Dr. Ute Daewel
Dr. Ute Daewel
Matter transport and ecosystem dynamics
ScientistPhone: +49 (0)4152 87-2821
Research Interests
My main research interests focus on investigating biological-physical interactions in the marine ecosystem by developing and utilizing relevant coupled model systems. This includes spatially explicit Individual Based Model (IBM) for fish early life stages as well as fully coupled 3d ecosystem models. One major purpose of my recent research was to overcome the limitations of lower-trophic-level ecosystem models to simulate and understand changes in the marine food web and higher trophic level production. Thus I was enhancing the framework of the regional ecosystem model ECOSMO by including macrobenthos and fish to create a consistent End-to-End model system ECOSMO E2E.
Current projects
- PI in APOC funded by BMBF
- PI in MeMiMo funded by BMBF/NERC
- PI in RETAKE funded by BMBF/NERC
- CLICCS
Recently finalized
- PI in ZOOMBI, CMEMS Service Evolution project
- PI in MarEns BSH/Hereon collaborative project
- SPONGES
Present Position
Research scientist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Institute for Coastal Systems - Analysis and Modelling, Geesthacht, Germany
Education
Dr. rer. nat., 2008, Dep. of Geosciences, University of Hamburg, Germany
Diploma, 2004, Dep. of Geosciences, University of Hamburg, Germany
Employment and working history
June 2016 – present Research scientist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (Permanent Staff), Geesthacht, Germany
July 2013 – Mai 2016 Research scientist at NERSC, Bergen, Norway
Sep 2012 – June 2013 Associate Professor at Geophysical Institute, UiB, Norway
Jan 2008 – Aug 2012 Postdoc position at the Geophysical Institute, UiB, Norway
Jan 2005 – Dec 2008 PhD at University of Hamburg, Germany
- Porz, L., Zhang, W., Christiansen, N., Kossack, J., Daewel, U., & Schrum, C. (2024): Quantification and mitigation of bottom-trawling impacts on sedimentary organic carbon stocks in the North Sea. Biogeosciences, 21, 2547–2570, doi:10.5194/bg-21-2547-2024
- Zhang, W., Chen, X., Sun, J., Meng, Q., Nie, J., & Daewel, U. (2024): Editorial: Multi-scale variability of ecosystem functioning in European and Chinese shelf seas. Front. Mar. Sci., 11:1463685, doi:10.3389/fmars.2024.1463685
- Bieser, J., Amptmeijer, D.J., Daewel, U., Kuss, J., Soerensen, A.L., & Schrum, C. (2023): The 3D biogeochemical marine mercury cycling model MERCY v2.0 – linking atmospheric Hg to methylmercury in fish. Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 2649–2688, doi:10.5194/gmd-16-2649-2023
- Christiansen, N., Carpenter, J.R., Daewel, U., Suzuki, N., & Schrum C. (2023): The large-scale impact of anthropogenic mixing by offshore wind turbine foundations in the shallow North Sea. Front. Mar. Sci., 10:1178330, doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1178330
- Heinrich, P., Hagemann, S., Weisse, R., Schrum, C., Daewel, U., & Gaslikova, L. (2023): Compound flood events: analysing the joint occurrence of extreme river discharge events and storm surges in northern and central Europe. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 1967–1985, doi:10.5194/nhess-23-1967-2023
- Kossack, J., Mathis, M., Daewel, U., Zhang, Y.J., & Schrum, C. (2023): Barotropic and baroclinic tides increase primary production on the Northwest European Shelf. Front. Mar. Sci., Volume 10, doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1206062
- Christiansen, N., Daewel, U., Djath, B., & Schrum, C. (2022): Emergence of Large-Scale Hydrodynamic Structures Due to Atmospheric Offshore Wind Farm Wakes. Front. Mar. Sci. 9:818501, doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.818501
- Christiansen, N., Daewel, U., & Schrum, C. (2022): Tidal mitigation of offshore wind wake effects in coastal seas. Front. Mar. Sci. 9:1006647, doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.1006647
- Daewel, U., Akhtar, N., Christiansen, N., & Schrum, C. (2022): Offshore wind farms are projected to impact primary production and bottom water deoxygenation in the North Sea. Commun Earth Environ 3, 292 (2022), doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00625-0
- Samuelsen, A., Schrum, C., Yumruktepe, V.Ç., Daewel, U., & Roberts, E.M. (2022): Environmental Change at Deep-Sea Sponge Habitats Over the Last Half Century: A Model Hindcast Study for the Age of Anthropogenic Climate Change. Front. Mar. Sci., 9:737164, doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.737164
