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Today, all project members met online and in the GMBL laboratory to record an introduction film for the Climate Invasives research project. We had a very productive day together and the next step is to edit the movie. We are hoping to have the film ready in time for our first stakeholder meeting on October

Today, all members of Climate Invasives met online for a second project meeting. The project members from Sweden met as a group at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). The meeting consisted of good discussions and planning. All project members shared what they have been contributing to the project since the last meeting in

The day was spent on Orust and Tjörn on the Swedish west coast to collect data for the project Climate Invasives. Water samples were collected on different locations and filtered on site for later eDNA analysis in order to detect and map invasive species in the area. Bachelor student Lydia filtering water samples from different

Dagens nyheter, one of Sweden’s largest daily newspapers writes about our work with invasive species and about the role of shipping traffic in the spread of invasive species. Read the whole article including interviews and video clip here: https://www.dn.se/varlden/isfritt-arktis-oppnar-genvag-for-invasiva-arter/

The day was spent learning how to use our new digital PCR system, which will be used in the project Climate Invasives to detect invasive alien species through eDNA in collected water samples.

During the summer, a benthic survey was conducted by Erik Prins for the Climate Invasives project in the Stenungsund area on the Swedish west coast. The aim of the survey was to test how well eelgrass versus other benthic types in the area could be mapped. The results from selected sites where transects were made