As part of the IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm this week, Erken Laboratory hosted an excursion, where around 150 IUFRO participants visited the station to learn about environmental monitoring and field-based research infrastructure.
The national initiative network of regional honey bee health advisors, is an initiative lead by SLU RådNu, in collaboration with the Swedish beekeepers association, and the Swedish Professional
During the summer, Asa Research Station will be involved in a new project led by researchers from SLU and Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
SITES Skogaryd Research Catchment is connected to the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC), which brings together scientists from Lund University and University of Gothenburg to perform research essential to the sustainable management of ecosystems and biodiversity. Skogaryd Research Catchment offers BECC researchers access to field studies on a variety of ecosystems, i.e. mires, mature and young forests, lakes and streams.
The research activities at Grimsö started in 1974, and is the reason why this year a 50-year jubilee is celebrated. Grimsö was first placed under the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, but since 1992 be placed in the Department of Ecology, SLU.
SITES Spectral recently hosted a comprehensive webinar as a refresher course on calibrating fixed sensors.
Welcome Amelie Lindgren to the SITES community! In June, Amelie will be taking over as Station Manager at Skogaryd but for the first half of the year she has already been transitioning into the new role.
The spring flood at Svartberget Research Station has started and with it, water sampling in the Krycklan catchment is taking place 2 times a week. The snow is rapidly melting, with the lysimeters (see picture) measuring over 100 kg of flow over a 3-day period.
At the same time, the field station is preparing for the summer forest field trial season with seasonal staff already starting in May and in total 12 extra persons working at the station by the beginning of June.
Wildlife monitoring is an important part of the Grimsö Wildlife Research Station activities. A large part of the monitoring was initiated during the 1970s, but new data series have been added over time and as methods developed. On such method development is the use of wildlife cameras to monitor wildlife activity in the area. At Grimsö, wildlife cameras are widely used as they provide valuable data, e.g., to estimate population sizes and frequency of animal visits.
After many years of measurements in Almbergasjön in Abisko, SITES Water is being moved to a lake in Stordalen.