Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

MSc

Sara Maria Schnedl

Position: collection assistant in the collection Mollusca, currently on maternity leave

Contact:

sara.schnedl@nhm.at
Phone: 52177557
Fax: 52177327

EDUCATION

MSc 2015 University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Zoology. With distinction

MSc Thesis: “Down-core changes in Molluscan Death Assemblages as indicators of millenial-scale environmental shifts” (Advisor: Marin Zuschin)

BSc 2012 University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Biology

BSc Thesis: “The importance of meadows as foraging habitat for adult dragonflies in the Danube floodplains east of Vienna” (Advisors: Konrad Fiedler & Christian Schulze)

Bakk.phil. 2009 University of Vienna, Center for Translation studies

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

09/2014 7^th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization, Ferrara, Italien (1 Talk, 1 Poster)

AWARDS

Rupert Riedl Award, by the Aqua Terra Zoo, Vienna (2015)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

since 02/ 2016           Natural History Museum Vienna, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Mollusk Collection

2016 – 19                    Digitization Project, Natural History Museum Vienna

01 – 06/2016              Examination of marine mollusk samples, Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna

10/2015 – 01/2016    Research Technician at the Institute of Population Genetics, Veterinary University of Vienna

02 – 06/2014            Study assistant at the Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna

Schnedl Sara-Maria, Haselmair Alexandra, Gallmetzer Ivo, Mautner Anna-Katharina, Tomašových Adam, Zuschin Martin, 2018. Benthic communities at Brijuni Islands (northern Adriatic Sea) were shaped by Holocene sea-level rise and recent human impact. The Holocene, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683618788651

Mautner Anna-Katharina, Gallmetzer Ivo, Haselmair Alexandra, Schnedl Sara-Maria, Tomašových Adam, Zuschin Martin, 2018. Holocene ecosystem shifts and human-induced loss of Arca and Ostrea shell beds in the north-eastern Adriatic Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 126: 19-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.084

Albano Paolo G., Schnedl Sara-Maria, Eschner Anita, 2018. An illustrated catalogue of Rudolf Sturany’s type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria (NHMW): deep-sea Eastern Mediterranean molluscs. Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(1): 29-56. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.20116

Gallmetzer Ivo, Haselmair Alexandra, Mautner Anna-Katharina, Schnedl Sara-Maria,
Tomašových Adam, Zuschin Martin, 2019. Tracing origin and collapse of Holocene benthic baseline 2 communities in the northern Adriatic Sea. Palaios 34(3):121-145. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2018.068

Albano Paolo G., Schnedl Sara-Maria, Eschner Anita. An illustrated catalogue of Rudolf Sturany’s type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria (NHMW): bivalves of the Red Sea. In preparation.