As a continuation of the governmental funding of strategic Baltic Sea research, this interdisciplinary network of young Baltic Sea, Baltic Sea Fellows, formed at Stockholm University 2018. Their research cover the whole range from basic marine research to applied legal aspects and decision support.
Over long timescales, the circulation systems co-evolve with ice sheets, mountain ranges, and redistributions of carbon between the atmosphere, ocean and land. The circulation and associated feedbacks influence exchanges of energy and materials between compartments of the climate system, and create teleconnections and natural climate variability.
Planktonic partnerships, or symbioses, between eukaryotic and prokaryotic plankton that are major players in the Nitrogen and Carbon cycles of the World’s oceans
We are investigating the possibility of cleaning soil and water from heavy metals and PFAS using plants, so-called phytoremediation. We also investigate how we can reduce the cadmium and arsenic content in food crops by the use of phytoremediation and silca.
The Marine Remote Sensing Group uses optical measurements in aquatic systems (mostly Baltic Sea and Lake Vänern) combined with satellite data to improve environmental monitoring of aquatic ecosystems. The data is also used to assess effects of climate change.
The overall focus of my research is to understand how ecosystems respond to anthropogenic and environmental disturbances both structurally and functionally.
Our research is focussed on actinorhizal nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis, a topic relevant for the understanding of root nodule symbioses in general as well as for the role of actinorhizal plants in soil restoration, shelter belts and erosion control.
In my group, we are interested in macroevolution in vascular plants, the relationship between structure and function, and diversity and distribution in time and space; how features and plant groups evolve over millions of years.
Group Slotte uses genomic tools to test predictions of evolutionary theory, with particular emphasis on the evolution of plant mating system variation and supergenes.
How natural and anthropogenic factors change and control the environmental conditions of the open Baltics Sea and its archipelagos, with focus on the pelagic zone
We study drivers of food web interactions and community dynamics to better understand the ecological impacts of environmental change on ecosystem functioning.
The Marine Ecological Laboratory (MEL) at DEEP carry out field sampling and analyses of water chemistry, plankton, benthos and macrophytes with focus on the Baltic Sea. The lab is accredited through Swedac and is a leading lab in many areas, particularly regarding nutrient analyses.
The Baltic Sea is one of the best-surveyed and studied seas on Earth. Yet the Baltic Sea circulation and its role in the complex climate system is neither fully quantified nor understood, in spite of important implications for coastal societies of the Baltic Sea region.