Principal Marine Ecologist
Aurora Offshore Engineering (UK)
Australia
Marine ecologist, 20+ years studying benthic biodiversity globally. Expertise in assessing communities around subsea structures like offshore wind & oil rigs.
Dr. Marie-Lise Schlaeppy is a marine and benthic ecologist with over 20 years of experience studying marine invertebrate communities and small tropical fishes across Australia, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Pacific, and temperate regions. She holds a Ph.D. in natural sciences from Bremen University and the Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology. Dr. Schläppy's research focuses on benthic biodiversity. She has researched biodiversity on and around anthropogenic structures, such as offshore wind and marine renewable energy. Her expertise includes SCUBA diving, video transects, mosaicing, and using remotely operated vehicle footage for marine research. Currently, Dr. Schläppy is a Principal Marine Ecologist at Aurora Offshore Engineering and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She is also involved in marine citizen science projects, including work with Reef Check Australia since 2009. Dr. Schläppy's research interests extend to microbial processes in sponges and the life-history characteristics of small benthic fish.
My organisation
Aurora Offshore Engineering (AOE) is a boutique engineering consultancy with a strong focus on offshore renewable energy. Since our establishment in 2015, we are proud to say we have contributed towards the design of over 22GW out of the worldwide total of 75GW (2023) of new global renewable energy projects.
As specialist in Hydrodynamics, Seabeds and Structures, AOE brings together skills and extensive experience in both academic research and pragmatic, cost-effective offshore design consultancy for the renewable, hydrocarbon and wider ocean industries.
We pride ourselves on overcoming engineering challenges, especially where they arise between the boundaries of traditional engineering disciplines.
Skills
Additional questions
I am interested in the following CETPartnership thematic areas:
Project cooperation
Avoiding floating wind dynamic cable fatigue. Partners sought.
Studying marine growth's impact on floating wind platform cables to reduce fatigue and optimize renewable energy production efficiency.
Project cooperation
Predicting marine growth on offshore wind cables. Partner sought.
Predicting marine growth to improve stability and hydrodynamics estimates on offshore wind cables.
Project cooperation
Rock Bag JIP Phase 2. Partners sought.
Understanding the stability, performance and scour performance of rock bags on erodible seabed.