Dr. Birgit Kleinschmidt

Contact

+49 641 99 12716

+49 641 99 12709

Birgit.Kleinschmidt@bio.uni-giessen.de

Scientific Career
Since 01/2020	Research Assistant at ZEU, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen
2019 - 2020	Scientific employee at BioConsult SH GmbH & Co.KG, Environmental Consultancy
2015 - 2019	Research assistant, Working group "Behavioural ecology and ecophysiology" at Dep. Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University
2013 - 2016	Scientific employee at BioConsult SH GmbH & Co.KG, Environmental Consultancy
2012 - 2013	Scientific employee at OECOS GmbH, Environmental Consultancy
2006 - 2011/ 2000 - 2001	Animal keeper, environmental education at Wildpark Lüneburger Heide

Academic Education & Teaching
06/2015 - 10/2022	Ph.D. student, supervised by Prof. Dr. P. Quillfeldt Thesis: “Seasonal distribution, movement patterns and diet selection of red-throated divers (Gavia stellata) captured within an important wintering habitat, the German Bight“
12/2016	Bioinformatic Training to analyse sequencing data (NGS) within the research project DIVER, University of Sheffield, NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (UK)
06/2016 - 11/2016	Training "Diet analysis based on molecular tools, barcoding and Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)", Cardiff University, School of Biosciences (UK)
07/2015	Animal Movement Analysis course (2EC), University of Amsterdam (Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosytem Dynamics)
2003 - 2011	MSc. Biology, University of Hamburg

Further Information
Affiliation	Member of ZEU \| Doctoral Candidate \| Research Assistant
Focus Area	Climate & Environmental Change
Fields of Interest	Telemetry of Birds, Animal Care, Environmental Education
Project Involvement	DIVER – Satellite telemetry of Divers (Gaviidae)
Publications	Heinänen S., Žydelis, R., Kleinschmidt B., Dorsch M., Burger C., Morkūnas J., Quillfeldt P. & Nehls, G. (2020). Satellite telemetry and digital aerial surveys show strong displacement of red-throated divers (Gavia stellata) from offshore wind farms. Marine Environmental Research, 104989. Kleinschmidt, B., Burger, C., Dorsch, M., Nehls, G., Heinänen, S., Morkūnas, J., Žydelis, R., Moorhouse-Gann, R.J., Hipperson, H., Symondson, W.O.C., & Quillfeldt, P. 2019. The diet of red-throated divers (Gavia stellata) overwintering in the German Bight (North Sea) analysed using molecular diagnostics. Marine Biology 2019 166:77. Burger, C., Schubert, A., Heinänen, S., Dorsch, M., Kleinschmidt, B., Žydelis, R., & Nehls, G. (2019). A novel approach for assessing effects of ship traffic on distributions and movements of seabirds. Journal of Environmental Management, 251, 109511. Kleinschmidt, B., & Kölsch, G. (2011). Adopting bacteria in order to adapt to water—how reed beetles colonized the wetlands (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae). Insects 2: 540–554.
Selected Presentations	Kleinschmidt, B., Dorsch, M., Žydelis, R., Heinänen, S., Morkūnas, J., Burger, C., Nehls, G. & Quillfeldt, P. 2017. From efefcts to impacts: Analysing displacement of red-throated Divers in relation to their wintering home ranges. LPO Actes du Seminaire Eolien et Biodiversite – Artigues – pres – Bordeux. Kleinschmidt, B., Dorsch, M., Žydelis, R., Heinänen, S., Morkūnas, J., Burger, C., Nehls, G., Moorhouse-Gann R., Symondsen W.O. & Quillfeldt, P. 2017. Untersuchung des Beutespektrum von auf der Nordsee überwinternden Sterntauchern (Gavia stellata) mit Hilfe molekularbiologischer Methoden. Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft - Jahresversammlung 2017 Halle (Saale).