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Hire Dr. Riina K.

Estonia

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Numerical ecologist (marine biology)

Profile Summary

I'm environmental statistician (PhD), with primary experience in the analysis of long-term changes of phytoplankton, zooplankton and fish communities in coastal marine ecosystems. My expertise is strongest in following fields: biodiversity, community composition, causality in observational data, time series methods, data mining. I also have reasonable insights to the linked fields, like biology of organisms, ecology, physical modelling, and atmospheric science. In addition, I have editorial experience, practical training in academic writing. Check also https://www.riinaklais.com/

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Climate Science
• ☆ Marine Ecology
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing

Services

• Writing
• Data & AI

Work Experience

Data analyst

Information Technology Centre of the Ministry of the Environment

July 2020 - Present

Head Data Scientist

Car Rental Gateway Ltd

March 2018 - March 2020

Researcher

Tartu Ülikool

January 2013 - February 2018

Education

Education details not provided.

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2019). Primary production, carbon release, and respiration during spring bloom in the Baltic Sea . Limnology and Oceanography.

(2017). Genetic analysis reveals the diversity of larval Gobiidae in a temperate estuary . Journal of Fish Biology.

(2017). Winter–spring climate effects on small-sized copepods in the coastal Baltic Sea . ICES Journal of Marine Science.

(2017). Spatial and temporal variability of zooplankton in a temperate semi-enclosed sea: implications for monitoring design and long-term studies . Journal of Plankton Research.

(2016). Feeding patterns of dominating small pelagic fish in the Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea . Hydrobiologia.

(2016). Community assembly and drivers of phytoplankton functional structure . Functional Ecology.

(2015). Resolving variability of phytoplankton species composition and blooms in coastal ecosystems . Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

(2014). Against the tide: Recent diversity increase enhances resource use in a coastal ecosystem . Limnology and Oceanography. 59. (1). p. 267-274.

(2014). Impact of extreme climate and bioinvasion on temporal coupling of spring herring (Clupea harengus m.) larvae and their prey . Marine Environmental Research.

(2013). Harmonizing large data sets reveals novel patterns in the baltic sea phytoplankton community structure . Marine Ecology Progress Series. 473. p. 53-66.

(2013). Multidecadal dynamics of larval gobies Pomatoschistus spp. in response to environmental variability in a shallow temperate bay . Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

(2011). Decadal-scale changes of Dinoflagellates and Diatoms in the Anomalous Baltic Sea spring bloom . PLoS ONE. 6. (6).

(2011). Long term changes in the Baltic Sea phytoplankton community . Boreal Environment Research. 16. (SUPPL. A). p. 3-14.

(2007). The fate of production in the central Arctic Ocean - top-down regulation by zooplankton expatriates? . Progress in Oceanography. 72. (1). p. 84-113.

Diversity of coastal phytoplankton assemblages – Cross ecosystem comparison .

Rehabilitating the cyanobacteria – niche partitioning, resource use efficiency, and phytoplankton community structure during diazotrophic cyanobacterial blooms .

Female ovarian abnormalities and reproductive failure of autumn-spawning herring (Clupea harengus membras) in the Baltic Sea .

Selecting for three copepods – feeding of sprat and herring in the Baltic Sea .