
Fachgebietsleitung

Functions within Senckenberg:
- Director of SaM
- Head of Division Marine Geology (SaM)
- Speaker of RA 4.1: Evolving Earth and Environment
Research profile
- Non-tropical biosedimentary systems
- Cold-water coral ecosystems
- Bioerosion
- Paleoecology
Research interests
My research focuses on geobiological studies of recent and fossil cold-water corals, with a focus on occurrences along the increasingly oxygen-poor upwelling areas of West Africa (Mauritania and Angola-Namibia). Another topic is research on the quantitative degradation of carbonate by biological processes (bioerosion). Finally, we are developing a global database on habitat-forming cold-water coral and associated communities across all phyla. In this database, the current state of knowledge of the composition of the reef inhabitants from the unicellular organisms to the fish, their geographical changes and their biological functions will be depicted for the first time.
Professional positions
Since 2018 Director Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven
Since 2010 Head of Division Meeresforschung at Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven
Since 2010 Professor, University of Bremen
2002-2010 Professor, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2000-2002 Professor, University of Tübingen
Education
2000 Heisenberg Fellow
1999 Habilitation University of Bremen
1993-1999 Researcher at University of Bremen
1993 PhD, Kiel University
Relevant scientific projects 2017-2019
2018-2019 Atlantic Thermocline Ocean and Ecosystems Dynamic during Natural Climate
Change (ATHENA) (DFG) (externally administered through University of
Heidelberg)
2019-2022 Cold-water Coral sensitivity (MARUM Excellence Cluster)
2019-2022 West-African Biodiversity under Pressure (WASP) (GIZ)
Professional service, membership associations, cooperation in national and intl. committees
Since 2017 Advisory Board of the Northwest German University Society
Since 2015 Chairman of the DFG-BMBF Advisory Councils of the research vessels METEOR
and S. MERIAN
Since 2015 of the BMBF advisory board research vessel SONNE
2011-2015 Supervisory Board at the Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Since 2010 Member of the MARUM board of the University of Bremen
2008-2011 Speaker of DFG Geoforum
2004-2008 Member of the DFG Review Board Geology- Paleontology
2001-2006 Member of the DFG Senate Commission for Oceanography
2000-2003 Coordinator of the EU-FP5 Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study (ACES) project
2019 Foundation member of the Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung
Editorial activities
2005-2010 Publisher of the Springer book series „Erlangen Earth Conference Series“
2004-2010 Publisher of the ISI journal FACIES together with Springer
Awards and awarded memberships
2016 Gustav-Steinmann-Medal of the Geological Association
2015 Northern German Science Award for innovative research on cold-water corals
Tief- und Kaltwasserkorallen: ihre Lebensgemeinschaften, Bildungs- und Umweltbedingungen sowie Einwirkungen des Menschen
Addamo AM, Reimer JD, Taviani M, Freiwald A, Machordom A (2012) Desmophyllum dianthus (Esper, 1794) in the scleractinian phylogeny and its intraspecific diversity. Plos One 7: e50215
Barnich R, Beuck L, Freiwald A (2013) Scale worms (Polychaeta: Aphroditiformia) associated with cold-water corals in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 93: 2129-2143
Beuck L, Freiwald A (2005) Bioerosion patterns in a deep-water Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) thicket (Propeller Mound, northern Porcupine Seabight). In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, pp 915-936
Beuck L, Freiwald A, Taviani M (2010) Spatiotemporal bioerosion patterns in deep-water scleractinians from off Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulia, Ionian Sea). Deep-Sea Research II 57: 458-470
Beuck L, López Correa M, Freiwald A (2008) Biogeographical distribution of Hyrrokkin (Rosalinidae, Foraminifera) and its host-specific morphological and textural trace variability. In: Wisshak M, Tapanila L (eds) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 329-360
Copard K, Colin C, Douville E, Freiwald A, Gudmundsson G, De Mol B, Frank N (2010) Nd isotopes in deep-sea corals in the North-eastern Atlantic. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 2499-2508
Cordes EE, Arnaud-Haond S, Bergstad OA, Da Costa Falcao AP, Freiwald A, Roberts JM, Bernal P (2016) Cold-water corals. In: Inniss L, Simcock A, Ajawin AY, et al. (eds) World Ocean Assessment I. United Nations, pp 1-28
Costello MJ, McCrea M, Freiwald A, Lundälv T, Jonsson L, Bett BJ, van Weering TCE, de Haas H, Roberts JM, Allen D (2005) Role of cold-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs as fish habitat in the NE Atlantic. In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 771-805
Cuif JP, Dauphin Y, Freiwald A, Gautret P, Zibrowius H (1999) Biochemical markers of zooxanthellae symbiosis in soluble matrices of skeleton of 24 Scleractinia species. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A: Physiology 123: 269-278
Dorschel B, Hebbeln D, Rüggeberg A, Dullo WC, Freiwald A (2005) Growth and erosion of a cold-water coral covered carbonate mound in the Northeast Atlantic during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 233: 33-44
Eisele M, Frank N, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, López Correa M, Douville E, Freiwald A (2011) Productivity controlled cold-water coral growth periods during the last glacial off Mauritania. Marine Geology 280: 143-149
Fabri MC, Pedel L, Beuck L, Galgani F, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A (2014) Megafauna of vulnerable marine ecosystems in French Mediterranean submarine canyons: Spatial distribution and anthropogenic impacts. Deep-Sea Research II 104: 184-207
Fink HG, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, McGregor HV, Schmiedl G, Taviani M, Freiwald A (2012) Oxygen control on Holocene cold-water coral development in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Deep-Sea Research I 62: 89-96
Försterra G, Beuck L, Häussermann V, Freiwald A (2005) Shallow-water Desmophyllum dianthus (Scleractinia) from Chile: characteristics of the biocoenoses, the bioeroding community, heterotrophic interactions and (Paleo)-bathymetric implications. In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 937-977
Frank N, Freiwald A, López Correa M, Wienberg C, Eisele M, Hebbeln D, van Rooij D, Henriet JP, Colin C, van Weering T, De Haas H, Buhl-Mortensen P, Roberts JM, De Mol B, Douville E, Blamart D, Hatte C (2011) Northeastern Atlantic cold water coral reefs and climate. Geology 39: 743-746
Freiwald A (2002) Reef-forming cold-water corals. In: Wefer G, Billett D, Hebbeln D, Jørgensen BB, Schlüter M, van Weering TCE (eds) Ocean Margin Systems. Springer, pp 365-385
Freiwald A (2011) Cold-water coral reefs. In: Hopley D (ed) Encyclopedia of modern coral reefs. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 225-229
Freiwald A (2019) Messinian Salinity Crisis: What happened to cold-water corals? In: Orejas C, Jiménez C (eds) Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future. Springer, pp 47-50
Freiwald A, Beuck L, Rüggeberg A, Taviani M, Hebbeln D (2009) The white coral community in the central Mediterranean Sea revealed by ROV surveys. Oceanography 22: 58-74
Freiwald A, Fosså JH, Grehan A, Koslow T, Roberts JM (2004) Cold-water coral reefs. UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series 22: 1-84
Freiwald A, Henrich R, Pätzold J (1997) Anatomy of a deep-water coral reef mound from Stjernsund, West-Finnmark, northern Norway. In: James NP, Clarke JAD (eds) Cool-water carbonates. SEPM, Special Publication, pp 141-161
Freiwald A, Hühnerbach V, Lindberg B, Wilson JB, Campbell J (2002) The Sula Reef complex, Norwegian Shelf. Facies 47: 179-200
Freiwald A, Mortensen PB (2000) The first record of the deep-water coral Stenocyathus vermiformis (Pourtalès, 1868) (Scleractinia, Guyniidae) from Norwegian waters. Sarsia 85: 275-276
Freiwald A, Reitner J, Krutschinna J (1997) Microbial alteration of the deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa: early postmortem processes. In: Neuweiler F, Reitner J, Monty C (eds) Biosedimentology of microbial buildups IGCP Project No. 380 – Proceedings of 2nd Meeting. Facies, pp 223-226
Freiwald A, Rogers A, Hall-Spencer J, Guinotte JM, Davies AJ, Yesson C, Martin CS, Weatherdon LV (2017) Global distribution of cold-water corals (version 5.0). Fifth update to the dataset in Freiwald et al. (2004) by UNEP-WCMC.
Freiwald A, Schönfeld J (1996) Substrate pitting and boring pattern of Hyrrokkin sarcophaga Cedhagen, 1994 (Foraminifera) in a modern deep-water coral reef mound. Marine Micropaleontology 28: 199-207
Freiwald A, Wilson JB (1998) Taphonomy of modern deep, cold-temperate water coral reefs. Historical Biology 13: 37-52
Freiwald A, Wilson JB, Henrich R (1999) Grounding Pleistocene icebergs shape recent deep-water coral reefs. Sedimentary Geology 125: 1-8
Gautret P, Cuif JP, Freiwald A (1997) Composition of soluble mineralizing matrices in zooxanthellate and non-zooxanthellate scleractinian corals: biochemical assessment of photosynthetic metabolism through the study of a skeletal feature. Facies 36: 189-194
Göcke C, Hestetun JT, Uhlir C, Freiwald A, Beuck L, Janussen D (2016) Cladorhiza corallophila sp. nov., a new carnivorous sponge (Cladorhizidae, Demospongiae) living in close association with Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata (Scleractinia). Zootaxa 4168: 512-524
Grehan AJ, Freiwald A, Consortium A (2001) The Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study (ACES): Forging a new partnership between scientists and principal stakeholders. In: Willison JHM, Hall J, Gass S, Kenchington ELR, Butler M, Doherty P (eds) Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals. Ecology Action Centre and Nova Scotia Museum, pp 95-105
Guinotte JM, Orr J, Cairns S, Freiwald A, Morgan L, George R (2006) Will human-induced changes in seawater chemistry alter the distribution of deep-sea scleractinian corals? Frontiers in the Ecology and the Environment 4: 141-146
Hanz U, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Duineveld G, Lavaleye M, Juva K, Dullo WC, Freiwald A, Tamborrino L, Reichart GJ, Flögel S, Mienis F (2019) Environmental factors influencing cold-water coral ecosystems in the oxygen minimum zones on the Angolan and Namibian margins. Biogeosciences 16: 4337-4356
Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Dullo WC, Freiwald A, Mienis F, Orejas C, Titschack J (Online) Cold-water coral reefs thriving under hypoxia. Coral Reefs
Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Wintersteller P, Freiwald A, Becker M, Beuck L, Dullo C, Eberli GP, Glogowski S, Matos L, Forster N, Reyes-Bonilla H, Taviani M (2014) Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences 11: 1799-1815
Heindel K, Titschack J, Dorschel B, Huvenne VAI, Freiwald A (2010) The sediment composition and predictive mapping of facies on the Propeller Mound – A cold-water coral mound (Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic). Continental Shelf Research 30: 1814-1829
Hoffman L, Beuck L, Van Heugten B, Lavaleye M, Freiwald A (2019) Last snails standing since the Pleistocene, a tale of Calliostomatidae (Gastropoda) living in deep-water coral habitats in the Northeast Atlantic. Zootaxa 4613: 93-110
Hoffman L, Fraussen K, Freiwald A (2018) The genus Chauvetia (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea) in deep-water coral habitats on the continental slope of Mauritania. Miscellanea Malacologica 7: 127-138
Hoffman L, Freiwald A (2017) A unique and diverse amalgamated mollusk shell assemblage from the Coral Patch Seamount, eastern Atlantic. Miscellanea Malacologica 7: 55-73
Hoffman L, Freiwald A (2018) Last snails standing: a tale of Fissurellidae (Gastropoda) from deep-water coral habitats off Mauritania since the Pleistocene. Miscellanea Malacologica 7: 115-126
Hoffman L, Freiwald A (2018) A new genus and two new species in Calliotropidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from NE Atlantic cold-water coral habitats. Miscellanea Malacologica 7: 89-96
Hoffman L, Freiwald A (2019) Neocardia kandeli n. sp. (Bivalvia: Philobryidae) from Namibia. Miscellanea Malacologica 8: 55-58
Hoffman L, Freiwald A (2019) Vexillum monscorallum n. sp. (Gastropoda: Costellariidae) from deep-water coral habitats off Mauritania. Miscellanea Malacologica 8: 37-40
Hoffman L, Freiwald A, van Heugten B, Lavaleye M (2018) New information on Ganesa, Lopheliella and Trochaclis (Gastropoda) in cold-water coral habitats in the temperate and tropical North Atlantic Miscellanea Malacologica 8: 27-34
Hoffman L, Gofas S, Freiwald A (2020) New and little-known Seguenziidae (Vetigastropoda, Gastropoda) from the South Azorean Seamount Chain. Iberus 38: 1-18
Hoffman L, Gofas S, Freiwald A (2020) Ten new species in Papuliscala de Boury, 1911 (Gastropoda, Epitoniidae) from the South Azorean Seamount Chain. Iberus 38: 29-53
Hoffman L, Lavaleye M, Van Heugten B, Freiwald A (2018) Lepetella (Gastropoda: Lepetellidae) in deep-water coral habitats in the North Atlantic. Miscellanea Malacologica 8: 19-26
Hoffman L, Monsecour K, Freiwald A (2019) Columbellidae (Gastropoda) from deep-water coral habitats off Mauritania. Miscellanea Malacologica 8: 41-49
Hoffman L, Von Cosel R, Freiwald A (2019) New and little-known Pliocardiinae (Bivalvia, Vesicomyidae) from the continental slope off Mauritania. Basteria 83: 151-157
Joseph N, López Correa M, Schönfeld J, Rüggeberg A, Freiwald A (2013) Subarctic Holocene climatic and oceanographic variability in Stjernsund, northern Norway: evidence from benthic foraminifera and stable isotopes. Boreas 42: 511-531
Kaszemeik K, Freiwald A (2003) Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) — from skeletal structures to growth patterns and morphotypes. Institute for Paleontology, Erlangen, pp 1-26
