All kinds of writingFish of the Month

New Scicom

I’m quite happy about a number of popular science/science communication projects which came to fruition during the last weeks. As usual, the focus is on fish and other animals living underwater. For the first time, some underwater footage I shot was on German Teee Veee. Yes!

Blennies

Please enjoy this blog post I wrote about blennies, the other big family (besides gobies) of small, species-rich coral reef dwelling fishes.

Talking about Gobies

Since diving is currently outlawed in the Philippines since it is categorized under “leisure”, I can’t film or photograph gobies, but I can still talk about them. Please enjoy my presentation at the Danjugan Island Foundation webinar series about the lifes of shrimp gobies:

 

Visayas Documentary

I’m excited to see this awesome documentary about the Visayas, the central part of theĀ  Philippines. This aired on Sat1 in Germany, and is now online in the full length-version. I shot the underwater footage, and I was interviewed as well. In German:

Sea Urchin Pandemic

It’s always a pleasure to contribute to Die Furche, an Austrian weekly with an intellectual slant. This month I wrote about a pandemic. But not about Covid19. Not even about a human pandemic! My essay describes the sea urchin die off which happened in the Caribbean a few decades ago. Not a good thing to happen to the environment. In German. More….