Bernadette Proemse AFSS Conference 2020

Bernadette Proemse

Dr Proemse is a hydrologist and environmental chemist specialising in the application of stable isotopes techniques. Bernadette received her MSc in Hydrology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany (2008), and her PhD in Isotope Geochemistry at the University of Calgary, Canada (2012). Following a postdoctoral position in Canada and an Australian Endeavour Fellowship at Curtin University, Perth, she joined the Freshwater Ecology Group at the University of Tasmania in 2014 to work on shallow lake biogeochemistry. Her research encompasses the development of novel analytical and isotopic tools and their application in the broad field of environmental biogeochemistry, e.g. related to pollution. In 2018, Bernadette joined the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, as a Senior Researcher in Isotope Geochemistry, and since 2019 she is the Catchment Scientist at the Derwent Estuary Program, Hobart, Tasmania. Her current work focusses on nutrient cycling in coastal and freshwater systems, as well as on reconstructing atmospheric deposition and hydrological regimes using paleo-environmental records.