Kiriakoulakis K, Fisher E, Wolff GA, Freiwald A, Grehan A, Roberts JM (2005) Lipids and nitrogen isotopes of two deep-water corals from the North-East Atlantic: initial results and implications for their nutrition. In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 715-729
Kiriakoulakis K, Freiwald A, Fisher E, Wolff G (2007) Organic matter quality and supply to deep-water coral/mound systems of the NW European continental margin. International Journal of Earth Sciences 96: 159-170
Könnecker G, Freiwald A (2005) Plectroninia celtica n.sp. (Calcarea, Minchinellidae), a new species of „pharetronid“ sponge from bathyal depths in the northern Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic. Facies 51: 53-59
López Correa M, Freiwald A, Hall-Spencer J, Taviani M (2005) Distribution and habitats of Acesta excavata (Bivalvia: Limidae) with new data on its shell ultrastructure. In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 173-205
López Correa M, Montagna P, Joseph N, Rüggeberg A, Fietzke J, Flögel S, Dorschel B, Goldstein SL, Wheeler A, Freiwald A (2012) Preboreal onset of cold-water coral growth beyond the Arctic Circle revealed by coupled radiocarbon and U-series dating and neodymium isotopes. Quaternary Science Reviews 34: 24-43
Macpherson E, Beuck L, Freiwald A (2016) Some species of Munidopsis from the Gulf of Mexico, Florida Straits and Caribbean Sea (Decapoda: Munidopsidae), with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4137: 405-416
Marali S, Wisshak M, López Correa M, Freiwald A (2013) Skeletal microstructure and stable isotope signature of three bathyal solitary cold-water corals from the Azores. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 373: 25-38
Matsuyama K, Janssen A, Martínez Arbizu P, Martha SO, Freiwald A (2014) Bryozoans from RV Sonne deep-sea cruises SO 167 ‘Louisville’ and SO 205 ‘Mangan’. Zootaxa 3856: 100-116
Matsuyama K, Titschack J, Baum D, Freiwald A (2015) Two new species of erect Bryozoa (Gymnolaemata: Cheilostomata) and the application of non-destructive imaging methods for quantitative taxonomy. Zootaxa 4020: 81-100
McCulloch M, Trotter J, Montagna P, Falter J, Dunbar R, Freiwald A, Försterra G, López Correa M, Maier C, Rüggeberg A, Taviani M (2012) Resilience of cold-water scleractinian corals to ocean acidification: Boron isotopic systematics of pH and saturation state up-regulation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 87: 21-34
Mienert J, Weaver PPE, Berné S, Dullo WC, Evans D, Freiwald A, Henriet JP, Joergensen BB, Lericolas G, Lykousis V, Parkes J, Trincardi F, Westbrook G (2004) Dynamics and evolution of European margins. Oceanography 17: 12-29
Montagna P, López Correa M, Rüggeberg A, McCulloch M, Rodolfo-Metalpa R, Dullo WC, Ferrier-Pagès C, Freiwald A, Henderson GM, Mazzoli C, Russo S, Silenzi S, Taviani M (2008) Coral Li/Ca in micro-structural domains as a temperature proxy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72: A645
Montagna P, McCulloch M, Douville E, López Correa M, Trotter J, Rodolfo-Metalpa R, Dissard D, Ferrier-Pagès C, Frank N, Freiwald A, Goldstein S, Mazzoli C, Reynaud S, Rüggeberg A, Russo S, Taviani M (2014) Li/Mg systematics in scleractinian corals: Calibration of the thermometer. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 132: 288-310
Morato T, González-Irusta JM, Dominguez-Carrió C, Wei CL, Davies A, Sweetman AK, Taranto GH, Beazley L, García-Alegre A, Grehan A, Laffargue P, Murillo FJ, Sacau M, Vaz S, Kenchington E, Arnaud-Haond S, Callery O, Chimienti G, Cordes E, Egilsdottir H, Freiwald A, Gasbarro R, Gutiérrez-Zárate C, Gianni M, Gilkinson K, Wareham Hayes VE, Hebbeln D, Hedges K, Henry LA, Johnson D, Koen-Alonso M, Lirette C, Mastrototaro F, Menot L, Molodtsova T, Muñoz PD, Orejas C, Pennino MG, Puerta P, Ragnarsson SA, Ramiro-Sánchez B, Rice J, Rivera J, Roberts JM, Ross SW, Rueda JL, Sampaio Í, Snelgrove P, Stirling D, Treble MA, Urra J, Vad J, Van Oevelen D, Watling L, Walkusz W, Wienberg C, Woillez M, Levin LA, Carreiro-Silva M (2020) Climate-induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic. Global Change Biology 26: 2181-2202
Noé S, Lembke-Jene L, Reveillaud J, Freiwald A (2007) Microstructure, growth banding and age determination of a primnoid gorgonian skeleton (Octocorallia) from the late Younger Dryas to earliest Holocene of the Bay of Biscay. Facies 53: 177-188
Noé S, Titschack J, Freiwald A, Dullo WC (2006) From sediment to rock: diagenetic processes of hardground formation in deep-water carbonate mounds of the NE Atlantic. Facies 52: 183-208
Raddatz J, Liebetrau V, Rüggeberg A, Hathorne E, Krabbenhöft A, Eisenhauer A, Böhm F, Vollstaedt H, Fietzke J, López Correa M, Freiwald A, Dullo WC (2013) Stable Sr-isotope, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, Li/Ca and Mg/Li ratios in the scleractinian cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa. Chemical Geology 352: 143-152
Raddatz J, Titschack J, Frank N, Freiwald A, Conforti A, Osborne A, Skornitzke S, Stiller W, Rüggeberg A, Voigt S, Albuquerque ALS, Vertino A, Schröder-Ritzrau A, Bahr A (2020) Solenosmilia variabilis-bearing cold-water coral mounds off Brazil. Coral Reefs 39: 69-83
Reveillaud J, Freiwald A, Van Rooij D, Le Guilloux E, Altuna A, Foubert A, Vanreusel A, Olu-Le Roy K, Henriet JP (2008) The distribution of scleractinian corals in the Bay of Biscay, NE Atlantic. Facies 54: 317-331
Roberts JM, Freiwald A (2005) Integrated European research into cold-water coral reefs. Current 21: 41-45
Roberts JM, Wheeler AJ, Freiwald A (2006) Reefs of the deep: the biology and geology of cold-water coral ecosystems. Science 312: 543-547
Roberts JM, Wheeler AJ, Freiwald A, Cairns SD (2009) Cold-water corals – The biology and geology of deep-sea coral habitats. Cambridge University Press
Rosso A, Beuck L, Vertino A, Sanfilippo A, Freiwald A (2018) Cribrilinids (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) associated with deep-water coral habitats at the Great Bahama Bank slope (NW Atlantic), with description of new taxa. Zootaxa 4524: 401-439
Rüggeberg A, Fietzke J, Liebetrau V, Eisenhauer A, Dullo WC, Freiwald A (2008) Stable strontium isotopes (d88/86Sr) in cold-water corals— a new proxy for reconstruction of intermediate ocean water temperatures. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269: 569-574
Rüggeberg A, Flögel S, Dullo WC, Hissmann K, Freiwald A (2011) Water mass characteristics and sill dynamics in a subpolar cold-water coral reef setting at Stjernsund, northern Norway. Marine Geology 282: 5-12
Sakai K, Türkay M, Beuck L, Freiwald A (2015) A collection of the Infraorder Callianassidea (Decapoda, Pleocyemata) with one new genus and five new species from the Eastern Atlantic off Mauritania (R/V Maria S. Merian cruise MSM 16/3 “PHAETON”). Marine Biodiversity 45: 113-133
Sampaio I, Carreiro-Silva M, Freiwald A, Menezes G, Grasshoff M (2019) Natural history collections as a basis for sound biodiversity assessments: Plexauridae (Octocorallia, Holaxonia) of the Naturalis CANCAP and Tyro Mauritania II expeditions. ZooKeys 870: 1-32
Sampaio I, Freiwald A, Porteiro FM, Menezes G, Carreiro-Silva M (2019) Census of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of the Azores (NE Atlantic) with a nomenclature update. Zootaxa 4550: 451-498
Sanfilippo R, Vertino A, Rosso A, Beuck L, Freiwald A, Taviani M (2013) Serpula aggregates and their role in deep-sea coral communities in the southern Adriatic Sea. Facies 59: 663-677
Savini A, Vertino A, Marchese F, Beuck L, Freiwald A (2014) Mapping cold-water coral habitats at different scales within the northern Ionian Sea (Central Mediterranean): An assessment of coral coverage and associated vulnerability. Plos One 9: e87108
Schleinkofer N, Raddatz J, Freiwald A, Evans D, Beuck L, Rüggeberg A, Liebetrau V (2019) Environmental and biological controls on Na/Ca ratios in scleractinian cold-water corals. Biogeosciences 16: 3565-3582
Schönfeld J, Dullo WC, Pfannkuche O, Freiwald A, Rüggeberg A, Schmidt S, Weston J (2011) Recent benthic foraminiferal assemblages from cold-water coral mounds in the Porcupine Seabight. Facies 57: 187-213
Schröder-Ritzrau A, Freiwald A, Mangini A (2005) U/Th-dating of deep-water corals from the eastern North Atlantic and the western Mediterranean Sea. In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 157-172
Sorauf JE, Freiwald A (2002) Skeletal structure in the rugosan genus Calophyllum from Permian strata of Timor: Comparison with the living deep water coral Lophelia pertusa. Coral Research Bulletin 7: 191-207
Tamborrino L, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Wintersteller P, Mienis F, Schröder-Ritzrau A, Freiwald A, Orejas C, Dullo WC, Haberkern J, Hebbeln D (2019) Mid-Holocene extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf steered by the Benguela oxygen minimum zone. Geology 47: 1185-1188
Taviani M, Angeletti L, Beuck L, Campiani E, Canese S, Foglini F, Freiwald A, Montagna P, Trincardi F (2015) On and off the beaten track: Megafaunal sessile life and Adriatic cascading processes. Marine Geology 369: 273-287
Taviani M, Angeletti L, Dimech M, Mifsud C, Freiwald A, Harasewych MG, Oliverio M (2009) Coralliophilinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae) associated with deep-water coral banks in the Mediterranean. The Nautilus 123: 106-112
Taviani M, Freiwald A, Beuck L, Angeletti L, Remia A, Vertino A, Dimech M, Schembri PJ (2010) The deepest known occurrence of the precious red coral Corallium rubrum (L., 1758) in the Mediterranean Sea. In: Bussoletti E, Cottingham D, Bruckner A, Roberts G, Sandulli R (eds) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Red Coral Science, Management, and Trade: Lessons from the Mediterranean. NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-13, pp 87-93
Taviani M, Freiwald A, Zibrowius H (2005) Deep coral growth in the Mediterranean Sea: an overview. In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 137-156
Taviani M, Remia A, Corselli C, Freiwald A, Malinverno E, Mastrototaro F, Savini A, Tursi A (2005) First geo-marine survey of living cold-water Lophelia reefs in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean basin). Facies 50: 409-417
Titschack J, Baum D, De Pol-Holz R, López Correa M, Forster N, Flögel S, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A (2015) Aggradation and carbonate accumulation of Holocene Norwegian cold-water coral reefs. Sedimentology 62: 1873-1898
Titschack J, Bromley RG, Freiwald A (2005) Plio-Pleistocene cliff-bound, wedge-shaped, warm-temperate carbonate deposits from Rhodes (Greece): Sedimentology and facies. Sedimentary Geology 180: 29-56
Titschack J, Fink HG, Baum D, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A (2016) Mediterranean cold-water corals – an important regional carbonate factory? Depositional Record 2: 74-96
Titschack J, Freiwald A (2005) Growth, deposition, and facies of Pleistocene bathyal coral communities from Rhodes, Greece. In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 41-59
Titschack J, Thierens M, Dorschel B, Schulbert C, Freiwald A, Kano A, Takashima C, Kawagoe N, Li X (2009) Carbonate budget of a cold-water coral mound (Challenger Mound, IODP Exp. 307). Marine Geology 259: 36-46
Weaver PPE, Billett DSM, Boetius A, Danovaro R, Freiwald A, Sibuet M (2004) Hotspot ecosystem research on Europe’s deep-ocean margins. Oceanography 17: 132-143
Weaver PPE, Boetius A, Danovaro R, Freiwald A, Gunn V, Heussner S, Morato T, Schewe I, van den Howe S (2009) The future of integrated deep-sea research in Europe—The HERMIONE Project. Oceanography 22: 177-191
Welte C, Wacker L, Hattendorf B, Christl M, Fohlmeister J, Breitenbach SFM, Robinson LF, Andrews AH, Freiwald A, Farmer JR, Yeman C, Synal HA, Günther D (2016) Laser ablation − accelerator mass spectrometry: An approach for rapid radiocarbon analyses of carbonate archives at high spatial resolution. Analytical Chemistry 88: 8570-8576
Wheeler AJ, Beyer A, Freiwald A, de Haas H, Huvenne VAI, Kozachenko M, Olu-Le Roy K, Opderbecke J (2007) Morphology and environment of cold-water coral carbonate mounds on the NE European margin. International Journal of Earth Sciences 96: 37-57
Wienberg C, Beuck L, Heidkamp S, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A, Pfannkuche O, Monteys X (2008) Franken Mound: facies and biocoenoses on a newly-discovered „carbonate mound“ on the western Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic. Facies 54: 1-24
Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Fink HG, Mienis F, Dorschel B, Vertino A, López Correa M, Freiwald A (2009) Scleractinian cold-water corals in the Gulf of Cádiz—First clues about their spatial and temporal distribution. Deep-Sea Research I 56: 1873-1893
Wienberg C, Titschack J, Freiwald A, Frank N, Lundälv T, Taviani M, Beuck L, Schröder-Ritzrau A, Krengel T, Hebbeln D (2018) The giant Mauritanian cold-water coral mound province: Oxygen control on coral mound formation. Quaternary Science Reviews 185: 135-152
Wisshak M, Freiwald A, Lundälv T, Gektidis M (2005) The physical niche of the bathyal Lophelia pertusa in a non-bathyal setting: environmental controls and palaeoecological implications. In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 979-1001
Wisshak M, López Correa M, Gofas S, Salas C, Taviani M, Jakobsen J, Freiwald A (2009) Shell architecture, element composition, and stable isotope signature of the giant deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii sp. n. from the NE Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I 66: 374-407
Wisshak M, López Correa M, Zibrowius H, Jakobsen J, Freiwald A (2009) Skeletal reorganisation affects geochemical signals, exemplified in the stylasterid hydrocoral Errina dabneyi (Azores Archipelago). Marine Ecology Progress Series 397: 197-208
Wisshak M, Neumann C, Jakobsen J, Freiwald A (2009) The ‚living-fossil community‘ of the cyrtocrinoid Cyathidium foresti and the deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii (Azores Archipelago). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 271: 77-83
