Karin Lochte

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Karin Lochte

Karin Lochte (* 1952 in Hanover ) is a German biologist and oceanographer. From 2004 to 2007 she was a professor at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel. There she headed the research unit Biological Oceanography with a focus on material cycles in the sea. From November 2007 to November 2017 she was director of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven.

Life

After her school education in Hanover from 1959 to 1971, Karin Lochte studied biology, chemistry and philosophy at the Technical University of Hanover from 1971 to 1976 . She completed her studies with the state examination for higher teaching qualifications in biology and chemistry. She then studied marine biology from 1977 to 1984 at the Marine Science Laboratories Menai Bridge in the University of Wales . She obtained the academic degrees Master of Science (MSc) in marine biology (1979) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in marine biology (1985).

Act

From 1985 to 1990 Lochte completed her time as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Oceanography at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with research on the microbial turnover of organic carbon in deep-sea sediments. From 1990 to 1994 she then worked as a research assistant at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. Her research area was the microbial turnover of organic material in sea ice, water and sediment. In 1994 he completed his habilitation in marine biology / aquatic microbiology at the University of Bremen with the thesis "Microbial degradation of organic matter in the soil boundary layer of the deep sea". From 1995 to 2000 she was head of the Biological Oceanography Section at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde and Professor at the University of Rostock for Biological Oceanography and Marine Microbiology with the research area pelagic bacterial processes and nitrogen fixation . After all, from 2000 to 2007 she was head of the research unit Biological Oceanography at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences in Kiel and professor for biological oceanography at Kiel University. Her research areas were carbon and nitrogen fixation and microbial remineralization processes in the water column. The tropical Atlantic Ocean was her special field of research. Lochte is a member of numerous international and national bodies, including a. Member of the Science Council since 1995 . She is a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg (since 2005) and a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) .

Research interests

  • Microbial turnover of organic carbon in the deep sea
  • Coupling between production processes in surface water and degradation processes in the deep sea
  • Degradation and modification of particulate organic material in the deep water column
  • Extracellular, bacterial enzymes and their role in the breakdown of organic matter in the ocean
  • Importance of dissolved carbon in the ocean
  • Fixation and flow of nitrogen in plankton
  • Oceanic carbon cycle

Honors

Works

  • Protozoa as makers and breakers of marine aggregates. Protozoa and their role in marine processes. Berlin 1991.
  • Bacterial standing stock and consumption of organic carbon in the benthic boundary layer of the abyssal North Atlantic. Deep-sea food chains and the global carbon cycle. Dordrecht 1992.
  • Microbiology of deep sea sediments. Seabed microbiology. Jena 1993.
  • The importance of the Southern Ocean for global climate processes. Biological material cycles. Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation, Ladenburg 1995.
  • Benthic exchange and transformation in the deep sea - the need for high resolution four dimensional studies. The ocean and the poles. Jena 1996.
  • (Editor): The German research fleet. Requirements over the next few decades. Strategy paper. German Research Foundation, Senate Commission for Oceanography and the German Marine Research Consortium. Wiley-VCH-Verlag, Weinheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-527-32260-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thesis: Microbiological observations at sea water discontinuities .
  2. ^ Honorary doctorates from the University of Oldenburg
  3. ↑ AWI
personal data
SURNAME Lochte, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover