News and Activities

Updates on NordSalt events, publications, and outreach activities are below

Previous Events

 15 April 2024 - Project Final Symposium -

Over 70 participants joined us for our virtual symposium. Recording of the event is below:

 

 

8-12 November, 2023
Mesocosm breakdown in Germany

Here we are gathering one final time to close out the experiment! 

Spring / Fall 2023
Confirmation MAL workshops in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

24-27 April, 2023
NordSalt Consortium Meeting in Denmark. Photos by the NordSalt team.

24-26 October, 2022
MAL workshop in Germany/Denmark with the Wadden Sea Expert Consortium.

28-29 September, 2022
NordSalt Workshop on Classification systems of Nordic Coastal Marsh Habitats - Turku, Finland

This 2-day workshop will take place in the Agora, Åbo Akademi campus. Discussion themes include Classification, Gradients of Nordic coastal marsh habitats, and Decision support system of coastal marsh areas. Accommodation details or virtual participation details can be obtained by contacting Anu Vehmaa: Anu.Vehmaa@abo.fi

 

12-16 September, 2022
Soil Collection in Norway - several NordSalt team members took up an opportunity to check out some salt marsh meadows in Norway. Photos by Ella Logemann, Carmen Dueñas, and Marianna Lanari.

8-10 May, 2022
Visit to Hamburg - launch of long-term warming experiment and setting parameters
Photos by Marianna Lanari and Gary Banta

Consortium Meeting #2
Greenhouse Gas measurement training
Explore long-term warming facilities for NordSalt and for MERIT

Soil Collection in Sweden
Photos by Line Andersen

5-9 October 2021
Soil Collection in Finland
Photos by Chris Boström

Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) hosted a Blue Carbon Conference on Wednesday 9 June 2021. Full link to the conference can be found here.

NordSalt scientist Dorte Krause-Jensen spoke on the hidden world of microalgae/seaweed as a carbon sink:

Combating global warming, climate change and preserving marine biodiversity requires intensified regional cooperation. This entails cooperation on every level, whether we work within policy, management or research. We need to work faster, more efficient, and target actions towards areas that will benefit both climate and biodiversity.  Maintaining and preserving ecosystems that serves as natural carbon sinks and support a wide range of plants and wildlife is one such area. We want to encourage and strengthen scientific research that will enable us to identify and maintain natural ocean carbon sinks in Nordic sea and coastal areas.

Speakers included Marianne Olsen, Sampsa Koponen – SYKE (NMR-project 2021), Borgþór Magnússon - Náttúrufræðistofnun, Gary Banta – University of Southern Denmark, Hege Gundersen - NIVA, Andrea De Cervo - Stockholm University, and Tanya Bryan – GRID-Arendal.

5 May 2021
Coordinator Gary Banta shared a 4-minute overview of the NordSalt project with the other 20 BiodivERsA-supported projects in the Biodiversity and Climate Change Joint Call:

 

19 March, 2021
The NordSalt Kick-off Meeting full recording is below: