Contact
Office: 310 Castle Street, Room 150
Tel +64 21 279 0770
Email sebastiaan.vandevelde@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
- BSc in Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
- MSc in Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
- PhD in Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Antwerp University (Belgium)
Research interests
Sebastiaan is affiliated with the NIWA – University of Otago centre for Oceanography and leads the NIWA carbonate chemistry facilities hosted at the University of Otago. He also manages the Munida time series and the New Zealand Ocean Acidification Observation Network (NZOA-ON). His research interests broadly include marine carbonate chemistry and sedimentary biogeochemistry, with a focus on coastal carbon cycling.
Courses
Publications
van de Velde, S. J., Hylén, A., Eriksson, M., James, R. K., Kononets, M. Y., Robertson, E. K., & Hall, P. O. J. (2023). Exceptionally high respiration rates in the reactive surface layer of sediments underlying oxygen-deficient bottom waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 479, 20230189. doi: 10.1098/rspa.2023.0189 Journal - Research Article
Hiddink, J. G., van de Velde, S. J., McConnaughey, R. A., De Borger, E., Tiano, J., Kaiser, M. J., … Sciberras, M. (2023). Quantifying the carbon benefits of ending bottom trawling [Matters arising]. Nature, 617, E1-E2. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06014-7 Journal - Research Other
van de Velde, S., Van Lancker, V., Hidalgo-Martinez, S., Berelson, W. M., & Meysman, F. J. R. (2018). Anthropogenic disturbance keeps the coastal seafloor biogeochemistry in a transient state. Scientific Reports, 8, 5582. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23925-y Journal - Research Article