Curriculum Vitae
- 2005 — present: Post-doc in the Department of Ecosystem Studies at NIOO-KNAW (CEME, Yerseke, The Netherlands). Currently working on the projects HERMIONE and CoralFISH. Previously working on HERMES (EU-project) and CORAMM.
- 2002 — 2007: Working on the Trophos-project, in which benthic-pelagic coupling is studied at two contrasting stations on the Belgium part of the North Sea with amongst other stable isotope measurements.
- 2000 — 2005: PhD-project carried out at NIOO-KNAW (Yerseke, The Netherlands) on 'The structure of marine benthic food webs: Combining stable isotope techniques and inverse modeling', which was defended on the 27th of January 2006 at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
- 1997 — 2000: MSc in aquatic ecology at Wageningen University. Graduated cum laude.
Projects
CoralFISH
Trophos is a Belgian project (coordinator dr. M. Vincx, UG) funded by the IWTC. It focuses on the higher trophic levels in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, including fishes CoralFIS
HERMIONE
Trophos is a Belgian project (coordinator dr. M. Vincx, UG) funded by the IWTC. It focuses on the higher trophic levels in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, including fishes CoralFISH
CORAMM
Trophos is a Belgian project (coordinator dr. M. Vincx, UG) funded by the IWTC. It focuses on the higher trophic levels in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, including fishes CoralFIS
HERMES
Trophos is a Belgian project (coordinator dr. M. Vincx, UG) funded by the IWTC. It focuses on the higher trophic levels in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, including fishes and birds. NIOO-CEME is involved in the research on food web interactions shaping the benthic communities in the area.
Trophos
Trophos is a Belgian project (coordinator dr. M. Vincx, UG) funded by the IWTC. It focuses on the higher trophic levels in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, including fishes and birds. NIOO-CEMO is involved in the research on food web interactions shaping the benthic communities in the area.
There is indirect evidence that the infaunal food web differs offshore and inshore and this will be investigated in more detail. The food web structure will be investigated at two sites, differing in their carbon loading and oxygenation of the sediment.
Objectives of NIOO component
The role of NIOO-CEME is:
1. To use natural stable isotopes and tracers to unravel how food cascades into animal biomass.
2. To use inverse modelling techniques to make a budget of food web flows.
3. To evaluate the role of the benthic communities in the functioning of the total ecosystem by measuring sediment community oxygen consumption rates.
Food quality of detritus for deposit feeders
Together with Sandra Vandewiele (PhD-student) and Ehsan Kayal (MSc-student), I work on the food quality of sedimentary detritus for the model deposit feeder Capitella capitata. We use stable isotope dilution to determine the quality of detritus and try to link this with other methods that quantify detritus quality, such as an enzyme assay (Mayer LM, Schick LL, Sawyer T, Plante CJ, Jumars PA, Self RL (1995) Bioavailable amino-acids in sediments - A biomimetic, kinetics-based approach. Limnology and Oceanography 40:511-520) and the degradation index (Dauwe B, Middelburg JJ, Herman PMJ, Heip CHR (1999) Linking diagenetic alteration of amino acids and bulk organic matter reactivity. Limnology and Oceanography 44:1809-1814).
HERMES: Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European Seas
HERMES is a large EU-funded project that studies several deep marine ecosystems. The ecosystems that will be studied are: cold-water corals, open slopes, cold seeps, canyons and anoxic systems. On a geographical range going all the way from the Black Sea, via the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean west of Norway. Together with Karline Soetaert, we are responsible for the modeling part of the project. Based on the available data, we will construct carbon and nitrogen budgets for the different ecosystems. HERMES started on 1st April 2005 and runs for four years.
CORAMM
CORAMM works at improving our understanding of the impacts of high suspended sediment loads on cold water coral communities. The project is multidisciplinary in approach, with sedimentologists, biologists, modellers and representatives from marine industry all involved in furthering the current understanding of these novel ecosystems. My job in this project is to model the effects of sedimentation on the health of coldwater corals and to interact with the experimentalists on the setup of experiments. With this project I am again working on corals and sedimentation, like during my MSc-thesis work, but now in a somewhat colder environment.
Selected Publications
Garcia, R., Van Oevelen, D., Soetaert, K., Thomson, L, De Stigter, H. C., Epping, E. Accepted
Mixing intensity, deposition rates and organic content in two contrasting submarine canyons
Progress in Oceanography (journal) p
Franco, M. A., Soetaert, K., Van Oevelen, D., Moodley, L., Costa, M. J., Vincx, M., Vanaverbeke, J. Accepted
Changes in the natural abundance of stable isotopes 13 C and 15 N in meiobenthos during a spring phytoplankton bloom deposition
Marine Ecology-Progress Series (journal)
Van Oevelen, D., Middelburg, J. J., Soetaert, K., Moodley, L. 2006
The fate of bacterial carbon in an intertidal sediment: Modeling an in situ isotope tracer experiment
Limnol. Oceanogr. (journal) Vol. 51, Issue 3, p1302-1314
If available then a reprint or PDF can be requested at library@nioo.knaw.nl
Van Oevelen, D., Moodley, L., Soetaert, K., Middelburg, J. J. 2006
The trophic significance of bacterial carbon in a marine intertidal sediment: Results of an in situ stable isotope labeling study
Limnology and Oceanography (journal) Vol. 51, Issue 5, p2349-2359
If available then a reprint or PDF can be requested at library@nioo.knaw.nl
Van Oevelen, D., Soetaert, K., Middelburg, J. J., Herman, P. M. J., Moodley, L., Hamels, I., Moens, T., Heip, C. H. R. 2006
Carbon flows through a benthic food web: Integrating biomass, isotope and tracer data
J. Mar. Res. (journal) Vol. 64, Issue 3, p1-30
If available then a reprint or PDF can be requested at library@nioo.knaw.nl
Veuger, B., Van Oevelen, D., Middelburg, J. J., Boschker, H. T. S. 2006
Fate of peptidoglycan in an intertidal sediment: an in situ 13 C-labeling study
Limnol. Oceanogr. (journal) Vol. 51, Issue 4, p000-000
If available then a reprint or PDF can be requested at library@nioo.knaw.nl
Kones, J. K., Soetaert, K., van Oevelen, D., Owino, J. O., Mavuti, K. 2006
Gaining insight into food webs reconstructed by the inverse method
J. Mar. Syst. (journal) Vol. 60, Issue 1-2, p153-166
Van der Meer, J., Heip, C. H. R., Herman, P. M. J., Moens, T., Van Oevelen, D. (ed.: Eleftheriou, A., McIntyre, A.) 2005
Measuring the flow of energy and matter in marine benthic animal populations
Methods for the study of marine benthos (book) Vol. Third, p
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
If available then a reprint or PDF can be requested at library@nioo.knaw.nl
Soetaert, K., Hoffmann, M., Meire, P., Starink, M., Van Oevelen, D., Van Regenmortel, S., Cox, T. 2004
Modeling growth and carbon allocation in two reed beds ( Phragmites australis ) in the Scheldt estuary
Aquatic Botany (journal) Vol. 79, p211-234
If available then a reprint or PDF can be requested at library@nioo.knaw.nl
Links
Trophos project
http://www.vliz.be/projects/trophos/
Femme modeling software. Allows for inverse modeling of food webs
http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/femme
HERMES project
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/CHD/HERMES/intro.html
CORAMM project
http://www.irccm.de/coramm/CORAMM.htm
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