Lake Microbiology
Third party funding
| Funding | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| German Research Foundation | Gas bubbles in freshwater ecosystems: origin, fate, and bubble-mediated transport (Bubble) (DFG database). | 10.2019 - 9.2023 |
| German Research Foundation | Meteorological Drivers of Mass and Energy Exchange between Inland Waters and the Atmosphere (MEDIWA) | 11.2020 - 11.2023 |
| CAS-DAAD | Spatial heterogeneity of greenhouse gas emissions from lotic systems: scaling from site-specific to riverine continuum DECIPHER | 8.2021 - 7.2023 |
| Ruhrverband | Greenhosuse gas emissions from two German reservoirs (TreMöBi) | 1.2023 - 1.2024 |
Further projects
GHG emissions from river Elbe (Moses GHG)
greenhouse gas emissions from dry freshwater systems (dryflux): The role of terrestrial vegetation growing on dry aquatic systems on carbon cycling and CO2 emissions on a global scale.
greenhouse gas emissions from drinking water reservoirs (
poster
)
Diurnal CO2 flux variation across latitudinal gradients (DC flux)
Methane production in oxic water (MetOx)
recent theses
| title | author | year | university |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reaktionen von 'Plastisphere'-Bakterien gegenüber Auslaugungen und Additiven von Plastikprodukten | Nora Siegelt | 2024 | Fakutät für Verfahrens- und Systemtechnik der Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg |
| Analysis of Polyamide Microplastics using Multispectral Imaging Flow Cytometry | Sara Arshad | 2023 | Technical University of Chemnitz |
| Experimental evaluation of greenhouse gas concentrations and turnover in the freshwater surface micro layer | Hannah Sophie Mihm | 2022 | Uni Braunschweig (bachelor) |
| Bakterienisolate von Plastik und ihre Fähigkeit zur Biofilmbildung auf Mikroplastik | Nora Siegelt | 2022 | Magdeburg University |
| Interactions of microplastic fibers, freshwater bacteria and zooplankton | Arne Aljoscha Pfennig | 2022 | University of Potsdam |
| Mechanisms of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Dry Sediments of the River Elbe | Lelaina Teichert | 2021 | Uni Münster (master) |
| Biogeochemical processes governing microplastic transport in freshwater reservoirs | Rico Leiser | 2021 | Uni Potsdam (PhD) |
| Sealing leaks in the plumbing: Gaseous carbon emissions from dry inland waters on global and local scales | Philipp Keller | 2021 | Uni Landau (PhD) |
| Mikroplastik im Sediment des Muldestausees | Marina Weiss | 2019 | University of Leipzig (master) |
| Partikel besiedelnde Mikroorganismen in einer Brauchwasser-Talsperre | Franziska Reggelin | 2019 | Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences (master) |
| Kultivierung und Identifizierung aquatischer Mikroorganismen aus Plastik-Biofilmen | Tatjana Gaudl | (master) | |
| Role of the sediments for dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in drinking water reservoirs | Tallent Dadi | 2017 | Uni Halle (PhD) |
| Microbial colonization and degradation of conventional and biodegradable polymers in lake water and sediment | Maria Riese | 2017 | Uni Trier (master) |
Finished projects
| Funding | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| BMBF | MicroPlaTas | 2018-2021 |
| DFG | Greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs (TREGATa) | 2016-2020 |
| BMBF | TALKO | 2012-2015 |
| DFG | biogeochemical fluxes and turnover at pelagic redoxclines in lakes (RedoxFlux) | 2011-2015 |
| HAI | sulfur cycle in oil sands tailings ponds | 2010-2015 |
| LMBV | optimization of nitrification to eliminate ammonium from a neutralised pit lake (SeNi) | 2011-2013 |
| CICYT | biogeochemistry of meromictic pit lakes in Spain | 2009-2012 |
| DBU | Microbial in-situ-neutralisation of acidic mine pit lakes | 04/2002-11/2005 |
| VW foundation | Limnology and biogeochemistry of volcanic acidic waters in the watershed of the Andean volcano Copahue (Argentina, Chile) | 02/2003-11/2005 |