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Josefin Thorslund Eriksson

About me

 

I am a hydrologist that got my PhD in Nov 2017 from the Dep. of Physcial Geography here at Stockholm University. I am currently working as a post doc within the research unit for Hydrology, Water resources, and Permafrost at the department, and at Utrecht University, on a mobility grant from FORMAS (between 2019-2022). The project is has the title: Water quality impacts water scarcity - accounting for changing freshwater salinity on water scarcity in global drylands.

 

 

I am also working as a project assistant for a global wetland ecohydrology network (GWEN: www.gwennetwork.se) and I am since 2017 the national coordinator for the Swedish World Water Day (Världsvattendagen: www.vattendag.org)

 

Teaching

 

Teaching assistant

Fall semester 2017

GE7025, Local to Global Water Vulnerability and Resilience, 15 credits

Spring semester 2017

GE8009, Land-Water Risk Assessment and Management Methods, 15 credits

Fall semester 2016

GE7025, Local to Global Water Vulnerability and Resilience, 15 credits

Spring semester 2015

GE2011, Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, 30 credits

Research

My current research project focus on salinity-driven water scarcity. This project aims to target the major scientific challenge of assessing main drivers of freshwater salinization and quantify present and future salinity-driven water scarcity in global drylands. This is needed because elevated salinity of freshwater resources is a common water quality issue, which could strongly affect water scarcity. Because no studies have accounted for salinity impacts on water scarcity in critical global drylands, current water scarcity estimations risk being severely underestimated. This study will achieve the aim by; 1) conducting the first coherent assessment of present freshwater salinity in global drylands; 2) combining water- and mass balance approaches to develop projections of future changes in water quantity and salinity, accounting for impacts of agricultural development and climate change, and; 3) estimate where and to what extent salinitydriven water scarcity will occur during the 21st century, through novel development of a data-driven modelling framework, considering salinity thresholds for different human water uses and ecosystems. Improved capacity to predict and prevent future water scarcity is essential for sustainable provisioning of water to end-users and the ecosystem. 

Another research focus is on landscape scale spreading and fate of substances in aqueous systems, especially regarding metal transport through coupled river-groundwater-wetland systems. I am also working on both qualitative and quantitative assessments of the large-scale functions of wetlands and the impacts of regional-global change on their functions and associated provisioning of ecosystem services. 

 

 

Publications

Åhlén, I., Hambäck, P., Thorslund, J., Frampton, A., Destouni, G., Jarsjö, J. 2020. Wetlandscape size thresholds for ecosystem service delivery: Evidence from the Norrström drainage basin, Sweden. Sci. Total Environ. 704, 135452. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135452

Ghajarnia, N., Destouni, G., Thorslund, J., Kalantari, Z., Åhlén, I., Anaya-Acevedo, J. A., Blanco-Libreros, J. F., Borja, S., Chalov, S., Chalova, A., Chun, K. P., Clerici, N., Desormeaux, A., Garfield, B. B., Girard, P., Gorelits, O., Hansen, A., Jaramillo, F., Jarsjö, J., Labbaci, A., Livsey, J., Maneas, G., McCurley, K., Palomino-Ángel, S., Pietroń, J., Price, R., Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Salgado, J., Sannel, A. B. K., Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, S., Sjöberg, Y., Terskii, P., Vigouroux, G., Licero-Villanueva, L., and Zamora, D.: Data for wetlandscapes and their changes around the world, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-207, in review, 2019.

Thorslund, J., Cohen, M.J., Jawitz, J.W., Destouni, G., Creed, I.F., Rains, M.C., Badiou, P., Jarsjö, J. 2018. Solute evidence for hydrological connectivity of geographically isolated wetlands. Land Degrad. Dev., 29, 3954-3962. doi:10.1002/ldr.3145 

 
Jarsjö, J., Chalov, S. R., Pietroń, J., Alekseenko, A. V. & Thorslund, J. 2017. Patterns of soil contamination, erosion and river loading of metals in a gold mining region of northern Mongolia. Reg Environ Change, 17, 1991-2005.
 
 
Lychagin, M., Chalov, S., Kasimov, N., Shinkareva, G., Jarsjö, J.,        and Thorslund, J., 2017. Surface water pathways and fluxes of metals under changing environmental conditions and human interventions in the Selenga River system. Environ Earth Sci, 76, 1. doi:10.1007/s12665-016-6304-z
 
Thorslund J., Jarsjö J, T. Wällstedt, C. M. Mörth, M. Yu. Lychagin and S. R. Chalov. 2017. Speciation and hydrological transport of metals in non-acidic river systems of the Lake Baikal basin: Field data and model predictions, Reg Environ Change, 17, 2001-2021.
 
Chalov, S.R., Thorslund, J. et al., 2017. The Selenga River delta - geochemical barrier protecting Lake Baikal's waters, Reg Environ Change, 17, 2039-2053.
 
Thorslund, J., Chalov, S.R., Karthe, D., Jarsjö, J., 2016. Impacts of hydroclimate and mining on arsenic contamination of groundwater and surface water systems in Central Asia. In: Arsenic Research and Global Sustainability, (Eds) Bhattacharya, P., Vahter, M., Jarsjö, J., Kumpiene, J., Ahmad, A., Sparrenbom, C., Jacks, G., Donselaar, M.E., Bundschuh, J., Naidu, R. Tylor & Francis Group, London. ISBN: 978-1-138-02941-5.
 
Fischer, S., Pietroń, J., Bring, A., Thorslund, J., Jarsjö, J., 2016. Present to future sediment transport of the Brahmaputra River: reducing uncertainty in predictions and management. Reg Environ Change 1–12. doi:10.1007/s10113-016-1039-7
 
Törnqvist, R., Jarsjö, J., Thorslund, J., Rao, P.S.C., Basu, N.B. and Destouni, G. 2015. Mechanisms of basin-scale nitrogen load reductions under intensified irrigated agriculture. PLoS ONE, 10(3), e0120015, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120015, 2015.
 
Thorslund J., Jarsjö J., Chalov S.R. and Belozerova E.V. 2012. Gold mining impact on riverine heavy metal transport in a sparsely monitored region: the upper Lake Baikal Basin case.  J Environ Monit, 14: 2780-2792. 
 
Chalov, S., Jarsjö, J., Kasimov, N., Romanchenko, A.O., Pietron, J., Thorslund, J and Promakhova, E.V. 2014. Spatio-temporal variation of sediment transport in the Selenga River Basin, Mongolia and Russia. Environ Earth Sci, 73, 663-680.
 
Chalov, S., Zavadsky., A., Belozerova, E.V., Bulacheva, M.P., Jarsjö, J., Thorslund, J and Yamkhin, J. 2012. Suspended and dissolved matter fluxes in the upper Selenga River basin. Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2, 78-94.

 

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