Jörg Ott

Jörg Ott (born April 22, 1942 in Vienna ) is an Austrian marine biologist .

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Jörg Ott began studying zoology , botany and geography at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1969. This was followed by postgraduate studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill , United States , where he worked with Rupert Riedl , who was then a professor of zoology there. In 1972 Ott returned to the University of Vienna, where he completed his habilitation in 1982 after working as an assistant for several years . He retired as an associate professor in 2007.

Jörg Ott has been a board member and vice-president of the Haus des Meeres since 1993 . For this, he and his colleagues Alfred Radda and Michael Mitic were awarded the Golden Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna in 2015.

In 1997 Ott became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

From 2005 to 2013, Ott was a councilor for the Greens in Wolfsgraben, Lower Austria .

1969: Microecology of phytal populations using the example of nematodes
1982: Adaptive Strategies at the ecosystem level: Examples from two benthic marine systems
1996: Deep sea and extreme shallow-water habitats: affinities and adaptions
1996: Influences of Organisms on their environment - the role of episodic events.
2005: Remote and inaccessible habitats, in-situ research and biodiversity: A tribute to Rupert Riedl

Jörg Ott: Oceanography. Introduction to the geography and biology of the oceans. UTB Ulmer Verlag, 2nd edition, 1996
Jörg Ott, G. Wagner & M. Wuketits (eds.): Evolution, order and knowledge. Paul Parey, Berlin 1985

Monika Bright (Ed.): The Vienna School of Marine Biology. A tribute to Jörg Ott. Facultas University Press, Vienna 2002

Shallow Water Symbiosis Group: Prof. (retired) Dr. Jörg A. Ott . University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography (biography with picture and detailed list of works). Retrieved December 3, 2015