Dr. Nicolas Dittert

Head of the MARUM administration: Management daily operations: Personnel and financial management. Reporting directly to the Board of Directors.

Providing EU-proposal advice, -project administration, -legal and financial support.

Since May 01, 2008 UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN, Bremen, Germany. Head of Administration (CAO) with MARUM (Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences).

Nov 01, 2003 - April 30, 2008 UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN, Bremen, Germany. Scientific management, information management, data management with the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences WDC-MARE; Assistant Director of IMAGES (The International Marine Past Global Changes Study).

Sep 01, 1998 - Nov 30, 2004 UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN BRITTANY, Plouzané, France. Project leader IUEM, scientific data and project management on ORFOIS (EC RTD EVK2-2001-00100), CMTT (Continental Margins Task Team), SINOPS (MAS3-CT97-0141).

May 01, 1993 - Dec 14, 1994 PROF. MULL & PARTNER COMPANY, Garbsen, Germany. Scientific and technical advice, planning, developing, and realization of a national environmental protection information system (INSA).

Aug 01, 1983 - Aug 05, 1984 RESIDENCE STETTEN FOR PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY DISABLED ADULTS, Hangweide, Kernen/Remstal, Germany.

Dr. rer. nat. (cf. Ph.D.), 1998, University of Bremen, Germany: Late Quaternary planktic foraminifera assemblages in the South Atlantic Ocean: Quantitative determination and preservational aspects
Duties included preparation and participation in scientific campaigns.

Diplom (cf. M.Sc.), 1993, University of Hannover, Germany: Petrography and facies evolution of the Neogene sediments on the outskirts of Aledo (Lorca-Basin, Province of Murcia, SE-Spain).

Classical Hebrew; Attic Greek, 1985, Language School of the established Protestant Church, Stuttgart, Germany.

Abitur (cf. A-level), 1983, Freihof-Gymnasium, Göppingen, Germany.

Elementary school, 1970 - 1974 Grundschule Ursenwang, Germany.

2011 Training “Personnel Selection”, “Leadership”
2011 Training “Conflict Management”
2008 - 2009 President of the LIONS CLUB Bremen Roland.
2009 Training “Implementation of EU FP7 projects”
2009 Training “Accounting”
2008 Training “EU Workshop”
2006 Certificate (“Gründungsbrief”) for advanced vocational training to bridge science-to-economy co-operation covering Legal Issues, Time Management, Corporate Identity, Personnel Management, Financial Management, Setting up Self-Employed Business Activities, Accountancy.
2005 Training “Financial management of EU projects”
2004 - 2007 Executive/Vice-President of the “French-German Intercultural School” Association (VIS e.V.).
2001 - 2002 Freelance writer for Thompson Gale™ (World of Earth Sci-ences, World of Forensic Sciences).
1980 Driving licenses (clean) A, A1, B, BE, C1, C1E, CE, M, L, T/S.

1985 - 1986 Flottendienstgeschwader, Eckernförde/Flensburg, Germany.

2003 R/V Côtes de la Manche, Brest - Brest.
1997 R/V Poseidon 228, Kiel - Kristiansund.
1997 R/V Meteor 38, Las Palmas - Recife.
1996 R/V Meteor 34, Walvis Bay - Recife.
1995 R/V Sonne 102, Valparaiso - Valparaiso.

• Ragueneau O, Moriceau B, Pondaven P, Dittert N (2011) A revised estimate of particulate organic carbon flux to the deep ocean: controlling mechanisms and implications for the carbon cycle. Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems. In press.
• Dittert N, Diepenbroek M, Grobe H (2010) Information and data management for the CMTT synthesis. In: Liu KK, Atkinson L, Quinones R, Talaue-McManus L (eds.): Carbon and nu-trient fluxes in continental margins. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: 617-620.
• Ragueneau O, Conley DJ, DeMaster DJ, Dürr HH, Dittert N (2010) Biogeochemical trans-formations of Silicon along the Land-Ocean Continuum and implications for the global carbon cycle. In: Liu KK, Atkinson L, Quinones R, Talaue-McManus L (eds.): Carbon and nutrient fluxes in continental margins. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: 515-527.
• Dittert N, Anderson D M, Grobe H (2008) What can data tell us about past climate that is useful for the future? – Data management in paleoclimatology. PAGES News, 16(2): 30-31.
• Dittert N, Schneider R (2008) IMAGES (International Marine Past Global Change Study). PAGES News 16(1): 8.
• Pesant S, Diepenbroek M, Huber R, Dittert N, Schindler U (2008). EUR-OCEANS DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN Tools & Services for meta-analysis in Ocean Science, Interna-tional conference on marine data and information systems IMDIS 2008, 31 March-2 April 2008.
• Dittert N, Diepenbroek M, Grobe H (2007) Toward a networked publication and library sys-tem for scientific data – World Data Center Conference 2007, Bremerhaven, Germany, 7-9 May 2007. EOS, Transactions, AGU, 88(48): 524.
• Grobe H, Diepenbroek M, Schindler U, Reinke M, Dittert N (2007). Data publishing in Earth System Research (with Pangaea), International Conference of World Data Centers, MA-RUM/AWI, Bremen/Bremerhaven, 7-9 May 2007.
• Grobe H, Diepenbroek M, Dittert N, Reinke M, Sieger R (2006) Archiving and distributing earth-science data with the PANGAEA information system, Antarctica: contributions to global earth sciences. In: Fütterer D et al. (eds) Proceedings of the IX International Sym-posium of Antarctic Earth Sciences Potsdam. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York: 403-406.
• Grobe H, Diepenbroek M, Dittert N, Schindler U, Sieger R (2006) PANGAEA - Open Access library for georeferenced data, GEBOC Bathymetric Science Day 2006, June 15th, Bremerhaven, Germany.
• Reinke M, Sieger R, Grobe H, Diepenbroek M, Dittert N, Schindler U(2006).Lessons learned from the data management of large scientific projects, XXIX SCAR Meeting with Open Science Conference, 8 - 19 July 2006, Hobart, Tasmania.
• Dittert N, Bakker D, Bendtsen J, Corrin L, Gehlen M, Heinze C, Maier-Reimer E, Michalopoulos P, Soetaert KER, Tol RJS.(2005). Integrated Data Sets of the EU FP5 Re-search Project ORFOIS: Origin and fate of biogenic particle fluxes in the ocean and their interactions with atmospheric CO2 concentrations as well as the marine sediment (Vol. 1), WDC-MARE Reports 2, 50 pp, incl. CD-ROM.
• Heinze C, Dittert N (2005) Impact of paleo circulations on the silicon redistribution in the world ocean. Marine Geology 214 (1-3): 201-213.
• Rageneau O, Moriceau B, Gallinari M, Passow U, Dittert N (2005) Diatoms and carbon fluxes to the ocean interior, ASLO Summer meeting 2006, Santiago de Compostella, Spain.
• Bakker DCE, Dittert N, Kozyr A, Watson AJ (2004) Towards better access to and safe keep-ing of oceanic CO2 and carbon data: data collection for the CDIAC and WDC-MARE da-tabases in ORFOIS. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 6, 01573, 2004, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU04-A-01573.
• Fischer G, Wefer G, Romero O, Dittert N, Ratmeyer V, Donner B (2004) Transfer of parti-cles into the deep Atlantic and the global Ocean: Control of nutrient supply and ballast production. In: Wefer G, Mulitza S, Ratmeyer V (eds) The South Atlantic in the late Qua-ternary. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York: 21-46.
• Grobe H, Diepenbroek M, Dittert N, Reinke M, Sieger R (2004) PANGAEA - Longterm-archive and Library for Multidisciplinary Data from Antarctic Research, XXVIII SCAR Open Science Conference, 25-31 July, Bremen, Germany.
• Grobe H, Diepenbroek M, Dittert N, Reinke M, Sieger R (2004) PANGAEA - An Information System for Earth Science Data, GeoLeipzig 2004, Geowissenschaften sichern Zukunft, 29.9.-1.10.2004, Tagung der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft.