Zettler ML, Freiwald A, Guerra-García JM (2018) Cold-water corals off Angola as refuge for a new Aeginella species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae). Zootaxa 4462: 535-546
Populärwissenschaftliche Publikationen zum Thema Kaltwasserkorallen
Freiwald A (2003) Korallengärten in kalten Tiefen. Spektrum der Wissenschaft 2/2003: 666-673
Freiwald A (2004) Kaltwasser-Karbonate und Tiefwasser-Riffe – eine geobiologische Herausforderung. Gmit 18: 8-14
Freiwald A (2014) Kaltwasserkorallen – aus der Grundlagenforschung auf die politische Agenda. Natur, Forschung, Museum 144: 6-17
Freiwald A (2015) Kaltwasserriffe als Geobiodiversitäts-Hotspots. Natur, Forschung und Museum 145: 6-13
Freiwald A (2015) Tiefseeforschungsschiff „Sonne“ nimmt Fahrt auf. Natur, Forschung und Museum 145: 34-37
Freiwald A, Beuck L (2011) Sind Kaltwasserkorallen durch den Klimawandel gefährdet? In: Lozán JL, Graßl H, Karbe L, Reise K (eds) Warnsignal Klima: Die Meere – Änderungen und Risiken, Hamburg, pp 220-224
Freiwald A, Beuck L, Wisshak M (2013) Korallenriffe im kalten Wasser des Nordatlantiks. In: Beck E (ed) Die Vielfalt des Lebens: Wie hoch, wie komplex, warum? Wiley-VCH, pp 88-98
George KH, Wehrmann A, Freiwald A (2019) Gipfelstürmer der Tiefe. Natur, Forschung und Museum 149: 72-77
Hebbeln D, Freiwald A (2010) Manche mögen’s kalt – Der europäische Korallengürtel von Norwegen bis ins Mittelmeer. In: Wefer G, Schmieder F (eds) Expedition Erde. Marum Bibliothek verständliche Geowissenschaften, Bremen, pp 394-401
Schmidt H, Freiwald A (1993) Rezente gesteinsbohrende Kleinorganismen des norwegischen Schelfs. Natur und Museum 123: 149-155
Heutige nicht-tropische biosedimentäre Systeme (Kaltwasserkarbonate im Flachwasser)
Andruleit H, Freiwald A, Schäfer P (1996) Bioclastic carbonate sediments on the southwestern Svalbard Shelf. Marine Geology 134: 163-182
Färber C, Titschack J, Schönberg CHL, Ehrig K, Boos K, Baum D, Illerhaus B, Asgaard U, Bromley RG, Freiwald A, Wisshak M (2016) Long-term macrobioerosion in the Mediterranean Sea assessed by micro-computed tomography. Biogeosciences 13: 3461-3474
Färber C, Wisshak M, Pyko I, Bellou N, Freiwald A (2015) Effects of water depth, seasonal exposure, and substrate orientation on microbial bioerosion in the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean). Plos One 10: e0126495
Freiwald A (1993) Coralline algal maerl frameworks-Islands within the phaeophytic kelp belt. Facies 29: 133-148
Freiwald A (1995) Bacteria-induced carbonate degradation: a taphonomic case study of Cibicides lobatulus from a high-boreal carbonate setting. Palaios 10: 337-346
Freiwald A (1995) Sedimentological and biological aspects in the formation of branched rhodoliths in northern Norway. Beiträge zur Paläontologie 20: 7-19
Freiwald A (1998) Microbial maceration and carbonate dissolution on cold-temperate shelves. Historical Biology 13: 27-35
Freiwald A (1998) Modern nearshore cold-temperate calcareous sediments in the Troms District, northern Norway. Journal of Sedimentary Research 68: 763-776
Freiwald A, Henrich R (1994) Reefal coralline algal build-ups within the Arctic Circle: morphology and sedimentary dynamics under extreme environmental seasonality. Sedimentology 41: 963-984
Freiwald A, Henrich R, Schäfer P, Willkomm H (1991) The significance of high-boreal to subarctic maerl deposits in northern Norway to reconstruct Holocene climatic changes and sea level oscillations. Facies 25: 315-340
Freiwald A, Mostafawi N (1998) Ostracods in a cold-temperate coastal environment, western Troms, northern Norway: sedimentary aspects and assemblages. Facies 38: 255-274
Henrich R, Freiwald A, Betzler CB, Bader B, Schäfer P, Samtleben C, Brachert TC, Wehrmann A, Zankl H, Kühlmann DHH (1995) Controls on modern carbonate sedimentation on warm-temperate to Arctic coasts, shelves and seamounts in the northern Hemisphere: implications for fossil counterparts. Facies 32: 71-108
Henrich R, Freiwald A, Bickert T, Schäfer P (1997) Evolution of an Arctic open-shelf carbonate platform, Spitsbergen Bank (Barents Sea). In: James NP, Clarke JAD (eds) Cool-water carbonates. SEPM, Special Volume, pp 163-181
Henrich R, Freiwald A, Wehrmann A, Schäfer P, Samtleben C, Zankl H (1996) Nordic cold-water carbonates: occurrences and controls. Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie und Paläontologie Sb 2: 35-52
Henrich R, Hartmann M, Reitner J, Schäfer P, Freiwald A, Steinmetz S, Dietrich P, Thiede J (1992) Facies belts and communities of the Arctic Vesterisbanken Seamount (Central Greenland Sea). Facies 27: 71-104
Teichert S, Freiwald A (2014) Polar coralline algal CaCO3-production rates correspond to intensity and duration of the solar radiation. Biogeosciences 11: 833-842
Teichert S, Woelkerling W, Rüggeberg A, Wisshak M, Piepenburg D, Meyerhöfer M, Form A, Büdenbender J, Freiwald A (2012) Rhodolith beds (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) and their physical and biological environment at 80°31’N in Nordkappbukta (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway). Phycologia 51: 371-390
Teichert S, Woelkerling W, Rüggeberg A, Wisshak M, Piepenburg D, Meyerhöfer M, Form A, Freiwald A (2014) Arctic rhodolith beds and their environmental controls (Spitsbergen, Norway). Facies 60: 15-37
Wehrmann A, Freiwald A, Zankl H (1995) Formation of cold-temperate water multispecies rhodoliths in intertidal gravel pools from northern Brittany, France. Senckenbergiana maritima 26: 51-71
Westphal H, Halfar J, Freiwald A (2010) Heterozoan carbonates in subtropical to tropical settings in the present and in the past. International Journal of Earth Sciences 99 Supplement 1: S153-S169
Wisshak M, Berning B, Jakobsen J, Freiwald A (2015) Temperate carbonate production: biodiversity of calcareous epiliths from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores). Marine Biodiversity 45: 87-112
Wisshak M, Form A, Jakobsen J, Freiwald A (2010) Temperate carbonate cycling and water mass properties from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores, N-Atlantic). Biogeosciences 7: 2379-2396
Wisshak M, Gektidis M, Freiwald A, Lundälv T (2005) Bioerosion along a bathymetric gradient in a cold-temperate setting (Kosterfjord, SW Sweden): an experimental study. Facies 51: 93-117
Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Form A, Freiwald A (2012) Ocean acidification accelerates reef bioerosion. Plos One 7: e45124
Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Form A, Freiwald A (2013) Effects of ocean acidification and global warming on reef bioerosion—lessons from a clionaid sponge. Aquatic Biology 19: 111-127
Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Form A, Freiwald A (2014) Sponge bioerosion accelerated by ocean acidification across species and latitudes? Helgoland Marine Research 68: 253-262
Wisshak M, Tribollet A, Golubic S, Jakobsen J, Freiwald A (2011) Temperate bioerosion: ichnodiversity and biodiversity from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores). Geobiology 9: 492-520
Geologische und paläontologische Studien
Beuck L, Wisshak M, Munnecke A, Freiwald A (2008) A giant boring in a Silurian stromatoporoid analysed by computer tomography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53: 149-160
Birgel D, Himmler T, Freiwald A, Peckmann J (2008) A new constraint on the antiquity of anaerobic oxidation of methane: Late Pennsylvanian seep limestones from southern Namibia. Geology 36: 543-546
Blomeier D, Wisshak M, Dallmann W, Volohonsky E, Freiwald A (2003) Facies analysis of the Old Red sandstone of Spitsbergen (Wood Bay Formation): Reconstruction of the depositional environments and implications of basin development. Facies 49: 151-174
Blomeier D, Wisshak M, Joachimski M, Freiwald A, Volohonsky E (2003) Calcareous, alluvial and lacustrine deposits in the Old Red Sandstone of central north Spitsbergen (Wood Bay Formation, Early Devonian). Norwegian Journal of Geology 83: 281-298
Freiwald A, Krzeminski W (1991) Cylindrotomidae (Diptera, Tipulomorpha) from the Paleogene of Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya (Eastern Asiatic USSR). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 65: 339-344
Himmler T, Freiwald A, Stollhofen H, Peckmann J (2008) Late Carboniferous hydrocarbon-seep carbonates from the glaciomarine Dwyka Group, southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257: 185-197
Krzeminski W, Freiwald A (1991) Toxorhina (Ceratocheilus) caucasiensis, a new species from the Middle Miocene of Stavropol (northern Caucasus, USSR) (Diptera, Limoniidae). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 65: 153-155
Kuechler RR, Birgel D, Kiel S, Freiwald A, Goedert J, Thiel V, Peckmann J (2012) Miocene methane-derived carbonates from southwestern Washington, USA and a model for silification at seeps. Lethaia 45: 259-273
Milker Y, Weinkauf MFG, Titschack J, Freiwald A, Krüger S, Jorissen FJ, Schmiedl G (2017) Testing the applicability of a benthic foraminiferal-based transfer function for the reconstruction of paleowater depth changes in Rhodes (Greece) during the early Pleistocene. PlosOne 12: e0188447
Nelson CS, Freiwald A, Titschack J, List S (2001) Lithostratigraphy and sequence architecture of temperate mixed siliciclastic-carbonate facies in a new Plio-Pleistocene section at Plimiri, Rhodes Island (Greece). Occasional Report Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waikato 25: 1-50
Titschack J, Joseph N, Fietzke J, Freiwald A, Bromley RG (2013) Record of a tectonically-controlled regression captured by changes in carbonate skeletal associations on a structured island shelf (mid-Pleistocene, Rhodes, Greece). Sedimentary Geology 283: 15-33
Titschack J, Nelson CS, Beck T, Freiwald A (2008) Sedimentary evolution of a Late Pleistocene temperate red algal reef (Coralligène) on Rhodes, Greece: correlation with global sea-level fluctuations. Sedimentology 55: 1747-1776
Titschack J, Radtke U, Freiwald A (2009) Dating and characterization of polymorphic transformation of aragonite to calcite in Pleistocene bivalves from Rhodes (Greece) by combined shell microstructure, stable isotope, and electron spin resonance study. Journal of Sedimentary Research 79: 332-346
Wisshak M, Volohonsky E, Seilacher A, Freiwald A (2004) A trace fossil assemblage from fluvial Old Red deposits (Wood Bay Formation; Lower to Middle Devonian) of NW-Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Lethaia 37: 149-163
Mitarbeiter

CV DR. LYDIA BEUCK
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
1997 Abitur
1997-2002 Biologiestudium an der Universität Tübingen
2002 Diplom (Titel der Diplomarbeit: Biodegradation und Ichnodiversität postmortaler Stadien der
Tiefwasserkoralle Lophelia pertusa am Propeller Mound (Porcupine Seabight))
2008 Promotion an der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Titel der Doktorarbeit: Framework-building cold-water coral
ecosystem characterisation: Key studies from macro- to micro-scale)
2008-2010 Post-Doc am GZN Fachgruppe Paläoumwelt mit Mitarbeit an den EU-Projekten Hermes, Hermione und
CoralFISH
ab 2010 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Senckenberg am Meer Wilhelmshaven
Forschungsinteressen
- Habitatkartierung und -charakterisierung von Tiefwasserkorallenökosystemen
- Ökosystemforschung mit Schwerpunkt auf inter- und intraspezifischen Interaktionen
- Biodegradationstudien insbesondere von Kaltwasserkorallen
Ausfahrten
- 20.4. – 5.5.2004 RV Meteor 61-1 (Lissabon -Cork)
- 5.6. – 20.6.2004 RV Meteor 61-3 (Cork – Punta Delgada)
- 3.8. – 17.8.2004 RV Poseidon 316 (Reykjavik – Lissabon)
- 24.9.- 18.10.2006 RV Meteor M 70/1 (Malta – Heraklion)
- 18.2.- 10.3.2008 RV Pelagia 64PE284 (Portimão – Portimão)
- 29.5.-16.6.2009 RV Poseidon Pos 385 (Faro-Toulon)
- 29.6.-15.7.2010 RV Poseidon Pos 400 (Vigo – Cork)
- 21.10.-20.11.10 RV Merian 16-3 (Las Palmas – Mindelo)
—2013—
Wienberg C, Wintersteller P, Beuck L, Hebbeln D (2013) Coral Patch seamount (NE Atlantic) – a sedimentological and megafaunal reconnaissance based on video and hydroacoustic surveys.Biogeosciences 10: 3421-3443.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3421-2013
Sanfilippo R, Vertino A, Rosso A, Beuck L, Freiwald A, Taviani M (2013) Serpula aggregates and their role in deep-sea coral communities in the southern Adriatic Sea. Facies 59/4: 663-677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-012-0356-7
Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Wintersteller P, Freiwald A, Becker M, Beuck L, Dullo C, Eberli GP, Glogowski S, Matos L, Forster N, Reyes-Bonilla H, Taviani M, MSM 20-4 shipboard party (2013) Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences Discussions 10: 18757-18801 (online)
Fabri M, Pedel L, Beuck L, Galgani F, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A (2013) Megafauna of vulnerable marine ecosystems in French mediterranean submarine canyons: Spatial distribution and anthropogenic impacts. Deep-Sea Research II (online)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.06.016
Eisele M, Frank N, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Mienis F, Beuck L Tisnerat-Laborde N, Hebbeln D (2013) Sedimentation patterns on a cold-water coral mound off Mauritania. Deep-Sea Research II (online).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.07.004
Barnich R, Beuck L, Freiwald A (2013) Scale worms (Polychaeta: Aphroditiformia) associated with cold-water corals in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 93:2129-2143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002531541300088X
—2010—
Beuck L, Freiwald A, Taviani M (2010) Spatiotemporal bioerosion patterns in deep-water scleractinians from off Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulia, Ionian Sea). Deep-Sea Research II 57: 458-470.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.08.019
—2009—
Freiwald A, Beuck L, Rüggeberg A, Taviani M, Hebbeln D (2009) The white coral community in the central Mediterranean Sea revealed by ROV surveys. Oceanography 22: 58-74.
