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Carlo Heip
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Netherlands Institute of Ecology;

Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology (NIOO)-CEME

31-(0)113-57 7300

31-(0)113-57 36 16

C.Heip@nioo.knaw.nl

 

Carlo Heip (1945, Belgian citizen) is a marine biologist, presently director of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and of the Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology (Netherlands Institute of Ecology) and professor at the universities of Gent (Belgium) and Groningen (The Netherlands).   His early research in the seventies and eighties was on  population dynamics, ecology and ecotoxicology, and pollution monitoring of benthic (bottom-dwelling) marine communities, especially of meiobenthos (nematodes, copepods and ostracods).   Since the mid nineties interest focused on the link between benthic biology and biogeochemical cycles using ecological modelling and stable isotope analysis as the main tools.   A main research topic recently has been the link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.  

 

He has over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited six books.    He was responsible for many  EU-sponsored projects and initiated or co-started more than ten major European projects including  JEEP (the Joint European Estuarine Programme) , ELOISE (European Land-Ocean Interaction Studies), OMEX (Ocean Margin Exchange), ECOFLAT (Ecology of Tidal Flats) and most recently EURODEEP (ESF Eurocores programme).   During his presidency of the European Marine Research Stations MARS network,  he has been active in creating a marine biodiversity research programme for Europe through projects sponsored by the European Science Foundation and by the 5th and 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission (BIOPLATFORM, BIOSTRAT,. BIOMARE and MARBENA).  He is now general co-ordinator of the EU Network of Excellence MARBEF (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning), grouping more than 90 institutes and 700 scientists in Europe.

 

Carlo Heip is member of the steering and advisory committees of many European institutes and projects (including the running IP’s and NoE’s EurOCEANS, HERMES, SESAME, EDIT and ENCORA),  and internationally in the International Steering Committees of IMOSEB, the DIVERSITAS programme, the Census of Marine Life and its European branch EuroComl, and SCOPE.

 

For more details see http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/ppages/cheip/.

 

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