Busy September at Svartberget Research Station!
From 19th to 26th September, 30 PhD students from 7 countries arrive to Vindeln for the Watershed Ecology and Biogeochemistry course 2024. Over six intense days, students participated in presentations, poster discussions, and field visits, enhancing their understanding of key topics such as:
Bolmen Research Station, owned by Sydvatten and operated by Sweden Water Research, is a SITES associated station that participates in the AquaNet lake mesocosom experiments. The experiments provide knowledge on how the lake Bolmen responds to disturbances and environmental change, which is important to ensure that it remains a reliable water supply in the future.
Hot off the press, the secretariat together with the team from Skogaryd Research Catchment just updated one of the core time series within the station´s SITES Water program. You can now access all water chemistry data through the end of 2022 coming from Skogaryd´s extensive monitoring in their sub-catchments (see overview map).
Open access to the chemistry data from the streams and the lake Erssjön can be found here:
SITES Lönnstorp Research Station is one of ten European pilot sites selected to test and evaluate novel in-situ methods for soil analysis under the EU Soil Mission project
SITES agricultural research stations provide long-term agricultural crop experiments with projects linked to ecosystem services and environmental impacts on biodiversity, vegetation and phenology and aquatic eutrophication.
In 2025, a government evaluation is planned to assess the current hunting periods for various small mammal species (SEPA). To support this effort with updated data and insights on the reproductive periods of these species, a research program titled “Reproductive timing in relation to hunting season in small mammals” was launched this year. The program includes several sub-projects (post docs), each using different methods and focusing on different species.
On September 2, Simone Moras started his new position within the SITES Secretariat Staff. Welcome Simone!
1. Tell us about your background
My interest for nature and the environment led me to pursue a PhD in Limnology at Uppsala University, which I completed in 2024. My research focused on understanding and predicting methane emissions from lake sediments.
The run-off scenario mesocosm experiment was set-up 5 times in a total in three lakes: in Bolmen and Erken in the summer of 2022 and in Bolmen, Erken, and Erssjön in the spring of 2023.
As part of the SITES Water program at Abisko, lake monitoring in Stordalen is being established. Stordalen is a peatland catchment area with sporadic permafrost, which has been an important site for data collection since the 1950s.
SITES provides users access to long-term monitoring of forests, through the Unit for Field-based Forest Research at SLU, connected to both SITES Asa and Svartberget Research Stations, which has several decades of data.