Dr. Kjell Gundersen

Assistant Research Professor

  • Net and gross community primary productivity and respiration
  • Marine/brackish water cyanobacteria; abundance, growth and N-fixation
  • Coastal biogeochemistry; C, N and P – cycling
  • Ocean/brackish water time-series
  • Automated observation buoy sensors; http://www.act-us.info/

 

Courses

  • MAR 689 Seminar: Approaches to Biogeochemistry

 

Selected Publications

Orcutt, K.M., K. Gundersen, M.L. Wells, N.P. Poulton, M.E. Sieracki &
G.J. Smith (2008) Lighting up phytoplankton cells with quantum dots.
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 6: 653-658.

Orcutt, K.M., K. Gundersen & U. Rasmussen (2008) Another look at green Trichodesmium colonies. Limnology & Oceanography 53: 2049-2051.

Degerholm, J., K. Gundersen,  B. Bergman & E. Söderbäck (2008) Seasonal significance of N2 fixation in coastal and off-shore waters of the north-western Baltic Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 360:73-84

Ohlendieck, U., K. Gundersen, M. Meyerhöfer, P. Fritsche, K. Nachtigall & B. Bergman (2007) The significance of nitrogen fixation to new production during early summer in the Baltic sea. Biogeosciences 4:1-11

Degerholm, J., K. Gundersen, B. Bergman & E. Söderbäck (2006) Phosphorus limiting growth in the filamentous cyanobacteria Nodularia sp. and Aphanizomenon sp. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 58:323-332

Gundersen, K., M. Heldal, S. Norland & D.A. Purdie (2002) Elemental C, N and P content of individual bacteria collected at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site. Limnology & Oceanography 47:1525-1530

Gallon, J.R., P. Albertano, B. Bergman, K.v. Bröckel, A. Canini, R. Congresti, A.M. Evans, P. Fritsche, K. Gundersen, S.te L. Hekkert, A. Jones, M. Meyerhöfer, K. Nachtigall, U. Ohlendieck, K.M. Orcutt, S. Repka, K. Sivonen, M. Staal & L.J. Stal (2002) Uncoupling of N2 fixation and primary production in a developing cyanobacterial bloom in the Baltic Sea. Limnology & Oceanography 47:1514-1521

Gundersen, K., K.M. Orcutt, D.A. Purdie, A.F. Michaels & A.H. Knap (2001) Particulate organic carbon mass distribution at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site. Deep-Sea Research II 48:1697-1718.

Orcutt, K.M., F. Lipschultz, K. Gundersen, R. Arimoto, A.F. Michaels, A.H. Knap & J.R. Gallon (2001) A seasonal study of the significance of N2 fixation by Trichodesmium spp. at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site. Deep-Sea Research II 48:1583-1608