The INTEGRAL Team:
Prof. Gregor Rehder
Mail: gregor.rehder@io-warnemuende.de
Gregor coordinates INTEGRAL and leads WP 1 and 3. He is vice head of the Department of Marine Chemistry and head of the Trace Gas Biogeochemistry group at IOW, including the carbon system and non-CO2 Greenhouse gas labs. He is also in charge of the trace gas instrumentation on board VOS “Finnmaid” since it became designated part of ICOS in 2012. His major research interest is the marine cycle of greenhouse gases, including air-sea fluxes, inner ocean transport, production, and turnover processes. Naturally, INTEGRAL is in the core of his expertise – and scientific interest. Gregor has been coordinator of the Innovation Project BONUS PINBAL.
Jens Daniel Müller
Mail: jens.mueller@io-warnemuende.de
Jens will support INTEGRAL as a PostDoc researcher. During his PhD at IOW he developed a pH instrument for the Baltic Sea, which will be put into operation within INTEGRAL. He is also a keen data scientist who unraveled biogeochemical transformations by analyzing CO2 system dynamics. INTEGRAL gives Jens the opportunity to translate his biogeochemical process understanding into oceanographic models.
Dr. Bernd Schneider
Mail: bernd.schneider@io-warnemuende.de
Bernd is a senior scientist and will accompany INTEGRAL with his long lasting experience in operating the “Finnmaid” VOS line for recording the surface water pCO2 and in monitoring the CO2 accumulation in stagnant deep waters. The use of the CO2 data for the identification and quantification of biogeochemical process studies and thus the support for both biogeochemical modelling and eutrophication research, constitutes the focus of his research.
Prof. Markus Meier
Mail: markus.meier@io-warnemuende.de
Markus was head of the Oceanographic Research Unit at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). Since 2015, he is the head of the Department of Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation at IOW. His research focuses on numerical modelling of the Baltic Sea including ecosystem modelling, the dynamics of regional climate systems and the projection of the future climate in the Baltic Sea Region. Within BONUS INTEGRAL he is the leader of WP6 which aims to improve carbon cycle models and use carbon as the central variable for the assessment of Baltic Sea eutrophication.
Dr. Anja Eggert
Mail: eggert@fbn-dummerstorf.de
Anja is a marine biologist by training and first studied for 10 years marine algae and their responses to environmental stresses, both in the field and the laboratory. Since 2009 she mainly uses numerical computer models to investigate the effects of climate change and pollution on marine ecosystems. Anja enjoys statistical thinking and data analysis with R. Within the project BONUS INTEGRAL she will improve the implementation of the carbon cycle in a coupled hydrodynamic-biogeochemical model of the Baltic Sea, based on our improved process understanding and new parameterizations.
Dr. Thomas Neumann
Mail: thomas.neumann@io-warnemuende.de
Thomas is involved in modeling the Baltic Sea ecosystem since more than 20 years. His work focuses on the impact of external drivers, like climate variability and changes in the catchment, on the Baltic Sea response.
Prof. Anna Rutgersson
Mail: Anna.Rutgersson@met.uu.se
Anna is a meteorology professor with scientific expertise in air-sea interaction and processes influencing air-water gas exchange. She has worked with Baltic Sea research for many years and was active in the Baltic Earth community where she is now the co-chair. She is also in the SSC of SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere). Anna is the PI of the Swedish marine ICOS station Östergarnsholm, one of the infrastructures of INTEGRAL. Anna leads the outreach and communication WP of Integral.
Lucia Gutiérrez Loza
Mail: lucia.gutierrez_loza@geo.uu.se
Lucía is a PhD student in Meterology focusing on air-sea exchange processes of energy, water vapour and greenhouse gases. She has a great interest in direct air-sea flux measurements and the processes influencing the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere. Lucía is working on the measurements and data retrieved at the Swedish marine ICOS station Östergarnsholm.
Dr. Marcus Wallin
Mail: marcus.wallin@geo.uu.se
Marcus has a PhD in environmental assessment with expertise in biogeochemical processes and air-water gas exchange. He has studied gas exchange in various type of aquatic systems including streams, rivers, lakes and more currently coastal seas. Marcus has a big interest in measurement techniques and is partly working as research engineer at the Swedish marine ICOS station Östergarnsholm.
