Kretschmer, Kerstin

This web page has not been updated since the former colleague left MARUM.

Research Interests

11/2017 - 12/2018	Research associate at MARUM (Bremen, Germany)
2013 - 2017 MARUM & University of Bremen (Germany)	Doctorate studies in Geosciences Thesis topic: Global assessment of species-specific habitats of planktonic foraminifera - An ecosystem modeling approach
2010 - 2013 University of Kiel (Germany)	M.Sc. in Climate Physics: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography Thesis topic: Global quantification of methane hydrates
2007 - 2010 University of Kiel (Germany)	B.Sc. in Physik des Erdsystems (i.e., Physics of the Earthsystem)

Kretschmer, K., A. Biastoch, L. Rüpke, E. Burwicz (2015), Modeling the fate of methane hydrates under global warming, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 29, 610–625, doi:10.1002/2014GB005011.
Parmentier, F.-J. W., A. Silyakova, A. Biastoch, and K. Kretschmer (2015), Natural marine methane sources in the Arctic, in AMAP Assessment 2015: Methane as an Arctic climate forcer, chap. 4, pp. 27-38, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway.
Kretschmer, K., M. Kucera, and M. Schulz (2016), Modeling the distribution and seasonality of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma in the North Atlantic Ocean during Heinrich Stadial 1, Paleoceanography, 31, 986–1010, doi:10.1002/2015PA002819.
Kretschmer, K., L. Jonkers, M. Kucera, and M. Schulz (2018), Modeling seasonal and vertical habitats of planktonic foraminifera on a global scale, Biogeosciences, 15, 4405–4429, doi:10.5194/bg-15-4405-2018.

Kretschmer, K., L. Jonkers, M. Kucera, and M. Schulz (2018), Habitat variability of planktonic foraminiferal species throughout the world ocean: Insights from an ecosystem modeling approach (Poster), Science Conference "Ocean - Climate - Sustainability Research Frontiers", 22.-23.10.2018, Berlin, Germany.
Kretschmer, K., M. Kucera, and M. Schulz (2016), Assessing seasonal biases in paleoceanographic reconstructions from the northern North Atlantic using an ecosystem modeling approach (Poster), International Conference on Paleoceanography, 29.08.-02.09.2016, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Kretschmer, K., M. Kucera, and M. Schulz (2016), A modeling approach to investigate the sensitivity of plankton phenology to global change since the Last Glacial Maximum (Talk), Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016, 21.-26.02.2016, New Orleans, U.S.A.
Kretschmer, K., M. Kucera, and M. Schulz (2014), Assessing seasonal biases in paleoceanographic reconstructions by modeling the habitat of planktonic foraminifera in the North Atlantic Ocean during the last glacial period (Poster), Arctic Change 2014 Conference, 08.-12.12.2014, Ottawa, Canada.
Kretschmer, K., M. Kucera, and M. Schulz (2014), Modeling the effect of meltwater on the habitat of Arctic planktonic foraminifera (Poster), 5th Early Career Scientists Conference, 21.-24.09.2014, Bremen, Germany.

2016	ICP12 Poster Award (sponsored by Nature Geoscience)
2018	MARUM Research Award for Marine Science

Tropical Atlantic: M81/1 (RV "Meteor"), 03.02.2010 - 09.03.2010, Las Palmas (Spain) - Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago)
Svalbard, Arctic Ocean: POS419 (RV "Poseidon"), 09.08.2011 - 02.09.2011, Tromsø (Norway) - Trondheim (Norway)
Svalbard, Arctic Ocean: MSM21/4 (RV "Maria S. Merian"), 13.08.2012 - 11.09.2012, Reykjavik (Iceland) - Emden (Germany)
Tropical Pacific: M90 (RV "Meteor"), 28.10.2012 - 28.11.2012, Cristobal (Panama) - Callao (Peru)
Framstrait, Arctic Ocean: PS93.1 (RV "Polarstern"), 29.06.2015 - 18.07.2015, Longyearbyen (Svalbard, Norway) - Tromsø (Norway)