Partners and funders
Funders
The MadMacs project is funded through the 2017 call of the Water Challenges for a Changing World Joint Programme Initiative (Water JPI), with the national funders Research Council of Norway (297202/E10), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (033WU005), the French National Research Agency (N° ANR-18-IC4W-0004-06), the South African Water Research Commission (K5/22951), and Fundação Araucária in Brazil (N° 186/2019). Additional funding is provided by Krypsiv på Sørlandet, NIVA and NMBU to support a PhD-student in Norway.
Partners
Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
Project coordinator
Tasks: risk assessment model and model to forecast the consequences of macrophyte removal; Norwegian case study (Otra River)
Persons: Susanne Schneider, Benoit Demars, Kirstine Thiemer
Contact: susi.schneider@niva.no; benoit.demars@niva.no; kirstine.thiemer@niva.no
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management
Tasks: overall assessment of ecosystem services
Persons: Jan Vermaat, Bart Immerzeel, Kirstine Thiemer, Thrond Haugen
Contact: jan.vermaat@nmbu.no; bart.immerzeel@nmbu.no; thrond.haugen@nmbu.no; kirstine.thiemer@niva.no,
Website: https://www.nmbu.no/en/faculty/mina
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
Tasks: biogeochemical and hydraulic effects; German case studies (Spree River and Müggelsee Lake)
Persons: Jan Köhler, Sabine Hilt, Tobias Goldhammer, Sarah Faye Harpenslager
Contact: koehler@igb-berlin.de; hilt@igb-berlin.de; goldhammer@igb-berlin.de; harpenslager@igb-berlin.de
Website: https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/project/madmacs
University of Rennes1, UMR ECOBIO (ECOBIO)
Tasks: effects on biodiversity; French case study (Grand-Lieu Lake)
Persons: Gabrielle Thiébaut, Christophe Piscart, Alexandrine Pannard, Bertrand le Rouzic, Benjamin Misteli
Contact: gabrielle.thiebaut@univ-rennes1.fr
Website: https://ecobio.univ-rennes1.fr/
Rhodes University (RU)
Tasks: synthesis and recommendations; South African case study (Hartebeespoort Dam)
Persons: Julie Coetzee, Martin Hill, Keneilwe Sebola, Kim Weaver, Antonella Petruzzella
Contact: julie.coetzee@ru.ac.za
Website: https://www.ru.ac.za/centreforbiologicalcontrol/
Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)
Tasks: synthesis and recommendations; Brazilian case study (Guaraguaçu River)
Persons: André A. Padial, Jean R. S. Vitule
Contact: aapadial@gmail.com
Website: under construction