Prof. Lauri Laakso
Mail: Lauri.Laakso@fmi.fi
Lauri is the head of Sea-Atmosphere interactions research group at FMI. He has long experience on environmental observations and experimental data. Within INTEGRAL, he will be the PI of the FMI contribution. He will also coordinate the development of Utö Atmospheric and Marine Research Station. As a person, Lauri has a tendency to get involved in too many things.
Martti Honkanen
Mail: Martti.Honkanen@fmi.fi
Martti is a geophysicist having recently obtained his MSc on sea-atmosphere flux measurements and now writing his first publication. In this project, he will participate in the measurements carried out at Utö, onboard MS Silja Serenade and in RV Aranda. His aim is to make a PhD on Baltic Sea carbonate system in the future, if the referees of recent funding applications are gracious.
Dr. Heidi Pettersson
Mail: heidi.pettersson@fmi.fi
Heidi is a senior scientist at FMI. Her research interests are wind-generated waves and their role in air-sea interaction. She has led several research cruises on R/V Aranda aiming to study the carbon dioxide exchange between the sea and atmosphere. In INTEGRAL she will study the mechanism and parameterization of the exchange as well as lead the research cruise in 2019.
Jan-Victor Björkqvist
Mail: jan-victor.bjorkqvist@fmi.fi
Jan-Victor is a PhD student at FMI. His main (scientific) interests revolves around nearshore surface waves. With a background in mathematics Jan-Victor is in the process of becoming proficient with both wave measurements and numerical simulations. His focus in INTEGRAL will be on implementing the new flux-parameterisation into the wave model WAM, but he will also be involved in determining the parameterisation based on the field measurements made on boards R/V Aranda.
Sami Kielosto
Mail: sami.kielosto@fmi.fi
Sami works as a research engineer at FMI. His field of expertise is electronics and automation. During this project he will install and maintain commercial pCO2 and pH measurement systems on the Helsinki-Stockholm VOS and the island-based measurement station of Utö. His status as a double agent at Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) should also prove useful, as SYKE already has FerryBox systems up and running at these locations.
Tuomas Laurila
Mail: tuomas.laurila@fmi.fi
Tuomas is the head of the Greenhouse Gases Research group in the FMI. He takes care of the development and running of the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration monitoring network in Finland, including atmospheric measurements at Utö island and two GHG monitoring stations on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. With his group Tuomas studies carbon dioxide and methane fluxes at fifteen sites (forests, wetlands, landfills, lakes, river, tundra) in Finland and Siberia by continuous micrometeorological measurements. Within INTEGRAL he’ll participate in developing methodologies and give support for atmospheric and flux measurements of GHGs.
Prof. Hermann W. Bange
Mail: hbange@geomar.de
Hermann is a Professor of Marine Chemistry and head of the working group Trace Gas Biogeochemistry at GEOMAR. His research interests include biogeochemical pathways and emissions of oceanic trace gases (N2O, CH4, DMS, CO). He is coordinator of the Boknis Eck Time Series Station & Underwater Observatory in Eckernförde Bay (SW Baltic Sea). In BONUS INTEGRAL he is in charge of WP4.
Dr. Annette Kock
Mail: akock@geomar.de
Annette coordinates the MEMENTO (MarinE MethanE and NiTrous Oxide) database on oceanic methane and nitrous oxide measurements. Within INTEGRAL, she will work on the integration of N2O/CH4 and pCO2 measurements from the Baltic Sea. She will produce seasonal concentration maps for these gases, which will be used to estimate gas exchange fluxes from the Baltic Sea. Annette will furthermore support the project with additional measurements of N2O and CH4 to increase the spatial and temporal coverage of these data in the Baltic Sea.
