Magdalena Bieroza

NEWS

• A post-doc position is avaialble now for a new project on Retention-irrigation system to reduce negative impacts of climate change in agricultural landscapes. Expected starting date: May-June 2025. 
• EGU 2025 BG4.3 Aquatic biogeochemical cycles: From field and lab measurements to understanding patterns and processes in past, recent, and future aquatic environments Get ready for a real scientific treat with 44 interesting abstracts featured in our session.   

Publications in 2025

• Creed, I.F., D.A. Aldred, J. Leach, K. Webster, and M. Bieroza, In press. Cycles in hydrologic intensification and de-intensification create instabilities in spring nitrate-N export C-Q relationships in northern temperate forests. Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1029/2024WR038560.
• Rozemeijer, J., Jordan P., Hooijboer, A., Kronvang, B., Glendell M., Hensley R., Rinke K., Stutter M., Bieroza M., Turner R., Mellander PE., Thorburn P., Cassidy R., Appels J., Ouwerkerk, K., M. Rode, In Press. Best practice in high-frequency water quality monitoring for improved management and assessment; a novel decision workflow. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-025-13795-z.

CURRENT POSITION (Department of Soil and Environment, SLU)

01/2021-         Senior Lecturer in Water Quality in Agricultural Landscapes

12/2018-         Associate Professor in Soil Sciences - Water Quality Management  

CURRENT RESEARCH

1.  Phosphorus, nitrogen and carbon dynamics in human-impacted streams.

2.  Diffuse pollution in agricultural catchments: monitoring, modelling and management.

3.  High-frequency water quality monitoring.

4. Global change impacts on aquatic ecosystems.

ONGOING PROJECTS

• 2025-2028         EU MSCA Doctoral Networks BEYOND Beyond the current: Improving European flowing waters in an era of global change - Coordinator.

BEYOND will train the next generation of water professionals who will deliver scientific and technological innovation across disciplines, institutions and countries needed to solve European water quality problems in an era of global change. We will be employing 10 PhD students across Europe from 2025, so stay tuned for further news! 

https://www.slu.se/beyond

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101169293

• 2025-2027      Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning Retention-irrigation system to reduce negative impacts of climate change in agricultural landscapes - Prinicipal Investigator. 
• 2024-2026     Åforsk, Retention-irrigation system: a new measure to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change and diffuse pollution in agricultural landscapes - Principal Investigator.
• 2022-2025     Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning Remediated agricultural ditches in Sweden: evaluation of ecological and chemical status and water quality at a catchment scale under current and future climate – Principal Investigator.

CURRENT STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS (as main supervisor)

Livsey, John, Post-doc, 2022-2025, Agricultural stream remediation in Sweden

Kuśmierz, Katarzyna, Post-doc, 2025, Agriculture and Water – Dynamics of Biogenic Compounds and their Migration

Weber, Nikolaus, PhD, 2024-2025, The impact of data quality and outlier detection in high frequency water quality data on water management and process understanding

Chamerska, Aleksandra, PhD, 2025, Modelling of concentration-discharge relationships

Bornaz Torres, Valeri Nicolle, MSc, 2025, Ecological analysis of macroinvertebrates in remediated ditches based on their functional
traits

CURRENT COURSES

MSc course Land use and watershed management to reduce eutrophication, 7 ECTS

Do you want to learn more about water quality pollution and how to combat eutrophication? Join the MSc course which runs annully in November.

https://www.slu.se/en/education/programmes-courses/courses/?sprak=en&anmkod=20155.2021

PhD course Aquatic systems through the lens of organic matter stability and fate – a coordinated distributed experiment, 4 ECTS

https://www.slu.se/globalassets/ew/org/fsk/fosw/activities/2021/2022-aquatic-sciences_flyer.pdf

PhD Course, High Temporal Resolution Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis, 1.5 ECTS

https://www.slu.se/globalassets/ew/org/fsk/fosw/activities/2021/2021-high-resolution-water-quality-phd-course---flyer.pdf

PhD course Agricultural catchments in a changing world, 3 ECTS

Do you want to learn about hydrological, biogeochemical, ecological, economic and societal processes controlling agricultural landscapes? Then this course is for you. 

https://www.slu.se/globalassets/ew/org/fsk/fosw/activities/phdcourses/2020/2020_agricultural-catchments_flyer.pdf

Bieroza M., Hallberg L., Livsey J., Prischl L-A. and M. Wynants (2024), Recognizing Agricultural Headwaters as Critical Ecosystems, Environmental Science and Technology, doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.est.3c10165.

Bieroza M, Hallberg L., Livsey J. and M. Wynants (2024), Climate change accelerates water and biogeochemical cycles in temperate agricultural catchments, Science of the Total Environment 951.

