Matthias Birkicht

Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Birkicht

Non-scientific Research Engineer

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Office: Fahrenheitstr. 8
28359 Bremen
Room: 3116 (1st floor)

Personal Data

Working areas

- Continious Flow Analysis: nutrients in fresh-, brackish- and seawater.
- Elemental Analysis: (CN) of soil, sediment and organic material.
- Determination of DOC and TDNb.
- Fluorimetry:
Multipigment Determination (Ca, Cb, Cc, Pa, Pb, Pc2) from raw extracts without identification.
Ammonium Determination
Determination of Glivin
- Photometry:
Tri- and Monochromatic Determination of algeal pigments.
Determination of Biogenic Opal.
Nutrients
Determination of Glivin
- Oceanography:
Determination of Salinity, pH, Turbidity, Temperature, Seston, Triton, Oxygen, Redox, Sulfide, TA, Calcium.
- Granulometry:
Laser-particle-sizing
Sieve Analysis
He-Pychnometry
Amino-Acid-Determination with LPLC
ICP-OES


 Publications

Peer-reviewed journals

Temperature, species identity and morphological traits predict carbonate excretion and mineralogy in tropical reef fishes Nature Communications
2023-02-22 | journal-article, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36617-7, Part of ISSN: 2041-1723

Saya de Malha Carbonates, Oceanography and Biogeochemistry (Western Indian Ocean), Cruise No. SO270, 2019-09-06 - 2019-10- 23, Hong Kong (China) - Port Louis (Mauritius), SONNE-Berichte, 2019-01-01 | report, DOI: 10.2312/CR_SO270

Seasonal changes in water quality and fisheries of Tanbi Wetland National Park
Regional Studies in Marine Science, 2016-11 | journal-article, DOI: 10.1016/j.rsma.2016.04.006, Part of ISSN: 2352-4855

Geochemistry and Ecology of the Namibian Upwelling System NAMUFIL: Namibian Upwelling Filament Study
2015 | report

Nährstoffanalytik im Benguela-Auftriebsgebiet vor der Küste Namibias
Multimedia Kontor Hamburg GmbH, Anette Stöber, Genus Podcast 2014-10-14 | online-resource

Beurteilung der Auswirkungen von pH-Flüssen zwischen der Sediment-Wasser-Grenzfläche auf die darüberliegende Wassersäule vor Namibias Küste
PreSens Application Note, 2014 | online-resource

Biogenic Silica in Plant Tissues: Comparison of 3 Extraction- Methods and Analysis with Spectrophotometry and ICP-OES (German Version)
ZMT 2013-02 | supervised-student-publication

Birkicht, M. (2003) Silizium - Indikator der Produktivität und des Klimageschehens der Erdgeschichte. GIT-Labor-Fachzeitschrift, Darmstadt.

Dittmar, T.; Birkicht, M. (2001) Regeneration of nutrients in the northern Benguela upwelling and the Angola-Benguela Front areas. South African Journal of Science, 97 (5/6): 239-245.

Chaves, J.; Birkicht, M. (1996) Equatorial subsurface water and the nutrient seasonality distribution of the Gulf of Nicroya, Costa Rica. Revista de biologia tropical 44(suplemento 3): 41-47.