Curriculum Vitae
Studies and Occupation
M.Sc.(1969) and Ph.D.(1973) in Zoology at the State University of Gent, Belgium
D.Sc. (Habilitation) (1978) in Ecology at the State University of Gent, Belgium
Researcher of the National Fund for Scientific Research at the State University of Gent, Belgium (1969-1987) (Junior 1969-1970; Researcher 1970-1974; Senior Researcher 1974-1978; Director of Research 1981-1987)
Expert in Oceanology P5 of Unesco at the ‘Centre de Recherches Oceanographiques et des Peches’ in Algiers, Algeria(1979-1980).
Director of the Delta Insitute for Hydrobiological Research in Yerseke, The Netherlands(1987-1992)
Director of Research of the Centre for Estuarine and Coastal Ecology of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (1 January 1992– 31 January 2001) Centre Director as from February 1st 2001. Head of the Department of Ecosystem Studies (1992-2006)
Acting General Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (1998-1999)
Guest Professor at the Free University of Brusselsand The HouariBoumedienneUniversityof Algiers
Extra-ordinary Professor at the State University of Gent, Belgium(Biological Oceanography)
(1992- )
Extra-ordinary Professor in Marine Biology at the International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Delft, The Netherlands(1992-1995).
Extra-ordinary Professor in Estuarine Ecology at the State University of Groningen, the Netherlands(starting June 2000).
General Director of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (2006- )
National and International Scientific Committees (Selected)
Member of the Executive Committee (1977-1987) and President (1982-1983) of the International Association of Meiobenthologists. Belgian (1978-1987) and Dutch (1989-) Representative in the Management Committee of the COST 647 'Coastal Benthic Ecology' Project of the Commission of the European Communities. Belgian Representative in the Shellfish Committee (1984‑1985) and the Biological Oceanography Committee (1986‑1987), Member (1982-) and President (1986-) of the Benthos Ecology Working Group of ICES , Member of the WG on Extraction of Marine Sediments, Coordinator of the North Sea Benthos Survey (1986) and of the Sea-Going Workshop (1990) of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). Corresponding Member of Working Group 73 'Ecological Theory in Relation to Biological Oceanography' and Belgian Representative (1986‑) of the Scientific Committee on Oceanographic Research (SCOR) (ICSU). Belgian Representative (1988-1995) of the International Association for Biological Oceanography (IABO)(ICSU). Member of the Executive Committee (1985-1987) of the World Association of Copepodologists. Vice-President of the European Assocation of Marine Science and Technology (1990- ). Chairman of the CEC Concerted Action Change in Coastal Ecosystems (1993-1994). President of the European Marine Research Stations Network MARS (1994- ). Member of the Steering Committee of the European Land-Ocean Interactions Studies Programme ELOISE (1996-) of the CEC. Convenor of the Diversitas Programme ‘Origin and Change of biodiversity in Marine Ecosystems’ Dutch Representative in the International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean CIESM. Chairman of the NetherlandsNational LOICZ Commission and Member of the Nationale IGPB/SCOPE/MAB (now Global Change Cee) Committee of the RoyalAcademy. Member of national BIF committee. Chair of the SAC of the Naturalis Museum. Member of the National Bioplatform. Member of the National Ecological Research Network. Member of the Board of the Darwin Institute. Member of the Board of the National Programme on Marine and Coastal Research (ALW). Chairman of group 4 on Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity (ESF Marine Science Plan). Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of Diversitas. Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine Life, Acting President of the Euro-COML committee (2005), Member of the Executive Committee of Euro-Coml (2006- ). Member of the ISC of IMOSEB. Member of the SAC of the EU networks and integrated projects HERMES, EDIT, SESAME, ENCORA, ESONET. Chair of the Cross Cutting Network Marine Biodiversity of DIVERSITAS. Chair for Cluster Biodiversity and Ecosystems in SCOPE.
Direction of Research Projects (Selected)
Principal scientist for over 20 major four year projects in basic research and over 20 applied research projects in Belgium from the Ministry of Scientific Policy (Concerted Actions), the Ministry of Public Health, the National Fund for Collective Fundamental Research, in the Netherlands from the Ministry of Water Management and Public Transport and the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research NWO (SOZ, GOA), from the Commission of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
Coordinated EU Projects include 'Major Biological Processes in European Tidal Estuaries JEEP92' (EU-MAST I)(1992-1994), 'Biogeochemistry of the Maximum Turbidity Zone in European Tidal Estuaries MATURE (EU-Environment)(1994-1995), Ocean Margin Experiment OMEX Benthic Biology (EU-MAST) (1994-1995), Ecology of Tidal Flats (ECOFLAT) (EU-Environment 1996-1998), total over last 5 years over 3 M€ and the Concerted Action ‘BIOMARE’ (Implementation of Long Term Large Scale Marine Biodiversity Research in Europe’, MARBENA (Infrastructure for Marine Biodiversity Research in Europe) and Network of Excellence MARBEF (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning), EU 6th FP. Participant in other EU projects since 1995: Intrmud, Phase, Euromarge-AS, Mater, Cooperation Costa Rica, Marble. PI of the ESF Eurocores project BIOFUN (Eurodeep) (2007- ).
Scientific Journals
Editorial Board of Pelagos, Bulletin du Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Marine Ecology, (Netherlands) Journal of Sea Research, Vie et Milieu, Marine Environmental Research, Journal of Marine Systems, Biologisch Jaarboek Dodonaea, Scientia Marina, Polish Journal of Oceanography, Oceanologica Acta (president of editorial board)
Referee for Hydrobiologia, Marine Ecology PSZNI, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Marine Biology, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Crustacean Biology, Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique, Vie et Milieu, Nature, Oecologia, Oceanologica Acta, American Naturalist, Biogeochemistry, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Pakistan Journal of Botany, Biologisch Jaarboek Dodonaea, Annales de la Societe Royale Zoologique de Belgique, Journal of Plankton Research, Journal of the Linnean Society, Netherlands Journal of Aquatic Ecology, (Netherlands) Journal of Sea Research, Polar Biology, Sarsia, Journal of Coastal Conservation, Journal of Marine Systems, Estuaries
Organization of Workshops and Symposia
Member and/or president of the organising committee for the following symposia: 10th European Marine Biology Symposium, Oostende, 1975, First European Ecology Symposium, 1977 Norwich, Engeland,
Nato Workshop on Fjord Oceanography, Vancouver, Canada, 1979, First Workshop on Aquatic Nematodes, Gent, 1977, Fifth International Meiofauna Conference, Gent, 1983, Fourth Workshop on Aquatic Nematodes, Roscoff, Frankrijk, 1984, COST 47 symposium 'Long Term Trends in Benthic Populations', Brussel, 1985, North Sea Benthos Taxonomy, Helgoland, februari 1988, SOZ-workshop 'Biological Research in European Tidal Estuaries', Yerseke, maart 1989, Seventh Symposium on Aquatic Nematodes te Yerseke, August 1990
Mini-Symposium on Ecology of North Sea Benthos, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen oktober 1990, ICES/IOC Sea-Going Workshop, COST-647 workshop on Benthos and Ecological Modelling, Yerseke 1991, 26th European Marine Biology Symposium, Middelburg, 1991, Euroconference "Prediction of change in coastal seas", Pont d'Albret, France, 1993, Euroconference "Significance of Coastal Seas in Global Change", Granada, Spanje, EERO workshop Changing Estuarine and Coastal Environments, Geesthacht, October 1995, Joint ECSA-ERF 1996 Symposium, Middelburg, LOICZ Open Science Meeting, Noordwijkershout, NL, October 1997, ELOISE Open Science Meeting, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
(December 1999), Euroconferences on Coastal Marine Biodiversity, CorinthMay 2001 and Renesse, May 2003, ELOISE OSM in Bari, Italy 2001 and Gdansk 2003. Symposium The Colour of Ocean Data, Brussels, 2004. First International Conference on Conservation Biology 2006. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (2008).
Organisator of numerous workshops of the Benthos Ecology WG of ICES and of the EU-programmes JEEP92, MATURE, ECOFLAT, OMEX, BIOMARE, MARBENA etc.
Research
Research on benthic biology with a gradual shift from brackish waters and population dynamics of meiofauna (seventies) to impact studies and ecotoxicology (seventies and early eighties) to biogeochemistry and ecology of sediments (nineties) in estuarine, shallow coastal and deep-sea environments. Research on Marine Biodiversity started in 2004. Over 100 refereed papers and five books. Over 3000 citations (Citation Index) in August 2007. Hirsch index 31.
Projects
Principal scientist for over 20 major four year projects in basic research and over 20 applied research projects in Belgium from the Ministry of Scientific Policy (Concerted Actions), the Ministry of Public Health, the National Fund for Collective Fundamental Research, in the Netherlands from the Ministry of Water Management and Public Transport and the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research NWO (SOZ, GOA), from the Commission of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
Coordinated EU Projects include 'Major Biological Processes in European Tidal Estuaries JEEP92' (EU-MAST I)(1992-1994), 'Biogeochemistry of the Maximum Turbidity Zone in European Tidal Estuaries MATURE (EU-Environment)(1994-1995), Ocean Margin Experiment OMEX Benthic Biology (EU-MAST) (1994-1995), Ecology of Tidal Flats (ECOFLAT) (EU-Environment 1996-1998), total over last 5 years over 5 Mfl and the Concerted Action ‘BIOMARE’ (Implementation of Long Term Large Scale Marine Biodiversity Research in Europe’, MARBENA (Infrastructure for Marine Biodiversity Research in Europe) and Network of Excellence MARBEF (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning), EU 6th FP. Participant in other EU projects since 1995: Intrmud, Phase, Euromarge-AS, Mater, Costa Rica.
Co-Operation
Extra-ordinary Professor in Biological Oceanography at the University of Gent, Belgium
Extra-ordinary Professor in Estuarine Ecology at the State University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Selected Publications
HEIP, C., M. VINCX & G. VRANKEN. 1985. The ecology of marine nematodes. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 23, 399 489. HEIP, C. 1990. The ecology of the estuaries of Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt in The Netherlands. Scientia Marina 53: 457-463.
HEIP, C., N. K. GOOSEN, P.M.J. HERMAN, J. KROMKAMP, J.J. MIDDELBURG and K. SOETAERT. 1995. Production and Consumption of Biological Particles in Temperate Tidal Estuaries. Oceanogr.Mar.Biol.Ann.Rev. 33: 1-149 HEIP, C.. 1995. Eutrophication and Zoobenthos Dynamics. Ophelia 41: 113-136
MIDDELBURG,, J.J., K. SOETAERT, P.M.J. HERMAN, C.H.R. HEIP. 1996. Denitrification in marine sediments : a model study. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10: 661-673.
HEIP, C., R. WARWICK & L. D’OZOUVILLE. (Editors) 1998. A European Science Plan on Marine Biodiversity. European Marine and Polar Science Board Position Paper 2. 20 pp.
HEIP, C. & H. HUMMEL. 2000. Establishing a framework for the implementation of marine biodiversity research in Europe. EMAPS Position Paper. 48 pp.
HEIP, C., G. DUINEVELD, E. FLACH, G. GRAF, W. HELDER, P.M.J.HERMAN, J.J. MIDDELBURG, M. LAVALEYE, O. PFANNKUCHE, K. SOETAERT, T. SOLTWEDEL, H. DE STIGTER, L. THOMSEN, J. VANAVERBEKE & P. DE WILDE. 2001. The role of the benthic biota in sedimentary metabolism and sediment-water exchange processes in the Goban Spur area (N.E. Atlantic). Deep Sea Research Pt. II 48: 3223-3243.
SOETAERT, K., J. MIDDELBURG, J. WIJSMAN, P. HERMAN & C.HEIP. 2002. Ocean Marine Early Diagenetic Processes and Models. In: WEFER, G. BILLETT D., HEBBELN, D, JORGENSEN B.B., SCHLUTER M. &VAN WEERING T. (Editors). Ocean margin systems. . Springer-verlag Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo
HEIP, C. 2003. What structures marine biodiversity and why does it vary? In: G. WEFER, F. LAMY & F. MANTOURA. Marine science frontiers for Europe pp. 251-264.
HEIP C., A. BRANDT, J-P. GATTUSO, A. ANTIA, W. H.BERGER, J. BOISSONNAS, P. BURKILL, L. D’OZOUVILLE, G. GRAF, G.J. HERNDL, J. PATCHING, K. REISE, G. RIOU, R. SIMO, V. SMETACEK & P. WASSMAN. 2003. Ecosystem functioning and marine biodiversity. In: G. WEFER, F. LAMY & F. MANTOURA. Marine science frontiers for Europe. Springer-verlag Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo pp. 289-30
Hendriks, I. E., C. M. Duarte, and C. H. R. Heip. 2006
Biodiversity research still grounded Science 312:1715
Gazeau, F., C. Quiblier, J. M. Jansen, J.-P. Gattuso, J. J. Middelburg, and C. H. R. Heip. 2007 Impact of elevated CO2 on shellfish calcification Geophysical Research Letters 34:L07603
Loreau, M., A. Oteng-Yeboah, M. T. K. Arroyo, D. Babin, R. Barbault, M. Donoghue, M. Gadgil, C. Häuser, C. Heip, A. Larigauderie, K. Ma, G. Mace, H. A. Mooney, C. Perrings, P. Raven, J. Sarukhan, P. Schei, R. J. Scholes, and R. T. Watson. 2006 Diversity without representation Nature 442:245-246
Meysman, F. J. R., J. J. Middelburg, and C. H. R. Heip. 2006 Bioturbation: a fresh look at Darwin's last idea Trends in Ecology & Evolution 21:688-695
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