Bernhard Seidel

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Bernhard Seidel (born May 20, 1959 in Amstetten , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian ecologist , medical entomologist , environmental activist and singer-songwriter . He gained national fame with a herpetological cooperation on a project for the International Space Station (ISS), as a gel researcher and insect specialist, and as an environmental activist, particularly against overexploitation, which must be countered with compensatory measures.

Live and act

Seidel studied zoology , botany and philosophy at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1988 from Friedrich Schaller's Faculty of Philosophy with the ecological topic The structure, dynamics and reproductive biology of a yellow-bellied toad population, Bombina variegata variegata L. 1758, Discoglossidae, Anura, Amphibia in a habitat with temporary small bodies of water in the Waldviertel (Lower Austria) . From 1991 to 1998 he was a research assistant at Schaller and was involved in numerous scientific projects.

Seidel lives and works in Persenbeug (Lower Austria), where he has been running a technical office for landscape ecology and landscape hygiene since 2004.

Ecological work

The early scientific work of Seidel dealt with questions of the relationships between the waters and their surroundings. In 1984 he took part in the occupation of the Danube floodplains against the construction of power plants and environmental destruction in the Hainburger Au .

From 1990 to 1992 Seidel was a consultant for the water law review of the construction of the Freudenau power plant in Vienna, which was approved by a referendum . In 1992, Seidel wrote the only negative opinion from ten departments at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) for the Supreme Water Authority. In it he explicitly chalked up the ecological failures of the Hainburg movement, which prevented the dam, but not the extensive ecological desertification of the entire Danube. Since his opinion was not heeded by the authority, Seidel launched the issue with the opposition parties in parliament in the form of parliamentary questions to the then Federal Minister for the Environment, Ruth Feldgrill-Zankel . The request was brought in by MPs of the FPÖ under Norbert Steger. In 1993, Seidel obtained a new parliamentary request from MP Monika Langthaler from the party The Greens - The Green Alternative to the Federal Minister of Agriculture Franz Fischler .

In 1992 he organized the international conference on river bank ecology at the State Academy Krems an der Donau . Since then, many of his works have dealt with the silting up and landing of unnatural sediments in the Danube Valley.

In 1993 Seidel was responsible for the idea and implementation of the special exhibition "Amazonas and Danube - Diversity of Two Rivers" of the cultural department of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government in Orth an der Donau . He contrasted the concept of slash and burn on the Amazon with that of sand clearing in the congestion-regulated Danube valley. According to Seidel, the problem is a series of planned Danube barrages. The edaphic-physical changes would contribute to an intensive extinction of species as well as more aggressive and more intensive flood runoff.

In 1994 Seidel was the NGO coordinator responsible for the EU and World Bank project "Environmental Project of the Danube River Basin". Investigations planned by him on mosquitoes on March and Thaya in Lower Austria were carried out from 1997 to 2001. He was also the scientific director of an EU Interreg II project "Nature-friendly gel regulation" in the March and Thaya regions. From 1999 to 2002 he cooperated with the Japanese space scientist Masamichi Yamashita ( ISAS / JAXA ) in the course of the “Space Life Science” project in Vienna .

Seidel makes numerous media appearances on his research topics, takes part in conferences and publishes in specialist journals. As a field ecologist, he provided the first evidence of the Asiatic bush mosquito, the Aedes (Ochlerotatus) japonicus japonicus, for Austria and Slovenia in 2012; later again for Hungary and Liechtenstein as well as for Italy. In 2013 he discovered two more new species for Austria and Slovenia, the Anopheles hyrcanus and the Culiseta longiareolata. In 2017 he provided the first record of the Korean bush mosquito, Aedes koreicus.

