In February, Ola Langvall, Pablo Urrutia Cordero, Don Pierson and William Colom met at the Erken Research Station for planning of the installations on the SITES AquaNet platforms.

Don and William showed how water sampling and treatments can be accomplished during winter and icy conditions in the mesocosms, and thereafter the group made a visit to the small island where many of the instruments in the Erken infrastructure are located.

Then the group focused on the datalogger and sensor installations, where communication and programming for sampling and storage of data from the sensors was discussed, as well as how sensors can be placed into the mesocosms. An example of the datalogger/sensor setup will be tested at the Asa Research Station and physical installations of mesocosms, sensors and blenders will be tested in Erken before the AquaNet workshop in late April.

At this meeting all stations will share and discuss the example setups and the final decisions will be taken for the implementation on all platforms.

SITES and ICOS Sweden invited researchers at the OIKOS conference to describe their needs regarding field based research and their wish list of measurements and facilities provided by national infrastructures in the future.

Thanks to all attendances and if you have any questions about SITES or ICOS Sweden don’t hesitate to contact the Directors, Anders Lindroth or Maj-Lena Linderson.

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SLU in Alnarp recruits a Postdoc in Cropping systems ecology with focus on soil microbial ecology in production grasslands to the Department of Biosystems and Technology.

The positiation is within a EU-collaboration, BIOINVENT. Part of the research will be placed at Lönnstorp.

Postdoc announcement.

Contact: Linda-Maria Mårtensson