—2008—
Beuck L, Wisshak M, Munnecke A, Freiwald A (2008) A giant boring in a Silurian stromatoporoid analysed by computer tomography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53: 149-160.
http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app53-149.html
Beuck L, López Correa M, Freiwald A (2008) Biogeographical distribution of Hyrrokkin (Rosalinidae, Foraminifera) and its host-specific morphological and textural trace variability In: Wisshak M, Tapanila L (eds) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 329-360.
Wienberg C, Beuck L, Heidkamp S, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A, Pfannkuche O, Monteys X (2008) Franken Mound: facies and biocoenoses on a newly-discovered „carbonate mound“ on the western Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic. Facies 54: 1-24.
—2007—
Beuck L, Vertino A, Stepina E, Karolczak M, Pfannkuche O (2007) Skeletal response of Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) to bioeroding sponge infestation visualised with micro-computed tomography. Facies
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-006-0094-9
Schönberg CHL, Beuck L (2007) Where Topsent went wrong: Aka infesta a.k.a. Aka labyrinthica (Demospongiae: Phloeodictyidae) and implications for other Aka spp. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87: 1459-1476
—2005—
Beuck L, Freiwald A (2005) Bioerosion patterns in a deep-water Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) thicket (Propeller Mound, northern Porcupine Seabight) In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, pp 915-936.
Försterra G, Beuck L, Häussermann V, Freiwald A (2005) Shallow-water Desmophyllum dianthus (Scleractinia) from Chile: characteristics of the biocoenoses, the bioeroding community, heterotrophic interactions and (Paleo)-bathymetric implications In: Freiwald A, Roberts JM (eds) Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, pp 937-977.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS AND OTHERS
Beuck L (2013) Sonderausstellung „Meeresgründe“ in Wilhelmshaven. In: Senckenberg-Natur, Forschung und Museum 143(5/6): 188-189.
Beuck L (2013) Juwelen der Tiefe – Kaltwasserkorallen. In: Senckenberg-Natur, Forschung und Museum 143(3/4): 118
Freiwald A, Beuck L (2011) Sind Kaltwasserkorallen durch den Klimawandel gefährdet? In: Lozán JL, Graßl H, Karbe L, Reise K (eds) Warnsignal Klima: Die Meere – Änderungen und Risiken, Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen, Hamburg, pp 220-224.
Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Beuck L, Dehning K, Dullo W-C, Eberli G, Freiwald A, Glogowski S, Garlichs T, Jansen F, Joseph N, Klann M, Matos L, Nowald N, Reyes H, Ruhland G, Taviani M, Wilke T, Wilsenack M, Wintersteller P (2012) West Atlantic cold-water coral ecosystems: The west side story. MSM Cruise No. 20, Leg 4. Maria S Merian-Berichte 20-4: 1-53.
Taviani M, Freiwald A, Beuck L, Angeletti L, Remia A, Vertino A, Dimech M, Schembri PJ (2010) The deepest known occurrence of the precious red coral Corallium rubrum (L., 1758) in the Mediterranean Sea In: Bussoletti E, Cottingham D, Bruckner A, Roberts G, Sandulli R (eds) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Red Coral Science, Management, and Trade: Lessons from the Mediterranean. NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-13, pp 87-93.
Wienberg C, Beuck L, Coughlan M, Dimmler W, Eisele M, Freiwald A, Klann M, Ruhland G, Stone J (2010) Report and preliminary results of RV Poseidon Cruise POS 400 „CORICON – Cold-water corals along the Irish continental margin“, Vigo-Cork, June 29 – July 15 2010. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen 275: 1-35.
POPULAR SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS
Freiwald A, Beuck L & Wisshak M (2012) Korallenriffe im kalten Wasser des Nordatlantiks –
Entstehung, Artenvielfalt und Gefährdung. In: Beck E (ed) Die Vielfalt des Lebens. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, pp 89-96
http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/dt/books/ISBN978-3-527-33212-0
Freiwald A, Beuck L (2011). Sind Kaltwasserkorallen durch den Klimawandel gefährdet? In: Lozán, J.L., Graßl, H., Karbe, L., Reise, K. (eds.) Warnsignal Klima: Die Meere – Änderungen und Risiken: 183-188. Hamburg, Wiss. Auswertungen
Freiwald A, Beuck L (2011). Die hängenden Gärten von Linosa. In Jakobi N, Neuhoff H von, Springer B (eds) 25 jahre FS Meteor. Hauschild, pp. 108-111.
CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS ( SINCE 2010 )
2012
Beuck L, Freiwald A, López Correa M, Taviani M, Zibrowius H, Hebbeln D (2012) Shedding light on deep-water oyster environments: Habitat characterisation of live Neopycnodonte zibrowii and its Atlantic-Mediterranean distribution. 5th International Deep-Sea Coral Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [Poster].
Wienberg C, Beuck L, Freiwald A, Taviani M, Titschack J, Frank N, Hebbeln D (2012) The Great Wall of(f) Mauritania: Cold-water corals in an upwelling region. 5th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [Poster].
2011
Beuck L, Vertino A, Grehan A, Guillaumont B, Kutti T, van den Beld I, Freiwald A, Fossa JH, Laffargue P, Savini A, and CoralFISH members (2011) Protocol & illustrated glossary for mapping & characterisation of cold-water coral ecosystems. 3rd CoralFISH Science Meeting, Heraklion, Crete, Greece [Talk].
Vertino A, Savini A, Beuck L, Negri M, Malinverno E, Mastrototaro F, Corselli C (2011) Bathyal benthic habitats from the southern Apulian slope: characterization, spatial distribution and modifucations through time. 3rd CoralFISH Science Meeting, Heraklion, Crete, Greece [Talk].
2010
Beuck L, Freiwald A, López Correa M, Taviani M, Zibrowius H, Hebbeln D (2010) Shedding light on deep-water oyster environments: Habitat characterisation of live Neopycnodonte zibrowii at El Idrissi Seamount (Alboran Sea) and its Atlantic Mediterranean distribution. HERMIONE Meeting, Malta, [Poster].
Beuck L, de Mol B, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Canals M, Freiwald A, Amblas D, Calafat A, Costa S, Duran R, Frigola J, Iglesias O, Lafuerza S, Lavoie C, Lastras G, Liquete CM, Rayo X, Sànchez A, Povea P, Pedrosa R, and HERMESIONE and Poseidon 385 shipboard party (2010) Habitat characterisation of El Idrissi Seamount (Alboran Sea) based on RV Poseidon POS385 and HERMESIONE cruise data. HERMIONE Meeting, Attard, Malta [Poster].
Beuck L, Grehan A, Guillaumont B, Kutti T, Freiwald A, Fossa JH, Laffargue P, and CoralFISH members (2010) Underwater video assessment of fish and cold-water corals. 1st CoralFISH Science Meeting, Attard, Malta [Talk]
Vertino A, Savini A, Negri M, Beuck L, Scuderi A, Malinverno E, Milan L, Panettieri M, Baratti V (2010) Cold-water coral province from Santa Maria di Leuca (Ionian Sea): habitat characterization, ecological and paleoecological observations. 2nd CoralFISH Science Meeting, Milan, Italy [Talk]
Beuck L, Rüggeberg A, Taviani M, Hebbeln D (2009) The white coral community in the central Mediterranean Sea revealed by ROV surveys. Oceanography 22: 58-74.

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Forschungsschwerpunkte:
- Karbonatkreislaufexperimente
- Bioerosion
- Ichnologie
- Invertebraten-Paläobiologie
- Biodiversitätsanalyse
- Mikrostrukturanalyse
- Isotopengeochemie
- Speläologie
1994-2001: Studium der Geologie / Paläontologie am Institut für Geowissenschaften der Universität Tübingen.
1998-1999: Einjähriges Auslandsstudium an der University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, USA.
2001: Diplomarbeit und Diplomkartierung im Rahmen des Projektes: Paläogeographie, Paläontologie und Biostratigraphie der devonischen Old Red-Sedimente auf NW Spitzbergen (norwegisch-deutsches Kooperationsprojekt) (DFG Fr 1134/2).
2001-2002: Aufbaustudiengang Medienpraxis / Medienwissenschaft an der Uni Tübingen.
2002-2006: Dissertation am Institut für Paläontologie der Universität Erlangen im Rahmen des Projektes: Quantitative Biodegradation an marinen Kaltwasserkarbonaten (DFG Fr 1134/5).
2006-2009: PostDoc am Institut für Paläontologie der Universität Erlangen im Rahmen des Projektes: Monitoring Carbonate Production and Degradation (Azores, Portugal) (DFG Fr 1134/12).
2009-2011: PostDoc am Institut für Paläontologie der Universität Erlangen im Rahmen des Projektes: Spatial and Temporal Effects of Anthropogenic Carbon on Bioerosion (DFG Fr 1134/19).
2011- : Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter in der Arbeitsgruppe für Marine Geologie der Abteilung Meeresforschung am Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg am Meer in Wilhelmshaven.
Books
Wisshak M & Barton HA (eds.) (2022) Lechuguilla Cave: Discoveries in a Hidden Splendor. speleo-photo editions, Friedeburg, 240 p.
https://www.lechuguilla-cave.info
Wisshak M & Wisshak S (2020) New Zealand Karst: a Voyage across Limestone Landscapes into the Subterranean Realm of Caves. speleo-photo editions, Friedeburg, 256 p.
https://www.speleo-photo.de/editions.html
Wisshak M & Tapanila L (eds) (2008) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 500 p.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0
Wisshak M (2008) Inside Mother Earth: Magische Höhlenwelten, Magic Caves, Grottes Magiques. Edition Reuss, Aschaffenburg, 152 p.
https://www.speleo-photo.de/publications.html
Wisshak M (2006) High-Latitude Bioerosion: The Kosterfjord Experiment. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 109, 202 p. [Staedtler Award].
