Dipl.-Math. Bianca Schippmann
Address:
Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Seestrasse 15
D-18119 Rostock
Germany
Seestrasse 15
D-18119 Rostock
Germany
Phone:
+49 381 5197 263
Fax:
+49 381 5197 114
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branches of work
Curremtly I am a PhD student. My topic is "Particle tracking in the Oder lagoon as a coastal management tool". One the one hand, I want to figure out where human infective viruses accumulate at the Oder mouth coast under certain wind conditions and on the other hand, I want to find possible sources of different micro organisms and track there pathways through the lagoon in order to help authorities in beach management. Furthermore, a goal isto analyse why Vibrio spp. are recurrently present in the bay of Greifswald. Vibrios are a natural component of the water body which increasingly grow in warm water. Several Virbio outbreaks occurred and led to infections by people with low immunity after contact with sea water within the last decade. The most important tool of my work is a three-dimensional model system. It consists of a circulation model and an offline particle tracking model. These allow the computation of temperature, flow field and particle (bacterial) distribution.
From the end of 2009 to the middle of 2010 I was working as a research assistant evaluating ecosystem model runs simulated with GETM-GOTM for the Fehmarn Belt project.
In 2009 I mainly worked on the numerics of biogeochemical models within the General ocean turbulence model (GOTM). I compared the performance of the recently used ordinary differential equation solvers implemented in GOTM with the so-called Rosenbrock methods which are generally used in chemistry.