- Yumruktepe, V.Ç., Samuelsen, A., & Daewel, U. (2022): ECOSMO II(CHL): a marine biogeochemical model for the North Atlantic and the Arctic. Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 3901–3921, doi:10.5194/gmd-15-3901-2022
- Friedland, R., Macias, D., Cossarini, G., Daewel, U., Estournel, C., Garcia-Gorriz, E., Grizzetti, B., Grégoire, M., Gustafson, B., Kalaroni, S., Kerimoglu, O., Lazzari, P., Lenhart, H., Lessin, G., Maljutenko, I., Miladinova, S., Müller-Karulis, B., Neumann, T., Parn, O., Pätsch, J., Piroddi, C., Raudsepp, U., Schrum, C., Stegert, C., Stips, A., Tsiaras, K., Ulses, C., & Vandenbulcke, L. (2021): Effects of Nutrient Management Scenarios on Marine Eutrophication Indicators: A Pan-European, Multi-Model Assessment in Support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:596126, doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.596126
- Heath, M.R., Benkort, D., Brierley, A.S., Daewel, U., Laverick, J.H., Proud, R., & Speirs, D.C. (2021): Ecosystem approach to harvesting in the Arctic: Walking the tightrope between exploitation and conservation in the Barents Sea. Ambio, doi:10.1007/s13280-021-01616-9
- Liu, F., Daewel, U., Samuelsen, A., Brune, S., Hanz, U., Pohlmann, H., Baehr, J., & Schrum, C. (2021): Can Environmental Conditions at North Atlantic Deep-Sea Habitats Be Predicted Several Years Ahead? - Taking Sponge Habitats as an Example. Front. Mar. Sci., 8:703297, doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.703297
- Pein, J., Eisele, A., Sanders, T., Daewel, U., Stanev, E.V., van Beusekom, J.E.E., Staneva, J., & Schrum, C. (2021): Seasonal Stratification and Biogeochemical Turnover in the Freshwater Reach of a Partially Mixed Dredged Estuary. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:623714, doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.623714
- Pein, J., Staneva, J., Daewel, U., & Schrum, C. (2021): Channel curvature improves water quality and nutrient filtering in an artificially deepened mesotidal idealized estuary. Continental Shelf Research, Volume 231, 104582, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2021.104582
- Skogen, M.D., Ji, R., Akimova, A., Daewel, U., Hansen, C., Hjøllo, S.S., van Leeuwen, S.M., Maar, M., Macias, D., Mousing, E.A., Almroth-Rosell, E., Sailley, S.F., Spence, M.A., Troost, T.A., & van de Wolfshaar, K. (2021): Disclosing the truth: Are models better than observations? Mar Ecol Prog Ser :DYNMODav1, doi:10.3354/meps13574
- van de Wolfshaar, K.E., Daewel, U., Hjøllo, S.S., Troost, T.A., Kreus, M., Pätsch, J., Ji, R., & Maar, M. (2021): Sensitivity of the fish community to different prey fields and importance of spatial-seasonal patterns. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 680:79-95, doi:10.3354/meps13885
- Zhang, W., Neumann, A., Daewel, U., Wirtz, K., van Beusekom, J.E.E., Eisele, A., Ma, M., & Schrum, C. (2021): Quantifying importance of macrobenthos for benthic-pelagic coupling in a temperate coastal shelf sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC016995, doi:10.1029/2020JC016995
- Benkort, D., Daewel, U., Heath, M., & Schrum, C. (2020): On the Role of Biogeochemical Coupling Between Sympagic and Pelagic Ecosystem Compartments for Primary and Secondary Production in the Barents Sea. Front. Environ. Sci. 8:548013, doi:10.3389/fenvs.2020.548013
- Daewel, U., Yakushev, E.V., Schrum, C., Nizzetto, L., & Mikheeva, E. (2020): Understanding the Role of Organic Matter Cycling for the Spatio-Temporal Structure of PCBs in the North Sea. Water 2020, 12, 817, doi:10.3390/w12030817
- Pein, J., Eisele, A., Hofmeister, R., Sanders, T., Daewel, U., Stanev, E.V., Beusekom, J. van, Staneva, J., & Schrum, C. (2019): Nitrogen cycling in the Elbe estuary from a joint 3D-modelling and observational perspective. Biogeosciences Discuss., doi:10.5194/bg-2019-265
- Charrieau, L.M., Ljung, K., Schenk, F., Daewel, U., Kritzberg, E., & Filipsson, H.L. (2019): Rapid environmental responses to climate-induced hydrographic changes in the Baltic Sea entrance. Biogeosciences, 16, 3835–3852, doi:10.5194/bg-16-3835-2019
- Zhang, W., Wirtz, K., Daewel, U., Wrede, A., Kröncke, I., Kuhn, G., Neumann, A., Meyer, J., Ma, M., & Schrum, C. (2019): The budget of macrobenthic reworked organic carbon - a modelling case study of the North Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2019JG005109