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36849-6
Menne B, Wisshak M & Wolf A (eds)(2005) Berchtesgadener Alpen. Höhle und Karst 2004/2005, Verband Deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher e.V. München, 237 p.
http://www.vdhk.de
Peer Reviewed Articles
Wisshak M, Schneider S, Mikuláš R, Richiano S, Ramil F, Wilson M (2023) Putative hydroid symbionts recorded by bioclaustrations in fossil molluscan shells: a revision and reinterpretation of the cecidogenus Rodocanalis. Papers in Palaeontology 9: e1484.
https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1484
Cordova-Gonzalez A, Birgel D, Wisshak M, Urich T, Brinkmann F, Marcon Y, Bohrmann G, Peckmann J (2023) A carbonate corrosion experiment at a marine methane seep: The role of aerobic methanotrophic bacteria. Geobiology 21: 491-506.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12549
Wisshak M, Neumann C, Sanna G, Nielsen KSS, Milàn J (2023) Suspected foraminiferan parasitism on a Late Cretaceous echinoid host recorded by the new attachment trace fossil Solichnus aestheticus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68: 13-22.
https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01028.2022
Bertling M, Buatois LA, Knaust D, Laing B, Mángano MG, Meyer N, Mikulás R, Minter NJ, Neumann C, Rindsberg AK, Uchman A, Wisshak M (2022) Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy. Lethaia 55: 1-19.
https://doi.org/10.18261/let.55.3.3
Wisshak M, Knaust D, Vallon LH, Rindsberg AK (2022) Defining and refining principles in ichnotaxonomy: Markus Bertling (1959-2022). Ichnos 29: 102-105
https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2022.2057481
Wisshak M, Barton HA, Bender K, DuChene HR (2022) The barite conundrum: active growth of non-hydrothermal BaSO4 speleothems in Lechuguilla Cave (New Mexico, USA). Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Speleology – Savoie Mont Blanc 2022, Karstologia Mémoires 25, Volume V: 177-180.
https://uis-speleo.org/index.php/proceedings-of-the-international-congress-of-speleology-ics/
Büscher JV, Form AU, Wisshak M, Kiko R, Riebesell U (2022 ) Cold-water coral ecosystems under future ocean change: Live coral performance vs. framework dissolution and bioerosion. Limnology and Oceanography 67:2497-2515.
https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12217
Ineson JR, Lauridsen BW, Lode S, Sheldon E, Sørensen HO, Wisshak M, Anderskouv K (2022) A condensed chalk–marl succession on an Early Cretaceous intrabasinal structural high, Danish Central Graben: Implications for the sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Munk Marl Bed. Sedimentary Geology 440: article 106234.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106234
Meyer N, Wisshak M, Edinger EN, Azetsu-Scott K, Freiwald A (2022) Ichnodiversity in the eastern Canadian Arctic in the context of polar microbioerosion patterns. Polar Research 41: article 8083.
http://dx.doi.org/10.33265/polar.v41.8083
Wisshak M, Meyer N, Kuklinski P, Rüggeberg A & Freiwald A (2021) ‘Ten Years After’ – a long-term settlement and bioerosion experiment in an Arctic rhodolith bed (Mosselbukta, Svalbard). Geobiology 20: 112-136.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12469
Schätzle P-K, Wisshak M, Bick A, Freiwald A & Kieneke A (2021) Exploring confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and fluorescence staining as a tool for imaging and quantifying traces of marine microbioerosion and their trace-making microendoliths. Journal of Microscopy 284: 118-131.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.13046
Schleinkofer N, Evans D, Wisshak M, Büscher JV, Fiebig J, Freiwald A, Härter S, Marschall HR, Voigt S & Raddatz J, (2021) Host-influenced geochemical signature in the parasitic foraminifera Hyrrokkin sarcophaga. Biogeosciences 18: 4733-4753.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-4733-2021
Teichert S, Löder MGJ, Pyko I, Mordek M, Schulbert C, Wisshak M & Laforsch C (2021) Microplastic contamination of the drilling bivalve Hiatella arctica in Arctic rhodolith beds. Scientific Reports 11: article 14574, 12 p.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93668-w
Schlüter M, Pyko I, Wisshak M, Schulbert C, Teichert S (2021) Growth interruptions in Arctic rhodoliths correspond to water depth and rhodolith morphology. Minerals 11: article 538.
https://doi.org/10.3390/min11050538
Schleinkofer N, Raddatz J, Evans D, Gerdes A, Flögel S, Büscher JV, Wisshak M (2021) Compositional variability of Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, and Na/Ca in the deep-sea bivalve Acesta excavata (Fabricius, 1779). Plos One 16:e0245605
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245605
Meyer N, Wisshak M & Freiwald A (2021) Bioerosion ichnodiversity in barnacles from the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology 44: 667-682
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02825-4
Hetzinger S, Halfar J, Zajacz Z, Möller M & Wisshak M (2021) Late twentieth century increase in northern Spitsbergen (Svalbard) glacier‑derived runoff tracked by coralline algal Ba/Ca ratios. Climate Dynamics: 56 3295-3303
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05642-x
Teichert S, Voigt N, Wisshak M (2020) Do skeletal Mg/Ca ratios of Arctic rhodoliths reflect atmospheric CO2 concentrations? Polar Biology 43:2059-2069.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02767-3
Meyer N, Wisshak M, Freiwald A (2020). Ichnodiversity and bathymetric range of microbioerosion traces in polar barnacles of Svalbard. PolarResearch 39. https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v39.3766
Buatois LA, Mángano MG, Minter NJ, Zhou K, Wisshak M, Wilson MA, Olea RA (2020) Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering during the early Phanerozoic –The role of bioturbation and bioerosion. Science Advances 6: eabb0618.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0618
Wisshak M, Neumann C (2020) Dead urchin walking: resilience of an arctic Strongylocentrotus to severe skeletal damage. Polar Biology 43:391-396.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02634-1
Wisshak M, Barton HA, Bender K, DuChene HR (2020) Active growth of non-hydrothermal subaqueous and subaerial barite (BaSO4) speleothems in Lechuguilla Cave (New Mexico, USA). International Journal of Speleology 49:11-26.
https://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.49.1.2280
Mayoral E, Santos A, Vintaned JAG, Wisshak M, Neumann C, Uchman A, Nel A (2020) Bivalve bioerosion in Cretaceous-Neogene amber around the globe, with implications for the ichnogenera Teredolites and Apectoichnus. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 538:109410.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109410
Haugen MN, Novosel M, Wisshak M, Berning B (2020) The genus Reptadeonella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) in European waters: There’s more in it than meets the eye. Bryozoan Studies 2019 – Proceedings of the 18th International Bryozoology Association Conference, Liberec, Czech Republic, pp. 59-68.
Wisshak M, Neumann H, Rüggeberg A, Büscher JV, Linke P, Raddatz J (2019) Epibenthos dynamics and environmental fluctuations in two contrasting polar carbonate factories (Mosselbukta and Bjørnøy-Banken, Svalbard). Frontiers in Marine Science 6: article 667, 31 p.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00667
Wisshak M, Hüne L (2019) The new encrusting microproblematicum Circumpodium enigmaticum and its attachment trace Circumpodichnus serialis from the Middle Jurassic of Normandy (France). Fossil Record 22:77-90.
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-22-77-2019
Büscher JV, Wisshak M, Form AU, Titschack J, Nachtigall K, Riebesell U (2019) In situ growth and bioerosion rates of Lophelia pertusa in a Norwegian fjord and open shelf cold-water coral habitat. PeerJ 7: e7586, 36 p.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7586
Forel M-B, Thuy B, Wisshak M (2019) Digging into the ancestral stocks of Jurassic lineages: ostracods (Crustacea) from Carnian (Late Triassic) sponge mounds from the Maantang Formation (South China). BSGF – Earth Sciences Bulletin 190: article 9, 29 p.
https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2019009
Hetzinger S, Halfar J, Zajacz Z, Wisshak M (2019) Early start of 20th-century Arctic sea-ice decline recorded in Svalbard coralline algae. Geology 47:963-967.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G46507.1
Wisshak M, Knaust D, Bertling M (2019) Bioerosion ichnotaxa: review and annotated list. Facies 65: article 24, 39 p.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-019-0561-8
Schönberg CHL, Gleason FH, Meyer N, Wisshak M (2019) Close encounters in the substrate: when macroborers meet microborers. Facies 65: article 22, 9 p.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-019-0567-2
Meyer N, Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL (2019) Sponge bioerosion versus aqueous pCO₂: morphometric assessment of chips and etching issures. Facies 65: article 27, 20 p.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-019-0558-3
Berning B, Achilleos K, Wisshak M (2019) Revision of the type species of Metroperiella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida), with the description of two new species, Journal of Natural History 53:141-158.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2019.1582725
Wizemann A, Nandini SD, Stuhldreier I, Sánchez-Noguera C, Wisshak M, Westphal H, Rixen T, Wild C, Reymond CE (2018) Rapid bioerosion in a tropical upwelling coral reef. PLoS ONE 13:e0202887.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202887
Uchman A, Wisshak M, Rodríguez-Tovar FJ (2018) The bivalve boring Cuenulites amygdaloides nov. isp. in siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Germany. Geobios 51:481-486.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2018.08.005
Wisshak M, Meyer N, Radtke G & Golubic S (2018) Saccomorpha guttulata – a new marine fungal microbioerosion trace fossil from cool- to cold-water settings. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 92:525-533.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-018-0407-7
Wisshak M, Neumann C (2018) Large dendrinids meet giant clam: the bioerosion trace fossil Neodendrina carnelia igen. et isp. n. in a Tridacna shell from Pleistocene-Holocene coral reef deposits, Red Sea, Egypt. Fossil Record 21:1-9.
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-21-1-2018
Wisshak M (2017) Taming an ichnotaxonomical Pandora’s box: Revision of dendritic and rosetted microborings (ichnofamily: Dendrinidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 390:1-99.
https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.390
Schönberg CHL, Tribollet A, Fang JKH, Carreiro-Silva M & Wisshak M (2017) Viewpoints in bioerosion research—are we really disagreeing? Ar eply to the comment by Silbiger and DeCarlo (2017). ICES Journal of Marine Science 74:2494-2500.
http://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx167
Wisshak M, Titschack J, Kahl W-A & Girod P (2017) Classical and new bioerosion trace fossils in Cretaceous belemnite guards characterised via micro-CT. Fossil Record 20:173-199.
http://doi.org/10.5194/fr-20-173-20
Dataset at PANGAEA
http://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875121
Schönberg CHL, Fang JKH, Carreiro-Silva M, Tribollet A & Wisshak M (2017) Bioerosion: the other ocean acidification problem. ICES Journal of Marine Science 74:895-925.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsw254
Breton G, Wisshak M, Néraudeau D & Morel N (2017) Parasitic gastropod bioerosion trace fossils on Cenomanian oysters from Le Mans, France and its ichnologic and taphonomic context. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62:45-57.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00304.2016
Wisshak M, Neumann C, Knaust D & Reich M (2017) Rediscovery of type material of the bioerosional trace fossil Talpina von Hagenow, 1840 and its ichnotaxonomical implications. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 91:127-135.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0335-y
Buatois LA, Wisshak M, Wilson MA & Mángano MG (2017) Categories of architectural designs in trace fossils: A measure of ichnodisparity. Earth-Science Reviews 164:102-181.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.08.009
Färber C, Titschack J, Schönberg CHL, Ehrig K, Boos K, Baum D, Illerhaus B, Asgaard U, Bromley RG, Freiwald A & Wisshak M(2016) Long-term macrobioerosion in the Mediterranean Sea assessed by micro-computed tomography. Biogeosciences 13:3461-3474.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3461-2016
Seuss B, Wisshak M, Mapes RH, Hembree DI & Landman NH (2016) Microbial bioerosion of erratic sub-fossil Nautilus shells in a karstic cenote (Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia). Ichnos 23:108-115.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2015.1030074
Wisshak M, Kroh, A, Bertling M, Knaust D, Nielsen JK, Jagt JWM, Neumann, C & Nielsen KSS (2015) In defence of an iconic ichnogenus – Oichnus Bromley, 1981. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 85:445-451.
http://dx.doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2015.029
Seuss B, Hembree DI, Wisshak M, Mapes RH & Landman NH (2015) Taphonomy of backshore versus deep-marine collected Nautilus macromphalus conchs (New Caledonia). Palaios 30:503-513.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2014.057
Neumann C, Wisshak M, Aberhan M, Girod P, Rösner T, Bromley R (2015) Centrichnus eccentricus revisited: A new view on anomiid bivalve bioerosion. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60:539-549.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00079.2014
Färber C, Wisshak M, Pyko I, Bellou N, Freiwald A (2015) Effects of Water Depth, Seasonal Exposure, and Substrate Orientation on Microbial Bioerosion in the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean). PLoS ONE 10:e0126495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126495
Seuss B, Wisshak M, Mapes RH, Landman NH (2015) Syn-Vivo Bioerosion of Nautilus by Endo- and Epilithic Foraminiferans (New Caledonia and Vanuatu). PLoS ONE 10:e0125558.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125558
Wisshak M, Berning B, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2015) Temperate carbonate production: Biodiversity of calcareous epiliths from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores). Marine Biodiversity 45:87-112.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0231-6
Thuy B, Kiel S, Dulai A, Gale AS, Kroh A, Lord AR, Numberger-Thuy LD, Stöhr S, Wisshak M (2014) First glimpse into Lower Jurassic deep-sea biodiversity: in situ diversification and resilience against extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281:20132624.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2624
Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Form A & Freiwald A (2014) Sponge bioerosion accelerated by ocean acidification across species and latitudes? Helgoland Marine Research 68:253-262.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10152-014-0385-4
Dataset at PANGAEA:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831657
Wisshak M, Alexandrakis E, Hoppenrath M (2014) The diatom attachment scar Ophthalmichnus lyolithon igen. et isp. n. Ichnos 21:111-118.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2014.907572
Golubic S, Radtke G, Campbell S, Lee S-J, Vogel K, Wisshak M (2014) The complex fungal microboring trace Saccomorpha stereodiktyon isp. nov. reveals the growth strategy of its maker. Ichnos 21:100-110.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2014.888301
Schönberg CHL, Wisshak M (2014) Marine Bioerosion. In: Goffredo S, Dubinsky Z (eds) The Mediterranean Sea: Its History and Present Challenges. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 449-461.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_26
Teichert S, Woelkerling W, Rüggeberg A, Wisshak M, Piepenburg D, Meyerhöfer M, Form A & Freiwald A (2014) Arctic rhodolith beds and their environmental controls (Spitsbergen, Norway). Facies 60:15-37.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-013-0372-2
Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Form A & Freiwald A (2013) Effects of ocean acidification and global warming on reef bioerosion – lessons from a clionaid sponge. Aquatic Biology 19:111-127.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/ab00527
Dataset at PANGAEA:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831660
Kennedy E, Perry CT, Halloran PR, Iglesias-Prieto R, Schönberg CHL, Wisshak M, Form AU, Carricart-Ganivet JP, Fine M, Eakin CM, Mumby PJ (2013) Avoiding coral reef functional collapse requires local and global action. Current Biology 23:912-918.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.020,
Marali S, Wisshak M, López Correa M & Freiwald A (2013) Skeletal microstructure and stable isotope signature of three bathyal solitary cold-water corals from the Azores. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 373:25-38.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.017
Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Form A & Freiwald A (2012) Ocean acidification accelerates reef bioerosion. PLoS ONE 7(9):e45124.
