Phytoplankton dynamics and role in biological CO2 uptake and transport in the ocean
Short description
Our research is focused at the physical, chemical, and biological constraints that regulate and link small-scale (single cell level) and large-scale processes (sinking aggregates of phytoplankton sinking hundreds of meters a day) that govern the oceans biological carbon pump.
Our research is mostly experimental, both in the laboratory and in the field, where we aim at a mechanistic understanding of carbon and nutrient fluxes in plankton communities and their contributions to the biological carbon pump.
To do this, we combine various approaches including stable isotopic tracers and mass spectrometry (EAIRMS, SIMS, GC-EAIRMS), microsensor techniques, and modelling.
Selected Research Projects
Kiselalgers nitrat upptag under luppen
Carl Tryggers Stiftelse (CTS 19:287)
Survivors of the Sea: How diatom resting stages remain alive 100 years embedded in sediment
The Swedish Research Council (VR: 2018-04555). Co-PI; Anna Godhe (PI)
A close look at CO2 sequestration in chain-forming diatoms in the sea
The Swedish Research Council (VR: 2017-03746)
Using digital holographic microscopy for understanding diatoms and their aggregations
Carl Tryggers Stiftelse (CTS 16: 366)
Organic particles and their role in marine biogeochemical carbon and nitrogen fluxes
The Swedish Research Council (VR: 2015-2017)
EuroMarine Foresight Symposium: The Biological Carbon Pump in a Changing World
EuroMarine 2014 call (EU) 2015: (Co-PI with Eva-Maria Zetsche (PI)
Bio-physical processes around marine snow aggregates (BIPHA)
Marie Curie Fellowship (EU – Horizon2020). 2015. (co-PI with Eva-Maria Zetsche (PI)
Diatoms and the ocean’s biological carbon pump
The Swedish Research Council (VR: 2012-2015)
Carbon and nitrogen fluxes associated with large cyanobacteria of the Baltic Sea - small-scale processes and their large-scale implications
The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning, FORMAS, 2011-2013
Managing Baltic nutrients in relation to cyanobacterial blooms: what should we aim for?
The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning, FORMAS, 2009-2013. (Co-PI with Ragnar Elmgren (PI) and ten others)