Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science
SITES is a national research infrastructure for terrestrial and limnological field research. SITES extends throughout Sweden with different ecosystems and climatic zones, from agriculture lands, forest, cultivated forest to mires, streams, lakes and alpines.
SITES offers all scientists to use participating field research stations. You also have the opportunity to use existing data collected at the stations. There are, in a number of areas of research, extensive and long series of data.
Read more about what SITES provides here.
SITES run three thematic programmes: SITES Water, SITES AquaNet och SITES Spectral.
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SVARTBERG'S ACTIVITIES IN PHOTOS
In 2018, a documentation project was initiated at Svartberget's research station, a collaboration between the research station and the photographer Andreas Palmén from Umeå.
The purpose of the project is to make professional image material available that can illustrate the infrastructure that the park offers, the people who work there and the research being conducted.
SITES AquaNet - Apply now!
Applications can now be made for using the infrastructure during 2020. More information can be found here.
SITES offers new opportunities in the field based research, read more about how you can use the infrastructure SITES in your research.
Focus: The story about the Tarfala Lake
Explore Tarfalas contribution to SITES Water program of lakes. A 52 m deep lake with summer temperature of +4°C.