http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045124
Dataset at PANGAEA:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831694
Schönberg CHL and Wisshak M (2012) The perks of being endolithic. Aquatic Biology 17:1-5.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/ab00473
Wisshak M (2012) Microbioerosion. In: Knaust D & Bromley R (eds) Trace Fossils as Indicators of Sedimentary Environments. Developments in Sedimentology 64, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 213-243.
http://store.elsevier.com/Trace-Fossils-as-Indicators-of-Sedimentary-Environments/isbn-9780444538130/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53813-0.00008-3
Teichert S, Woelkerling W, Rüggeberg A, Wisshak M, Piepenburg D, Meyerhöfer M, Form A, Büdenbender J & Freiwald A (2012) Rhodolith beds (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) and their physical and biological environment at 80°31’N in Nordkappbukta (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway). Phycologia 51:371-390.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2216/11-76.1
Wisshak M, Tribollet A, Golubic S, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2011) Temperate bioerosion: Ichno- and biodiversity from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores). Geobiology 9:492-520.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00299.x
Van Rooij D, De Mol L, Le Guilloux L, Wisshak M, Huvenne VAI, Moeremans R & Henriet J-P (2010) Environmental setting of deep-sea oysters in the Bay of Biscay. Deep-Sea Research I 57:1561-1572.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2010.09.002
Wisshak M, Form A, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2010) Temperate carbonate cycling and water mass properties from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores). Biogeosciences 7:3279-2396.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-7-2379-2010
Wisshak M, Form A, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2010) Temperate carbonate cycling and water mass properties from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores, N-Atlantic). Biogeosciences Discussssions 7:3297-3333.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-7-3297-2010
Wisshak M & Jantschke H (2010) Im Höhlenruinenniveau der Reiteralm (Berchtesgadener Alpen)? Beibelkareishöhle (1337/42) und Prünzlkopfhöhle (1337/57). Die Höhle 201:39-47.
http://www.hoehle.org/diehoehle.php
Wisshak M, López Correa M, Zibrowius H, Jakobsen J & Freiwald, A (2009) Skeletal reorganisation affects geochemical signals, exemplified in the stylasterid hydrocoral Errina dabneyi (Azores Archipelago). Marine Ecology Progress Series 397:197-208.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps08165
Neumann C & Wisshak M (2009) Gastropod parasitism on Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene holasteroid echinoids – evidence from Oichnus halo isp. n. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 284:115-119.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.09.010
Wisshak M, Neumann C, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2009) Reply to the Comment on „The ‘living-fossil community’ of the cyrtocrinoid Cyathidium foresti and the deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii (Azores Archipelago). [Palaeontology Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 271:77-83]“. Palaeontology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 279:235-236.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.05.012
Wisshak M, Neumann C, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2009) The ‘living-fossil community’ of the cyrtocrinoid Cyathidium foresti and the deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii (Azores Archipelago). Palaeontology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 271:77-83.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.09.015
Wisshak M, López Correa M, Gofas S, Salas C, Taviani M, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2009) Shell architecture, element composition, and stable isotope signature of the giant deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii sp. n. from the NE Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I 56:374-404.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.10.002
Heindel K, Westphal H & Wisshak M (2009) Data report: bioerosion in the reef framework, IODP Expedition 310 off Tahiti (Tiarei, Maraa, and Faaa sites). Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Volume 310.
http://publications.iodp.org/proceedings/310/310toc.htm
Heindel K, Wisshak M & Westphal H (2009) Microbioerosion in Tahitian reefs: A record of environmental change during the last deglacial sea-level rise (IODP #310). Lethaia 42:322-340.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00140.x
Volohonsky E, Wisshak M, Blomeier D, Seilacher A & Snigirevsky S (2008) A new helical trace fossil from the Lower Devonian of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) and its palaeoenvironmental significance. Palaeontology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 267:17-20.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.011
Davies AJ, Wisshak M, Orr JC & Roberts JM (2008) Predicting suitable habitat for the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa(Scleractinia). Deep-Sea Res I 55:1048-1062.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.04.010
Wisshak M & Jantschke, H (2008) Exceptional preservation of Upper Jurassic trace fossils in a modern cave (Mühlbachquellhöhle, S-Germany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 249:75-85.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0249-0075
Wisshak M (2008) Two new dwarf Entobia ichnospecies in a diverse aphotic ichnocoenosis (Pleistocene / Rhodes, Greece). In: Wisshak M & Tapanila L (eds) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 213-234.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_11
Wisshak M, Seuß B & Nützel A (2008) Evolutionary implications of an exceptionally preserved Carboniferous microboring assemblage in the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA). In: Wisshak M & Tapanila L (eds) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 21-54.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_2
Neumann C, Wisshak M & Bromley R (2008) Boring a mobile domicile: an alternative to the conchicolous life habit. In: Wisshak M & Tapanila L (eds) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 307-328.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_16
Beuck L, Wisshak M, Munnecke A & Freiwald A (2008) A giant boring in a Silurian stromatoporoid analysed by computer tomography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53:149-160.
http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app53-149.html
Bromley RG, Wisshak M, Glaub I & Botquelen A (2007) Ichnotaxonomic review of dendriniform borings attributed to foraminiferans: Semidendrina igen. nov. In: Miller III W (ed) Trace fossils: concepts, problems, prospects. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 518-530.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-044452949-7/50158-3
Wisshak M & Porter D (2006) The new ichnogenus Flagrichnus – a palaeoenvironmental indicator for cold-water settings? Ichnos 13:135-145.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10420940600851255
Neumann C & Wisshak M (2006) A foraminiferal parasite on the sea urchin Echinocorys: Ichnological evidence from the Late Cretaceous (Lower Maastrichtian, Northern Germany). Ichnos 13:185-190.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10420940600853954
Wisshak M & Neumann C (2006) A symbiotic association of a boring polychaete and an echinoid from the Late Cretaceous of Germany. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51:589-597.
http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app51-589.html
Wisshak M & Rüggeberg A (2006) Colonisation and bioerosion of experimental substrates by benthic foraminiferans from euphotic to aphotic depths (Kosterfjord, SW-Sweden). Facies 52:1-17.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-005-0033-1
Wisshak M, Freiwald A, Lundälv T & Gektidis M (2005) The physical niche of the bathyal Lophelia pertusa in a non-bathyal setting: environmental controls and palaeoecological implications. In: Freiwald, A & Roberts, JM (eds): Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 979-1001.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27673-4
Wisshak M, Gektidis M Freiwald A & Lundälv T (2005) Bioerosion along a bathymetrical gradient in a cold-temperate setting (Kosterfjord / SW Sweden): an experimental study. Facies 51:93-117.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-005-0009-1
Wisshak M, Volohonsky E & Blomeier D (2004) Acanthodian fish trace fossils from the Early Devonian of Spitsbergen. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49:629-634.
http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app49-629.html
Wisshak M, Volohonsky E, Freiwald A & Seilacher A (2004) A trace fossil assemblage from fluvial Old Red deposits (Wood Bay Formation; Lower to Middle Devonian) of NW-Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Lethaia 37:149-163.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00241160410005763
Blomeier D, Wisshak M, Dallmann W, Volohonsky E & Freiwald A (2003) Facies analysis of the Old Red Sandstone of Spitsbergen (Wood Bay Formation): Reconstruction of the depositional environments and implications of basin development. Facies 49:151-174.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-003-0030-1
Blomeier D, Wisshak M, Joachimski M, Freiwald A & Volohonsky E (2003) Calcareous, alluvial and lacustrine deposits in the Old Red Sandstone of central north Spitsbergen (Wood Bay Formation, Early Devonian). Norwegian Journal of Geology 83:281-298.
http://www.geologi.no/cgi-bin/geologi/imaker?id=4332&visdybde=2&aktiv=4332
Others
Girod P, Wisshak M, Rösner T (2023) Spurenfossilien (Ichnofossilien). In: Schneider C, Girod P (eds) Fossilien aus dem Campan von Hannover. Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover, Hannover, 654-686.
Teichert S, Löder MGJ, Pyko I, Schulbert C, Wisshak M, Laforsch C (2022) Plastikmüll im Mordpolarmeer – Analyse der Mikroplastikkontamination arktischer Bohrmuscheln. GIT Labor-Fachzeitschrift 3/2022: 32-34.
Bristol D & Wisshak M (2020) Neuland in Lechuguilla Cave. NSS News 78(11): 11-16.
Wisshak M (2020) MSM55 – Scientific Report. Gutachterpanel Forschungsschiffe (GPF). http://hs.pangaea.de/nav/scientific_reports/MSM55_Wisshak_Scientific_Report.pdf
Wisshak M (2020) 150 Miles in Lechuguilla Cave. NSS News 78 (1):21-23.
Ricci S, Uchman A, Wisshak M (2019) The 9th International Bioerosion Workshop. Facies 66: article 2, 1
Wisshak M (2019). Karbonatfabriken im Polarmeer. Natur, Forschung, Museum 149:6-11.
Wisshak M & Lyles J (2018) Mopping up South Winds and Southern Climes (Lechuguilla Cave). NSS news 76:10-19.
Wisshak M, Bartholomä A, Beuck L, Büscher J, Form A, Freiwald A, Halfar J, Hetzinger S, Heugten B van, Hissmann K, Holler P, Meyer N, Neumann N, Raddatz J, Rüggeberg A, Teichert S, Wehrmann A (2017) Habitat characteristics and carbonate cycling of macrophyte-supported polar carbonate factories (Svalbard) – Cruise No. MSM55 – June 11 – June 29, 2016 – Reykjavik (Iceland) – Longyearbyen (Norway). MARIA S. MERIAN-Berichte, MSM55, 58 p., DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/cr_msm55
Beuck L, Aguilar R, Fabri M, Freiwald A, Gofas S, Hebbeln D, López Correa M, Ramos Martos A, Ramil F, Sánchez Delgado F, Taviani M, Wienberg C, Wisshak M & Zibrowius H (2016) Biotope characterisation and compiled geographical distribution of the deepwater oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Rapport Commission International Mer Mediterranee 41:462.
Färber C, Wisshak M, Titschack J, Schönberg CHL &Freiwald A (2016) Spatio-temporal variability of bioerosion in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Rapport Commission International Mer Mediterranee 41:349.
Bristol D & Wisshak M (2016) Neuland in Lechuguilla Cave. Descent 251:28-35.
http://www.wildplaces.co.uk/descent/537-descent-251.html
Glaser S, Wisshak M & Fietzke J (2016) Altersdaten von Höhlensintern aus dem Raum Mühlbach (Südliche Frankenalb, Bayern). Laichinger Höhlenfreund 50:73-86.
Form AU, Büscher J, Hißmann K, Flögel S, Wisshak M, Rüggeberg A, Bannister R, Kutti T, Stapp L, Bennecke S, Küter M, Nachtigall K, Schauer J, & Fenske M (2015) RV POSEIDON Cruise Report POS473 LORELEI II Lophelia Reef Lander Expedition and Investigation II.- GEOMAR, Kiel, 25 p.
Berning B, Ávila S, Wisshak M & Ramalho R (2015) Janz weit draußen: die Karbonate nicht-tropischer ozeanischer Inseln. GMIT 60:6-17.
Form AU, Büscher J, Hißmann K, Flögel S, Wisshak M, Rüggeberg A, Hennige S, Bennecke S, Bannister R, Schauer J, and Fenske M (2014) RV POSEIDON Cruise Report POS455 LORELEI Lophelia Reef Lander Expedition and Investigation.- GEOMAR, Kiel, 29 p.
Wisshak M, Straub R, Jantschke H & López Correa M (2013) 25 Jahre Exploration des Eisrohrhöhle-Bammelschacht-Systems (Reiteralm, Berchtesgadener Alpen, D). Die Höhle 46:90-105.
Wisshak M, Straub R, Jantschke H & López Correa M (2013) Das Eisrohrhöhle-Bammelschacht-System (Reiteralm, Berchtesgadener Alpen). Materialhefte zur Karst- und Höhlenkunde 21:1-110.
