Lake Microbiology
Topics
- Quantification of microbial processes in inland waters
- Isolation and characterization of bacteria
- Study of carbon cycling and climate relevant gases in inland waters
- Sediment-water interactions
- plastics in freshwaters
Methods
- Sediment and seston sampling
- Measurement of matter fluxes wirth benthic chambers
- Measurement of ebullition with simple and automatic bubble traps
- High resolution profiles of dissolved substances (gel-probes, DET)
- High frequency probes to measure greenhouse gases in freshwaters
- Cultivation of aerobic and anaerobic microbes
- Measurement of sulfate- and iron-reduction
- Measurement of trace gases, pigments, alcohols, and organic acids with portable GC und HPLC
- DNA-extraction, PCR, electrophoresis
- Extraktion und polarographic measurement of reduced sulfur compounds
- Sediment-incubationens
- Microsensors (pH, H2S, O2, diffusion coefficient, LIX), in the lab or in situ (Mini-Profiler)
- Photometry + Fluorometry
- Microscopy
- Specific surface determination with BET
- Determination of viable microbial biomass using phospholipid phosphate
- Concentration of cells using cross flow microfiltration
- Sample preparation for microplastics analysis
- luminescent bacteria test
- solid phase toxicity test with Arthrobacter globiformis