Dr. Christoph Waldmann

•Studies in Physics at University of Munich and Kiel
•1981 Degree in Physics
•1985 PhD in Physics at the University of Kiel
Ocean sensor systems, Equation of state of seawater
•1985-1989 Postdoc at the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Kiel including a one year stay at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
•1989-1992 Research Associate at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven
•1992-96 Research Associate at the University of Kiel
•Since 1996 at the Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (marum) in Bremen
•Academic year 2006- 2007 Visiting Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology

Projects

EC funded projects

2012 - 2014 TROPOS Modular Multi-use Deep Water Offshore Platform Harnessing and Servicing Mediterranean, Subtropical and Tropical Marine and Maritime Resources
2009 - 2013 SENSEnet International Sensor Development Network
2009 - 2012 HYPOX In Situ Monitoring of Oxygen Depletion Associated with Hypoxic Ecosystems of Coastal and Open Seas, and Land-Locked Water Bodies
2008 - 2012 PROVISG Planetary robotics vision ground processing
2008 - 2012 EMSO European multidisciplinary seafloor observatory
2007 - 2011 ESONET European Seas Observatory Network
2005 - 2009 CARBOOCEAN Marine carbon sources and sinks assessment
2005 - 2007 EXOCET/D EXtreme ecosystem studies in the deep OCEan: Technological Developments

National funded projects

2010 - 2012 Sino-German ocean bottom experiment network (BMBF)
2002 - 2005 MUCOM Mobile data communication in water (BMWi)
2002 - 2006 MOVE Development and construction of a remotely operated Mobile Vehicle for deep sea research (BMBF)

As external partner

2005 - 2008 A submerged upper-ocean multidisciplinary time series profiler (NSF)

Waldmann, C., BERGENTHAL, M. Results of a Moored Profiling Platform Test, SEATECHNOLOGY, Vol. 44, No.4, April 2003

Waldmann, C, Epping, E and The MOVE! Team (2003) Move! - a deep Ocean Underwater Robot for Bio-Geochemical Research, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, 2003

Pierre-Marie Sarradin, Jozée Sarrazin, Eberhard Sauter, Bruce Shillito, Christoph Waldmann,Karine Olu, Ana Colaço and the EXOCET/D consortium. EXtreme ecosystem studies in the deep OCEan:Technological Developments : EXOCET/D InterRidge News (2003) Vol 12 (2), p.11

Waldmann, C., Near Real Time Ocean Observatory Design, The Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol1, 2004

Waldmann, C., Richter, L., Performance of metallic wheels for underwater vehicle propulsion EGU First General Assembly, Nice, France, 2004

Waldmann, C., Near real time communication through acoustic transmission and buoy relay ESONET 2nd Science meeting, OCEANOLOGY, London, 2004

Richter, L., Bergenthal, M.,Grzesik, A.,Kirchner, F., Spenneberg, D., C. Waldmann,C.,
Cooperative Mobile Systems for Ocean Floors, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 08496, 2005, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU05-A-08496, 2005

Spenneberg, D.,Waldmann C., Babb, R. Exploration of underwater structures with cooperative heterogeneous robots, Oceans 2005 – Europe, Brest, 20-23 June 2005, Volume: 2, On page(s): 782- 786 Vol. 2, ISBN: 0-7803-9103-9, 2005

Waldmann, C., Diepenbroek, M., Visser, U., Schindler, U., Semantic Infrastructure for Marine Geosensor Networks, Geosensornetzwerke, GI-Tage, Münster, 22-24. Juni 2005

L. Richter, M. Bergenthal, A. Grzesik , F. Kirchner , D. Spenneberg , C. Waldmann, Cooperative Mobile Systems for Ocean Floors, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 08496, 2005, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU05-A-08496, 2005

Nikolovska, A.; Waldmann, C., Passive acoustic quantification of underwater gas seepage, OCEANS 2006, Boston, Sep 18-21, 2006, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/OCEANS.2006.306926

Bergenthal, M.; Waldmann, C.; Renken, J.; Duessmann, R., MOVE! - An instrument carrier system for spatial observation and time series measurements, OCEANS 2006, , Boston, Sep 18-21, 2006

Waldmann, C:, Richter, L., Traction Properties of the Wheels of an Underwater Crawler on Different Soils, OCEANS 2007, Vancouver, Sep 29th -Oct 4th, 2007

Waldmann, C., Nikolovska, A., Acoustic Detection of Ice Cracking Events, PASSIVE 08 conference, Hyeres, France, Oct 14-17,2008

Ingrid Puillat, Roland Person, Claude Leveque, Jean-François Drogou, Michael Diepenbroek, Pierre Garreau, Christoph Waldmann and Yves Auffret, Standardization prospective in ESONET NoE and a possible implementation on the ANTARES Site, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, April 2009, Volume 602, Issue 1, Pages 240-245, 2009

WALDMANN, C., Localising and mapping of gas seepage from the seafloor, Advances in Seafloor-Mapping Sonar, Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France, November 30th - December 1st, 2009

William Burnett, Richard Crout, Mark Bushnell, Julie Thomas, Janet Fredricks, Julie Bosch, Christoph Waldmann, "Quality Assurance of Real-Time Ocean Data: Evolving Infrastructure and Increasing Data Management to Monitor the World's Environment" in Proceedings of OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society (Vol. 2), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison, D.E. & Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, doi:10.5270/OceanObs09.cwp.12, 2010

WALDMANN, C. et al. Assessment of sensor performance, Ocean Sci., 6, 235–245, 2010, http://www.ocean-sci.net/6/235/2010/os-6-235-2010.pdf

Ruhl, Henry A., André, Michel, Beranzoli, Laura, Çağatay, M. Namik, Colaço, Ana, Cannat, Mathilde, Dañobeitia, Juanjo J., Favali, Paolo, Géli, Louis, Gillooly, Michael, Greinert, Jens, Hall, Per O.J., Huber, Robert, Karstensen, Johannes, Lampitt, Richard S., Larkin, Kate E., Lykousis, Vasilios, Mienert, Jürgen, Miguel Miranda, J., Person, Roland, Priede, Imants G., Puillat, Ingrid, Thomsen, Laurenz and Waldmann, Christoph (2011) Societal need for improved understanding of climate change, anthropogenic impacts, and geo-hazard warning drive development of ocean observatories in European Seas. Progress In Oceanography, 91, (1), 1-33. (doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2011.05.001)

Uwe Send, George Fowler, Greg Siddall, Brian Beanlands, Merle Pittman, Christoph Waldmann, Johannes Karstensen, and Richard Lampitt, SeaCycler: A moored open-ocean profiling system for the upper ocean in extended self-contained deployments, submitted to Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, August 2011