Maria Kahlert

Director of study: Graduate school 'Focus on soils and water' (FoSW) 

Course leader BI1377 Biologisk mångfald i sötvatten

Projects

• AquaBioEx (FORMAS): How to protect what we do not know we have: Identifying, understanding and managing aquatic biodiversity in intensively managed forests and under an increasingly extreme climate
• DNAquaIMG (Biodiversa+) - Innovating transnational aquatic biodiversity monitoring using high-throughput DNA tools and automated image recognitionDNAquaIMG
• FRESHBAR – Barcoding of freshwater organisms for improved assessment of biodiversity
• International Society for Diatom Research (ISDR)
• Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), Freshwater Ecosystem Monitoring Group (FEMG)
• NorBAF - the Nordic-Baltic Network for Benthic Algae in Freshwater
• Contact for diatoms as bioindicator in national & regional  monitoring programmes (Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM/HaV & regional water authorities)

Previous

• New methods improving freshwater conservation and management
• DNAqua-net - genomic tools for routine application of biomonitoring of European water bodies
• Benthic diatoms with DNA - method development
• EDNA - national network to develop DNA methos for monitoring and assessment
• Impact of toxins (heavy metals and organic pollutants) on diatom community composition and valve formation
• BONUS FUMARI - Future Marine Assessment and Monitoring of the Baltic
• WATERS (Waterbody Assessment Tools for Ecological Reference conditions and status in Sweden) Research into assessment criteria for the classification of ecological water status (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency – SEPA)

Benthic diatoms as biomonitoring tools

SIS Standard developer 

• 2009 Associate Prof. in Biology with Specialization in Ecology at SLU
• 2001 Ph.D. in Limnology at Uppsala University
• 1995 Diploma in Zoology at the University of Cologne, Germany 

PhD students

• Ina Bloch (assistent supervisor)
• Steffi Gottschalk (main supervisor)
• Sophie Gröndahl  (University of Cologne, DE) (assistent supervisor) 
• Alexander Feckler (assistent supervisor)
• Bonnie Bailet (main supervisor)
• Cedric Åkermark (assistent supervisor)

Postdocs

• François Keck

ORCID: 0000-0001-9643-4281

Maria Kahlert publication list