Artistic activities

After Seidel won a street musician competition in 1984, he performed at the City of Vienna's Rathaus-Open-Air in autumn 1984 . On the occasion of the Konrad Lorenz referendum in 1985, he performed solo under the artist name "Ledies Bernd". In May 1985 he entered the university elections with the GRAL (Green Alternative List) he founded for election to the ÖH central committee. Seidel completed numerous public musical appearances with a critical environmental focus. For example, he appeared in 1995 at the so-called “tractor demonstration” by farmers against unskilled EU membership, which took place on the Vienna Ringstrasse on the occasion of the EU referendum . At the opening of the Auen National Park in Stopfenreuth in 1996, he stood on stage with Arik Brauer , Günther Nenning and Barbara Stöckl . On the occasion of the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Bob Dylan , he took part in a marathon reading in Vienna on 2016th As an ecological activist and painter, his last exhibition entitled "Danube Drama" opened on November 11, 2019 in the Wiener Künstlerhaus in the context of Die Rote Wand.

The “environmental moritats” founded by Seidel took place for the first time in 1993 with Günther Nenning and then repeatedly until 2008 in the Vienna event venue Tunnel.

Seidel released the CDs "Be a Frog" (2001), "1984 - Over Water" (2008), "The Crocodile Conference" (2013) and "WWW.WW - We Want World Wide Worth - for the Human Earth!" (2014).

Publications (selection)

  • Phoretic distribution of the mussel crab species Cyclocypris ovum (Crustacea, Ostracoda) by amphibians: promoting ecological and ethological factors. In: Herpetozoa. 3 (1/2), Vienna 1990, pp. 55-66 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • with Klaus-Peter Zulka: The ecological effects of impoundments on the epigean arthropod fauna of a near-natural Danube bank (km 2056). In: Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum. Volume 8, Vienna 1994, pp. 137-143 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Quick ecological assessment of the impact of economic projects on land areas. In: Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum. Volume 9, Vienna 1996, pp. 253-274.
  • The structure of a Rana dalmatina stock in a floodplain on the Danube (Lower Austria): an indicator for the suspended matter from upstream reservoirs. In: Rana, special issue 2, 1997, pp. 263–270.
  • Waterwave producing behavior in male Bombina v. variegata (Anura: Bombinatoridae): spatial dominance in an explosively breeding species . In: Journal of Herpetology (USA). 33 (3), 1999, pp. 457-462.
  • Field studies on domestic mosquitoes (Culicidae, Gelsen) . In: Carinthia II. 190/110, Klagenfurt 2000, pp. 547-554 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Bernhard Seidel, Masamichi Yamashita, Inho Choi, John P. Dittami: Water wave communication in the genus Bombina (Amphibia) . In: Advances in Space Research. 28 (4), doi: 10.1016 / S0273-1177 (01) 00386-6 , pp. 589-594.
  • The mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae; Gelsen) in the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna . In: The animal world of the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna. Ed .: Pernstich, A. & HW Krenn, special volume, Vienna 2004, pp. 109–114.
  • Bernhard Seidel, Fabrizio Montarsi, Hartwig P. Huemer, Alexander Indra, Gioia Capelli, Franz Allerberger, Norbert Nowotny: First record of the Asian bush mosquito, Aedes japonicus, for Italy: an invasion from an established Austrian Population . In: Parasites & Vectors. 9: 284, 2016, doi: 10.1186 / s13071-016-1566-6 (IF 3.234).
  • Bernhard Seidel, Norbert Nowotny, Tamás Bakonyi, Franz Allerberger, Francis Schaffner: Spread of Aedes japonicus japonicus (Theobald, 1901) in Austria, 2011–2015, and first records of the subspecies for Hungary, 2012, and the principality of Liechtenstein, 2015 . In: Parasites & Vectors. 9: 356, 2015, doi: 10.1186 / s13071-016-1645-8 (IF 3.234).
  • Tree (3) perCent: The art of bringing real ecology into play! . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2019, ISBN 978-3-99028-846-7 .

