Dr. Markus Diesing

I am a marine geologist with a PhD from Kiel University (Germany) with an interest in the sedimentology of continental shelf environments. I have been active in the field of seabed mapping, from survey data acquisition to data processing and the integrated analysis of datasets, for more than 20 years. In recent years, my focus has shifted to the development of robust, repeatable and validated mapping techniques using state-of-the-art remote sensing image analysis and machine learning methods. My current research interests include the quantitative spatial prediction of seabed sediment properties (e.g. grain-size composition and organic carbon content), understanding and quantifying the role of shelf sea sediments in the marine organic carbon cycle and the spatial modelling of the occurrence of cold-water coral carbonate mounds in Norwegian waters.