Dipl.-Umw. Jakob Wolfram

Ecosystem Resilience

Research Interests

  • Aquatic Ecotoxicology
  • Pesticide Exposure and Risk Assessment
  • Meta-Analyses
  • Data aggregation and visualization

 

Jakob Wolfram on ResearchGate

 

Current and Former Research Projects

  • Macro-Ecotoxicology: Spatial and Causal Implications of Insecticide Contamination in Surface Waters (DFG Project). concluded
  • Förderinitiative Pestizide: Pestizide in Schutzgebieten: Vorkommen, Bewertung, Maßnahmen (DBU, 2021) concluded
  • Förderinitiative Pestizide: Pestizide in Schutzgebieten: Relevanz für die aquatische Biodiversität und Wasserversorgung (DBU, 2022)
  • Patterns and dynamics of the potential environmental risks associated with agricultural pesticide use: Global Total Applied Toxicity (gTAT) (DFG Project)

 

Active Research Topics

  • Development and assessment of a toxicity-based approach to derive pesticide impact trends for various spatial units. (data aggregation, analysis and visualization)
  • Global assessment of agricultural pesticide impacts and associated ecological risks for multiple organismic groups (data procurement, aggregation, analysis and visualization)
  • Global meta-analysis of neonicotinoids in agricultural surface waters (literature synthesis)

  • Uncovering the occurence of pesiticides in natural preservation areas in Germany coupled with an ecotoxicological and geospatial assessment (data procurement, aggregation, analysis, visualization)
  • Field monitoring of pesticide occurence in natural protection areas and drinking water areas in southwest Germany (field measurements, data analysis, visualization)
  • Meta-anylsis on insecticide occurence in Indian surface waters (supervision)

 

Concluded Research topics

  • Continental risk assessment of European waterbodies for the last two decades (data aggregation, analysis, and visualization)
  • Developing an ecotoxicological graph database to harmonize ancillary data providers. (data aggregation)
  • Risk assessment of commonly used insecticides in U.S. urban waterways (literature synthesis)
  • Risk assessment of commonly used insecticides in U.S. agricultural streams (literature synthesis)
  • Identifying drivers of insecticide risk in agricultural surface waters and their sediments for the United States (literature synthesis, data aggregation, and modelling)
  • Derivation of pesticide use and sales estimates from dark data for Germany (literature synthesis, aggregation, visualization)
  • Improving risk communication techniques for scientific findings to effectively inform public stakeholders of most recent advances in risk assessment research. (socio-psychological research)

 

Academic History

  • Program Advisor for the M.Sc. Ecotoxicology in Landau (2020 - present)
  • PhD-study (October 2016 - present); Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau
  • Diploma Thesis (September 2016): Combined and chronic effects of a fungicide mixture on the population integrity of the key shredder Gammarus fossarum
  • Study of Environmental Sciences (October 2008 until October 2016), University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau

 

Functions

  • PhD student and research assisstant for Ecosystem Resilience
  • Program advisor for M.Sc. Ecotoxicology
  • CMS administrator for Environment and Ecotoxicology

 

Teaching

EXT1c - Monitoring and Assessment of effects (SS, english)

ETX4b - Suborganismis and physiological effects - Effects of chemical stressors I (WS, english)

ETX5b - Computer/Field/Lab Course - Effects of chemical stressors II (WS, english)

ETX9c - Data Retrieval and IT Expertise for Risk Assessment (WS, english)

RPC - Research Project Course (WS/SS, english)

UWI2a - Informationsbeschaffung und Abstraktion (SS, deutsch)

UWI2b - Untersuchung, Darstellung und Präsentation (WS, deutsch)

UWI3b - Projekt Umweltwissenschaften (WS, deutsch)

BP - Vorträge Berufspraktika (WS, SS, deutsch)

Course coordination

ETX4a - Principles of Toxicology - Effects of chemical stressors I (WS, english)

GEO4a - Prozesse in Agrarökosystemen I (WS, deutsch)

