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SITES Spectral supports the advancement of the agritech industry

18 March 2024

SITES Spectral, coordinated by Lund University, is engaging new users for its infrastructure by offering open and free access to high-quality FAIR datasets. Concurrently, it is expanding research projects to support the advancement of the agritech industry in Skåne. This effort includes exploring synergies with local partners such as Agrodit, an innovative agritech startup located at Ideon Science Park in Lund.

New Instrument to Monitor Seasonal Changes in Lake Erken Phytoplankton

08 March 2024

The Erken lab has purchased a new instrument that can monitor seasonal changes in the lake’s phytoplankton. It was purchased with a grant from the Malmens foundation to Jorrit Mesman, a limnology post doc, who plans to use the data to improve the calibration of lake phytoplankton models.  Beyond that, we expect this monitoring will provide a valuable addition to our ongoing lake monitoring program.  The instrument makes use of a technique called delayed fluorescence (DF).

SITES Water discharge and water chemistry at Röbäcksdalen – northern agricultural catchment

21 February 2024

The ongoing work on estimating the discharge in the streams at Röbäcksdalens field station was initiated in the spring of 2023. At the time, the final phase of the snowmelt runoff was generating a peak stream flow. At Röbäcksdalen, a tracer is used to measure the discharge. The tracer is common table salt and it is injected (the mass balance method) into the stream, generating a dispersed cloud of conductivity change in the stream. The change in conductivity is then used to estimate the discharge.

Joint SITES Water and AquaNet workshop at Erken

15 February 2024

This week SITES Water and SITES AquaNet field and lab techs met at Erken Laboratory for a joint workshop across the two Thematic Programs. The workshop focused on the current status and development of SITES Water and SITES AquaNet, along with sessions specific for the technical staff at the station. The sessions addressed life as field and lab tech, field and lab protocols, sensor calibrations, greenhouse sampling and hydrological measurements. The group also took a walk on ice-covered lake Erken for a hands on snow and ice measurement demonstration by the Erken staff.

SITES leadership meeting at Grimsö Wildlife Research Station

01 February 2024

To kick-off the year, SITES leadership team, including the Secretariat, the SITES Station Managers and Thematic Program leads, met in-person at SITES Grimsö Wildlife Research Station this week (30-31 Jan 2024). The meeting provided an opportunity to reflect on SITES accomplishments from 2023 as well as strategize and prioritize for 2024.

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Several SITES Water datasets from Asa uploaded on the SITES Data Portal

19 January 2024

The ongoing process with uploading data to the SITES Data Portal continues. For Asa Research Station, as ice beings to settle on lake Feresjön, the SITES Water monitoring is reduced from biweekly sampling to monthly. This allows for more time to process and upload SITES Water data. 

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January Collaboration in Focus: SITES Spectral allows links to remotely sensed satellite data

09 January 2024

The SITES 2024 Calendar theme is “SITES Collaborations”. SITES aims to promote excellent ecosystem research and high-quality data that support this research. This includes collaborations that increase the number of projects that utilize multiple SITES stations and connect between aquatic and terrestrial processes. Further, SITES aims to strengthen the collaborations with relevant research infrastructures and networks across Sweden and internationally, including data infrastructures and services.

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