Freiwald A, Beuck L & Wisshak M (2012) Korallenriffe im kalten Wasser des Nordatlantiks –
Entstehung, Artenvielfalt und Gefährdung. In: Beck E (ed) Die Vielfalt des Lebens. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, p. 89-96.
http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/dt/books/ISBN978-3-527-33212-0
Freiwald A, Becker S, Bergmann T, Cordts D, Dorschel B, Eisele M, Fleischer D, Form A, Freiwald J, Fricke H, Fricke S, Hebbeln D, Hissmann K, Landmann G, Löffler S-B, Lüdecke C, Meyerhöfer M, Meyer-Schack B, Piebenburg D, Rüggeberg A, Schäfer R, Schauer J & Wisshak M (2009). Geo- and biological investigations on polar benthic ecosystems, palaeoceanography and polar history around Svalbard (Circulation and Ecosystems in the Subpolar and Polar North Atlantic, Part 3, Cruise No. 2, Leg 3, July 31 to August 17, 2006, Longyearbyen-Longyearbyen). MARIA S. MERIAN-Berichte 9-1, Institut für Meereskunde, Hamburg, 45
Wisshak M, Straub R & López Correa M (2005) Das Eisrohrhöhle-Bammelschacht-System (1337/118) im Kleinen Weitschartenkopf (Reiteralm). In: Menne B, Wisshak M & Wolf A (eds) Berchtesgadener Alpen. Höhle und Karst 2004/2005, Verband Deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher e.V. München, pp. 68-81.
Wisshak M & Jantschke H (2005) Die Höhlen der Reiteralm. In: Menne B, Wisshak M & Wolf A (eds) Berchtesgadener Alpen. Höhle und Karst 2004/2005, Verband Deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher e.V. München, pp. 19-37.
Wisshak M & López Correa M (2005) Authigene Calcitkristallbildung im Höhlenlehm am Beispiel der Steinbruchhöhle Traub (7127/8), Aalen-Waldhausen, Ostalbkreis.Mitteilingen der Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereinigung, N.F. 87:417-430.
Wisshak M & Jantschke H (2004) Fasercalcite in Höhlen am Beispiel der Hornsteinhöhle (7720/59) bei Straßberg (Schwäbische Alb). Mitteilungen des Verbands deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher 50:108-111.
Jantschke H & Wisshak M (2004) Der Feldwegschacht (7519/17) bei Schwalldorf, Gemeinde Rottenburg (Muschelkalkgebiet 1). Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 44:19-21.
Jantschke H & Wisshak M (2004) Stratigrafie und Höhlenbildung im unteren Weißjura (Malm) der Südwestalb. Mitteilungen des Verbands der deutschen Höhlen- und Karstforscher 50:6-9.
López Correa M, Wisshak M & Jantschke H (2003) Geologie und Mineralogie der Seeigelhöhle im Oberdrackensteiner Steinbruch (Mittlere Schwäbische Alb). Laichinger Höhlenfreund 38:3-10.
Jantschke H & Wisshak M (2002) Höhlen der Kolbinger Berghalbinsel. Materiahefte zur Karst- und Höhlenkunde 17:102
Dallmann WK, Piepjohn K, McCann AJ, Sirotkin AN, Miloslavskij MJ, Ohta Y, Gjelsvik T, Volohonsky E & Wisshak M (2002) Geological map of Svalbard 1:100000, sheet BG5 Woodfjorden. Norsk Polaristitutt, preliminary edition.
Wisshak M (2001): Palaeoenvironment Reconstruction of a Continental to Marginal-Marine Facies Succession in the Old Red Sandstone Basin of NW Svalbard (Lower/Middle Devonian). unpublished masters thesis, Institut für Geowissenschaften der Universität Tübingen, 88
López Correa M, Striebel T & Wisshak M (2001) Höhlen im Steinbruch der Ulmer Weisskalkwerke bei Blaustein-Ehrenstein (Blatt 7525 Ulm-NW). Laichinger Höhlenfreund 36:103-112.
López Correa M & Wisshak M (2001) Höhlen im Kartenblatt 7519 Rottenburg am Neckar.- Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 42:3-24.
Bechly G, Nel A, Martinez-Delclòs X, Jarzembowski EA, Coram R, Martill D, Fleck G, Escuillié F, Wisshak M, Maisch M (2001) A revision and phylogenetic study of Mesozoic Aeshnoptera, with description of numerous new taxa (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera). Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen 4:1-219.
López Correa M & Wisshak M (2000) Das Fliegenloch (7920/163) – eine neu entdeckte Schachthöhle auf Kartenblatt Leibertingen (Schwäbische Alb). Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 41:17-20.
Wisshak M & López Correa M (2000) Ein neuer Schachteinbruch auf der Mittleren Schwäbischen Alb – der Scheckenkobel-Erdfall (7621/36) bei Hörschwag im Zollernalbkreis. Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 41:13-16.
Wisshak M (1999) Der Menninger Schacht – Karstgenese und hydrologische Situation einer Schachthöhle im Randbereich der überdeckten Zone (Südwestalb). Mitteilungen des Verbands deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher 45:4-9.
Wisshak M & López Correa M (1998) Das Pommerlesloch (7418/1) – Eine bedeutende Schachthöhle im Oberen Muschelkalk bei Mötzingen, Landkreis Böblingen. Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 40:24-30.

2013–2016: B.Sc. Natural Sciences, University of Bologna. Dissertation: 3D models as educational and research tools – the case of the Northern Guests of the Pleistocene Mediterranean Sea
2016–2018: M.Sc. Biodiversity and Evolution, University of Bologna. Dissertation: Three-dimensional morphometric analysis of skull morphology in two ontogenetic series of toads (Anura: Bufonidae); in cooperation with Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
since 2019: PhD student, Senckenberg am Meer & University of Bremen. Project: Cold-water coral sensitivity (DFG EXC 2077: The Ocean Floor – Earth’s Uncharted Interface)
Sanna G (2019) Ontogenetic and interspecific variation in skull morphology of two closely related species of toad, Bufo bufo and B. spinosus (Anura: Bufonidae). Acta Herpetologica 14:117–122. https://doi.org/10.13128/a_h-7749

Since 2022
PhD student, Senckenberg am Meer (Wilhelmshaven), Department of Marine Research
Research focus: Biodiversity assessment of seagrass meadows and cold water coral reefs in Mauritania through environmental DNA sampling and metabarcoding. Comparing ancient and actual biodiversity through sedimentary ancient DNA.
2022
Research Assistant, Senckenberg (Frankfurt am Main), Department of Marine Zoology
2019 – 2021
M.Sc., University of Rostock, Master’s thesis: Reproductive biology of Melamphaes polylepis and Scopelogadus mizolepis mizolepis (Melamphaidae) from the eastern Mid-Atlantic upwelling systems
2016-2019
B.Sc. in Biological Sciences, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University (Frankfurt am Main), Bachelor’s Thesis: Larval development and distribution of Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776) and Masturus lanceolatus (Liénard, 1840) across thermal frontal zones in the Sargasso Sea
Marine Expeditions
30.11.-20.12.2021, Expedition WH451, North- and Baltic Sea, RV Walther Herwig III (Chief Scientist Dr.Pedro Nogueira)
07.10.-15.10.2021, Expedition WH450, North- East Atlantic, RV Walther Herwig III (Chief Scientist Dr.Karl Michael Werner)
16.07.-30.07.2021, Expedition HE580, North Sea, RV Heincke (Chief Scientist Dr.Moritz Sonnewald)
30.11.-20.12.2020, Expedition WH441, North- and Baltic Sea, RV Walther Herwig III (Chief Scientist Dr.Pedro Nogueira)
03.02.-12.02.2020, ExpeditionSO773, Baltic Sea, RV Solea (Chief Scientist Dr.Daniel Oesterwind)
02.12.-22.12.2019, Expedition WH432, North- and Irish Sea, RV Walther Herwig III (Chief Scientist Dr.Pedro Nogueira)
28.07.-03.08.2019, Expedition DOGZ, North Sea, RV Senckenberg (Chief Scientist Dr. Moritz Sonnewald)

HOFFMAN, L; GOFAS, S & FREIWALD, A; 2020. New and little-known Seguenziidae (Vetigastropoda, Gastropoda) from the South Azorean Seamount Chain. Iberus, 38(1): 1-18
HOFFMAN, L; GOFAS, S & FREIWALD, A; 2020. Ten new species in Papuliscala de Boury, 1911 (Gastropoda, Epitoniidae) from the South Azorean Seamount Chain. Iberus, 38(1): 29-53
GOFAS, S & HOFFMAN, L; 2020. Deep-water Calliostomatidae (Vetigastropoda, Gastropoda) from the South Azorean Seamount Chain. Iberus, 38(2): 195-211
HOFFMAN, L & FREIWALD, A; 2020. Cantrainea mauritanea n. sp. (Gastropoda: Colloniidae) from deep-water coral habitats off Mauritania. Miscellanea Malacologica 8(5): 69–73
HOFFMAN, L & FREIWALD, A; 2020. Bathyal Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Vanikoroidea) from the Azorean seamounts collected during the R/V Meteor Cruise M151 Athena. Miscellanea Malacologica, manuscript accepted
ENGL, W; SWINNEN, F & HOFFMAN, L; 2020. A review of species inFusceulima(Gastropoda: Eulimidae) from the NE Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean Sea with illustration of key type specimens. Conchylia, manuscript accepted
HOFFMAN, L; GOFAS, S & FREIWALD, A; 2020. A large biodiversity of “skeneimorph” (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) species from the South Azorean Seamount Chain, with the description of seventeen new species. Iberus, manuscript accepted
HOFFMAN, L & FREIWALD, A; 2019. Neocardia kandeli n. sp. (Bivalvia: Philobryidae) from Namibia. Miscellanea Malacologica 8(3): 55-58
HOFFMAN, L; FREIWALD, A; 2019. Vexillum monscorallum n. sp. (Gastropoda: Costellariidae) from deep – water coral habitats off Mauritania. Miscellanea Malacologica 8 (2): 37-40
HOFFMAN, L; MONSECOUR, K; FREIWALD, A; 2019. Columbellidae (Gastropoda) from deep – water coral habitats off Mauritania. Miscellanea Malacologica 8 (2): 41-49
HOFFMAN, L; von COSEL, R; FREIWALD, A; 2019. New and little-known Pliocardiinae (Bivalvia: Vesicomyiidae) from the continental slope off Mauritania. Basteria 83 (43620): 151-157
HOFFMAN, L; BEUCK, L; VAN HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, M; FREIWALD, A; 2019. Last snails standing since the Early Pleistocene, a tale of Calliostomatidae (Gastropoda) living in deep-water coral habitats in the north-eastern Atlantic. Zootaxa 4613 (1): 93-110
HOFFMAN, L; 2018. On the distribution of Yoldiella cadizensis(Bivalvia:Yoldiidae) in the NE Atlantic. Miscellanea Malacologica 7 (5): 102
HOFFMAN, L; FRAUSSEN, K; FREIWALD, A; 2018. The genus Chauvetia(Gastropoda, Buccinoidea) in deep-water coral habitats on the continental slope of Mauritania. Miscellanea Malacologica 7 (6): 127-138
HOFFMAN, L; FREIWALD, A; 2018. Last snails standing: a tale of Fissurellidae (Gastropoda) from deep-water coral habitats off Mauritania since the Pleistocene. Miscellanea Malacologica 7 (6): 115-126
HOFFMAN, L; FREIWALD, A; 2018. A new genus and two new species in Calliotropidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from NE Atlantic cold-water coral habitats. Miscellanea Malacologica 7 (5): 89-96
HOFFMAN, L; LAVALEYE, MSS; van HEUGTEN, B; FREIWALD, A; 2018.Lepetella (Gastropoda: Lepetellidae) in deep-water coral habitats in the North Atlantic. Miscellanea Malacologica 8 (1): 19-26
HOFFMAN, L; FREIWALD, A; VAN HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, M; 2018. New information on Ganesa, Lopheliella and Trochaclis (Gastropoda) in deep-water coral habitats in the North Atlantic. Miscellanea Malacologica 8 (1): 27-34
HOFFMAN, L; FREIWALD, André; 2017. A unique and diverse amalgamated mollusk assemblage from the Coral Patch Seamount, eastern Atlantic. Miscellanea Malacologica 7 (4): 61-73
HOFFMAN, L; van HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, MSS; 2011. Gastropoda (Mollusca) from the Rockall and Hatton Banks, northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Part 2. Miscellanea Malacologica 4 (6): 85-118
HOFFMAN, L; van HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, MSS; 2011. Gastropoda (Mollusca) from the Rockall and Hatton Banks, northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Part 3. Miscellanea Malacologica 5 (2): 23-52
HOFFMAN, L; van HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, MSS; 2011. Yoldiella ovulum La Perna, 2004 (Bivalvia: Yoldiidae), recorded from off Morocco, northeast Atlantic Ocean. Miscellanea Malacologica 5 (2): 53-56
HOFFMAN, L; van HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, MSS; 2011. Margarites toroidesn. sp.(Gastropoda: Turbinidae), a new species from off northwestern Morocco, North-East Atlantic Ocean. Miscellanea Malacologica 5 (3): 57-60
HOFFMAN, L; van HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, MSS; 2010. Skeneimorph species (Gastropoda) from the Rockall and Hatton Banks, northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Miscellanea Malacologica 4 (): 47-61
HOFFMAN, L; van HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, MSS; 2009. A new genus and a new species in the family Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda) from the Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic Ocean. Miscellanea Malacologica 3 (4): 83-86
HOFFMAN, L; van HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, MSS; 2009. A new species in the family Yoldiidae (Bivalvia) from the Bay of Cadiz, northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Miscellanea Malacologica 3 (4): 77-81
HOFFMAN, L; van HEUGTEN, B; LAVALEYE, MSS; 2008. A new genus with four new species in the family Skeneidae (Gastropoda) from the Rockall Bank, northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Miscellanea Malacologica 3 (3): 39-48
HOFFMAN, L; VAN HEUGTEN, B; Dekker, H; 2006. Marine mollusca collected during a journey to the Great Bitter Lake (Suez Canal) and Nile Delta, Egypt. Gloria Maris 45: 184-200
Smits, JW; Dubourg, I; Luling, MG; Minerbo, GN; Koelman, JMVA;HOFFMAN, LJB; Lomas, AT; Oosten, RKvd; Schiet, MJ; Dennis, RN; 1998. Improved resistivity interpretation utilizing a new array laterolog tool and associated inversion processing. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
HOFFMAN, LJB; Hoogerbrugge, PJ; Lomas, AT; 1988. LOGIX, a knowledge-based system for petrophysical evaluation. SPWLA 29th Annual Logging Symposium
HOFFMAN, LJB; 1984. Determination of pyritic sulphur in coal using induced polarisation. SPWLA 25th Annual Logging Symposium. SPWLA-1984-III
Dikhoff, TGMH; Prins, M; HOFFMAN, LJB; 1982. Target preparation of biological specimens for SPIXE measurements. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 197 (1): 129-132
Prins, M; HOFFMAN, LJB; Van Lieshoud, FAM; 1982. The data handling for SPIXE measurements with the Eindhoven cyclotron. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 197 (1): 165-169
Prins, M; HOFFMAN, LJB; 1981. The Eindhoven proton microbeam. Nuclear Instruments and Methods 181: 125-129

2008: Foundation of the Foraminifera.eu LAB and establishment of www.foraminifera.eu
2008-now: Running the Foraminifera.eu LAB and its team
2009: Participation in the International School on Foraminifera ISF, Urbino, Italy.
