C.G. Johannes Petersen, Date of Birth, Date of Death

C.G. Johannes Petersen

Danish ecologist

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1860

Date of Death: 11-May-1928

Profession: zoologist, marine biologist, ecologist

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Carl Georg Johannes Petersen (24 October 1860 – 11 May 1928) was a Danish marine biologist, especially fisheries biologist.
He was the first to describe communities of benthic marine invertebrates and is often considered a founder of modern fisheries research.
Especially he was the first to use the Mark and recapture method which he used to estimate the size of a Plaice population.
The Lincoln-Petersen method also known as the Petersen-Lincoln index is named after him. C.G.J.
Petersen studied natural history at the University of Copenhagen under professor Japetus Steenstrup.
He participated in expeditions 1883-1886 and sampled the benthic fauna in Danish waters systematically.
In 1889, he co-founded Dansk biologisk Station, which was a mobile laboratory in a former naval transport vessel that was put in a new location every spring and anchored for the summer.
His research was primarily directed towards understanding the ecology – not the least feeding ecology – and distribution of fish species and to provide the fundament for an evidence-based fisheries policy.
Nevertheless, today he is mainly remembered for his significant contribution to the development of the community concept for marine benthos.