Kerstin Kröger

PeerJ Editor

Summary

Dr. Kerstin Kröger is MPA Management Adviser at the Join Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) in Aberdeen, UK. She obtained her M.Sc from CAU University Kiel and PhD from VIC Wellington, NZ in 2004.

Dr. Kröger is a deep-sea ecologist with a special interest in benthic biodiversity and communities, the effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances and pressures on such communities and their recovery trajectories. Furthermore, she is interested in management of the marine environment, in particular of offshore MPAs in national waters and the High Seas. In addition to this Dr. Kröger is involved in developing management measures for deep-sea mining.

Biological Oceanography Climate Change Biology Ecosystem Science Environmental Impacts Legal Issues Marine Biology Natural Resource Management Science Policy

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Research Fellow

Queen's University Belfast

School of Biological Sciences

I work on the EU Horizon Project TRIDENT (see above URL) as part of WP2. I am interested in the legal landscape of deep-sea mining on international and regional scales whereby I see myself in a translatory and advisory role at the interface of science, policy advice and legal advice.

MPA Management Adviser

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

February 2015

Marine Management Team

My main interest is on developing ways to design and efficiently manage MPAs; especially those MPAs that have industry activities within their limits. I have a special interest in deep-sea ecology and how to manage deep-sea resources in such a way that, if we must exploit such resources, we at least exploit them at an ecologically aceptable level. Which leads to the next question: what is an ecologically acceptable level of anthropogenic impact taking into consideration cumulative impacts from different pressure sources on the same communities? I also am interested in the factors structuring deep-sea benthic communities, natural and anthropogenic impacts on such communities and their recovery trajectories.