The marine environment of the Baltic Sea is fragile and vulnerable due to its unique location and structure. 85 million people live on its catchment area and 15 million of them live within 10 kms from the shoreline. Therefore this has an effect on the marine environment both below and above the sea surface. Even … Continue reading How we do it: estimating human pressures at the Bothnian Bay
Hi everyone! My name is Susanna, and I was an intern in the SEAmBOTH team last summer in Oulu. I study geography at the University of Oulu and thought that it was time for me to get some work experience in my own field of expertise. Even though I have not studied biology that much, … Continue reading How we do it: Intern edition
There is an annual boating event in the Bothnian Bay national park known as Sarvipäivät. This year Metsäahallitus organized a week-long archipelago event, Saaristopäivät, instead. The week 25.6-1.7.2018 we celebrated the archipelago life, the national park, recreational boating and all things marine in the Northern Bothnian Bay. SEAmBOTH registered the event as a European Maritime … Continue reading How we do it: Arcihpelago days, Perämeren saaristopäivät
Last week the project group made its way from the offices to the nature. Many of the SEAmBOTH partners are forever stuck in the office and don’t do any field work while some of us collect more data at the sea. The aim of the field excursion was to get to know the project pilot … Continue reading How we do it: field excursion to the Bothnian Bay National Park, Finland
Check out the video about making drop videos! In short, drop-videos are taken while on a boat and lowering a video camera under the surface, close to the bottom. We take 60 seconds long videos and analyze the videos later at the office. From the videos we can analyze the bottom quality and species seen … Continue reading How we do it: Drop-videos
In SEAmBOTH we are mapping shallow areas because most of the vegetation grows there, and one of the best ways for mapping in shallow water is wading. Check this video to see how it is done! 🙂 Here is also a couple of photos of our team doing wading points. Photo by Lari Järvinen, Metsähallitus. … Continue reading How we do it: Wading points
What plants grow at the bottoms of the northern Bothnian Bay? What species can you expect to find, and do they differ depending upon location? Inventories of the underwater vegetation are crucial in order to increase the knowledge of the marine environment of the Bothnian Bay. As part of the SEAmBOTH project, inventories were made … Continue reading Investigating underwater vegetation
