Work
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INWERT INSTITUTE for biological drinking water quality
Scientific project leader, Competence team 'Invertebrates in drinking water networks'.
- Reader of `Water Biology´, Berlin University of Technology, Campus `El Gouna´, Egypt (until 2019).
- Research co-operation with the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil.
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Associate Professor and research group leader `Limnology´ at the Berlin University of Technology, Chair `Water Quality Control´
(1989 - 2016). - Reviewer, among others for UNEP, CNPq, DAAD
- Editorial board member for Revista Brasileira Ciencias Ambientais
Limnology
Limnology is a scientific discipline that describe the ecology of waters as well as their physical, chemical and biological processes. Limnology today includes many working fields, e. g. limno-chemistry, microbe ecology, plankton ecology, fish biology, limnology of running waters, ecotoxicology and tropical limnology.
Today, focus of limnology are environmental challenges, such as
- Conservation of biodiversity
- Mass development of noxious species (e. g. cyanobacteria)
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Effects of climate change
- Occurrence of invasive species
- Water quantity challenges with flooding and dry periods
- Re-oligotrophication of lakes and reservoirs
Scientific competences
- Invertebrates in drinking water networks
- Biological processes during bank filtration
- Monitoring of water quality
- Analyses of remote sensing
- Management of water reservoirs
- Finfish aquaculture
- Restoration of lakes and rivers
Contact:
Dr. Günter Gunkel
Rüdesheimer Str. 2a – D-13465 Berlin - Germany
Fon: +49 30 401 6994, Fax: +49 30 401 04662
Email: guenter.gunkel@water-quality-control.de
guenter.gunkel@inwert.info
Homepage: www.water-quality-control.de
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