Martina Kadin, MSc, is a PhD student at Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her main areas of interest are the effects of fisheries and fish stock dynamics on seabirds as well as governance of marine resources with a particular focus on the Baltic Sea. She is a member of the Governance of coastal and marine systems theme.Martina has a MSc in marine ecology from Stockholm University and her thesis work was focused on sexual maturation and survival of immature common guillemots in the Baltic Sea. In addition, she has undergraduate studies in mathematics and GIS. Martina has developed her pedagogic skills from teaching assignments in biological statistics and marine ecology.
Current research
In her PhD studies Martina will focus on the interaction between seabirds and pelagic fish and the importance of food abundance and food quality and thereby highlight response diversity in the Baltic Sea.
Further, the study will shed light on an important and poorly understood issue - thiamine deficiency in predators, affecting salmon through M74 and birds via a paralytic disease, for which food-web dynamics probably is a factor of underestimated importance. Martina´s work forms a part of the research project Baltic Seabird (www.balticseabird.com).
Previous projects
Martina was a project team member in the Best Practice Project funded by the Baltic Sea 2020 foundation. The project collected the global knowledge concerning potential solutions to the ongoing fisheries crisis forming a report aiming to provide a knowledge base feeding into the process of revision of the European Common Fisheries Policy.
She was responsible for a project within the governmental assignment “Marine Economic Information" for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
The project concerned the future ecological consequences of not taking further action to improve the state of the Baltic Sea and the Skagerrak.
Publications
Best practices in fisheries management. 2009. 95 pp. Baltic Sea 2020 report.
Kadin, M. 2008. Trends and scenarios exemplifying the future of the Baltic Sea and Skagerrak - Ecological impacts of not taking action. 103 pp. Report 5875, Naturvårdsverket, Stockholm.
Auran, J. A., Høyland, T., Ekker, M., Kadin, M., Skjærbæk Rasmussen, K., Mosbeck, A., Dam, M., Jensen, J-K., Byrkjeland, S. 2008. Påvirkningsfaktorer og bevaringstiltak. Chapter 3 in "Vest-Nordiske sjøfugler i et presset havmiljø". 100 pp. TemaNord 2008:573, Nordic Council of Ministries, Copenhagen.
Kadin, M. 2007. Post-fledging survival and sexual maturation in Common guillemots Uria aalge - The influence of biological and ecological factors. Degree project thesis 2007:19, Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University.
