Alexandra Steckbauer
M.Sc. student

Mailing Address: 

Department of Marine Biology
Althanstrasse 14
1090 Vienna
Austria

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Education

     M.Sc., since 2008, Marine Biology
     Reactions of a macrobenthic community to anoxia: behavior and mortality sequences in a time-lapse camera experiment in the Gulf of Trieste 
     University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (supervisors: Dr. M. Stachowitsch; Prof. Dr. J. Ott)

     Bakk. Biol., 2007, Biology/Ecology        
     University of Salzburg, Austria

Research Interest 

  • Fauna and flora of coastal and benthic habitats (Mediterranean Sea)
  • Ecology & diversity of echinodermata (benefits and threats)
  • Ecology & diversity of coral reefs (Red Sea)
  • Threats to marine ecosystems (global change, eutrophication, hypoxia/anoxia, overfishing)
  • Nature conservation & protection of endangered species and habitats

Skills

Licences: PADI-Advanced Open Water Diver

Techniques: Electron microscopy (TEM & REM), scientific UW photography

Software-Applications: All MS-Office applications, Adobe Photoshop, Statistics (PAST)

Conferences

2009

  • ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2009, Nice, France, 25-30 January, (talk accepted)

Awards

2008

  • Rupert-Riedl-Award, Haus des Meeres - Aqua Terra Zoo, Vienna, Austria