Astrid Hoogstraten	ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   Postal address: P.O. Box 59, NL-1790 AB Den Burg (Texel) The Netherlands   Visiting address: Landsdiep 4 NL-1797 SZ ’t Horntje (Texel) The Netherlands   Phone: (+31) (0)222-369300 Fax: (+31) (0)222-319674
Dept. BIO E-mail: Astrid.Hoogstraten@nioz.nl Phone: (+31) (0)222-369489

 

Education
2002-2007	Masters degree in Marine Biology, University of Groningen

 

Project

In November 2007 I started my PhD study at Royal NIOZ, within the department of Biological Oceanography. My project is part of a high profile biological and oceanographic study of the effects of climate change on the oceans. The goal of this research is to study the effects of trace metal limitation (iron and zinc), light availability and the effects of different CO2 concentrations on the algae. The emphasis of this project will be placed on Antarctic micro-algal species, such as Proboscia alata and Chaetoceros brevis, but temperate or sub-polar species, such as Emiliania huxleyi and Proboscia indica, will also be studied. My experimental work consists of culturing the algae in semi-continuous cultures, but also and mainly monitoring the experimental conditions. In order to monitor the cultures samples will be taken and processed in order to be analyzed later in time.

 

Fieldwork and Seagoing research Experience
2005	Research cruise to the Rockall Trough. Cold water corals and sponges. RV Pelagia, Royal NIOZ, Texel, the Netherlands (5 weeks).
2006	Fieldwork at Curacao (3.5 months).
2007	Research cruise North-East Atlantic. Netherlands-Greenland-Ireland. Total DIC and alkalinity measurements. RV Pelagia, Royal NIOZ, Texel, the Netherlands (4 weeks).

 

Meetings and Workshops
2007	The Ocean in a High CO2 world. Groningen, the Netherlands.
2008	EPOCA kick-off meeting, Nice, France.
2009	Workshop on Carbonate Chemistry, Bergen, Norway.

 

Publications

Fleur C. van Duyl, Jan Hegeman, Astrid Hoogstraten and Conny Maier (2008). Dissolved carbon fixation by sponge-microbe consortia of deep water coral mounds in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series (53) 137-150.