Research area: MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON RESEARCH

1. Who we are:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Patricija Mozetič, biology graduate

Dr. Janja Francé, biology graduate

Timotej Turk Dermastia, mladi raziskovalec

Milijan Šiško, biology graduate, technical associate

2. What we do:

- Study of the role of phytoplankton in the pelagic carbon cycle: defining the ecological characteristics of phytoplankton using biomass, abundance, and taxonomic and size structure

- primary production measurements

- research of phytoplankton physiology: photosynthetic (P-E) parameters, photoacclimation processes, physiological response in relation to physical properties of water column (e.g. stability)

- application of P-E parameters in productivity models

- study of the ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), identification of toxic phytoplankton species

- analysis of time series, detection of regime shifts, impacts of climate change and effects of eutrophication through application of different statistical approaches

- implementation of European legislation in the field of water protection on national level: development of methodologies for the assessment of ecological and environmental status of the sea using phytoplankton

- expert solutions/judgments for the implementation of national monitoring programmes on the basis of EU directives

- performing national monitoring programmes

- Quality Assurance: participation in intercalibration exercises for determination of chlorophyll a in seawater, validation of the fluorometric method for determination of chlorophyll a

3. Collaborations, projects

a) On-going projects:

- Sensing toxicants in Marine waters makes Sense using biosensors (SMS, EU FP7, 2013-2015)

- Marine debris removal and preventing further litter entry (MarineClean, EU CIP Eco-Innovation, 2011-2014)

- BALast water MAnagement System for Adriatic Sea protection (BALMAS, IPA Adriatic Cross-border Cooperation Programme, 2013-2016)

b) Formal (projects' partners) and informal (publications) cooperation with domestic and foreign institutions:

- Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia

- Center for Marine Research of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (CIM), Rovinj, Croatia

- Ruđer Bošković Institute, Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Zagreb, Croatia

- OGS National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics, Division of Oceanography, Sgonico (TS), Italy

- University of Trieste, Department of Life Sciences, Italy

- ARPA FVG Friuli Venezia Giulia, Palmanova (UD), Italy

- CNR - ISMAR, Venice, Italy

- Stazione zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples, Italy

- Institute »Jožef Stefan«, Department of Environmental Sciences, Ljubljana

- Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana

- Slovenian Environment Agency, Ljubljana

- Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection, Ljubljana

- Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana

4. Recent works (tu bi dala povezavo na osebno stran vsake raziskovalke, kjer že itak naštevamo bibliografijo; dodala bi pomembnejša poročila)

5. Other: (tudi to se ponavlja; nekaj je že na osebni strani raziskovalca)

- FAO/IOC/UNEP Training Workshop on the Statistical Treatment and Interpretation of Marine Community Data, Split, Croatia, 1990; Patricija Mozetič

- IOC-Danida Training Course on the Taxonomy and Biology of Harmful Marine Microalgae, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996; Patricija Mozetič

- Advanced Phytoplankton Course, Taxonomy and Systematics, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy, 1998; Patricija Mozetič

- UNEP-MAP First course of training for technical operators on Coastal Water Eutrophication Monitoring Programme (MED-POL. Phase III), Cesenatico, Italija, 2003; Janja Francé

- IOC-Training Course on the Biology of Harmful Marine Microalgae«, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010; Janja Francé

- Certificate of Proficiency in Identification of Harmful Marine Microalgae; Janja Francé

- National expert in the intercalibration group MedGIG (implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC), 1st phase 2005 2007; Patricija Mozetič

- National expert in the intercalibration group MedGIG (implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC), 2nd phase 2008 2011, 3rd phase 2013- ; Janja Francé