Katrine Borgå
Research Interests
As an ecotoxicologist my research focuses on understanding mechanisms and processes for contaminant distribution, accumulation and effects in the environment. This includes the influence of food web ecology, migration, life history traits, and biogeochemistry on (re)distribution of contaminants in the context of a changing climate. It also includes how climate change and other stressors affect the organism's response to contaminant exposure.
Research in the Borgå research group is oriented towards understanding processes of bioaccumulation in Arctic, temperate and tropical marine food webs, and effects of multiple stressors on life history traits, both in field and in lab. Chemicals of interest include both legacy and emerging contaminants, including neonicotinoids and substances from electronic waste. See links to current projects for further info.
Current PhD projects
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Sabrina Schultze: Sabrina studies the effect of terrestrial dissolved organic matter in combination with toxicants on coastal marine zooplankton.
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Julia Giebichenstein: Julie studies the effects of seasonality and species distribution on contaminant levels in the northern Barents Sea food web, as a part of the Nansen Legacy project
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Julie Sørlie Paus-Knudsen: Julie studies the effects of neonicotinoids on bumlebees in the project NEOPOLL.
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Ane Haarr: Ane studies how electronic waste functions as source of flameretardants and other contaminants in the Tanzanian coastal environment, in the project AnthroTox.
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Silje Marie Kristansen: Silje studies how life history traits in springtails are shaped by climatic variables, while also exposed to increased stress by an anthropogenic pollutant (neonicotinoids) as a part of the project MULTICLIM.
Available master projects in Toxicology
Teaching
BIO4500 General Toxicology
BIO4530 Regulatory Toxicology
BIO4550 Ecotoxicology
BIO4331 Marine Environmental Issues
KJM3700 Environmental Chemistry
AT830 Arctic Environmental Toxicology
Publications
- Heuschele, Jan David; Lode, Torben; Andersen, Tom; Borgå, Katrine & Titelman, Josefin (2019). An affordable and automated imaging approach to acquire highly resolved individual data—an example of copepod growth in response to multiple stressors. PeerJ. ISSN 2167-8359. 7, s 1- 22 . doi: 10.7717/peerj.6776 Full text in Research Archive.
- Sahlmann, Andrea Silke; Lode, Torben; Heuschele, Jan David; Borgå, Katrine; Titelman, Josefin & Hylland, Ketil (2019). Genotoxic Response and Mortality in 3 Marine Copepods Exposed to Waterborne Copper. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. ISSN 0730-7268. 38(10), s 2224- 2232 . doi: 10.1002/etc.4541
- Borgå, Katrine & Ruus, Anders (2019). Quantifying Bioaccumulation in the Aquatic Environment. Methods in pharmacology and toxicology. ISSN 1557-2153. s 1- 18 . doi: 10.1007/7653_2019_36 Show summary
- Eckbo, Norith; Le Bohec, Céline; Planas-Bielsa, Victor; Warner, Nicholas Alexander; Schull, Quentin; Herzke, Dorte; Zahn, Sandrine; Haarr, Ane; Gabrielsen, Geir W. & Borgå, Katrine (2019). Individual variability in contaminants and physiological status in a resident Arctic seabird species. Environmental Pollution (1987). ISSN 0269-7491. 249, s 191- 199 . doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.01.025
- Thorstensen, H. S.; Ruus, Anders; Helberg, Morten; Bæk, Kine; Enge, Ellen Katrin & Borgå, Katrine (2020). Herring gull and common eider as indicators of contaminants in an urban fjord.
- Aarønes, Malin Røyset; Nielsen, Anders; Paus-Knudsen, Julie Sørlie; van Bavel, Bert & Borgå, Katrine (2019). Accumulation of Clothianidin, a neonicotinoid pesticide, in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris).
- Borgå, Katrine (2019). The Arctic ecosystem: A canary in the coal mine for global multiple stressors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. ISSN 0730-7268. 38(3), s 487- 488 . doi: 10.1002/etc.4360
- Borgå, Katrine; Eckbo, Norith; Warner, Nicholas Alexander; Le Bohec, Celine; Herzke, Dorte; Planas-Bielsa, Victor; Gabrielsen, Geir W.; Descamps, Sebastien & Bustnes, Jan Ove (2019). Avian wildlife: contaminant temporal trends and the bipolar perspective.
- Dirven, Hubert; Lyche, Jan Ludvig; Låg, Marit; Nilsen, Asbjørn Magne; Borgå, Katrine; Eklo, Ole Martin; Grung, Merete; Sverdrup, Line Emilie & Källqvist, Torsten (2019). Genotoxic Assessment of the Metabolite M-11 of Mepanipyrim, the Active Ingredient in the Plant Protection Product FRUPICA SC. European Journal of Nutrition and Food Safety. ISSN 2347-5641. 9(3), s 306- 307 . doi: 10.9734/EJNFS/2019/v9i330072
- Eklo, Ole Martin; Almvik, Marit; Hole, Halvard; Nyborg, Åge Arild; Stenrød, Marianne; Borgå, Katrine; Dirven, Hubert; Grung, Merete; Lyche, Jan Ludvig; Låg, Marit; Nilsen, Asbjørn Magne; Sverdrup, Line Emilie & Källqvist, Torsten (2019). Degradation and Mobility of Pesticides in Norwegian Soils. European Journal of Nutrition and Food Safety. ISSN 2347-5641. 9(3), s 303- 305 . doi: 10.9734/EJNFS/2019/v9i330071
