OTN Canada Students: Franziska Bröll
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Franziska is a PhD candidate in Oceanography at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Her research focuses on the use of micro-accelerometers to investigate relations between acceleration and body size in fish (within species). Her project involves the determination of key parameters from the acceleration frequency spectrum and/or other relevant statistical parameters that may scale with size-at-time and likely with temperature. The long-term goal, assuming acceleration scales with size, is a means of measuring growth variation directly in the wild. She aims to advance growth and temperature monitoring via tag, and hopefully chat-tag, technology with support from OTN using micro-accelerometer electronics — a chat-tag that downloads the essential temperature and acceleration parameters (→growth rate) to the OTN bottom-pods. Franziska earned her BSc (Hons.) in Biology and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Affiliations: Oceanography Department, Dalhousie University Areas of Expertise: Fish Accelerometry |
