Röbäcksdalen’s 75 cm record snow depth, with the field station building in the background. Photo: Malin Barrlund.
The weather this winter around Umeå in northern Sweden has so far been erratic.
Two master students, Fredrik Andersson and Tobias Möhl, participated in the sampling. Here they are pulling the geo-radar (Malå Geoscience Ramac) equipment over the ice.
The SITES Secretariat, SITES Station Directors and a selected core writing group of Swedish researchers in ecosystem science, are currently busy preparing an application for the 3rd phase of SITES funding (starting in 2023). The Swedish Research Council has opened a call for grants to research infrastructures of national interest.
As we near the end of 2020, we wanted to extend a big thanks to the SITES community! We have enjoyed staying virtually connected this year and look forward to continued engagement in 2021. Season’s greetings and best wishes for 2021 from the SITES Secretariat!
The picture shows a similar radar tower in Remningstorp, which in a collaboration between the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Chalmers University of Technology.
The overall aim of this project is to develop a new
At lake Erken, tests of new automatic gas flux chambers have started. The chambers, with sensors inside, can be used to automatically measure greenhouse gas (GHG) flux between water and air.
November used to be the transition month between autumn and winter at Lönnstorp Research Station in Skåne in southern Sweden, but this year the temperatures have been a bit milder than usual.
At Lake Almbergasjön, Abisko Scientific Research Station, the two research engineers Niklas Rakos and Erik Lundin are getting into the winter protocol for water sampling. The ice on the lake is 15cm thick and the visibility is more than 4m even with the sparse light at this latitude this time of the year.
At the beginning of the week heavy rainfalls in combination with strong winds occurred in Västerbotten County. Technicians from Röbäcksdalen Field Research Station took the opportunity of 47mm rain recorded by their weather station for the 2nd of November to take field measurements in the streams.
Usually about 450 guest researchers who spend around 6,000 guest nights are hosted at Abisko Scientific Research Station during a field season each year. So far, the research station has only seen 115 guests. Quiet, empty, different… In normal years, it is quite noisy in the lunch room at ten o'clock, when there is a combined morning Fika for staff and guests. This year, only the station staff is allowed in the lunch room, practicing social distancing.
