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 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