Suna Ekin Kali
Doctoral Student
Research subject: Urban Water Engineering
Division: Architecture and Water
Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
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Luleå, T3020
About Me
Suna’s research primarily focuses on possible impact of stormwater runoff to receiving water bodies. Her work involves extensive sampling across urban water bodies in three Swedish cities: Uppsala, Norrköping, and Söderköping. Her research aims to understand occurrence of compounds in rivers, the changes in compounds concentrations along water courses (from rural to densely populated areas) and to investigate the possible impact of stormwater runoff on the quality of receiving water bodies. Suna's analysis includes wide range of compound families such as microplastics, PAHs, PFAS, phthalates, Organotin compounds, alkylphenols, metals, nutrients, along with several supporting parameters including pH, conductivity, turbidity, and suspended solids.
Suna became a part of the Urban Water Engineering group in April 2022. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey. She furthered her education with an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, specializing in environmental modeling and water resources, from Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA. Her master's thesis, which was published in the journal 'Water', focused on integrating effective watershed management policies into a modeling environment. This work aimed to estimate water resource availability under changing land use and climate conditions in the Schuylkill River Watershed.
Research projects
- Impact of the stormwater on ecology of urban streams External link.
- Occurence of stormwater pollutants in receiving water bodies External link.
- PFAS and stormwater External link.
- Urban stormwater research in cold climates: an evidence synthesis External link.
- Stormwater&Sewers External link.
- DRIZZLE External link.
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