Hallberg, L., Djodjic F, Hallin S, and M. Bieroza (2024), Trade-offs between nitrogen and phosphorus removal with floodplain remediation in agricultural streams, Water Research, doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121770.

Hallberg, L., F. Djodjic, and M. Bieroza (2024), Phosphorus supply and floodplain design govern phosphorus reduction capacity in remediated agricultural streams. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28(2), 341–355.

Wynants, M., J. Strömqvist, L. Hallberg, J. Livsey, G. Lindström, and M. Z. Bieroza, 2024, How to Achieve a 50% Reduction in Nutrient Losses from Agricultural Catchments under Different Climate Trajectories? Earth's Future 12.

Hallberg, L., Bernal, S., and M. Bieroza (2024), Seasonal Variation in Flow and Metabolic Activity Drive Nitrate and Carbon Supply and Demand in a Temperate Agricultural Stream. JGR Biogeosciences 129, 11.

Bieroza M, Acharya S, Benisch J, ter Borg R, Hallberg L, Negri C, Pruitt A, Pucher M, Saavedra F, Staniszewska K, van’t Veen S, Vincent A, Winter C, Basu N, Jarvie H, Kirchner J, 2023, Advances in Catchment Science, Hydrochemistry, and Aquatic Ecology Enabled by High-Frequency Water Quality Measurements. Environ. Sci. Technol., https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07798.

Skarbøvik E, van’t Veen S, Lannergård E, Wenng H, Stutter M, Bieroza M, Atcheson K, Jordan P, Folster J, Mellander PE, Kronvang B, Marttila H, Lepisto O, Kamari M, 2023, Comparing in situ turbidity sensor measurements as a proxy for suspended sediments in North-Western European streams. Catena, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107006.

Rezanezhad F, Bieroza M, Contosta A and Van Cappellen P, 2023, Editorial: The cold regions in transition: Impacts on soil and groundwater biogeochemistry. Front. Environ. Sci. 11:1143388. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1143388.

Hallberg L, Hallin S, Bieroza M, 2022, Catchment controls of denitrification and nitrous oxide production rates in headwater remediated agricultural streams. Science of the Total Environment, 156513, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156513.

Berggren M, Guillemette F, Bieroza M, Buffam I, Deininger A, Hawkes JA, Kothawala DN, LaBrie R, Lapierre J-F, Murphy KR, Al-Kharusi E, Rulli M, Hensgens G, Younes H, Wünsch U, 2022, Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems. Ecology, doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3763.

Campeaua A, Eklöf K,Soerensen A, Åkerblom S, Yuan S, Hintelmann H, Bieroza M, Köhler S, Zdanowicz C, 2022, Sources of riverine mercury across the Mackenzie River Basin; inferences from a combined Hg C isotopes and optical properties approach. Science of The Total Environment, 150808.

Kurajica L, Ujević Bošnjak M, Kinsela AS, Bieroza M, Štiglić J, Waite TD, Capak K,  Romić Ž, 2022, Mixing of arsenic-rich groundwater and surface water in drinking water distribution systems: Implications for contaminants, disinfection byproducts and organic components. Chemosphere, 292, 133406.

Speir S, Tank J, Bieroza M, Mahl U, Royer T, 2021, Storm size and hydrologic modification influence nitrate mobilization and transport in agricultural watersheds. Biogeochemistry, 181, 8.

Bieroza M, Bol R, Glendell M, 2021, What is the deal with the Green Deal: Will the new strategy help to improve European freshwater quality beyond the Water Framework Directive? Science of the Total Environment, 791, 148080.

Pi K, Bieroza M, Brouchkov A, et al., 2021, The Cold Region Critical Zone in Transition: Responses to Climate Warming and Land Use Change. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 46.

Djodjic F, Bieroza M, Bergström L, 2021, Land use, geology and soil properties control nutrient concentrations in headwater streams. Science of the Total Environment, 772, 145108.

Heathwaite AL and Bieroza M, 2020, Fingerprinting hydrological and biogeochemical drivers of freshwater quality. Hydrological Processes. doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13973

Bieroza M, Dupas R, Glendell M, McGrath G, Mellander P-E, 2020, Hydrological and Chemical Controls on Nutrient and Contaminant Loss to Water in Agricultural Landscapes. Water. doi.org/10.3390/w12123379

Bieroza M, Bergström L, Ulén B, Djodjic F, Tonderski K, Heeb A, Svensson J and 
Malgeryd J, 2019, Hydrologic Extremes and Legacy Sources Can Override Efforts to Mitigate Nutrient and Sediment Losses at the Catchment Scale. Journal of Environmental Quality. doi:10.2134/jeq2019.02.0063. 

Ulén B, Geranmayeh P, Blomberg M, Bieroza M, 2019, Seasonal variation in nutrient retention in a free water surface constructed wetland monitored with flow-proportional sampling and optical sensors. Ecological Engineering. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.105588.

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.

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.