Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Museum

MMag. Dr.

Ivo Gallmetzer

Position: staff scientist

Contact:

ivo.gallmetzer@nhm.at
Phone: +43 1 52177-557

Mann mit Glatze, kurzem Bart und schwarzem T-Shirt blickt neutral in die Kamera, im Hintergrund grüne Blätter. (KI-generierter
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Education

1989 – 1996 Study of German Literature, Philosophy, Musical Sciences and Sociology at the University of Salzburg; final degree with distinction, M.Sc. thesis at the Department of Modern German Literature: "Poetry and criticism in the literature of Gerhard Amanshauser" (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Hans Hoeller)
1996 – 1998 Civil service in Bolzano, Italy
1998 – 2008 Study of Biology at the University of Vienna, specialization in Marine Biology; M.Sc. thesis at the Department of Marine Biology: "Slow growth and early sexual maturity: Bane and boon for the red coral Corallium rubrum" (Supervisors: Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Branko Velimirov and Prof. Dr. J. Ott), final degree with distinction
2013 – 2018 PhD studies in Earth Sciences at the University of Vienna, final degree with distinction
Nov. 2019 Workshop "Science Communication" by the "Klaus-Tschira-Stiftung", Heidelberg, Germany

Further research activities during education

09/2001 Special Marine Ecology field course at the marine biology station STARESO, Calvi, Corsica, France, focussing on macrofaunal communities of submerged sea grass detritus
02/2002 Marine biology excursion to California, USA, including fieldwork projects in the intertidal in Bodega Bay
2003 Research assistant in the FWF Project P14142: “Leaf-cutter shrimp: Microbial gardens in marine sediments”. Principal investigator Dr. Peter Dworschak
2004 - 2005 Project leader for a study on the population ecology of the red coral Corallium rubrum at the marine biology station STARESO, Calvi, Corsica, France
2006 Project collaboration as scientific diver and assistant for the FWF-Project P17655-B03: “Oxygen crisis in the Northern Adriatic Sea”. Principal investigator Dr. M. Stachowitsch
2009 - 2011 Project collaboration as scientific diver and assistant for the FWF-Project P21542-B17 "Low dissolved oxygen events in the Adriatic". Principal investigator Dr. M. Stachowitsch

Teaching and professional experience

1990 – 2012 Parallel to the studies, work as professional lumberjack
Since 2004 Lecturer at the Department of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Vienna
2008 – 2013 Self-employed as editor and translator (English-German) of scientific books.
2010 – 2012 Course instructor at the Marine School in Pula, Croatia (www.meeresschule.com)
2013 – 2019 Research associate at the University of Vienna, Department of Palaeontology
WS 2019 Guest professor at the University of Vienna, Department of Palaeontology

