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Magdalena Bieroza

Magdalena Bieroza
I am a catchment hydrologist, biogeochemist and computer scientist by profession. I am interested in catchment- and reach-scale nutrient and organic matter dynamics in agricultural catchments. I am particularly interested in high-temporal resolution stream biogeochemical responses and monitoring using on-line in situ sensors.

Presentation

NEWS

1. Phosphorus Mitigation At Headwater Catchment-Scale: Are Hydrological Extremes And Legacy Phosphorus Overriding The Management Efforts? A new paper, currently in review with the Journal of Environmental Quality. We show that individual mitigation measures are reducing nutrient and sediment concentrations but prolonged drought and resuspension of sediments exacerbate phosphorus and sediment stream export. 

2. EGU presentation Phosphorus mitigation at headwater catchment-scale: is increased hydrological flashiness overriding the management efforts? 08 Apr 2019, 16:15, Room 2.95. 

3. EGU Monday with Advancing understanding of hydrochemical and ecological processes controlling fate of natural organic matter, nutrients and pollutants in freshwater and engineered systems using state-of-the-art methods.  

Orals  | Mon, 08 Apr, 10:45–12:30, 14:00–18:00 Room 2.31
Posters  | Attendance Mon, 08 Apr, 08:30–10:15 Hall A

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/session/32089

4. Call for papers for the special issue in Water on Hydrological and Chemical Controls on Nutrient and Contaminant Loss to Water in Agricultural Landscapes

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/nutrient_agricultural

 

PRESENT POSITION

01/2018-         Researcher at Department of Soil and Environment (SLU, SE), Associate Professor from 01/2019.

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2016-2017 Marie Curie Fellowship at Department of Soil and Environment (SLU, SE) Hot-spots of phosphorus and nitrogen delivery in time and space in agricultural catchments - HotPaNTS.

2015-2016 Natural Environment Research Council NERC and Environment Agency Research Fellow (Lancaster University, UK) Nitrate from agriculture: moving from uncertain data to operational responses.

2011-2015 Senior Research Associate in Nutrient Biogeochemistry (Lancaster University, UK) NERC project (PI AL Heathwaite) Phosphorus dynamics in groundwater-fed rivers.

2010-2011 Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Catchment Hydrology (Engineering, Bristol University, UK) Long-term nitrate trends in the Thames with N Howden (PI).

Teaching

MSc course Land use and watershed management to reduce eutrophication

https://www.slu.se/en/education/programmes-courses/courses/?sprak=en&anmkod=20084.1819

 

STUDENT SUPERVISION

Please contact me if you are interested in BSc or MSc project in one of my current research fields. 

 

AVAILABLE PROJECTS

https://www.slu.se/en/departments/soil-environment/education/undergraduate-education/independent-projectdegree-project-1/

 

PREVIOUS STUDENTS

Ehnvall, Betty, 2017. Organic matter properties and their relation to phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations in Swedish agricultural streams. Second cycle, A2E. Uppsala: SLU, Dept. of Soil and Environment.

https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/10266/

Abade Smoginski, Ana Paula, 2017. Can we use optical sensors in highly turbid agricultural streams?. Second cycle, A2E. Uppsala: SLU, Dept. of Soil and Environment

https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/13117/

Research

CURRENT RESEARCH

1.  Phosphorus, nitrogen and carbon dynamics in agricultural streams.

2.  Diffuse pollution: monitoring, modelling and management.

3.  High-temporal resolution monitoring in agricultural streams.

4.  Natural organic matter dynamics in agricultural streams.

 

ONGOING GRANTS

2019-2021       FORMAS Two-stage ditches in Sweden – Principal Investigator.

2018-2019       Department of Soil and Environment, SLU Improved assessment of eutrophication – Principal Investigator.

2018-2019       Jordbruksverket Phosphorus ponds with and without sediment removal –  Principal Investigator.

2018-2019       Stiftelsen Carl Denitrification in bed sediments of a two-stage ditch and a sedimentation pond – Principal Investigator.

2017-2019       Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning Towards environmentally friendly Swedish agriculture – Principal Investigator.

2017-2019     Stiftelsen ÅForsk Evaluation of the effects of phosphorus and suspended sediments mitigation measures in agricultural catchments – Principal Investigator.

2017-2019       FORMAS Are anaerobic conditions in soil the main reason for large leaching losses of phosphorus from arable land? – Co-applicant.