Awards

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  • 1988: Acknowledgment award from the state of Lower Austria for science
  • 1988: Theodor Körner Prize for Science and Art on the topic: "Structure and dynamics of a mountain landunk population over a period of 5 years"
  • 1990: Green check environmental award from the Green Education Workshop of Lower Austria for the Nature Cross campaign
  • 1991: Theodor Körner Prize for Science and Art to the "VEREIN FÜR BIOTOP-FORSCHUNG zH Dr Bernhard Seidel and Dr Berthold Janecek"
  • 1992: 1st place in the environmental award of the Province of Lower Austria in the general class
  • 1993: VGU special award from the state of Lower Austria for environmental protection
  • 1993: Promotion Prize of the State of Lower Austria for Science
  • 1993: 3rd place in the environmental award of the Province of Lower Austria in the general class
  • 1994: Environment Prize of the Province of Lower Austria in the Art and Communication class
  • 1994: Theodor Körner Prize for Science, Vienna

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Science.talk: Wisdom researcher Judith Glück and ecologist Bernhard Seidel. In: ORF.at. 2016, accessed July 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Peter Iwaniewicz: Warm times: "The old, winter-cold thoughts fly away like smoke in a mild wind" Sportfreunde Stiller: "Spring". Falter, March 18, 2009, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Koppensteiner: Expect a billion gels this year. In: ORF.at. June 17, 2019, accessed July 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Tree (3) perCent: The art of bringing real ecology into play! . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2019, ISBN 978-3-99028-846-7 .
  5. ↑ Masamichi Yamashita
  6. ↑ Seidel, B., Duh D., Nowotny N. & Allerberger F. (2012): First record of the mosquitoes Aedes (Ochlerotatus) japonicus japonicus (Theobald, 1901) in Austria and Slovenia 2011 and for Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus ( Skuse, 1895) in Austria 2012. Entomologische Zeitschrift, 122 (5): 223–226.
  7. ↑ Seidel, B., Duh D., Nowotny N. & Allerberger F. (2012): First record of the mosquitoes Aedes (Ochlerotatus) japonicus japonicus (Theobald, 1901) in Austria and Slovenia 2011 and for Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus ( Skuse, 1895) in Austria 2012. Entomologische Zeitschrift, 122 (5): 223–226.
  8. ↑ Seidel B., Nowotny N., Bakonyi T., Allerberger F., Schaffner F. (2016). Spread of Aedes japonicus japonicus (Theobald, 1901) in Austria, 2011–2015, and first records of the subspecies for Hungary, 2012, and the principality of Liechtenstein, 2015. Parasites & Vectors, 9: 356.
  9. ↑ Seidel B, F. Montarsi, FP Huemer, A. Indra, N. Nowotny, Gioia Capelli, and F. Allerberger. 2016 a. First record of the Asian bush mosquito, Aedes japonicus, for Italy: an invasion from an established Austrian Population. Parasites & Vectors, 9: 284 DOI: 10.1186 / s13071-016-1566-6.
  10. ↑ Seidel, B., Hufnagl P., Indra A. & Allerberger, F. (2013a) First record of Anopheles hyrcanus (Pallas, 1771) for Austria (Diptera: Culicidae). Entomological Journal 125, 39-41.
  11. ↑ Seidel, B., Silbermayr, K., Kolodziejek, J., Indra, A., Nowotny, N. & Allerberger, F. (2013b) Detection of Plasmodium sp. infested Anopheles hyrcanus (Pallas 1771) (Diptera: Culicidae) in Austria, 2012. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 125 (5), 139–143.
  12. ↑ Seidel B, Nowotny N, Darja D, Indra A, Hufnagl P, Allerberger F (2013C) First records of the thermophilic mosquito Culiseta longiareolata (Macquart, 1838) in Austria, 2012, and in Slovenia, 2013. Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association 31, 17-20.
  13. ↑ APA (29.06.2020): Korean bush mosquito arrived in Austria
  14. ^ Association of Vienna City Festivals - Metropol: Benefit event - artists for the Konrad-Lorenz referendum. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  15. ^ VHS Vienna: Bob Dylan - Nobel Prize for Literature 2016. Marathon reading 16_100. December 19, 2016, accessed July 17, 2019 .
  16. ↑ https://www.k-haus.at/de/kalender/11-09-2019/veranstaltung/894/die-rote-wand-bernhard-seidel.html
  17. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbP4PKSgarA
  18. ↑ Laudation from Rupert Riedl: Dr. Bernhard Seidel: Active in practice-oriented environmental research . In: Culture Prize Winner of the State of Lower Austria, Ed .: Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Vienna, 1993, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ecologist, medical entomologist, environmental activist, singer-songwriter and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Amstetten , Lower Austria