Scientific publications

Tomašových, A., Berensmeier, M., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., and Zuschin, M.: Pyrite-lined shells as indicators of limited oxygen exposure time and inefficient bioirrigation in the Holocene-Anthropocene stratigraphic record, Biogeosciences Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2021-153, in review, 2021.
Tomašových, A., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A. and Zuschin, M. (2021), Inferring time averaging and hiatus durations in the stratigraphic record of high-frequency depositional sequences. Sedimentology. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12936
Haselmair A, Gallmetzer I, Tomašových A, Wieser AM, Übelhör A, Zuschin M (2021) Basin-wide infaunalisation of benthic soft-bottom communities driven by anthropogenic habitat degradation in the northern Adriatic Sea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 671:45-65. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13759
Tomašových, A., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., Kaufman, D.S., Mavrič, B. and Zuschin, M. (2019), A decline in molluscan carbonate production driven by the loss of vegetated habitats encoded in the Holocene sedimentary record of the Gulf of Trieste. Sedimentology, 66: 781-807. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12516
Adam Tomašových, Paolo G. Albano, Tomáš Fuksi, Ivo Gallmetzer, Alexandra Haselmair, Michał Kowalewski, Rafał Nawrot, Vedrana Nerlović, Daniele Scarponi and Martin Zuschin: Ecological regime shift preserved in the Anthropocene stratigraphic record. Proc. R. Soc. B. 287, 2020: 20200695 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0695.
Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Tomašových A., Zuschin M.: Tracing origin and collapse of Holocene benthic baseline communities in the northern Adriatic Sea, PALAIOS, 2019, 34(3), pp. 121-145.
Fuksi T., Tomasovych A., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Zuschin M.: 20th century increase in body size of a hypoxia-tolerant bivalve documented by sediment cores from the northern Adriatic Sea (Gulf of Trieste). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018, 135, pp. 361-375.
Schnedl S.-M., Haselmair A., Gallmetzer I., Mautner A.-K., Tomašových A., Zuschin M.: Molluscan benthic communities at Brijuni Islands (northern Adriatic Sea) shaped by Holocene sea-level rise and recent human eutrophication and pollution, The Holocene, 2018, DOI: 10.1177/0959683618788651.
Tomasovych A., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Kaufman D., Kralj M., Cassin D., Zonta R., Zuschin M.: Tracing the effects of eutrophication on molluscan communities in sediment cores: outbreaks of an opportunistic species coincide with reduced bioturbation and high frequency of hypoxia in the Adriatic Sea. Paleobiology, 2018, dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2018.22.
Tomasovych A., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Kaufman D., MavriČ B., Zuschin M.: A decline in molluscan carbonate production driven by the loss of vegetated habitats encoded in the Holocene sedimentary record of the Gulf of Trieste. Sedimentology, 2018, DOI: 10.1111/sed.12516.
Mautner A.-K., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Schnedl S.-M., Tomašových A., Zuschin M.: Holocene ecosystem shifts and human-induced loss of Arca and Ostrea shell beds in the north-eastern Adriatic Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018;126: 19-30. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.084.
Albano P.G., Gallmetzer I, Haselmair A., Tomašových A., Stachowitsch M., Zuschin M.: Historical ecology of an alien invasion: the interplay of eutrophication and pollution determines time lags in establishment and detection. Biological Invasions, 2017. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1634-7.
Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Tomašových A., Stachowitsch M., Zuschin M. (2017): Responses of molluscan communities to centuries of human impact in the northern Adraitic Sea, PLoS ONE, 2017, 12.
Tomašových A., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Kaufman D.S., Vidović J., Zuschin M. (2017): Stratigraphic unmixing reveals repeated hypoxia events over the past 500 yr in the northern Adriatic Sea, Geology 45.
Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Stachowitsch M., Zuschin M. (2016): An innovative piston corer for large-volume sediment samples, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 14 (11): 698-717.
Vidović J., Nawrot R., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Tomašových A., Stachowitsch M., Ćosović V., Zuschin M. (2016): Anthropogenically induced environmental changes in the northeastern Adriatic Sea in the last 500 years (Panzano Bay, Gulf of Trieste), Biogeosciences 13 (21): 5965–5981.
Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Velimirov B. (2010) Slow growth and early sexual maturity: Bane and boon for the red coral Corallium rubrum. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 90: 1-10.
Gallmetzer I., Pflugfelder B., Zekely J., Ott, J.A.: Macrofauna diversity in Posidonia oceanica detritus: distribution and diversity of mobile macrofauna in shallow subinterval accumulations of Posidonia oceanica detritus. Marine Biology (2005) 147: 517 – 523.

Selected conference contributions

North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC), Riverside, USA, 2019 (talk, co-author)
International Paleontological Congesss IPC5, Paris, France, 2018 (2 talks, co-author)
Geological Society of America (GSA), Seattle, USA, 2017 (talk, co-author)
51^st European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS) Rhodes, Greece, 2016 (talk and poster)
European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) Vienna, 2016 (talk and poster)
ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting Granada, Spain, 2015 (poster)
European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) Vienna, 2015 (talk and poster)
European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) Vienna, 2014 (talk and poster)