The CO2 sensors being prepared at Svartberget are placed in chambers on the lake as part of the SITES Water greenhouse gas program, which starts once the ice is gone.
Recently, information about the more intensively studied lakes, in Thematic Programs SITES AquaNet and SITES Water, was added to the SITES website. There are seven lakes, Almbergasjön, Bolmen, Erken, Erssjön, Feresjön, Stortjärn and Tarfalasjön, at seven different stations that are central for SITES AquaNet and SITES Water. Use the link below to read more about each lake.
Climbing to reach the soil sampling site 17 June 2014. Photo: Therese Zetterberg, SLU.Studying natural or semi-natural forests gives us a better understanding of the effects of forestry. However, since disturbances such as storms are a part of natural ecosystem, field work is sometimes challenging.
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
