Dr. Marion Kanwischer

Fate and relevance of organic trace substances in the marine environment, such as organic contaminants and natural organic compounds, e.g., methyl phosphonic acid are the focus of my research.

The development and application of state-of-the-art methods for sample preparation and analysis is en essential part of this work. I am working mainly with chromatographic-masspectrometric anaylsis methods, i.e., LC-MSMS and GC-MS, GC-MSMS.

Within the scope of Environmental Monitoring which IOW conducts annually on behalf of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency I am working in the frame of the analysis of persistent organic polllutants.

My work is assigned mainly to the research area 2 of the IOW research programme.

I am the Technical manager of the analytics group and head if the subgroup Organic Pollutans in which the analysis of the persistent organic pollutants, chlorinated and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, is conducted according to the norm DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005.