Contact details

dr. Karin de Boer
Marine Biologist, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Beta Science Shop
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Science LinX — Faculty Office FSE
Nijenborgh 9
9747 AG Groningen
The Netherlands

ORCID code: 0009-0002-5774-2112
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/M-De-Boer
Linkedin: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/mkarindeboer

Short biography

Dr Karin de Boer is a marine biologist. As she is interested in the marine environment, she is mainly dealing with the end of the line/pipe, where you face the consequences of human impact. Karin believes that multifaceted problems such as plastic waste requires a systems-thinking sustainable solution: an approach she uses in her UG BSc Honours College course Garbage Patch Work. After 16 years of scientific research, she now works as a lecturer at the Science Shop and MSc Marine Biology. Together with her colleagues she links questions like plastic pollution from society to research and education, and she supervises the implementation of these projects with the goal of working for a sustainable future.

List of selected ongoing projects

• NWO-ALW Project: “de effecten van een hittegolf op leefgemeenschappen van benthische microalgen; hoe het verlies van biodiversiteit marine ecosystemen beïnvloedt.” (2009 – 2013)

• NWO-ALW Project: “effecten van giftige microalgen op vis.” (2005 – 2009)

• NWO-ALW Project: "Raphidophyceae, giftige microalgen in de Nederlandse kustwateren." (Promotieonderzoek van 1999 – 2004)

• NAAP project (via RUG gedetacheerd bij VU Amsterdam): UVANTARCTICA: "Een reconstructie van historische stratosferische ozonconcentraties op de Noord- en Zuidpool: polifenolen in pollen en sporen van Antarctische planten als indicator van natuurlijke UV-B straling." (2003)

• NAAP project: "Effect van UV-B straling op het fytoplankton in de Zuid Atlantische Oceaan en in de zoetwatermeren van de Andes." (1998 – 1999)

• NAAP project: "Effect van UV-B straling op Antarctisch mariene fyto- en bacterioplankton." (1998)