Philip Bethge

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Philip Bethge (* 1967 ) is a German science and environmental journalist, doctor of biology and musician .

Life

Bethge studied zoology and biological oceanography at the University of Kiel . At the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania, he first studied the little penguin and then did his doctorate on the platypus . He is a graduate of the Protestant School of Journalism .

Bethge has been working as a science editor for the news magazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg since 1999 . Between 2009 and 2013 he was a science correspondent for Spiegel in San Francisco .

As a musician, songwriter and lyricist, Bethge was a member of the Kiel A-Cappella -Chor Sexteddies and the pop band Kitchen Cowboys . Today he plays with the Hamburg indie band Hansagold.

Awards

“ Annette Barthelt ” prize for marine research for work on the little penguin (1995); Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and the DAAD ; University of Tasmania Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship; University of Tasmania's Dean's Commendation Award 2002 for PhD thesis on platypus.

Europe Prize of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) 2008 for outstanding environmental reporting (together with Rafaela von Bredow and Christian Schwägerl ).

Publications

  • P. Bethge, S. Nicol, BM Culik, RP Wilson: Diving behavior and energetics in breeding little penguins (Eudyptula minor) . In: Journal of Zoology . tape 242 , no. 3 , 1997, ISSN  1469-7998 , pp. 483-502 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1469-7998.1997.tb03851.x ( wiley.com [accessed October 3, 2019]).
  • P. Bethge: Energetics and foraging behavior of the Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus . 2002 ( edu.au [accessed October 3, 2019] Ph.D. Thesis, University of Tasmania).
  • P. Bethge, SA Munks, HM Otley, SC Nicol: Diving behavior, dive cycles and aerobic dive limit in the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus . In: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A . tape 136 , no. 4 , 2003, ISSN  1095-6433 , p. 799–809 ( edu.au [accessed October 3, 2019]).
  • Philip Bethge, Sarah Munks, Helen Otley, Stewart Nicol: Activity Patterns and Sharing of Time and Space of Platypuses, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, in a Subalpine Tasmanian Lake . In: Journal of Mammalogy . tape 90 , no. 6 , December 15, 2009, ISSN  0022-2372 , p. 1350-1356 , doi : 10.1644 / 08-MAMM-A-355R.1 ( oup.com [accessed October 3, 2019]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reuters-IUCN Environmental Media Awards announce regional winners. Reuters Foundation and IUCN, August 7, 2008, accessed October 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bethge, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science and environmental journalist, biologist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1967