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Marja Koski is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with specializations in oceanography, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, ocean engineering, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work frequently explores marine and coastal ecosystems, mercury impact and mitigation studies, microplastics and plastic pollution, marine biology and environmental chemistry, marine and fisheries research, marine biology and ecology research, and indigenous studies and ecology.

Marja Koski has contributed to several research publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Toxicity of tyre wear particle leachates to marine phytoplankton, 2022, Aquatic Toxicology
  • Effect of environmentally relevant concentrations of potentially toxic microplastic on coastal copepods, 2020, Aquatic Toxicology
  • Climate change and oil pollution: A dangerous cocktail for tropical zooplankton, 2020, Aquatic Toxicology
  • Daphnia magna as biological harvesters for green microalgae grown on recirculated aquaculture system effluents, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Lethal effect of leachates from tyre wear particles on marine copepods, 2023, Marine Environmental Research

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Aquatic Toxicology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Journal of Plankton Research
  • Limnology and Oceanography

Marja Koski collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Torkel Gissel Nielsen
  • Sigrún Huld Jónasdóttir
  • Jens Søndergaard
  • Delove Abraham Asiedu
  • Camilla Svensen

Best Publications

  • Copepod hatching success in marine ecosystems with high diatom concentrations

    Xabier Irigoien;Roger P. Harris;Hans M. Verheye;Pierre Joly

  • Effect of food quality on rate of growth and development of the pelagic copepod Pseudocalanus elongatus (Copepoda, Calanoida)

    M. Koski;W. Klein Breteler;N. Schogt

  • The Biological carbon pump in the North Atlantic

    Richard J. Sanders;Stephanie A. Henson;Marja Koski;Christina L. De la Rocha

  • Zooplankton grazing on Phaeocystis: a quantitative review and future challenges

    Jens C. Nejstgaard;Kam W. Tang;Michael Steinke;Jörg Dutz

  • Production, oxygen respiration rates, and sinking velocity of copepod fecal pellets: Direct measurements of ballasting by opal and calcite

    Helle Ploug;Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen;Marja Koski;Erik Theodoor Buitenhuis

  • Reproduction and survival of the calanoid copepod Eurytemora affinis fed with toxic and non-toxic cyanobacteria

    Marja Koski;J. Engstrom;M. Viitasalo

  • Role of essential lipids in copepod nutrition: no evidence for trophic upgrading of food quality by a marine ciliate

    W. C. M. Klein Breteler;M. Koski;S. Rampen

  • Calanoid copepods feed and produce eggs in the presence of toxic cyanobacteria Nodularia spumigena

    Jonna Engström-Öst;Markku Viitasalo;Sigrún Jónasdóttir;Sari Repka

  • Feeding, reproduction and toxin accumulation by the copepods Acartia bifilosa and Eurytemora affinis in the presence of the toxic cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena

    Betina Kozlowsky-Suzuki;Miina Karjalainen;Maiju Lehtiniemi;Jonna Engström-Öst

  • Seasonal occurrence and hatching of calanoid eggs in sediments of the northern Baltic Sea

    Tarja Katajisto;Markku Viitasalo;Marja Koski

  • Copepod reproduction is unaffected by diatom aldehydes or lipid composition

    Jörg Dutz;Marja Koski;Sigrún H. Jínasdí ttir

  • Benthic life in the pelagic: Aggregate encounter and degradation rates by pelagic harpacticoid copepods

    Marja Koski;Thomas Kiørboe;Kazutaka Takahashi

  • SHORT COMMUNICATION The effect of temperature, food concentration and female size on the egg production of the planktonic copepod Acartia bifilosa

    Marja Koski;H. Kuosa

  • Sedimentation of copepod fecal material in the coastal northern Baltic Sea: Where did all the pellets go?

    Markku Viitasalo;Mirja Rosenberg;Anna-Stiina Heiskanen;Marja Koski

  • Seasonal and long-term variations in the body size of planktonic copepods in the northern Baltic sea

    M. Viitasalo;M. Koski;K. Pellikka;S. Johansson

  • Effects of toxic cyanobacteria on a plankton assemblage: community development during decay of Nodularia spumigena

    Jonna Engström-Öst;Marja Koski;Katrin Schmidt;Markku Viitasalo

  • Is Prymnesium patelliferum toxic for copepods?: grazing, egg production, and egestion of the calanoid copepod Eurytemora affinis in mixtures of "good" and "bad" food

    Marja Koski;Mirja Rosenberg;Markku Viitasalo;Sanna Tanskanen

  • SHORT COMMUNICATION Carbon:nitrogen ratios of Baltic Sea copepods—indication of mineral limitation?

    Marja Koski

  • “Good” and “bad” diatoms: development, growth and juvenile mortality of the copepod Temora longicornis on diatom diets

    Marja Koski;Thomas Wichard;Sigrun H. Jónasdóttir

  • Metagenomic insights into zooplankton‐associated bacterial communities

    Daniele De Corte;Abhishek Srivastava;Marja Koski;Juan Antonio L. Garcia

  • Ecological effects of scrubber water discharge on coastal plankton: Potential synergistic effects of contaminants reduce survival and feeding of the copepod Acartia tonsa.

    Marja Koski;Colin Stedmon;Stefan Trapp

  • Influence of diet on copepod survival in the laboratory

    M. Koski;W. C. M. Klein Breteler

  • Toxic haptophyte Prymnesium parvum affects grazing, survival, egestion and egg production of the calanoid copepods Eurytemora affinis and Acartia bifilosa

    Sanna Sopanen;Marja Koski;Pirjo Kuuppo;Pauliina Uronen

Frequent Co-Authors

Sigrun Jonasdottir
Sigrun Jonasdottir Technical University of Denmark
Torkel Gissel Nielsen
Torkel Gissel Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Michael Zwicky Hauschild
Michael Zwicky Hauschild Technical University of Denmark
Jonna Engström-Öst
Jonna Engström-Öst Novia University of Applied Sciences
Hans Henrik Jakobsen
Hans Henrik Jakobsen Aarhus University
Kam W. Tang
Kam W. Tang Swansea University
Fabien Lombard
Fabien Lombard Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory
André W. Visser
André W. Visser Technical University of Denmark
Erik T. Buitenhuis
Erik T. Buitenhuis University of East Anglia
Richard G. J. Bellerby
Richard G. J. Bellerby East China Normal University

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