• Grobe H, Reinke M, Schlitzer R, Sieger R, Diepenbroek M, Dittert N, Wefer G (2004) PAN-GAEA - an Information System for Geosciences, XXVIII SCAR Open Science Confer-ence, 25-31 July 2004, Bremen, Germany.
• Dittert N, Grobe H (2003) PANGAEA: Eine Datenbibliothek für Geowissenschaften und Um-weltforschung. geoscience online (scinexx). December 03, 2003: http://www.g-o.de/index.php?cmd=aws_basics&id=146
• Dittert N, Diepenbroek M, Huber R (2003) World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences provides lessons in marine Geosciences data management. EOS, Transac-tions, AGU, 84(16): 149.
• Heinze C, Hupe A, Maier-Reimer E, Dittert N, Ragueneau O (2003) Sensitivity of the marine biospheric Si cycle for biogeochemical parameter variations. Global Biogeochemical Cy-cles 17(3), 1086, doi:10.1029/2002GB001943.
• Tréguer P, Legendre L, Rivkin RT, Ragueneau O, Dittert N (2003) Water column biogeo-chemistry below the euphotic zone. In: Fasham MJR (Ed.) Ocean biogeochemistry: a syn-thesis of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS): 145-156.
• Dittert N (2002) Carbonate Compensation Depth (CCD). In: Lerner KL, Lerner BW (eds.) World of Earth Science. Detroit, Thomson-Gale Group.
• Dittert N (2002) Calcareous ooze. In: Lerner KL, Lerner BW (eds.) World of Earth Science. Detroit, Thomson-Gale Group.
• Dittert N (2002) International Council of Scientific Unions’ World Data Center system. In: Lerner KL, Lerner BW (eds.) World of Earth Science. Detroit, Thomson-Gale Group.
• Dittert N (2002) Scientific data management in Earth sciences. In: Lerner KL, Lerner BW (eds.) World of Earth Science. Detroit, Thomson-Gale Group.
• Dittert N, Diepenbroek M, Grobe H, Schlitzer R, Sieger R, Wefer G (2002) WDC-MARE / PANGAEA: a convenient RDBMS partner with MARGINS ? MARGINS Newsletter 9: 16-21.
• Dittert N, Corrin L, Diepenbroek M, Grobe, H, Heinze C, Ragueneau O (2002) Managing (pale-) oceanographic data sets using the PANGAEA information system: The SINOPS example. Computers & Geosciences 28(7): 789-798, doi:10.1016/S0098-3004(01)00112-1.
• Dittert N, Diepenbroek M, Grobe H (2002) Archiving, publishing and distributing of data sets from Global Change research using a scientific information system (PANGAEA) and a data center (WDC-MARE) that both are available online. EOS, Transactions, AGU, 83(4): 333.
• Ragueneau O, Dittert N, Pondaven P, Tréguer P, Corrin L (2002) Si/C decoupling in the world ocean: is the Southern Ocean different? Deep-Sea Research II 49(16):3127-3154.
• Ragueneau O, Dittert N, Heinze C, Corrin, L (2002) Improving biogenic silica as a paleopro-ductivity proxy: a global study of Si and C decoupling in the World Ocean. EOS, Transac-tions, AGU, 83(4): 122.
• Dittert N, Diepenbroek M, Grobe H (2001) Scientific data must be made available to all. Na-ture 414(6862): 393.
• Dittert N, Ragueneau O, Heinze C, Leynaert, A (2001) Hunting and gathering silicon data to tackle climate forecasting. EOS, Transactions, AGU, 82(9): 113-117.
• Dittert N, Henrich R (2000) Carbonate dissolution in the South Atlantic Ocean: Evidence by Globigerina bulloides ultrastructure breakdown. Deep-Sea Research I, 41: 1733-1743.
• Heinze C, Dittert N, Hupe A, Ragueneau O (2000) Combination of modelling and observa-tions for the quantitative use of marine opal sediment as paleoclimate tracer. EOS, Tran-sactions, AGU, 81(48): OS62E-11.
• Dittert N, Baumann K-H, Bickert T, Henrich R, Huber R, Kinkel H, Meggers H (1999) Carbo-nate dissolution in the deep-sea: Methods, quantification and paleoceanographic applica-tion. In: Fischer G, Wefer G (eds), Use of proxies in paleoceanography: Examples from the South Atlantic. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: 255-284.
• Dittert, N (1998) Late Quaternary planktic foraminifera assemblages in the South Atlantic Ocean: Quantitative determination and preservational aspects. Berichte FB Geowiss. Uni Bremen, 126: 165 pp.
• Dittert N, Schrader S, Skowronek A, Wrobel F, Michalzik D (1994) Sedimentationszyklen im Messinium des Lorca-Beckens (SE-Spanien). Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I 7-8:841-851.
• Wrobel F, Dittert N, Mauthe F, Michalzik D, Schrader S, Skowronek A (1993) Obermiozäne Sedimentationszyklen im "pull apart"-Becken von Lorca (SE Spanien, Prov. Murcia). - Geologica et Palaeontologica 27:320-321.