The Authors
Dr. rer. nat. Karen Baumann
studied Biology at the University of Hamburg and earned her doctorate from the BTU Cottbus in 2005. Ever since then her research foci lay in plant-soil-microorganism interactions, soil microbial ecology, the composition of soil organic matter, carbon and phosphorus dynamics in the soil as well as the biological soil crust research.
Dr. rer. nat. Maximilian Berthold
studied Biology and Marine Biology at the University of Rostock and earned his doctorate in 2016 in Ecology. During his time as a research assistant in BACOSA and BACOSA II he had to adapt standard methods to function in brackish environments. His research foci are food webs, and phytoplankton physiology with an emphasis on the phosphorus cycle in aquatic ecosystems.
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Rhena Schumann
studied Aquatic Ecology at the University of Rostock, earned her doctorate in 1994 and habilitated in 2005 in Ecology and Micro¬biology. Her research foci are plankton ecology, microscopy and increasingly biogeochemical material cycles in coastal waters and the analysis of ecological long-term data. The latter has gained in importance since the take-over of the Biological Station Zingst and gave her the opportunity to work more deeply with analytical methods.
email: rhena.schumann@uni-rostock.de
Dr. agr. Dana Zimmer
studied Agricultural Economics at the University of Rostock and did her doctorate in 2011 on phytoremediation of alluvial meadow soils with willows. She worked on a broad range of topics including native lupins as foodstuff, influence of humic substances on the compressive strength of stones, separation of digestates as P fertilizer, and gathered wide experience in different analytical methods (trace elements, granulation, SEM-EDX and others) by working in various projects in the professorships of Soil Science and Soil Physics. Due to the employment in the project “InnoSoilPhos”, the focus has been on the research of phosphorus in soil, including phosphorus analytics since 2015. The coordination of the ScienceCampus Phosphorus Research Rostock was taken over in the 4th quarter of 2018.