Tobias Strickmann

Research Area

As part of my PhD, I study the imaging of marine particles and plankton, their ecology, and their role in the global carbon cycle. During my master’s thesis at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, I investigated the diversity and distribution of Arctic zooplankton species in the Barents Sea. Afterwards, I worked at GEOMAR as a research associate on a marine time series database and a project on underwater fish imaging (UFO).

My PhD is part of the EU project OceanICU, where I contribute to Work Package 3, Impacts of Abiotic Climate Stressors (pH, O₂ & T) on the Biological Carbon Pump (BCP). In this context, I investigate how abiotic environmental factors affect vertical particle fluxes using global in-situ imaging data, CTD, and sediment trap measurements. Within the project, I primarily work with data from the Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP), but I also use images from the newly developed Plankton Imaging with Scanning Optics (PIScO) system.

Publications

Böer, G., Gröger, J. P., Badri-Höher, S., Cisewski, B., Renkewitz, H., Mittermayer, F., Strickmann, T., & Schramm, H. (2023). A Deep-Learning Based Pipeline for Estimating the Abundance and Size of Aquatic Organisms in an Unconstrained Underwater Environment from Continuously Captured Stereo Video. Sensors, 23(6), 3311. doi.org/10.3390/s23063311

 

Gröger, J. P., Cisewski, B., Badri-Hoeher, S., Böer, G., Boos, K., Clemmesen, C., ..., Strickmann, T., ... & Zenk, O. (2024). Development and operation of a novel non-invasive opto-acoustic underwater fish observatory in Kiel Bight, Southwestern Baltic Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1425259.

Metfies, Golde, Hohe, von Jackowski, Kim, Klüver, Knüppel, Kraberg, Nicolaus, Strickmann, Weiss, Xi, Bracher, Nöthig, Niehoff, Peeken, Engel. The Expedition PS126 of the Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Fram Strait in 2021, Section: PEBCAO – Plankton Ecology And Biogeochemistry In A Changing Arctic Ocean. https://doi.org/10.48433/BzPM_0757_2021