CAMPUS AWARD Goes to Biologist and Production Technician
In her dissertation, Esther Thomsen investigated the effects of aquaculture effluents on seagrass ecosystems. Seagrass beds grow in shallow coastal seas and cover an area of nearly 18 million hectares [...] hectares worldwide. The data for Esther Thomsen's work was collected over a nine-year period on Hainan Island in China. In doing so, she worked closely with partners on site as well as in Rostock and Hamburg. [...] range from loss of biodiversity to CO2 increases in coastal waters. For the first time, Esther Thomsen has calculated a threshold value for nitrogen in water, above which a threat to seagrasses is posed