Stina Drakare

I am associate professor and deputy head at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment and head of the Ecology and Biodiversity Division.

SLU-assignments

• Member of the Board of Education, 2025-
• Member of the faculty board at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (FN-NJ) 2022-2024
• Member of the program board at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (PN-NJ), 2019-2022
• Deputy head of Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, 2019-
• Deputy member of the program board at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (PN-NJ), 2016-2019
• Head of Ecology and Biodiversity Division, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, 2013-
• Coordinatoror for the SLU Environmental monitoring and assessment Lakes and watercourses programme, 2009-2021
• Director of studies for PhD students, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, 2009-2013

Mainly on two courses (in Swedish): Energi och miljö (Energy and the Environment) and Energisystemens miljöpåverkan (Environmental Impacts of Energy Systems for civil engineer students)

I regularly supervise bachelor and master projects, usually with focus on Lake Mälaren. Some examples are:

• Maja Sellergen. 2022. Aluminiumbehandling som sjörestaureringsåtgärd i Stora och Lilla Ullfjärden (pdf)
• Elin Flodin. 2021.  Vid vilka förhållanden frodas kvävefixerande cyanobakterier i Mälaren? (pdf)
• Jonas Beretta-Piccoli. 2020. The floating menace: Evaluation of methods to eradicate Nymphoides peltata in Lake Mälaren (pdf)
• Hanna Sjulgård. 2018. Algblomning vid badplatser - kan dess provtagningar komplettera miljöövervakningen? (pdf)
• Jenny Näslund. 2017. Analys av varför sjöar klassats till dålig ekologisk status: rapporterade enligt vattendirektivet 2015 (pdf).

Research-wise, the focus is on phytoplankton, algal blooms and aquatic food webs and the development of DNA-based methods to study aquatic organisms at different scales and adapt them for use in large scale monitoring. I work closely to the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and develop assessment methods for water management. 

I have a large Focus on Mälaren, in a collaboration with Lake Mälaren's water conservation association, to facilitate the exchange between research and social interests around the lake.

Current project:

• VR-project: Global change depletes pelagic food webs in northern lakes (Web4Food)

I was for thirteen years coordinator for the Lakes and watercourses programme. Now, my contribution is mainly via environmental monitoring projects such as Focus on Mälaren and National trend lakes programme.

I also lead the laboratory that analyzes phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthic fauna, algae and other aquatic plants for mainly national monitoring.

• Carlotta Meriggi, PhD 2023, SLU
• Hannah Fried-Petersen, PhD 2021, SLU
• Didier Baho, PhD 2015, SLU, SL
• Jürg Brendan Louge, PhD 2010, UU
• Ina Bloch, PhLic, 2010, SLU

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