2012). Conquered from the Deep Sea? A New Deep-Sea Isopod Species from the Antarctic Shelf Shows Pattern of Recent Colonization . PLoS ONE. 7. (11).

Kaiser, S., Marner, M.(2012). A new species of Pentaceration Just, 2009 (Isopoda, Asellota, Paramunnidae) from the Challenger Plateau, New Zealand (Tasman Sea) . Zoosystematics and Evolution. 88. (2). p. 171-184.

Kaiser, S., Griffiths, H.J., Barnes, D.K.A., Brandão, S.N., Brandt, A., O'Brien, P.E.(2011). Is there a distinct continental slope fauna in the Antarctic? . Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 58. (1-2). p. 91-104.

Barnes, D.K.A., Griffiths, H.J., Kaiser, S.(2009). Geographic range shift responses to climate change by Antarctic benthos: Where we should look . Marine Ecology Progress Series. 393. p. 13-26.

Kaiser, S.(2009). Nymphodora gen. nov., a new genus of Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda, Asellota, Janiroidea) from the high Arctic . Zootaxa. (2096). p. 371-380.

Kaiser, S., Barnes, D.K.A., Sands, C.J., Brandt, A.(2009). Biodiversity of an unknown Antarctic Sea: Assessing isopod richness and abundance in the first benthic survey of the Amundsen continental shelf . Marine Biodiversity. 39. (1). p. 27-43.

Barnes, D.K.A., Kaiser, S., Griffiths, H.J., Linse, K.(2009). Marine, intertidal, freshwater and terrestrial biodiversity of an isolated polar archipelago . Journal of Biogeography. 36. (4). p. 756-769.

Kaiser, S.(2008). First record and new species of the genus Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977 (Isopoda: Asellota: Nannoniscidae) from the deep Weddell Sea Basin . Zootaxa. (1866). p. 467-481.

Kaiser, S., Barnes, D.K.A., Linse, K., Brandt, A.(2008). Epibenthic macrofauna associated with the shelf and slope of a young and isolated Southern Ocean island . Antarctic Science. 20. (3). p. 281-290.

Kaiser, S., Barnes, D.K.A., Kaiser, S., Barnes, D.K.A.(2008). Southern Ocean deep-sea biodiversity: Sampling strategies and predicting responses to climate change . Climate Research. 37. (2-3). p. 165-179.

Kaiser, S., Barnes, D.K.A., Brandt, A.(2007). Slope and deep-sea abundance across scales: Southern Ocean isopods show how complex the deep sea can be . Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54. (16-17). p. 1776-1789.

Kaiser, S., Brandt, A., Kaiser, S., Brandt, A.(2007). Two new species of the genus Austroniscus Vanhoeffen, 1914 (Isopoda: Asellota: Nannoniscidae) from the Antarctic shelf . Zootaxa. (1394). p. 47-68.

Brandt, A., Gooday, A.J., Brandão, S.N., Brix, S., Brökeland, W., Cedhagen, T., Choudhury, M., Cornelius, N., Danis, B., De Mesel, I., et al.(2007). First insights into the biodiversity and biogeography of the Southern Ocean deep sea . Nature. 447. (7142). p. 307-311.

Brandt, A., Brix, S., Brökeland, W., Choudhury, M., Kaiser, S., Malyutina, M.(2007). Deep-sea isopod biodiversity, abundance, and endemism in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean-Results from the ANDEEP I-III expeditions . Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54. (16-17). p. 1760-1775.

Kaiser, S., Brix, S.(2007). Two new species of the genus Pseudomesus Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda, Asellota) from the Southern hemisphere: Pseudomesus pitombo sp. nov. and Pseudomesus satanus sp. nov . Zootaxa. (1658). p. 21-38.

BOOK CHAPTER

Kaiser, S., Brenke, N.(2016). Epibenthic Sledges . Biological Sampling in the Deep Sea. p. 184-206.

Brandt, A., Kaiser, S., De Broyer, C., Ebbe, B., Ellingsen, K.E., Gooday, A.J., Tyler, P.A., Janussen, D., Linse, K., Schueller, M., et al.(2012). Southern Ocean Deep Benthic Biodiversity . Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World. p. 291-334.

Brandt, A., Kaiser, S., De Broyer, C., Ebbe, B., Ellingsen, K.E., Gooday, A.J., Tyler, P.A., Janussen, D., Linse, K., Schueller, M., et al.(2011). Southern Ocean Deep Benthic Biodiversity . Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World. p. 291-334.