 

COMPLETED GRANTS

2016 - 2017     Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at Department of Soil and Environment (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, SE) Hot-spots of phosphorus and nitrogen delivery in time and space in agricultural catchments (HotPaNTS) – Principal Investigator.

2016-2017       Stiftelsen Oscar & Lili Lamms Minne Improved evidence of nutrient hot-spots in agricultural catchments inferred from optical sensors – Principal Investigator.

Background

ACADEMIC DEGREES

2018 Associate professor (docent) in Water Quality Management (SLU, Sweden)

2010 PhD in Water Engineering, Characterising water treatment works performance using fluorescence spectroscopy (University of Birmingham, UK), Supervisors J Bridgeman and A Baker. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/651/.

2006 BEng (Hons) in Computer Science (Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, PL).

2005 MSc (Hons) in Hydrology (Mathematical & Natural Sciences, Warsaw University, PL).

2003 BSc (Hons) in Geography (Mathematical & Natural Sciences, Warsaw University, PL).

Selected publications

All publications are available through self-archiving on my Research Gate profile at

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Magdalena_Bieroza

1.  Bol R, Gruau G, Mellander P-E, Dupas R, Bechmann M, Skarbøvik E, Bieroza M, Djodjic F, Glendell M, Jordan P, Van der Grift B, Rode M, Smolders E, Verbeeck M, Gu S, Klumpp E, Pohle I, Fresne M and Gascuel-Odoux C, 2018, Challenges of Reducing Phosphorus Based Water Eutrophication in the Agricultural Landscapes of Northwest Europe. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:276. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00276.

2.  Bieroza MZ, Heathwaite AL, Bechmann M, Kyllmar K & Jordan P, 2018, The concentration-discharge slope as a tool for water quality management, Sci Total Environ, 630, 738–749.

3.  Bieroza MZ & Heathwaite AL, 2016, Unravelling organic matter and nutrient biogeochemistry in groundwater-fed rivers under baseflow conditions: Uncertainty in in situ high-frequency analysis, Sci Total Environ, 572, 1520-1533.

4.  Bieroza MZ & Heathwaite AL, 2015, Seasonality in phosphorus concentration-discharge hysteresis patterns inferred from high-frequency in situ monitoring, J Hydrol, 524, 333-347.

5.  Bieroza MZ, Heathwaite AL, Mullinger NJ & Keenan PO, 2014, Understanding nutrient biogeochemistry in agricultural catchments: the challenge of appropriate monitoring frequencies, Env Sci Process & Impacts, doi: 10.1039/C4EM00100A.

6.  Ahmed I, Hamilton-Taylor J, Bieroza MZ, Zhang H & Davison W, 2014, Improving and testing geochemical speciation predictions of metal ions in natural waters, Water Res, 67, 276–291.

7.  Carstea EM, Baker A, Bieroza MZ, Reynolds D & Bridgeman J, 2014, Characterisation of dissolved organic matter fluorescence properties by PARAFAC analysis and thermal quenching. Water Res, 61, 152-161.

8.  Bieroza MZ, Baker A, Bridgeman J & Boomer I, 2014, Stable isotopic composition of raw and treated water. ICE - Water Management, doi: 10.1680/wama.13.00065.

9.  Burt TP, Howden NJK, Worrall F, Whelan MJ & Bieroza MZ, 2011, Nitrate in United Kingdom rivers: policy and its outcomes since 1970, Environ Sci Technol, 45(1), 175-181.

10.  Bridgeman J, Bieroza MZ & Baker A, 2011, The application of fluorescence spectroscopy to organic matter characterisation in drinking water treatment, Rev Env Sci Bio-Tech, 10(3), 277-290.

11.  Bieroza MZ, Baker A & Bridgeman J, 2009, Relating freshwater organic matter fluorescence to organic carbon removal efficiency in drinking water treatment, Sci Total Environ, 407(5), 1765-1774. 

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Contact
Researcher at the Department of Soil and Environment; Mark och miljö, Vattenvård
Telephone: 00 46 18 671198
E-mail: magdalena.bieroza@slu.se
Work description: Biogeochemistry, Aquatic systems, In situ high-temporal resolution monitoring, Nutrient dynamics, Natural organic matter, Agricultural catchments
Postal address:
Box 7014
750 07 UPPSALA
Visiting address: Lennart Hjelms väg 9, Uppsala