Michael Stachowitsch

Research Interests

Benthic ecology / hypoxia, anoxia, eutrophication / habitat degradation /

marine debris / sea turtle ecology / coral reef ecology

Professional activities

Professional scientific English editing and translating (German–English)

Austrian representative to the International Whaling Commission

Book review editor: Journal “Marine Ecology” (Wiley/Blackwell)

Habilitation University of Vienna (2008) The Northern Adriatic Sea:

Lessons in marine ecology from a “dead zone”.

Ph.D. (zoology), University of Vienna (Austria) 1980.

B.Sc. (biology/chemistry), University of Pittsburgh (USA) 1973

Current teaching (University of Vienna)

“Introduction to marine pollution”

“Management of endangered animal species”

“Writers’ workshop for biologists”

Publications:

ca. 60 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Recently: Co-author of 6 papers in Special Issue of Biogeosciences

“Coastal hypoxia and anoxia: a multi-tiered, holistic approach”.

Books: The Invertebrates: an illustrated glossary (Wiley, 1992),

The Beachcomber's Guide to Marine Debris (Springer, 2019).

Links: Expanded CV/selected publications/anoxia project: www.marine-hypoxia.com

Sea turtle conservation (last fieldwork 2018): www.seaturtlecourse.jimdo.com