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Agnes KarlssonAssociate professor

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Contact

Name and title: Agnes Karlsson Associate professor

agnes.karlsson@su.se

Workplace: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

Visiting address

Room N314

Svante Arrhenius väg 20 A

Postal address

Institutionen för ekologi miljö och botanik

106 91 Stockholm

Research groups

Baltic Sea Fellows

As a continuation of the governmental funding of strategic Baltic Sea research, this interdisciplinary network of young Baltic Sea, Baltic Sea Fellows, formed at Stockholm University 2018. Their research cover the whole range from basic marine research to applied legal aspects and decision support.

Group AML Karlson

Group AML Karlson studies Food web and Ecosystem ecology, Ecotoxicology and Stress ecology, Environmental monitoring and Stable isotope techniques.

Marinekologiska laboratoriet - MEL

The Marine Ecological Laboratory (MEL) at DEEP carry out field sampling and analyses of water chemistry, plankton, benthos and macrophytes with focus on the Baltic Sea. The lab is accredited through Swedac and is a leading lab in many areas, particularly regarding nutrient analyses.

Links

My Research Gate profile My Google Scholar profile

About me

Associate professor and docent (equivalent to habilitation) in Marine Ecotoxicology. I received my PhD in Marine Ecology from Stockholm University in 2010. I conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Waikato and University of Otago, New Zealand, and at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University 2011-2016 (including maternity leave). I am the main supervisor to PhD students Matias Ledesma and John Taylor.

Since 2022 I am the contract holder for the National Monitoring program for phytobenthos which started in 1993.

Teaching

I am the couse leader for ecology/Baltic Sea field courses at the Askö island, obligatory in the 2nd year of the Marine Biology as well as the Biology and Earth Science programmes. I am also involved in the Ecotoxicology course (Bacehlorlevel) and the MSc level course Baltic Sea Ecosystem: Applications, Modelling and Management (given by the SU Baltic Sea Centre to which I'm affiliated).

I regularily supervise Bachelor (kandidat) and MSc (Master) projects, just email me if you want to discuss a potential project! Broadly I supervise projects linked to food web ecology, large scale changes in the Baltic and ecotoxicology.

Research

My research aims to advance our understanding of how individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems react and adapt to natural and anthropogenic stress (e.g. eutrophication, over-fishing, contaminants, invasive species and climate change). I am particularly interested in these topics:

Food web ecology and trophic interactions during environmental change
Long-term ecological research and co-analyses of monitoring data and archived samples
The role of N-fixing cyanobacterial blooms for fish growth conditions
Applications of stable isotopes in ecology, ecotoxicology and environmental monitoring

My publication list can be found on my Research Gate and Google Scholar profiles (see links)

Current projects:

Formas (2020-2023): Can cyanobacterial blooms make Baltic Sea fish less toxic?

Naturvårdsverket (Swedish EPA): Time trends in isotope composition of Baltic cod

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