Dr. Damian Leonardo Arévalo-Martínez
Mail: darevalo@geomar.de
Damian’s research focuses on the biogeochemistry of trace gases. He’s interested in the marine distribution and sea-air fluxes of climate-relevant gases (e.g. N2O, CO2, CO). His approach includes development and field deployment of high-resolution measurement systems based on cavity ring-down spectroscopy, as well as chemical and biological methods to elucidate sources and sinks of these gases in the ocean. During INTEGRAL Damian will setup and maintain an underway system for measurements of dissolved and atmospheric N2O on board of a voluntary observing ship.
Dr. Karol Kuliński
Mail: kroll@iopan.gda.pl
Karol is PI from the IO PAN in Sopot and leader of the WP2 within INTEGRAL. He is the head of marine biogeochemistry working group at the IO PAN. His research is related mostly to the carbon cycling in the coastal seas. Recently he focused on the peculiarities of the CO2 system in the Baltic Sea. Within this Karol tries to quantify the role of organic substances in shaping the seawater pH and the structure of the acid-base system.
Dr. Beata Szymczycha
Mail: beat.sz@iopan.gda.pl
Beata is an expert on marine biogeochemistry. In her PhD she focused on the submarine groundwater discharge to the southern Baltic Sea. Within INTEGRAL Beata works as a postdoc on the data mining – WP2.
Dr Przemek Makuch
Mail: makuch@iopan.pl
Przemek is a marine physicist working as a postdoc at the IO PAN. Within INTEGRAL Przemek is responsible for establishing and maintenance of the new VOS line measuring pCO2 in the Gulf of Gdansk.
Marcin Stokowski
Mail: stokowski@iopan.gda.pl
Marcin is a PhD student from the IO PAN. He’s a first potential data user of the new VOS line that will be established within INTEGRAL. In his PhD he focuses on the structure and transformations of CO2 system in the coastal Baltic Sea. His PhD work is funded by SALSA - a project granted by the Polish National Science Centre.
Anna Willstrand Wranne
Mail: anna.wranne@smhi.se
Anna has worked with ferrybox systems, pCO2 measurements and environmental monitoring at SMHI since 2011. In INTEGRAL she will work with improving the existing pCO2 measurements and implementing new instruments on the cargo vessel Tavastland. Integral gives her an opportunity to intensify her work and knowledge on the carbon system in the Baltic Sea.
Dr. Kristin Andreasson
Mail: kristin.andreasson@smhi.se
Kristin has a PhD in plant physiology. She works at SMHI with the national monitoring of the marine environment. Though her PhD is in biology, her work focus mainly on chemical measurements. She participates in cruises and does all the laboratory work in the lab, further more she develops the methods and looks after the quality of the measurements. Her work also includes expertise in primary production measurements and the CO2 equipment on the ferrybox onboard Tavastland (Transpaper).
Prof. Urmas Lips
Mail: urmas.lips@ttu.ee
Urmas is a specialist in marine physics with expertise in the field of impact of physical processes on biogeochemical fluxes/cycles and phytoplankton growth and species dynamics. Within INTEGRAL, he will be responsible for the organization of pCO2 and background measurements (WP3), assessment (WP6) and dissemination (WP7).
Dr. Germo Vali
Mail: germo.vali@ttu.ee
Germo is an expert in numerical modeling of physical and biogeochemical processes in the Baltic Sea. In INTEGRAL, he will analyze high-resolution model results from 3D-hydrodynamic model coupled with biogeochemical model ERGOM (WP6) and support flux parametrization (WP5).
Dr. Villu Kikas
Mail: villu.kikas@ttu.ee
Villu has expertise in measurements using ferryboxes and other autonomous devices. He will have the main responsibility for operation and maintenance of Tallinn-Helsinki ferrybox (WP3) and data mining (WP2).
Dr. Jamie Shutler
Mail: J.D.Shutler@exeter.ac.uk
Jamie is an oceanographer whose research exploits in situ observations, satellite Earth observation and model data to study and monitor the marine environment, particularly in relation to climate. Within INTEGRAL Jamie is leading the work to combine in situ observations (e.g. from ships), satellite Earth observation and model data to calculate the atmosphere-ocean gas fluxes of carbon dioxide. Jamie will also be helping to improve the estimates of these gas fluxes within areas of broken ice. This work will exploit the open source gas flux toolbox called FluxEngine.