Sonja Marie Ehlers (BD16-B8EF-C20C)

Curriculum Vitae

Sonja Marie Ehlers

I am a PhD student working at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) and the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG; Koblenz, Germany). Currently, I am investigating plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems and the effects of microplastics on aquatic invertebrates. For polymer type identification I use Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Before that, I studied predator nonconsumptive effects on blue mussel recruitment on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Sonja Marie Ehlers

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: BD16-B8EF-C20C
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4237-4233

Email addresses

sehlers@uni-koblenz.de (Professional)
ehlers@bafg.de (Professional)

Addresses

Am Mainzer Tor 1, 56068, Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Professional)

Websites

https://sonjamehlers.weebly.com/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017/10/04 - 2020/09/30 Ongoing	Biology (Doktor (PhD)) Major in Microplastics, Animal Ecology Universität Koblenz-Landau Fachbereich 03 Mathematik/Naturwissenschaften, Germany
2014/10/01 - 2016/12/12 Concluded	Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution (Master) Major in Ecology Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
2011/10/01 - 2014/08/15 Concluded	Biosciences (Bachelor) Major in Biology, Ecology, Ecotoxicology Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany "The impact of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) on the lateral line system of the zebrafish (Danio rerio)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/08/19 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Germany

2017/10/04 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
	Universität Koblenz-Landau Fachbereich 03 Mathematik/Naturwissenschaften, Germany (...)

Outputs

Publications

Journal article

Sonja M. Ehlers; Tamara Al Najjar; Thomas Taupp; Jochen H. E. Koop. "PVC and PET microplastics in caddisfly (Lepidostoma basale) cases reduce case stability". Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08790-5.
10.1007/s11356-020-08790-5
Ehlers, Sonja. "First record of 'plasticrusts' and 'pyroplastic' from the Mediterranean Sea". Marine Pollution Bulletin (2020):
10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110845
Ehlers, Sonja. "Low-cost microplastic visualization in feeding experiments using an ultraviolet light-emitting flashlight". Ecological Research (2020): https://esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1440-1703.12080.
10.1111/1440-1703.12080
Ehlers, Sonja. "Quantitative analysis of PET microplastics in environmental model samples using quantitative 1H-NMR spectroscopy: Validation of an optimized and consistent sample clean-up method.". Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2019):
DOI 10.1007/s00216-019-02089-2
Ehlers, Sonja. "First empirical study of freshwater microplastics in West Africa using gastropods from Nigeria as bioindicators.". Limnologica (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2019.125708.
10.1016/j.limno.2019.125708
Ehlers, Sonja. "Microplastics of different characteristics are incorporated into the larval cases of the freshwater caddisfly Lepidostoma basale". Aquatic Biology (2019):
https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00711
Ehlers, Sonja. "Nonconsumptive predator effects on prey demography: dogwhelk cues decrease benthic mussel recruitment". Journal of Zoology (2018): https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jzo.12555.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12555
Ehlers, Sonja M.; Ellrich, Julius A.. "First visual record of rare purple-colored dogwhelks (Nucella lapillus) on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada". F1000Research 5 (2017): 2435. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9707.2.
Published • 10.12688/f1000research.9707.2

Other

Other output

First record of 'plasticrusts' and 'pyroplastic' from the European Mediterranean Sea. 2019. Ehlers, Sonja. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/837484v1.
https://doi.org/10.1101/837484
First record of ‘plasticrusts’ and ‘pyroplastic’ from the European Mediterranean Sea. 2019. Sonja M. Ehlers; Julius A. Ellrich. https://doi.org/10.1101/837484.
10.1101/837484