Frederieke Kroon
Principal Research Scientist
Natural Resources
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Australia
Biography
Dr. Frederieke Kroon is a Principal Research Scientist, Team Leader 'Tropical Water Quality and Impacts'. She has postgraduate qualifications in Biology (MSc 1991, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) and Zoology (PhD 1997, University of British Columbia, Canada). After finishing my PhD in 1997, she made a deliberate choice to move into more applied research that would inform the protection and restoration of coastal ecosystems. Since 2000, her research interests broadened into understanding how coastal zones can be managed using a collaborative and integrated approach to both catchment management and coastal ecosystem health, to protect water quality, aquatic biodiversity and fisheries production. To this effect, sh has been leading major research programs with NSW Fisheries and the CSIRO in both temperate and tropical coastal ecosystems. Recent research focuses on understanding the impacts of known and emerging contaminants on tropical marine organisms and ecosystems.
Research Interest
Biology
Publications
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Kroon FJ et al. (2012) River loads of suspended solids, nitrogen, phosphorus and herbicides delivered to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. Mar Poll Bull 65:167-181
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Kroon FJ (2012) Towards ecologically relevant targets for river pollutant loads in the Great Barrier Reef. Mar Poll Bull 65:261-266
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Kroon FJ et al. (2014) Informing policy to protect coastal coral reefs: insight from a global review of reducing agricultural pollution to coastal ecosystems. Mar Poll Bull 85:33-41
