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2013-05-28 - 2013-05-29
The BNI Executive Board, with members from Sweden, Denmark and Finland, meet in Roskilde to discuss and follow up the BNI strategy and activity plans. Among the topics to be discussed are BNI´s role in the revision of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan.
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2013-04-24 - 2013-04-25
Celebrating 20 years of the Alg@line — Real time algal monitoring in the Baltic Sea - the 5th FerryBox Workshop will take place 24-25 April 2013 at the Finnish Environment Institute in Helsinki, Finland.Alg@lineThe Alg@line -project was generated in 1993 to improve the coverage of existing pelagic monitoring in the Baltic Sea.Alg@line is a part of the FerryBox community, which wants to improve and share the data and combined knowledge generated from the 'ship-of-opportunity platforms' (SOOP). The SOOP approach facilitates the monitoring of the highly fluctuating pelagic ecosystem through an extensive automated sampling method on board merchant ships. BNI participationAlexander Sokolov will participate with the presentation "Access to distributed marine databases on the Baltic Sea".
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2013-04-16 - 2013-04-17
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM) arranges the conference Marine and Water Forum 2013, aiming to develop and strengthen dialogue with and between different stakeholders. These stakeholders include decision makers, researchers, NGOs, business sectors such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy, maritime and the general public.3 key areasThe conference is about three key areas which the authority will focus on:Reduced eutrophication in the Baltic SeaIncreased biodiversity in flowing waterSustainable fisheriesBNI participationBNI and the Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre will give a presentation and discuss how to link research to decision making. One example, presented by Bo Gustafsson, is the role that BNI and its Nest-system has played for the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan. The presentation is number 16 in the program, with the title "Från aktuell forskning till användbar kunskap", under section "Reduced eutrophication".Marmar Nekoro will also present results from the BalticSTERN network, where BNI has played a vital role. Results from the recently published report "The Baltic Sea - Our Common Treasure. Economics of Saving the Sea" will be presented. The presentation is number 6 in the program, with the title "Att rädda Östersjön - vad vinner vi, vad kan vi förlora?" under section "Reduced eutrophication".More information:The conference is in Swedish and will be held 16-18 April in Gothenburg.Please visit SwAM´ website to read more about the conference and the program.Update:A video from the conference and the BNI presentation is now available hereThe entire program catalogue (in Swedish) is now available here
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2013-04-09 - 2013-04-10
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency hosted the 2nd European Environmental Evaluators Network Forum (EEEN) 9-10 April.The theme of the forum was the evaluation of transitions towards sustainable societies, with a focus on evaluation of innovation programmes and evaluation of environmental policies and objectives. EEEN is a European network of practitioners and researchers active in the field of environmental evaluation.Bridging science and policyThe Mistra Council for Evidence-based environmental management (EviEM), arranged a discussion on the topic Evaluators as a bridge between scientists and decision-makers during the 2nd day of the EEEN forum. The aim was to discuss how evaluators can make it easier for environmental agencies and other decision makers to use scientific knowledge as a basis for decision.BNI participationProfessor emeritus Fredrik Wulff, senior advisor and former Director of BNI Sweden, participated during the EviEM discussions. Prof. Wulff has broad experience of bridging between science and policy, not least from the process of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan.The discussion focused on the need for improved communication between scientists and decision makers. The need for a more interdisciplinary approach to environmental research, better meeting the needs of decision-makers, was emphasized.Read more about the forum and results here
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2013-04-08 - 2013-04-12
