The Stockholm University conference Baltic Sea Day, will this year be given in a digital format on November 4. It is open for all but registration is required in order to get a Zoom-invite. All abstracts and information about the sessions are available as PDFs below. 

Warm welcome!

 

8.30-8.35

WELCOME TO THE BALTIC SEA DAY 2020
Opening by Christoph Humborg, Scientific Director of the Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

8.35-9.40

CATCHMENT
Session chair: Fernando Jaramillo

  • Fernando Jaramillo: Using InSAR observations to understand effects of climate change on water resources in the Baltic Sea basin

  • Gustaf Hugelius: The impact of climate warming on permafrost in the Baltic Sea drainage basin.

  • Sara Cousins: Coastal meadows - habitats on the move.
  • Georgia Destouni: The Norrström/Baltic Multi-Actor Lab within the EU Project COASTAL - Collaborative Land-Sea Integration Platform, 2018-2022
9.40-9.55 COFFEE BREAK
9.55-11.30

COASTAL AREAS
Session chair: Francisco Nascimento

  • Florian Roth: Seasonal variations of carbon dioxide and methane distribution across coastal habitats of the Baltic Sea
  • Volker Brüchert: How can we scale inshore emissions of methane in the coastal Baltic and other coastal seas?
  • Johan Gustafsson: Are naturally produced brominated compounds causing negative health effects for the Baltic Sea wildlife?
  • Camilla Liénart: Are cyanobacteria good food for blue mussels?
  • Martin Jakobsson: How to answer the question of a link between Baltic Sea submarine terraces and groundwater seeping?
  • Gabriel Freitas: Bioaerosols emitted from Baltic Sea water as studied by single-particle laser-induced fluorescence and DNA analysis
11.30-12.30 LUNCH BREAK
12.30-13.35

OPEN SEA Part l
Session chair: Agnes ML Karlson

  • Jana Johansson: Identification of chemical compounds enriched in the Baltic Sea surface microlayer
  • Henrik Svedäng: New aspects on the decline of the Baltic cod
  • Agnes ML Karlsson: Food web changes explain contrasting patterns in cod and herring mercury concentrations over 4 decades 
  • Aikaterini Glykou: The story of the Baltic Sea harp seal: Reconstructing the history of an extinct population
13.35-13.45 COFFEE BREAK
13.45-15.05

OPEN SEA Part ll
Session chair: Inga Koszalka

  • Sarah Greenwood: Tracing meltwater drainage from the Fennoscandian ice sheet
  • Julia Muchowski: Mixing of water masses in the Baltic Sea
  • Kristofer Döös: Tracing the Baltic Haline Conveyor Belt
  • Inga Monika Koszalka: What can we learn about the swirling surface flows in the Baltic Sea from drifting instruments and modelled drifting particles?
  • Erik Gustafsson: Is ocean acidification a threat to the Baltic Sea?
15.05-15.15 COFFEE BREAK
15.15-16.35

POLICY & GOVERNANCE
Session chair: Gun Rudquist

  • Flora Borchert: Restricting chemicals under the REACH regulation: An examination of Key Studies used
  • Anna Christiernsson: Legal governance of marine biodiversity
  • Brita Bohman: From land to sea - Law and policy for reducing nutrients
  • Johan Schelin: Environmental aspects of maritime law in the Baltic Sea
  • Johanna Hedlund: Policy issue interdependencies and collaborative governance of the Norrström basin, Sweden
16.35-16.45

CLOSING SESSION
Closing remarks with future prospects of the marine research at Stockholm University by Christoph Humborg, Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre


For easy download:
Baltic Sea Day 2020 programme (77 Kb)

Baltic Sea Day 2020 - Abstracts (797 Kb)