2018-now: Honorary Scientist, Foraminifera. Senckenberg am Meer
Hesemann, M. (2022). Foraminiferen aus Schollen von Rupelton (Unteroligozän) bei Bad Freienwalde. Der Steinkern 50. 98-99.
Hesemann, M. (2020). Foraminifera in the glacial erratic rock Heiligenhafener Kieselgestein of northern Germany. Micropaleontology 66 (5). 397-418.
https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.66.5.03
Hesemann, M. & Ketelsen, D. (2017). Index Foraminifera in Chalk Marl Smaers at the Brodtener Ufer (Coast of the Western Baltic Sea). Geschiebekunde aktuell 33 (4): 111-117.
Hesemann, M. (2015). The foraminifera.eu database: concept and status. Palaeontologia Electronica, 18.3.48A: 1-14.
https://doi.org/10.26879/154E
Hesemann, M. & Ottway, B. & Legoinha, P. (2014). The Foraminifera.eu Project – A paleoinformatics bridge between science and community. Comunicações Geológicas. 101. 447-450.
Hesemann, M. (2011). The Foraminifer Fauna of the Sternberger Gestein. Geschiebekunde aktuell 27 (4): 125-130.

1991 Abitur Max Planck Gymnasium Wilhelmshaven
1991 – 1993 Ausbildung zur staatlich geprüften Biologisch technischen Assistentin in Oldenburg
2004 – 2010 Studium der Medieninformatik an der Fachhochschule in Emden
seit September 2001 technische Assistentin Meeresgeologie Senckenberg am Meer in Wilhelmshaven
Ehemalige

2011 – 2014 Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) Geowissenschaften an der Universität Bremen
Thema der Bachelorarbeit: Impact of simulated ocean acidification on the sediment production of the sponge Cliona orientalis Thiele, 1900 (Porifera: Clionaidae), durchgeführt am Senckenberg am Meer
2014 – 2017 Master of Science (M. Sc.) Marine Geosciences an der Universität Bremen
Thema der Master Arbeit: Bioerosion Patterns in a Polar Carbonate Factory (Mosselbukta, Svalbard), durchgeführt am Senckenberg am Meer
2015 ein Auslandssemester an der University of Waikato, Hamilton, Neuseeland
seit 2017 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Projekt: Patterns and Pace of Polar Bioerosion (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft WI 3754/3-1) in der Abteilung Meeresforschung, Arbeitsgruppe Meeresgeologie, Senckenberg am Meer
seit 2017 Doktorandin an der Universität Bremen, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften (FB5)
seit 2018 Local Young Scientist Speaker / (Social) Media Officer der Young Scientists
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Bioerosion
Ichnotaxonomie
M. Wisshak, A. Bartholomä, L. Beuck, J. Büscher, A. Form, A. Freiwald, J. Halfar, S. Hetzinger, B. van Heugten, K. Hissmann, P. Holler, N. Meyer, H. Neumann, J. Raddatz, A. Rüggeberg, S. Teichert, A. Wehrmann (2017) Habitat characteristics and carbonate cycling of macrophyte-supported polar carbonate factories (Svalbard) – Cruise No. MSM55 – June 11 – June 29, 2016 – Reykjavik (Iceland) – Longyearbyen (Norway). MARIA S. MERIAN-Berichte, MSM55, 58 pp., DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie, DOI:10.2312/cr_msm55
Wisshak M, Meyer N, Radtke G & Golubic S (2018) Saccomorpha guttulata – a new marine fungal microbioerosion trace fossil from cool- to cold-water settings. Paläontologische Zeitschrift
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-018-0407-7
CHL Schönberg, FH Gleason, N Meyer, M Wisshak (2019) Close encounters in the substrate: when macroborers meet microborers. Facies 65 (2) 22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-019-0567-2
N Meyer, M Wisshak, CHL Schönberg (2019) Sponge bioerosion versus aqueous pCO2: morphometric assessment of chips and etching fissures. Facies 65 (3), 27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-019-0558-3
N Meyer, M Wisshak, A Freiwald (2020). Ichnodiversity and bathymetric range of microbioerosion traces in polar barnacles of Svalbard. PolarResearch 39. https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v39.3766
Meyer N, Wisshak M, Freiwald A (2021) Bioerosion ichnodiversity in barnacles from the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02825-4
2007–2013
Studium der Geowissenschaften an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
2010
Bachelor of Science Geowissenschaften
Thema der Bachelorarbeit: „Sedimentologische Analyse an Tisoa siphonalis aus dem Unteren Jura (Pliensbachium) Südfrankreichs“
2013
Master of Science Geologie/Paläontologie
Thema der Masterarbeit: „Zyklostratigraphie und Klimarekonstruktion im Oligozän des Hanauer Beckens am Beispiel der Bodenheim-Formation“
Seit 2013:
Doktorand in der Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (BiK-F)-Projektgruppe A3:
„Perioden raschen Klimawandels als Taktgeber langfristiger Biodiversitäts- und Ökosystemänderungen“
in der Arbeitsgruppe Meeresgeologie der Abteilung Meeresforschung am Senckenberg am Meer/Wilhelmshaven

Research Interests:
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Macro- and megafaunal communities of the Steinahóll vent sites, Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland
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Video and image analysis of material gained during IceAGE RR expedition (MSM75)
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Molecular, morphological, scleroclimatological, habitat and stable isotope analysis of the acorn barnacle Bathylasma hirsutum.
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Corals of the Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland, and their associated fauna
Postdoctoral Experience:
Senckenberg am Meer, Senckenberg Research Institute,
Wilhelmshaven: 1st February 2020 – ONGOING
German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB),
Senckenberg Research Institute, Hamburg: 15th June 2018 – 14th June 2018
- DFG funded position as part of IceAGE RR project
- Lead scientist for analysis of video material obtained during MSM75
- Lead scientist for genetic analysis of the deep-sea acorn barnacle Bathylasma hirsutum.
- Involved in multiple collaborations involving scientists from: Iceland, UK, Norway, Poland and Germany.
Public Outreach: created and maintained @IceAGE_RR twitter account.
Education:
Dr. rer. nat., Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany: 1st October 2013 – 12th June 2017:
- Thesis: “Temporal and Spatial Variability of Epibenthic Megafaunal Communities from the Arctic Deep-Sea LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN”.
- Summary: Three main studies:
- Spatial variability of epibenthic megafaunal communities over three stations along a latitudinal transect in 2011
- Temporal variability of epibenthic megafaunal communities at two stations between 2004 and 2015
- Temporal variability in biomass and abundance of three deep-sea organisms, Kolga hyalina, Elpidia heckeri and Mohnia spp.
- Project contribution: large scale projects such as PACES II, FixO3, ROBEX and FRAM, as an integrated and efficient member of the Deep-Sea Research and Technology group.
- Performed supervisory and mentorship roles for multiple Bachelors and Masters Students.
Master in Science (M.Sci.): Marine and Freshwater Biology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, September 2007 – July 2012:
- Honours project: “Stomach contents analysis of Coryphaenoides profundicolus (Deepwater Grenadier) to further understand their dietary habits”.
Other Scientific Employment:
- Freelance Editor, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 2012-2017
- Editorial services for the Antarctic Thresholds – Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation (AnT-ERA) website and communications.
- Scientist, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Summer 2012:
- Conducting image analysis of epibenthic megafaunal communities.
- Research Assistant, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, August 2010 – May 2011
- Researching benthic ecosystems in the Fram Strait; Sample preparation for stable isotope analysis
Field Experience:
- MSM75, Maria S. Merian, 29th June 2018 – 8th August 2018:
- Research focus: Macro- and megabenthic faunal communities of hydrothermally active areas along the Reykjanes Ridge.
- Responsibilities: overseeing deployment of Remotely Operated Vehicle (PHOCA; GEOMAR) during biological dives, planning of sampling stations and routes, data management, physical sample processing.
- Interdisciplinary skills: operation of van Veen grab and Epibenthic Sledge, and geological data processing
- PS85 (ARK-XXVIII/2), RV Polarstern, 5th June 2014 – 3rd July 2014
- Research focus: “Megafaunal Dynamics and Ecology”.
- Responsibilities: overseeing deployment and operation of benthic camera equipment, planning and execution of photographic transects, data management, and report writing.
- Interdisciplinary skills (obtained while assisting other teams on-board): CTD operation and sampling; operation of a Multiple Corer (MUC) and processing of MUC samples.
- Tropical Marine Biology Field Trip, Dahab, Egypt, Winter 2011:
- The study of coral reef, seagrass bed and mangrove habitats.
- Methods employed: belt transects, quadrat, photo-quadrat, and line intercept transects.
Proficiencies
Language: English (native speaker), German (intermediate)
Statistical Packages: PRIMER, Minitab, R
Peer-reviewed publications
2020
TAYLOR. J., DEVEY, C., LE SAOUT, M., PETERSEN, S., FRUTOS, I., LINSE, K., LOERZ, A.-N. PALGAN, D., TANDBERG, A.H.,…,BRIX, S. (In review) “ The geological and faunal composition of Steinahóll Vent Sites, Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland”
SCHOENING, T., PURSER, A., LANGENKÄMPER, D., SUCK, I., TAYLOR, J., CUVELIER, D., LINS, L., SIMON-LLEDÓ, E., MARCON, Y., JONES, D.O.B., NATTKEMPER, T., KÖSER, K., ZUROWITZ, M., GOMES-PEREIRA, J., GREINERT, J. (In review) “Megafauna community assessment of polymetallic nodule fields with cameras: Platform and methodology comparison”
2019
HOWELL, K.L., DAVIES, J.S., ALLCOCK, A.L., BRAGA-HENRIQUES, A., BUHL-MORTENSEN, P.,…,TAYLOR, J.,…et al. (2019) “ A framework for the development of a global standardised marine taxon reference image database (SMarTaR-ID) to support image-based analyses.” PLOS ONE 14(12): e0218904. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218904
SOLTWEDEL, T., HASEMANN, C., VEDENIN, A., BERGMANN, M., TAYLOR, J., KRAUß, F. (2019) “Bioturbation rates in the deep Fram Strait: Results from in situ experiments at the arctic LTER observatory HAUSGARTEN” Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 511, 1-9, DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2018.11.001
2018
TAYLOR, J., STAUFENBIEL, B., SOLTWEDEL, T., BERGMANN, M. “Temporal trends in the biomass of three epibenthic invertebrates from the deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN (Fram Strait, Arctic Ocean)” Marine Ecology Progress Series, 602, 15-29, DOI: 10.3354/meps12654
2017
TAYLOR, J., KRUMPEN, T., SOLTWEDEL, T., GUTT, J., BERGMANN, M. (2017) “Dynamic benthic megafaunal communities: assessing temporal variations in structure, composition and diversity at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN between 2004 and 2015.” Deep-Sea Research I, 122C, 81-94, DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2017.02.008
2016
MEYER, K.S., YOUNG, C.M., SWEETMAN, A.K., TAYLOR, J., SOLTWEDEL, T., BERGMANN, M. (2016) “Rocky islands in a sea of mud: biotic and abiotic factors structuring deep-sea dropstone communities” Marine Ecology Progress Series, 556, 45-57, DOI: 10.3354/meps11822
TAYLOR, J., KRUMPEN, T., SOLTWEDEL, T., GUTT, J., BERGMANN, M. (2016). “Regional- and local-scale variations in benthic megafaunal composition at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN” Deep-Sea Research I, 108, 58-72, DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2015.12.009
2012
SCHOENING, T., BERGMANN, M., ONTRUP, J., TAYLOR, J., Dannheim, J., GUTT, J., PURSER, A., NATTKEMPER, T.W. (2012) “Semi-Automated Image Analysis for the Assessment of Megafaunal Densities at the Arctic Deep-Sea Observatory HAUSGARTEN.” PLoS ONE, 7,:e38179, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038179