Research area
- Phytoplankton (especially potentially toxic species)
Why is your research important?
Although the phytoplankton of the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea are well known, there is a lack of information on how important the influence of Baltic waters on the distribution range of individual groups of organisms is. The collected material will be used for both scientific and didactic work.
What are your personal motivations?
I want to personally collect and learn about organisms new to me that are not found in the Baltic Sea. I hope to have an adventure working together in an interdisciplinary way and supporting all research teams.
What are you going to do during the BaltArctic Cruise?
At each station I will sample phytoplankton with a special phytoplankton net and I will view and photograph live phytoplankton using a microscope directly during the cruise. I will preserve the rest of the samples for further analysis in the laboratory.