SIL Mentors

Mentors are willing to offer advice to students and junior scientists seeking to publish their research findings, in some of the following ways:

• Screening of data for its suitability for publication
• Advice on a target journal
• Help in preparing a paper together in a constructive and professional atmosphere
• Provide follow-up after the review process
• Advice on career planning

Mentor	Contact Information	Expertise
Henk de Haan	Orion 11 8531 NC Lemmer The Netherlands h.dehaan01@hetnet.nl	Eutrophication, water quality planning, (physico) chemical speciation of (micro) nutrients and their bioavalability in humic lakes, shallow lakes
Martyn Futter	Macaulay Institute Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH United Kingdom m.futter@macaulay.ac.uk	Nutrients, diffuse pollution
Ramesh Gulati	NIOO/Centre of Limnology Rijksstraatweg 6 3631 AC Nieuwersluis The Netherlands R.Gulati@nioo.knaw.nl	Zooplankton feeding in relation to food quality, food web manipulation, lake biomanipulation, lake restoration, ecosystem studies, planktonic stoichiometry
Karl Havens	University of Florida 803 McCarty Drive PO Box 110400 Gainesville, FL 32611-0400 Telephone: 352-392-5870 Fax: 352-392-5113 khavens@ufl.edu	Plankton ecology, aquatic food webs, and limnology
Thomas Horvath	SUNY College at Oneonta Department of Biology Oneonta, NY 13820-3646 USA HORVATTG@oneonta.edu	Water quality issues, benthic communities, invasive species
Haseeb Irfanullah	IUCN, Bangladesh Country Office House 11, Road 138, Gulshan 1 Dhaka 1212 Bangladesh hmirfanullah@yahoo.co.uk	Shallow lake ecology, phytoplankton ecology, aquatic macrophyte ecology, allelopathy in aquatic ecosystems, algal taxonomy, community based natural resource management
Robert A. Patzner	Organismische Biologie Universität Salzburg Hellbrunnerstrasse 34 A-5020 Salzburg, Österreich robert.patzner@sbg.ac.at	European freshwater snails, mussels and grayfish (ecology, distribution)

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