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Gunhild

Gunhild Bødtker

Senior Researcher

gubo@norceresearch.no
+47 56 10 71 08
Nygårdsgaten 112, 5008 Bergen, Norway

I am a microbiologist with long time experience from applied research on microbial processes and ecology in oil reservoirs, as well as biodegradation of hydrocarbon and biopolymers.

The recent years my research interest has increasingly turned towards plastic research, focusing on effects of plastic pollution on microbial ecology in natural environments as well as industrial processes such as biogas production from waste containing microplastic.

Biodegradable plastics may be portrayed as the solution to combat environmental plastic pollution. Fellow scientist across Europe and I think that biodegradable plastics may be part of the solution, but that more research is needed on the ecological consequences associated with biodegradable plastics in natural environments. A special concern are the potential consequences of long-term use of agricultural mulch film that is tilled into the soil after use. Read more about this in the recent SAPEA report, Biodegradability of plastics in the open environment: https://www.sapea.info/topics/biodegradability-of-plastics

Gunhild Bødtker

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Climate & Environment

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Hvordan plast og rydding av plast påvirker økosystemet på Lisle Lyngøy (Hovedrapport) – NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2023
The One Ocean Expedition: Science and Sailing for the Ocean We Want – Havforskningsinstituttet 2023
Rapid landscape changes in plastic bays along the Norwegian coastline – Frontiers in Marine Science 2021
Biodegradation Mitigation and Protection Strategies for the BiopolymerSchizophyllan – SPE Europec 2020
High osmotic stress initiates expansion and detachment of Thalassospira sp. biofilms in glass microchannels – Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 2020
Mathematical modeling, laboratory experiments, and sensitivity analysis of bioplug technology at Darcy scale – SPE Journal 2020
An Upscaled Model for Permeable Biofilm in a Thin Channel and Tube – Transport in Porous Media 2020
Microfluidic study of effects of flow velocity and nutrient concentration on biofilm accumulation and adhesive strength in the flowing and no-flowing microchannels – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology 2019
A pore-scale model for permeable biofilm: Numerical simulations and laboratory experiments – Transport in Porous Media 2018
Genome analysis of Vallitalea guaymasensis strain L81 isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent system – Microorganisms 2018
Lipids of Dietzia sp. A14101. Part II: A study of the dynamics of the release of surface active compounds by Dietzia sp. A14101 into the medium – Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 2017
Lipids of Dietzia sp. A14101. Part I: A study of the production dynamics of surface-active compounds – Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 2017
Abyssivirga alkaniphila gen. nov., sp. nov., an alkane-degrading, anaerobic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent system, and emended descriptions of Natranaerovirga pectinivora and Natranaerovirga hydrolytica – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2016
Fatty acids in bacterium Dietzia sp grown on simple and complex hydrocarbons determined as FAME by GC-MS – Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 2015
Data on pigments and long-chain fatty compounds identified in Dietzia sp. A14101 grown on simple and complex hydrocarbons – Data in Brief 2015
Microbial analysis of backflowed injection water from a nitrate-treated North Sea oil reservoir – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology 2009
Hydrocarbon degradation by Dietzia sp. A14101 isolated from an oil reservoir model column – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology 2009
Microbial response to reinjection of produced water in an oil reservoir – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2009
Relationship between phosphate affinities and cell size and shape in various bacteria and phytoplankton – Aquatic Microbial Ecology 2009
The effect of long-term nitrate treatment on SRB activity, corrosion rate and bacterial community composition in offshore water injection systems – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology 2008
Microbial improved oil recovery - bacterial induced wettability and interfacial tension effects on oil production – Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 2006
Primærproduksjonsforholdene i Ytre Oslofjord – Havforskningsinstituttet 1996
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