Conference speaker

Tentative Talk Title: Modelling the effects of human activity on the North Sea ecosystem

Biologist Karline Soetaert is interested in the interplay between physics, ecology, and biogeochemistry in the marine environment. She has worked on many topics, including deepsea nematodes, estuarine zooplankton, estuarine biogeochemistry, early diagenesis, benthic and pelagic foodwebs, environmental modelling, software development and differential equations.

Usually there is some computational aspect involved in her work -this may be in the form of mechanistic (ecosystem) models, or some other number-crunching procedure that involves computers and programming. She holds a master degree in Zoology (1983), a master in Computer Sciences (1985) and a PhD in biology (1988), all from Ghent University. She teaches environmental modelling at the University of Ghent and at the Geosciences department at Utrecht University. She has written in the order of 200 scientific publications, 20 software packages and 2 books. A list of her scientific output/achievements can be downloaded here: https://www.nioz.nl/application/files/1815/0356/1948/Curriculum_vitae_web.pdf(opens in new tab/window)