Ralph Martin
Dr.
Former PhD Student
Tel: +49 (0)761 203 3799
Fax: +49 (0)761 203 3661
Mail:ralph.martin[at]wildlife.uni-freiburg.de
Tennenbacher Straße 4
79106 Freiburg; Germany
Research
Call types of Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) in northern Europe
Research interests:
- Bioacoustics
- Biogeography
Curriculum vitae
Education
- Since August 2015: Dissertation „Call types of Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) in northern Europe“ at the Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Freiburg, Germany.
- September 2013 – February 2014. Diploma thesis at the Institute of Product Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany "Analysis of a wet running multi-disc clutch in continuous slip mode with computational fluid dynamics (CFD)"
- September 2011 – January 2012. Student research project at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in cooperation with industrial companies and a diving school "Development of the driving unit of an underwater scooter "
- October 2007 – February 2014. Studies of mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- August 2006 – April 2007. Civil service in the National Park Wadden Sea, Germany
- 1997-2006. Abitur (A-levels) at the “Bildungszentrum St. Konrad” in Ravensburg, Germany
Practical experiences
- July 2015 – August 2015. Working as a zoological guide for an excursion to Kyrgyzstan
- February 2014 – July 2015. Working as a nature photographer in Europe, Asia and northern Africa
- December 2012 – February 2013. Working student at HAWE Hydraulik in Munich, Germany
- June 2012 – November 2012. Internship at HAWE Hydraulik in Munich, Germany
- Since 2007. Regularly working voluntary for nature conservation and public relations work for the National Park Wadden Sea, Germany
- Since 2006. Experiences with sound recording and analysing of calls, songs and sounds of animals
- July 2006 – August 2006. Internship at Hymer-Leichtmetallbau GmbH&Co.KG in Wangen, Germany
- 1998-2006. Guiding about ten public natural history excursions a year
Publications
- Feijen, H. R., Martin, R., & Feijen, C. (2017). The occurrence of stalk-eyed flies ( Diptera , Diopsidae ) in the Arabian Peninsula , with a review of cluster formation in the Diopsidae. Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie, 160(December), 75–88. https://doi.org/10.1163/22119434-00002065
- IJzendoorn, E. J., Martin, R. (2017) Pallas’s Sandgrouse. Dutch Birding 39, 1, 37-42
- Drissner, K., Martin, R., & Samlali, M. L. (2016). The song of Golden Nightjar at Oued Jenna. Go-South Bulletin, 13 (March 2014), 72–74.
- Graf, O., Martin, R. (2005) Alters- und Geschlechtskennzeichen des Seidenschwanzes Bombycilla garrulus. Limicola 19, 233-239
- Martin, R., Merten, H. (2001) Erste dokumentierte Brut eines Kolkraben auf einem Gittermast in Baden-Württemberg. Ornika, 13. Jahrgang, 10-11