Researchers, environmental analysts and communicators collaborate to increase knowledge about the sea support marine management of various environmental challenges.
Exploration of coastal ecosystems at molecular level
A large expedition has arrived at Askö. The "Traversing European Coastlines Expedition" travels along Europe's coasts, stopping at selected sites to sample air, land and sea water.
Potential effects of the proposed UWWTD on nutrient inputs to the Baltic Sea
Our new fact sheet describes the requirements in the proposed EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive draft in relation to the current situation regarding wastewater treatment in the Baltic Sea catchment.
Avoiding a fishing catastrophe – erring on the side of caution?
Major herring fisheries in the Baltic should be closed next year. That is the content of the scientific advice. But you won’t find that message in the headline advice that most readers focus on.
How to make science for policy relevant and still stay independent
Citizens and academia want research to reach society more often, but lack of time and resources is getting in the way. Promoting collaboration between scientists and decision-makers was a hot conference topic.
Researchers: Action needed to reduce impact from shipping
Shipping causes a number of pressures on the marine environment, including the discharge of tank cleaning residues into the water. Action is needed to reduce this problem, stated the Baltic Breakfast speakers.
Scientists in Brussels call for cautious Baltic Sea fisheries
A team from Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre recently attended a hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels to explain why politicians should be more restrictive on fishing quotas.
During a research expedition led by Linnaeus University and Stockholm University to the deepest parts of the Baltic Sea in the Landsort Deep researchers recently discovered an area with extensive emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane from the bottom sediments.
The EU Commission's proposal to stop targeted herring fishing in the Baltic Sea is based on a scientifically based risk assessment. The historic fishing stops on North Sea herring and Norwegian spring spawning herring show that drastic measures can lead to both ecological and economic success.
In a nine-page resolution with 65 bullet points, parliamentarians from all democratic countries around the Baltic Sea, set target measures for a safer, stronger and greener Baltic Sea region.
Professors and colleagues Jacob Carstensen from Denmark and Daniel Conley from Lund University have together been awarded this year's Björn Carlson Östersjöpris. Their research collaboration has developed and broadened the understanding of how the Baltic Sea has been affected by eutrophication and other human activities, and has also been decisive for the measures implemented to improve the situation.
The European Commission proposes to stop all targeted fishing for herring in the central Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia next year. "The proposal to stop herring fisheries in almost the entire Baltic Sea is both historic and tragic – but unfortunately also necessary”, says Baltic Sea Centre's fisheries researcher Henrik Svedäng.
The inauguration of professors and the doctoral conferment are academic traditions dating back to the Middle Ages. At the festive ceremony in Stockholm City Hall, new professors are installed in office and new doctors are conferred with a doctoral hat or a laurel wreath.
The inauguration of professors and the doctoral conferment are academic traditions dating back to the Middle Ages. At the festive ceremony in Stockholm City Hall, new professors are installed in office and new doctors are conferred with a doctoral hat or a laurel wreath.
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Thesis defence
Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences