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Catriona Clemmesen is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with an emphasis on the marine environment, intersecting several subfields such as global and planetary change, oceanography, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and pollution.

Their work covers various main topics including marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, ocean acidification effects and responses, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine animal studies overview, and microplastics and plastic pollution.

They have contributed to the scientific community through numerous publications in frequent venues such as Frontiers in Marine Science, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), The Science of The Total Environment, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, and the Journal of Experimental Biology.

Some of the recent papers authored by or involving Catriona Clemmesen include:

  • Factors influencing the spatial and temporal distribution of microplastics at the sea surface - A year-long monitoring case study from the urban Kiel Fjord, southwest Baltic Sea (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Caught in the middle: bottom-up and top-down processes impacting recruitment in a small pelagic fish (2022), published in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
  • Differential gene expression patterns related to lipid metabolism in response to ocean acidification in larvae and juveniles of Atlantic cod (2020), published in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • Pilot study to investigate the effect of long-term exposure to high pCO2 on adult cod (Gadus morhua) otolith morphology and calcium carbonate deposition (2021), published in Fish Physiology and Biochemistry
  • Juvenile Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) use a time-compensated sun compass for orientation (2022), published in Journal of Experimental Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Catriona Clemmesen include:

  • Felix Mittermayer (8 publications)
  • Andreas Lehmann (5 publications)
  • Nicolas C. Ory (4 publications)
  • Joachim Paul Gröger (4 publications)
  • Thorsten B. H. Reusch (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Severe tissue damage in Atlantic cod larvae under increasing ocean acidification

    Andrea Y. Frommel;Rommel Maneja;Rommel Maneja;David Lowe;Arne M. Malzahn

  • The effect of food availability, age or size on the RNA/DNA ratio of individually measured herring larvae: laboratory calibration

    Catriona Clemmesen

  • Effect of ocean acidification on early life stages of Atlantic herring ( Clupea harengus L.)

    Andrea Franke;Catriona Clemmesen

  • Nutrient limitation of primary producers affects planktivorous fish condition

    Arne Michael Malzahn;Nicole Aberle;Nicole Aberle;Catriona Clemmesen;Maarten Boersma

  • Improvements in the fluorimetric determination of the RNA and DNA content of individual marine fish larvae

    Catriona Clemmesen

  • Laboratory studies on RNA/DNA ratios of starved and fed herring (Clupea harengus) and turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) larvae

    Catriona M. Clemmesen

  • Ocean acidification effects on Atlantic cod larval survival and recruitment to the fished population.

    Martina H. Stiasny;Martina H. Stiasny;Felix H. Mittermayer;Michael Sswat;Rüdiger Voss

  • Intercalibration of four spectrofluorometric protocols for measuring RNA/DNA ratios in larval and juvenile fish

    Elaine M. Caldarone;Catriona M. Clemmesen;Elisa Berdalet;Thomas J. Miller

  • Egg and early larval stages of Baltic cod, Gadus morhua, are robust to high levels of ocean acidification

    Andrea Y. Frommel;Alexander Schubert;Uwe Piatkowski;Catriona Clemmesen

  • A RNA and DNA fluorescence technique to evaluate the nutritional condition of individual marine fish larvae

    C. M. Clemmesen

  • Organ damage in Atlantic herring larvae as a result of ocean acidification

    Andrea Y. Frommel;Rommel Maneja;David Lowe;Christine K. Pascoe

  • Multi-species larval fish growth model based on temperature and fluorometrically derived RNA/DNA ratios: results from a meta-analysis

    L.J. Buckley;E.M. Caldarone;Catriona Clemmesen

  • Within- and transgenerational effects of ocean acidification on life history of marine three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

    Franziska M. Schade;Catriona Clemmesen;K. Mathias Wegner

  • Diatom production in the marine environment: implications for larval fish growth and condition

    M. A. St. John;C. Clemmesen;T. Lund;T. Köster

  • The swimming kinematics of larval Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua L., are resilient to elevated seawater pCO2

    Rommel H Maneja;Andrea Y Frommel;Howard I Browman;Catriona Clemmesen

  • Temperature effects on growth and nucleic acids in laboratory-reared larval coregonid fish

    Arne Malzahn;Catriona Clemmesen;Harald Rosenthal

  • Does otolith structure reflect the nutritional condition of a fish larva? Comparison of otolith structure and biochemical index (RNA/DNA ratio) determined on cod larvae

    Catriona Clemmesen;Tuyet Anh Doan

  • The influence of temperature on the development of Baltic Sea sprat (Sprattus sprattus) eggs and yolk sac larvae

    Christoph Petereit;Holger Haslob;Gerd Kraus;Catriona Clemmesen

  • Nutritional condition and vertical distribution of Baltic cod larvae

    P. Gronkjaer;C. Clemmesen;M. St. John

  • Variability in condition and growth of Atlantic cod larvae and juveniles reared in mesocosms: environmental and maternal effects

    Catriona Clemmesen;Vivian Bühler;G. Carvalho;R. Case

  • Baltic sprat larvae: coupling food availability, larval condition and survival

    Rüdiger Voss;Catriona Clemmesen;Hannes Baumann;Hans Harald Hinrichsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Uwe Piatkowski
Uwe Piatkowski GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Arild Folkvord
Arild Folkvord University of Bergen
Thorsten B.H. Reusch
Thorsten B.H. Reusch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Myron A. Peck
Myron A. Peck Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Gary R. Carvalho
Gary R. Carvalho Bangor University
Axel Temming
Axel Temming Universität Hamburg
Melissa Chierici
Melissa Chierici University Centre in Svalbard
Lorenz Hauser
Lorenz Hauser University of Washington
Howard I. Browman
Howard I. Browman Norwegian Institute of Marine Research

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