Personal details

Dr. Ulf Mehlig
e-mail webmaster @ ulf-mehlig.de

Academic qualifications

2001 Doctor rer. nat. (Doctor of natural sciences)
Bremen University, Germany
Dissertation: Aspects of tree primary production in an equatorial mangrove forest in Brazil
1996 Diplom (=Master of Science)
Göttingen University, Germany
Dissertation: Gaswechsel ausgewählter Wasserpflanzen (Gas exchange of selected aquatic macrophytes; in German)

Employment history and research activities

2009- Lecturer (“Professor adjunto”) for angiosperm diversity at the Federal University of Pará, campus Bragança.
2007-2009 CNPq/CT-Amazônia fellowship, Federal University of Pará (UFPA) (project “Analysis of the coastal vegetation of the Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractivist Reserve, Bragança, Pará, Brazil − uses and risks”).
2006 Preparation of manuscripts and proposals for research projects, among others:
  • Análise da vegetação costeira na Reserva Extrativista Marinha Caeté-Taperaçu, Bragança-Pará − usos e riscos (Analysis of the coastal vegetation of the Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractivist Reserve, Bragança, Pará, Brazil − uses and risks). Accepted in July 2006 by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) after call for proposals CT-Amazônia 006-2006, start: March 2007.
2001-2005 Research scientist at the Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany
  • coordinator of the ZMT field station Bragança, Pará, Brazil
  • research on mangrove tree production, phenology and ecophysiology; mangrove succession; remote sensing; floristics of coastal region
  • setup of a herbarium at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Campus Bragança
  • training and supervising graduate and MSc students of UFPA and Bremen University/ISATEC
  • lecturing in UFPA university courses at Campus Bragança: plant anatomy and morphology; plant ecophysiology; taxonomy, field excursions
1999-2001 Computer network administrator at the Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen,Germany
1996-1999 Research scientist/doctorate student at the Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany
1987-1989 Community service, State Agency for Nature Conservation (Fachbehörde für Naturschutz Niedersachsen), Hannover, Germany

Education

1996-2001 Bremen University, Germany
doctorate student; degree: magna cum laude
1991-1996 Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
Diplom (=Master of Science), degree: excellent
1989-1991 Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
biology

Additional skills

Languages
  • German: native speaker
  • English: fluent
  • Portuguese: fluent
  • Spanish: working knowledge
Information technology
  • network management
  • database management, SQL (PostgreSQL)
  • Unix/Linux
  • programming (C, Python, Perl)
  • GIS (grass, ArcView)
  • statistics (GNU R)
Diving licenses
  • German research diver licence
  • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
  • VDST/CMAS

Personal interests

music (playing violin, viola, guitar); literature (reading, theater); sports (diving, underwater rugby, hiking); nature and underwater photography