- Daewel, U., Schrum, C., & Macdonald, J.I. (2019): Towards end-to-end (E2E) modelling in a consistent NPZD-F modelling framework (ECOSMO E2E_v1.0): application to the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1765-1789, doi:10.5194/gmd-12-1765-2019
- Zhao, C., Daewel, U., & Schrum, C. (2019): Tidal impacts on primary production in the North Sea. Earth Syst. Dynam., 10, 287-317, doi:10.5194/esd-10-287-2019
- Samuelsen, A., Daewel, U., & Wettre, C. (2019): Risk of oil contamination of fish eggs and larvae under different oceanic and weather conditions. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsz035, doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsz035
- Årthun, M., Bogstad, B., Daewel, U., Keenlyside, N.S., Sandø, A.B., Schrum, C., & Ottersen, G. (2018): Climate based multi-year predictions of the Barents Sea cod stock. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0206319, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206319
- Samuelsen, A., Schrum, C., Castano Primo, R., Yumruktepe, C.V., & Daewel, U. (2018): A model hindcast of bottom environmental conditions in the North Atlantic Ocean 1948 to 2014. Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.889396
- Samuelsen, A., Schrum, C., Castano Primo, R., Yumruktepe, C.V., & Daewel, U. (2018): A model hindcast of bottom environmental conditions in the North Atlantic Ocean 1948 to 2014. Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.889396
- Samuelsen, A., Schrum, C., Castano Primo, R., Yumruktepe, C.V., & Daewel, U. (2018): A model hindcast of bottom environmental conditions in the North Atlantic Ocean 1948 to 2014. Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.889396
- Samuelsen, A., Schrum, C., Castano Primo, R., Yumruktepe, C.V., & Daewel, U. (2018): A model hindcast of bottom environmental conditions in the North Atlantic Ocean 1948 to 2014. Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.889396
- Maar, M., Butenschön, M., Daewel, U., Eggert, A., Fan, W., Hjøllo, S.S., Hufnagl, M., Huret, M., Ji, R., Lacroix, G., Peck, M.A., Radtke, H., Sailley, S., Sinerchia, M., Skogen, M.D., Travers-Trolet, M., Troost, T.A., & Wolfshaar, K. van de (2018): Responses of summer phytoplankton biomass to changes in top-down forcing: Insights from comparative modelling. Ecological Modelling, Volume 376, 2018, Pages 54-67, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.03.003
- Daewel, Ute; Schrum, Corinna (2017): ECOSMO II hindcast simulations for the North Sea and Baltic Sea (1948-2008). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ, doi:10.1594/WDCC/ECOSMOII_NCEP.1948-2008
- Daewel U, Schrum C (2017): Low frequency variability in North Sea and Baltic Sea identified through simulations with the 3-d coupled physical-biogeochemical model ECOSMO. Earth Syst Dyn Discuss, doi:10.5194/esd-8-801-2017
- Hufnagl M, Payne M, Lacroix G, Bolle LJ, Daewel U, Dickey-Collas M, Gerkema T, Huret M, Janssen F, Kreus M, Pätsch J, Pohlmann T, Ruardij P, Schrum C, Skogen MD, Tiessen MCH, Petitgas P, Beek JKL van, Veer HW van der, Callies U (2017): Variation that can be expected when using particle tracking models in connectivity studies. J Sea Res , doi:10.1016/j.seares.2017.04.009
- Gharamti ME, Samuelsen A, Bertino L, Simon E, Korosov A, Daewel U (2017): Online tuning of ocean biogeochemical model parameters using ensemble estimation techniques: Application to a one-dimensional model in the North Atlantic. J Mar Syst 168:1–16, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.12.003
- Holt, J., Schrum, C., Cannaby, H., Daewel, U., Allen, I., Artioli, Y., Bopp, L., Butenschon, M., Fach, B.A., Harle, J., Pushpadas, D., Salihoglu, B., Wakelin, S. (2016): Potential impacts of climate change on the primary production of regional seas: A comparative analysis of five European seas. Prog. Oceanogr. 140, 91–115. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2015.11.004
- Daewel, U., Schrum, C., Gupta, A. (2015): The predictive potential of early life stage individual-based models (IBMs): an example for Atlantic cod Gadus morhua in the North Sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 534, 199–219, doi:10.3354/meps11367
- Pushpadas, D., Schrum, C., Daewel, U. (2015): Projected climate change impacts on North Sea and Baltic Sea: CMIP3 and CMIP5 model based scenarios. Biogeosciences Discussions 12, 2015, doi:10.5194/bgd-12-12229-2015
