| Research Station | Station de Recherche | Forschungsstation |
Petite Camargue Alsacienne
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Dr. Heinz Durrer, Professor emeritus Studies of Biology in Basel, Switzerland. Ph.D. in 1965 supervised by Prof. Dr. A. Portmann. Habilitation in 1975 at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel, Professor for Medical Biology until 2001. Starting in 1989, established the Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne and conducted extensive habitat management. Supervision of diploma theses and Ph.D. theses mainly on amphibians, mammals, insects and birds, as well as on conservation management. |
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Dr. Valentin Amrhein, director of the Research Station Studies of Biology in Basel, Switzerland. Diploma thesis in 1999 supervised by Prof. Dr. Heinz Durrer and Prof. Dr. Stephen C. Stearns. Initiated the nightingale project in 1997, and is director of the Research Station since 1999. Ph.D. exam in February 2004. In 2005, spent a postdoctoral research year at the University of Oslo, Norway. Since 2006, Valentin is associated with the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Basel as a group leader. He teaches Ornithology, Behavioural Ecology and Statistics, and is consulting editor for Animal Behaviour. His main research interest is the behavioural ecology of vertebrates. |
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Tobias Roth, Ph.D. student Studies of Biology in Basel (Switzerland) and Bergen (Norway). Diploma thesis 2004 at the Swiss Ornithological Institute, on the phenology of migrating birds in Mauritania, Western Africa, supervised by Prof. Dr. Bruno Bruderer and Dr. Felix Liechti. From 2005 to 2007, Tobias studied applied statistics at the ETH Zürich. He is half-time employed as a research assistant at Hintermann & Weber AG. For his Ph.D., he investigates the causes and consequences of male-biased adult sex ratios in songbirds, and particularly in nightingales. Supervised by Dr. Valentin Amrhein and Prof. Dr. Dieter Ebert. |
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Philipp Sprau, Ph.D. student |
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Katja Saggese, Master student Studies the effects of winter feeding on territory defence in Norwegian great tits (Parus major). Supervised by Dr. Valentin Amrhein, Prof. Dr. Tore Slagsvold and Prof. Dr. Dieter Ebert. |
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Claudio Kugler, Master student Studies dawn singing performance as a predictor of competitiveness in nightingales. Supervised by Dr. Valentin Amrhein and Prof. Dr. Dieter Ebert. |
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Florian Neumann, Master student Studies the effect of human disturbances on brown hares Lepus europaeus. Supervised by Dr. Valentin Amrhein, Dr. Darius Weber and Prof. Dr. Dieter Ebert. |
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Prof. Dr. Marc Naguib Studies of Biology in Freiburg and Berlin, Germany. Diploma thesis 1991, Ph.D. thesis 1995 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, supervised by Prof. Dr. R. Haven Wiley. Habilitation 2002 at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. From 2000 to 2007, Marc was at the University Bielefeld, Germany. Since January 2008, he is at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in Heteren, Netherlands. Marc is specialized in animal communication, sexual selection and life history strategies and works during the field season at the Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne since 2001. |
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Dr. Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt & Dr. Pius Korner Studies of Biology at the Universities of Basel (Pius) and Zürich (Fränzi). From 2001 to 2003, studies of applied statistics at the ETH Zürich. Pius and Fränzi work in a nature reserve designed for environmental and outdoor biological education and offer biostatistical analysis and consulting. They help at the Research Station on a regular basis. |
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2006-2008
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M.Sc. Sabine Lerch |
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2004-2007
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Dr. Rouven Schmidt |
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2006-2007
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M.Sc. Frances McStea |
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2006
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M.Sc. Béatrice Sauzeau |
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2005-2006
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M.Sc. Fleur Daugey |
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2004-2006
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M.Sc. Nathaline Erne |
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2003-2005
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Dipl. Biol. Silke Huber |
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2002-2004
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Dipl. Biol. Christopher Herhausen |
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2002-2003
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Dipl. Biol. Birgit Benzing |
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2001-2005
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Dr. Hansjörg Kunc |
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Our research highly depends on the work of field assistants. Below is a list of the people who recently helped at the Research Station for one or two months per year. |
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1998 - 2007
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Martin Lutsch |
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2007
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Erica van Rooji Alexandra Wolf Sébastien Goumon Loïc Pillet |
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2006
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Kathryn Peiman Allan Hall Raoul Ribot |
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2005
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Raquel Robles Garcia Hendrika van Noordwijk |
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2004
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Stephanie Schmidlin Corinne Zurbrügg |
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2003
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Stephanie Michler Rouven Schmidt Anne Selbach Balázs Szelényi |
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2002
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Helene Altrichter Cas Eikenaar Gerd Kraus Marieke Weerheim |
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2001
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Miriam Brandt Claudio Tennie |
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2000
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Gernot Stephinger |
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1999
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Daniel Matti |