Terrestrial Bio-Geo-Chemistry

David Piatka
© David Piatka, KIT

Dr. David Piatka

PostDoc

Reserach interests:

  • Biogeochemical processes of nitrogen and carbon turnover
  • Effects of climate change and management on grassland agriculture
  • Greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater systems and soils
  • Modeling the volatilization of ammonia after fertilizer application

Project involved:

SUSALPS - Sustainable use of alpine and pre-alpine grassland soils in a changing climate

Education:

  • PhD (2018-2022), Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Thesis: "Dissolved oxygen and carbon phase turnover in terrestrial freshwater ecosystems with their stable isotopes as process indicators."
  • M.Sc. (2015-2017), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Thesis: "Regression of the Lower Marine Molasse: Global sea level fall or alpine tectonics?"
  • B.Sc. (2011-2015), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Thesis: "Facies of the Upper Brackish Molasse in the drilling of Buttenwiesen (47,3 – 48 m)."

Publications (peer-reviewed)

  • Köhler, I., Martinez, R.E., Piatka, D., Herrmann, A.J., Gallo, A., Gehringer, M.M. and Barth, J.A.C., 2021. How are oxygen budgets influenced by dissolved iron and growth of oxygenic phototrophs in an iron-rich spring system? Initial results from the Espan Spring in Fürth, Germany. Biogeosciences, 18(15): 4535-4548. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-4535-2021.
  • Köhler, I., Piatka, D., Barth, J.A.C. and Martinez, R.E., 2021. Beware of effects on isotopes of dissolved oxygen during storage of natural iron-rich water samples: A technical note. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 35(6): e9024. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9024.
  • Piatka, D.R., Frank, A.H., Köhler, I., Castiglione, K., van Geldern, R. and Barth, J.A.C., 2021. Balance of carbon species combined with stable isotope ratios show critical switch towards bicarbonate uptake during cyanobacteria blooms. Science of the Total Environment, 807, part 3: 151067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151067.
  • Piatka, D.R., Wild, R., Hartmann, J., Kaule, R., Kaule, L., Gilfedder, B., Peiffer, S., Geist, J., Beierkuhnlein, C. and Barth, J.A.C., 2021. Transfer and transformations of oxygen in rivers as catchment reflectors of continental landscapes: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 220: 103729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103729.
  • Piatka D.R., Barth J.A.C., Wild R., Geist J., Kaule R., Kaule L., Gilfedder B., Peiffer S. and Thies B., 2022. Ein begehrter Treibstoff: Gelöster Sauerstoff in Gewässern. KW Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft, 15 (7): 416-421.
  • Piatka, D.R., Venkiteswaran, J.J., Uniyal, B., Kaule, R., Gilfedder, B. and Barth, J.A.C., 2022. Dissolved oxygen isotope modelling refines metabolic state estimates of stream ecosystems with different land use background. Scientific Reports, 12: 10204. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13219-9.

Email: david.piatka@kit.edu
Telephone: +49 8821 183 308