Philipp Kanstinger (Dipl.Biol.)

Phone: +49(0)40 - 42838 6642
Fax: +49(0)40 - 42838 6618
University of Hamburg
Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science
Olbersweg 24
22767 Hamburg
Germany

Research interests

My research focuses on early life history of small pelagic fish. I investigate development and growth rate indices (RNA/DNA, enzymes, otolith growth and lipids) in different controlled environmental conditions (temperature, salinity, food quantity) and use these results to interpret condition and growth rates of field caught larvae.

Educational Background

2000-2002 Basic studies of Biology at the Freien Universität Berlin
2003-2007 Main studies of Biology, focus on Biological Oceanography at the Institute for
Hydrobiology and Fisheries Sciences, Hamburg
2006-2007 Diploma thesis : Growth and condition of larval sprat (Sprattus sprattus). A combined
laboratory and field investigation

Employment

1998 - 1999: Assistantship at the Institute for Microbiology, Freiburg.
2003 - 2004 & 2006: Research assistant in the project GLOBEC ,,Marine Ecosystems and Global
                                  Change.
2005: Research assistant in the project BECAUSE ,Critical Interactions BEtween Species and their
          Implications for a PreCAUtionary FiSheries Management in a variable Environment.
2007: Research assistant in the project RECONN , Resolving trophodynamic CONsequences of
          Climate ChaNge.
2008: PhD-student at the Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Sciences

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

2006-2007 Scientific diver license

Publications

Research articles (peer-reviewed)

Myron A. Peck, G.Bening, B.Ewest, P.Kanstinger, M.Martin (2008) Impacts of light regime and light intensity on egg production and hatching in Acartia tonsa (Copepoda: Calanoida), Aquaculture. Vol.275,no.1,pp.102-107

Kanstinger P., Peck MA, Co-occurrence of European sardine (Sardina pilchardus), anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and sprat (Sprattus sprattus) larvae in southern North Sea habitats: Abundance, distribution and biochemical-based condition. Scienca marina (submitted)

Other literature

Underwater photographs published in books and projects(e.g. Arkive Bioloogia õpik gümnaasiumile (Estonian biology highschool book) Fishbase, Whalesharkproject).

Selected Oral & Poster Presentations

Kanstinger P, Kloppmann M, Alheit J, Peck MA, Habitat partitioning and physiological condition of ichthyoplankton in the German Bight, 42. European Marine Biology Symposium, Kiel, 2007

Kanstinger P, Kloppmann M, Peck MA, Co-occurrence of European sardine (Sardina pilchardus), anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and sprat (Sprattus sprattus) larvae in southern North Sea habitats: Abundance, distribution and biochemical-based condition, 32nd Larval fish conference, Kiel, 2008

Kanstinger P, Baumann H, Clemmesen C, Peck Ma, Huwer B, Petereit C, How slow can you grow ? First ring formation in sprat (Sprattus sprattus) otoliths. Poster presentation, 32nd Larval fish conference, Kiel, 2008