GEO4b - Prozesse in Agrarökosystemen II (WS, deutsch)

GEO5a - Raum- und Landschaftsplanung (WS, deutsch)

GEO5b - Umweltplanung (WS, deutsch)

Online Seminars

Getting started with R - The basics of data analysis (online, on-demand, 1-day)

Data analytics in R - An extended look into data analysis with hands-on experience (online, on-demand, 3-5d)

 

Featured Publications

  • Schulz, R.; Bub, S.; Petschick, L. L.; Stehle, S.; Wolfram, J., Applied pesticide toxicity shifts toward plants and invertebrates, even in GM crops. Science 2021, 372, (6537), 81-84.
  • Wolfram, J.; Stehle, S.; Bub, S.; Petschick, L. L.; Schulz, R., Water quality and ecological risks in European surface waters–Monitoring improves while water quality decreases. Environ. Int. 2021, 152, 106479.
  • Stehle, S.; Bline, A.; Bub, S.; Petschick, L. L.; Wolfram, J.; Schulz, R., Aquatic pesticide exposure in the US as a result of non-agricultural uses. Environ. Int. 2019, 133, 105234.

 

Peer-reviewed Publicatons

  • Schulz, R.; Bub, S.; Petschick, L. L.; Stehle, S.; Wolfram, J., Applied pesticide toxicity shifts toward plants and invertebrates, even in GM crops. Science 2021, 372, (6537), 81-84.
  • Wolfram, J.; Stehle, S.; Bub, S.; Petschick, L. L.; Schulz, R., Water quality and ecological risks in European surface waters–Monitoring improves while water quality decreases. Environ. Int. 2021, 152, 106479.
  • Petschick, L. L.; Bub, S.; Wolfram, J.; Stehle, S.; Schulz, R., Modeling Regulatory Threshold Levels for Pesticides in Surface Waters from Effect Databases. Data 2019, 4, (4), 150.
  • Wolfram, J.; Stehle, S.; Bub, S.; Petschick, L. L.; Schulz, R., Insecticide Risk in US Surface Waters: Drivers and Spatiotemporal Modeling. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2019, 53, (20), 12071-12080.
  • Stehle, S.; Bline, A.; Bub, S.; Petschick, L. L.; Wolfram, J.; Schulz, R., Aquatic pesticide exposure in the US as a result of non-agricultural uses. Environ. Int. 2019, 133, 105234.
  • Bub, S.; Wolfram, J.; Stehle, S.; Petschick, L. L.; Schulz, R., Graphing ecotoxicology: The MAGIC Graph for linking environmental data on chemicals. Data 2019, 4, (1), 34.
  • Wolfram, J.; Stehle, S.; Bub, S.; Petschick, L. L.; Schulz, R., Meta-Analysis of Insecticides in United States Surface Waters: Status and Future Implications. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2018, 52, (24), 14452-14460.
  • Zubrod, J. P., Englert, D. , Wolfram, J. , Rosenfeldt, R. R., Feckler, A. , Bundschuh, R. , Seitz, F., Konschak, M. , Baudy, P. , Lüderwald, S. , Fink, P. , Lorke, A. , Schulz, R. and Bundschuh, M. (2017), Long-term effects of fungicides on leaf-associated microorganisms and shredder populations—an artificial stream study. Environ Toxicol Chem, 36: 2178-2189.

  • Zubrod, J. P.; Englert, D.; Rosenfeldt, R. R.; Wolfram, J.; Lüderwald, S.; Wallace, D.; Schnetzer, N.; Schulz, R.; Bundschuh, M., The relative importance of diet-related and waterborne effects of copper for a leaf-shredding invertebrate. Environ. Pollut. 2015, 205, 16-22.

  • Zubrod, J. P.; Englert, D.; Wolfram, J.; Wallace, D.; Schnetzer, N.; Baudy, P.; Konschak, M.; Schulz, R.; Bundschuh, M., Waterborne toxicity and diet-related effects of fungicides in the key leaf shredder Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Aquat. Toxicol. 2015, 169, 105-112.