As part of ICES ongoing advancement of its capacity to carry out Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs) in its marine areas, members of the ICES/HELCOM Working Group on Integrated Assessments of the Baltic Sea (WGIAB) met to work trough a number of Terms of Reference aimed at supporting the implementation of the ecosystem approach in the Baltic Sea.The WGIAB and the meeting was chaired by Lena Bergström (Sweden), and Maciej Tomczak (BNI Sweden).Joint ICES and HELCOM assemblyThe WGIAB comprises members from all countries in the Baltic Sea region and constitutes a joint ICES and HELCOM assembly, a scientific forum for developing and combining ecosystem-based assessment and management efforts for the Baltic Sea. The overall scope of WGIAB is to produce science that promotes adaptive and holistic marine management strategies in the Baltic Sea.WGIAB has been working on tool and model development; building on the experiences accumulated in previous meetings of the working group, a large focus of this year´s meeting is to identify operational ways forward to implement integrated ecosystem assessments (IEA) and ecosystems based fisheries and marine management. The meeting was held in Padova (Chioggia), Italy, allowing for exchange of experiences with local scientist and support a potential further extension of IEA concepts to other regions. Read more about the ICES/HELCM WGIAB
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2013-04-07 - 2013-04-12
The EGU General Assembly 2013 brought together over 11,000 geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The meeting´s sessions covered a wide range of topics, including volcanology, planetary exploration, the Earth´s internal structure and atmosphere, climate, and energy.BNI contributionAlexander Sokolov participated with the poster "Modelling of submesoscale dynamics in the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea)".Submesoscale structures play an important role in heterogeneity of parameters such as temperature, nutrients and phytoplankton, but are challenging to model. The poster showed how the 3D hydrodynamic model OAAS is used to take into account spatial distribution in numerical modelling.
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2013-03-18 - 2013-03-18
Miljödepartementet och Havs- och Vattenmyndigheten anordnar ett dialogmöte för att informera om Helcomprocessen och ha en första bred dialog om hur Sverige kan ta sig an det vidare nationella åtgärdsarbetet inom t.ex. arbetet med åtgärdsprogram för havsmiljödirektivet och vattendirektivet.Bo Gustafsson, BNI Sverige, presenterar det vetenskapliga underlaget för nationella kvoter för kväve och fosfor.Läs mer om Dialogmötet och programmet här
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2013-03-06 - 2013-03-06
As part of the Kustlaboratoriet seminar series "Ecosystem functioning, climate change and fisheries: implications for management", Saskia Otto gave a presentation on "Population dynamics of key Baltic copepods under past and future climate and food web changes".Saskia is a researcher, currently doing her post doc as part of the BEAM programme (Baltic Sea Adaptive Management).
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2013-03-04 - 2013-03-04
The HELCOM-BONUS Stakeholder Conference will address the future research needs of the Baltic Sea.
Policymakers, funders, the science community and others with a stake in the sustainable management action in
the Baltic Sea region are welcome.Reinforcing synergiesThe Conference reinforces the synergies of HELCOM and BONUS in efforts related to environmental policy and
sustainable development. It works towards ensuring the most desirable contribution from BONUS, the macroregional
research governance framework of the Baltic Sea region, as a response mechanism to the knowledge
needs arising in the course of implementing of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan. The EU Marine Strategy
Framework Directive as well as other key sustainability policies, such as Maritime doctrine of the Russian
Federation by 2020, also create a demand for new knowledge that can be met with BONUS research.The role of research in sustainability of ecosystem services provided
The day will take a considered view of defining and clarifying the importance of the research, solutions based
knowledge and their societal impact in restoring good environmental status (GES) of the Baltic Sea and achieving
sustainability of the use of the goods and services provided by this fragile marine ecosystem.BNI contributionProfessor Fredrik Wulff, senior advisor and former Director of BNI Sweden, will give a presentation on "What we can — and cannot — expect science to deliver for the environmental policy
action in the Baltic Sea region?" (
See a video of his presentation here)In addition, Professor Anna-Stiina Heiskanen, Director of BNI Finland, will join a facilitated dialogue and panel discussion.
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2013-02-05 - 2013-02-06
Bo Gustafsson, BNI Sweden, will present BNI research regarding climate changes during the HELCOM Workshop on Baltic Sea region climate change and its implication, held at the IOW in Warnemünde, Germany.
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