SLU Water Forum
New call from SLU Aquaculture
To stimulate cross-faculty collaborations and further strengthen aquaculture research at SLU we announce a new call! Applicants can receive up to SEK 200,000. The last day to apply is 13 October 2022
Aquatic foods are superfoods for people and for our planet
SLU Global, SLU Aqua and SLU Aquaculture hosted a successful webinar about sustainable production and harvesting of fish, invertebrates and algae captured or cultured in freshwater or marine
Webinar: Securing sustainable access to aquatic foods
Webinar: Securing sustainable access to aquatic foods aquaculture@slu.se Welcome to a webinar with focus on sustainable production and harvesting of “aquatic foods”, that is fish, invertebrates and
Prophylaxis of infectious diseases in fish, shrimp and pigs
Seminar: Prophylaxis of infectious diseases in fish, shrimp and pigs aquaculture@slu.se Welcome to this seminar with invited guests from Ghent University! The program covers both aquatic and
Seminar on how to strengthen Swedish aquaculture
Seminar on how to strengthen Swedish aquaculture aquaculture@slu.se The Swedish Board of Agriculture will tell about their role in strengthening Swedish aquaculture and together with Matfiskodlarna
Worrying discovery of nanoplastics in remote forest waters
Nanoplastics – tiny, invisible plastic particles that could hardly be measured previously – have now been detected in high concentrations in lakes, streams and ponds in Sweden, and also in
Elin Dahlgren new coordinator BSSC
Since the 1st of April Elin Dahlgren coordinates SLU's participation in the Baltic Sea Science Center. She replaces Jens Olsson who previously had the assignment. Elin Dahlgren currently works at the
Seminar: Future water research at SLU – a seminar on perspectives from younger scholars
Seminar: Future water research at SLU – a seminar on perspectives from younger scholars lisa.beste@slu.se Are you interested in knowing more about the exciting water research going on at SLU and
Ishi Buffam
ishi.buffam@slu.se Researcher and teacher in ecosystem ecology. I am an Ecosystem Ecologist, with a PhD in Forest Ecology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). My training is
Greenhouse gas emission from wetlands increases when microbes are disturbed
Wetlands are the greatest source of nitrous oxide (N2O) that is not only a very potent greenhouse gas but also an ozone depleter. The rate of N2O emission depends on the microbes in the soil. A new
Novel insights into the welfare of farmed fish
Just like pigs, chicken and cows, farmed fish are protected by Swedish animal welfare legislation, but there is a great lack of knowledge about how fish should be kept, cared for, handled and finally
SLU highlight knowledge on groundwater during the World Water Day
Today is March 22 and the World Water Day, this year with a focus on groundwater: "make the invisible visible". At SLU, we pay a little extra attention to water issues and their role in the global