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
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.