Dr. Tanja Stratmann

My reality: submitting the same travel reimbursement claim over 74.96 Euro 💶 for the third time and 🤞 that it's approved now. 2/2

Here is the misconception between what the public, funding agencies, and yourself believe a scientist does: Public: research to help saving our planet 🌍; Funding agencies: ground-breaking research & next Nature/ Science paper; 1/2

Hi Rachel, no, I only attended the DOSI workshop on Friday and Saturday and returned to Bremen 🇩🇪 on Sunday. I'm sitting in my office at MARUM right now.

This month, I started my #ERCStG group 'Benthic Ecological Biogeochemistry' at @marumunibremen.bsky.social that is financed by the @erc.europa.eu via my #SPYCLING project. Now, the first preprint of the group about C+N cycling & metabolic activity of 🧽 is published: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tomorrow I'm traveling to Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 for a #DOSI workshop on cummulative impacts. In the past, I would pack a 📖 to read, now I'm downloading and packing my MSc student's final report 📑 and my PhD student's (@itziarburgues.bsky.social) PhD thesis chapters 📑.

We‘re finalizing a joint publication at the moment (hopefully submitted by the end of the week) and my colleagues already discussed new ideas for an interdisciplinary project between material sciences and deep-sea sciences 😂😂. 2/2

I‘m collaborating with the Chair of Material Sciences (LWK) of the @unipaderborn.bsky.social and 2 of its members (Moritz Neuser, Malte Dreyer) visited me at @marumunibremen.bsky.social today. 1/2

With the new sign on my new office door 🚪, my #ERCStG group ‚Benthic Ecological Biogeochemistry‘ at @marumunibremen.bsky.social (part of @unibremen.bsky.social) has officially started 💪. The group is funded by the @erc.europa.eu via my project #SPYCLING.

Michelle (entomologist) & Tanja (deep-sea ecologist/biogeochemist) depict various abyssal forms and how these are threatened by deep-seabed mining. Working in 2 different media (i.e., pen & ink on paper vs. oil on canvas) and in 2 different artistic styles (scientific illustration vs. surrealism), they will embrace the beauty of deep-sea sponges. Two media. Two styles. One deep ocean story.

Meet Abyssal Forms 🌊

Two scientists turning research into art.
By day: biologists. By night: artists.

Read about this amazing team in the ALT-text 🤍

Follow @drtanjastratmann.bsky.social on her journey!

#ArtSeaMatchmaking #SciArt#ConservationThroughArt

I often use my sister with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering as a translator to understand technical staff and engineers of companies that build equipment for me. Now, she told me I would get a book with diagrams and graphics about engineering as a birthday present, so I don't need her anymore. 😅

Today I explained my MSc student a bit how appointment procedures for professorships work in different European countries and her conclusion was: "Academia is a big circus" 🎪. I replied that this was indeed what the PhD student with whom I shared an office during my PhD said about Academia 😅.

After being relatively efficient this morning, this afternoon is a nightmare. I'm correcting and revising a draft of my student's report and my laptop crashes almost every 5-10 min for the last 1.5 hours. I have even split the report in 2 parts, so that the laptop can better cope with it 😮‍💨.

As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover afterward A new series of research cruises will study rare abyssal species in areas slated for mining

My latest for @science.org—a major European effort to understand the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining begins this year. It aims to answer major open questions as the ISA finalizes regulations.

I have to give a lecture in German at a 🇩🇪 university in 2.5 weeks, so I had a funny conversation with colleagues: 3 German scientists living abroad for years tried to identify the most gender-inclusive German term for 'university students' that didn't exist when we all left the country years ago.

This reef is still flourishing 20 years after its original establishment. Never underestimate how long introduced species can survive with climate change. 4/4

Now, while searching for literature for the first publication based on my 2020 experiment, I've come across a paper from 2005 describing an experiment with Pacific oysters at intertidal sites at Yerseke in 2001. I think, I found the origin of the oyster reef behind the building of #NIOZ-Yerseke. 3/n

When I was a PhD student at #NIOZ-Yerseke, I was told that the oyster bed originated from a scientific experiment that introduced the oysters, but the scientists believed that the oysters wouldn't survive the winter in the #Oosterschelde. 2/n

In 2020 I conducted a seasonal experiment at the tidal flat behind #NIOZ-Yerseke 🇳🇱. Over the years, a small Pacific oyster 🦪bed/ reef was established which I used as experimental site for my metabolic activity studies of macrobenthos. 1/n

Today, I‘m presenting about #deepseamining and #polymetallicnodules at the Faculty of Engineering at @unipaderborn.bsky.social.

One of the questions is: Will I, or better the purchase department of @unibremen.bsky.social, manage to place an order for the first part of my (experimental) lab equipment before Christmas break or not 🤔. 2/2

Last week and this week, I'm traveling a lot for purchasing field and lab equipment for my new #ERCStG group #SPYCLING, which will also benefit my current project, and to present my research on #deepseamining at @unipaderborn.bsky.social 🇩🇪 tomorrow (busy preparing the talk right now). 1/2

Today I exchanged my office in the North of 🇳🇱 with one in the South of 🇳🇱, as I‘m burrowing some equipment and discuss a new cooperation.

Thursday, 18 December, I'm presenting my research about polymetallic nodules and #DeepSeaMining in general at the Faculty of Engineering of @unipaderborn.bsky.social 🇩🇪: mb.uni-paderborn.de/werkstoffkun...

Why do we see so few squid in the abyss? Because they hide from us, pretending to be sponges!🦑 New paper by @alemejiasaenz.bsky.social captures a potential new whiplash-squid species that burrows between nodules at the #CCZ, world's largest region targeted for #deepseamining doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Besides "Christmas shopping", setting up my own lab also means visiting several companies over the next 2 weeks that might build different parts of my lab & field equipment, and analytical instruments. So, I have to work on my current project in the evening/ night 🫠. #NewPI

Setting up your own lab (while still working on other projects in parallel) is like Christmas shopping on a 'grand scale'. Today it's all about O2 sensors (until other duties call again). #NewPI #ERCStG

After 5 years of sample collection and analysis our paper examining the impacts of an industrial #DeepSea mining trial on seafloor #biodiversity is published! Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yesterday, I visited the Department of Earth Sciences at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social in #Amsterdam 🇳🇱 to give a talk as part of the BETA Lectures Earth Sciences. Thanks 🙏 to @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social for organizing the Theme 1 seminar series.

I managed to prepare the title slide before I have the first meeting of today.