- Burt, W.J., Thomas, H., Pätsch, J., Omar, A.M., Schrum, C., Daewel, U., Brenner, H., de Baar, H.J.W. (2014): Radium isotopes as a tracer of sediment-water column exchange in the North Sea. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 28 (8), 786-804 doi:10.1002/2014GB004825
- Chust, G., Allen, J.I., Bopp, L., Schrum, C., Holt, J., Tsiaras, K., Zavatarelli, M., Chifflet, M., Cannaby, H., Dadou, I., Daewel, U., Wakelin, S.L., Machu, E., Pushpadas, D., Butenschon, M., Artioli, Y., Petihakis, G., Smith, C., Garçon, V., Goubanova, K., Le Vu, B., Fach, B.A., Salihoglu, B., Clementi, E., Irigoien, X. (2014): Biomass changes and trophic amplification of plankton in a warmer ocean. Glob. Chang. Biol. 20, 2124–39. doi:10.1111/gcb.12562
- Daewel, U., Hjøllo, S.S., Huret, M., Ji, R., Maar, M., Niiranen, S., Travers-Trolet, M., Peck, M.A., van de Wolfshaar, K.E. (2013): Predation control of zooplankton dynamics: a review of observations and models. ICES Journal of Marine Science, doi:10.1093/icesjms/fst125
- Daewel, U. and Schrum, C. (2013): Simulating long-term dynamics of the coupled North Sea and Baltic Sea ecosystem with ECOSMO II: Model description and validation. Journal of Marine Systems 119-120: 30–49, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.03.008
- Barthel, Knut, Daewel, U., Pushpadas, D., Schrum, C., Årthun, M., & Wehde, H. (2012): Resolving frontal structures: on the payoff using a less diffusive but computationally more expensive advection scheme. Ocean Dynamics, 62(10-12): 1457-1470, doi:10.1007/s10236-012-0578-9
- Daewel, U., Schrum, C., Temming, A. (2011): Towards a more complete understanding of the life cycle of brown shrimp (Crangon crangon): modelling passive larvae and juvenile transport in combination with physically forced vertical juvenile migration. Fisheries Oceanography 20:479-496, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2419.2011.00597.x
- Daewel, U., Peck, M.A., Schrum, C. (2011): Life history strategy and impacts of environmental variability on early life stages of two marine fishes in the North Sea: an individual-based modelling approach. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 68: 426-443, doi:10.1139/F10-164
- Rose, K.A., Allen, J.I., Artioli, Y., Barange, M., Blackford, J., Carlotti, F., Cropp, R., Daewel, U., Flynn, K., Hill, S., Hille Ris Lambers, R., Huse, G., Mackinson, S., Megrey, B.A., Moll, A., Rivkin, R., Salihoglu, B., Schrum, C., Shannon, L., Shin, Y., Smith, L., Smith, C., Soldoro, C., St John, M., Zhou, M. (2010): End-To-End Models for the Analysis of Marine Ecosystems: Challenges, Issues, and Next Steps. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 2:115-130, doi:10.1577/C09-059.1
- Daewel, U. and Schrum, C. (2010): Mechanistic coupled biophysical models. In Cod and Future Climate Change, Ken Drinkwater, Corinna Schrum, Keith Brander (Eds.). ICES cooperative research report No. 305: 26-31
- Drinkwater, K., Schrum, C., and Brander, K. (Eds). 2010: Cod and future climate change. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 305. 88 pp
- Kühn, W., Peck, M.A., Hinrichsen, H.-H., Daewel, U., Moll, A., Pohlmann, T., Stegert, C., Tamm, S. (2008): Spatial and temporal changes in the habitat suitability of the German Bight (southern North Sea) for larval sprat: An IBM approach using size-structured prey fields. J. Mar. Sys. 74, 1-2, 329-342, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.02.002
- Daewel, U., Peck, M.A., Kühn, W., St. John, M.A., Alekseeva, I., and Schrum, C. (2008): Coupling ecosystem and individual-based models to simulate the influence of climate variability on potential growth and survival of larval sprat in the North Sea. Fisheries Oceanography 17(5):333–351, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2419.2008.00482.x
- Daewel, U., Peck, M.A., Schrum, C., St. John, M.A. (2008): How best to include the effects of climate-driven forcing on prey fields in larval fish individual-based models. Journal of Plankton Research 30(1):1–5, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbm094
- Peck M.A., and Daewel, U. (2007): Physiologically based limits to food consumption, and individual-based modeling of foraging and growth of larval fishes. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 347: 171–183
- Christensen, A., Daewel, U., Jensen, H., Mosegaard, H., St. John, M.A., Schrum, C. (2007): Hydrodynamic backtracking of fish larvae by individual-based modelling. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 347: 221–232, doi:10.3354/meps06980