Anna Karjalainen (née Nikkilä)
Researcher
National Public Health Institute
Centre for Environmental Health Risk Analysis
P.O. Box 95, FI-70701 Kuopio
email: firstname.lastname@thl.fi
phone: +358 400 406148, fax: +358 20 610 6498
Current research
Environmental health impact assessment with integrated risk assessment methods
Risk-benefit analysis of food
Areas of interest
Contaminant risks to human health and ecosystems
Education
Ph.D. (ecotoxicology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Phil. Lic. (ecotoxicology, University of Joensuu, Finland)
M.Sc. (biology, University of Joensuu, Finland)
Projects participated currently
Beneris (Benefit-Risk Assessment for Food: an Iterative Value-of-Information Approach)
Intarese (Integrated Assessment of Health Risks of Environmental Stressors in Europe)
Selected publications
Karjalainen A, Pääkkönen J-P-J. & Karjalainen J. 2006. Tissue-specific and whole-fish accumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls by juvenile Baltic salmon (Salmo salar L.) after oral gavage exposure. BOREAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH 11:421-430
Nikkilä A, Halme A. & Kukkonen JVK. 2003.Toxicokinetics, toxicity and lethal body residues of two chlorophenols in the oligochaete worm, L. variegatus, in different sediments. CHEMOSPHERE 51:35-46.
Nikkilä A. & Kukkonen JVK. 2001. Effects of dissolved organic material on binding and toxicokinetics of pyrene in the waterflea Daphnia magna. ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY 40:333-338.
Nikkilä A, Paulsson M, Almgren K, Blanck H. & Kukkonen JVK. 2001. Atrazine uptake, elimination and bioconcentration by periphyton communities and Daphnia magna: effects of dissolved organic carbon. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 20:1003-1011.
Nikkilä A, Penttinen S. & Kukkonen JVK. 1999. UV-B induced acute toxicity of pyrene to the waterflea Daphnia magna in natural freshwaters. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 44:271-279.