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Maria Dittrich
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Research
Latest papers
Impact of Salinity on Cell Surface Chemistry of Cyanobacteria From Freshwater, Marine and Alkaline Environments: A Hidden Phosphorus Engine.
Environmental microbiology · 2025 · senior author
Anaerobic methane oxidation can impact phosphorus retention in lake sediments.
Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025 · senior author
Editorial: celebrating the biogeosphere at the joint meeting of International Societies for Environmental Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Microbiology.
FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025
Latest funding
- $125,000
Biodesign for Sustainable Construction: Developing Scalable Living Building Materials Integrating Biomineralization and 3D Bioprinting
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $216,000
The role of climate-driven factors on carbon and phosphorus sequestrations in lake sediments and soils
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $148,938
Characterizing Microplastics and Microfibres using micro-FTIR
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
29 publications.
Impact of Salinity on Cell Surface Chemistry of Cyanobacteria From Freshwater, Marine and Alkaline Environments: A Hidden Phosphorus Engine.
Aceituno-Caicedo D, Kokilathasan N, Zhao Y, Dittrich M
Anaerobic methane oxidation can impact phosphorus retention in lake sediments.
Shao X, Avetisyan K, Sweetnam D, Dittrich M
Editorial: celebrating the biogeosphere at the joint meeting of International Societies for Environmental Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Microbiology.
Purkamo L, Dittrich M, Lueders T
Do coastal salt mudflats (sabkhas) contribute to the blue carbon sequestration?
Elsayed H, Al Disi ZA, Naja K, Strakhov I, Mundle SOC, Al-Kuwari HAS, Sadooni F, Diloreto Z, Al-Khayat JAA, Dittrich M
Tin contamination in sediments of Lake Zurich: source, spread, history and risk assessment.
Roethlin RL, Meister ACE, Gilli A, Lennartz ST, Amsler HE, Dittrich M, Wehrli B, Schönbächler M, Dubois N
Impact of bacterial admixtures on the compressive and tensile strengths, permeability, and pore structure of ternary mortars: Comparative study of ureolytic and phototrophic bacteria.
Aceituno-Caicedo D, Shvarzman A, Zhutovsky S, Dittrich M
Microscopic Raman study of fungal pigment using the genetically amenable rock inhabitant Knufia petricola as a model organism.
Dittrich M, Paulo C, Knabe N, Sturm H, Zaitsev V, Gorbushina AA
Raman Spectroscopic and Microbial Study of Biofilms Hosted Gypsum Deposits in the Hypersaline Wetlands: Astrobiological Perspective.
Diloreto Z, Ahmad MS, Al Saad Al-Kuwari H, Sadooni F, Bontognali TRR, Dittrich M
Variability of blue carbon storage in arid evaporitic environment of two coastal Sabkhas or mudflats.
Al Disi ZA, Naja K, Rajendran S, Elsayed H, Strakhov I, Al-Kuwari HAS, Sadooni F, Dittrich M, Al-Khayat JAA
Nanoplastics: Detection and impacts in aquatic environments - A review.
Kokilathasan N, Dittrich M
Biodesign for Sustainable Construction: Developing Scalable Living Building Materials Integrating Biomineralization and 3D Bioprinting
Principal investigators: Hui, Vincent
The role of climate-driven factors on carbon and phosphorus sequestrations in lake sediments and soils
Principal investigators: Dittrich, Maria
Keywords: biogeosciences; freshwater; sediments; aqueous geochemistry; lakes; phosphorus; carbon; warming; climate-driven factors; extreme events
Characterizing Microplastics and Microfibres using micro-FTIR
Principal investigators: Diamond, Miriam
Source-specific identification, characterization and control of microplastics across a remote, rural and urban gradient
Principal investigators: Mundle, Scott SOC
Keywords: atmospheric standardization; earth systems monitoring; fluorescence detection; harmonization; isotopic characterization; management; mechanistic modelling; policy; source-tracking; surveillance network
Infrastructure for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy Sample Preparation
Principal investigators: Harrison, Rene
Organo-mineralization in microbial mats under extreme conditions: linking field, laboratory and metagenomics studies
Principal investigators: Dittrich, Maria
Microbe-mineral interactions in aquatic systems from macroscopic to molecular scales
Principal investigators: Dittrich, Maria
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Maria Dittrich and George Arhonditsis: 2 shared papers
- Ayse Turak and Maria Dittrich: 1 shared paper
- Maria Dittrich and Jochen Halfar: 1 shared paper
- Physical & Environmental Sciences (Scarborough)
- Physical and Environmental Sciences
- Engineering Physics
- chemical and physical sciences
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