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New coordinator for SLU Water Forum
Published: 08 May 2019
From May 1, Jens Olsson at the Department of Aquatic Resources is new coordinator for SLU Water Forum. The assignment also includes coordinating SLU's participation in the Baltic Sea Science Center (BSSC) at Skansen in Stockholm, which was recently inaugurated. Jens has a PhD in limnology and has worked with research and environmental monitoring on water and fish largely throughout his professional life.
Jens works at the depa rtment of aquatic resources in Öregrund with, among other things, coastal fish surveillance, ecosystem analysis and status assessments for fish, both nationally and internationally.
– It will be exciting to start working with both the Water Forum and the BSSC. For some years I have been one of SLU's representatives in the Knowledge Council (kunskapsråd) for BSSC and have been very much involved in the planning of the exhibition and its inauguration. It has been extremely interesting to work with Skansen and researchers at Stockholm University to try to develop the content of the exhibition and how it should be designed. Overall, I am satisfied with the outcome.
The assignment as a water coordinator is 70 percent and most of the time Jens will put on the BSSC. Jens thinks BSSC is a fantastic platform with huge opportunities.
– It is a unique opportunity for us to show that SLU is to a large extent a water university. SLU has a profound knowledge of water, and what is growing and living below the surface. The activities at BSSC is only in its beginning and can develop enormously. Just imagine that it is planned that 500 school classes per year should visit the site! What opportunities do not open up here?
SLU Water Forum was formed in 2018, based on the NJ Faculty. Jens will scale up his work on the Water Forum after the summer.
– As a first step, I intended to reconcile with my two predecessor Sara Gräslund and Leonard Sandin. I also have the ambition to meet researchers working in the water area to present myself and to take in views on how a future water forum should be formulated.