two Grey Seals, two seals, harbour porpoise and one grey seal
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Eileen Heße
Eileen Heße

Curriculum Vitae

  • 11/2020 - present: Research associate at the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research in Büsum, Germany
  • 10/2019 – 10/2020: Research assistant at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research on Texel, The Netherlands
  • 04/2019 – 08/2019: Online course on marine littler at the Open University of the Netherlands
  • 01/2015 – 05/2015: Rearch assistant at Wageningen Marine Research on Texel, The Netherlands
  • 09/2012 – 08/2013: Internship at Wageningen Marine Research on Texel, The Netherlands studying the foraging ecology of harbour porpoises
  • 03/2011 – 08/2011: Internship at the Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit in Bunbury, Western Australia studying the behaviour of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins and applying Photo-ID

Education  

  • 11/2020 - present: PhD candidate at the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research in Büsum, Germany
  • 09/2013 – 08/2014: MSc in Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology, University of Aberdeen,Scotland

    Thesis Title: Remotely assessing the body condition of harbour seals Phoca vitulina: A feasible challenge!

  • 09/2009 – 08/2013: Bachelor in Wildlife Management, Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
    • Thesis Title: Can stomach content analysis help to solve the riddle of mutilated harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena in the Netherlands?

  Main Research Areas

  • Foraging ecology of marine mammals and seabirds

Publications

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