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Marine Science

The seas cover more than 70 percent of the surface of our planet, and hosts a great variety of habitats. They range from artic ice landscapes, Baltic Sea archipelagos, tidal flats, coral reefs and trenches deeper that Mount Everest is high. At Stockholm University we perform research to discover more about the sea.

Baltic Sea Catchment

Human activities contribute to a higher pollution load in the sea. Researchers at the Baltic Sea Science Centre study the transportation of different types of pollution, such as nutrients or hazardous substances, from land to sea.

Baltic Sea Catchment

Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Marine Reserves

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Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Marine Reserves

Coasts of the Baltic Sea

Our coastal research combines several disciplines, to reach a broad and multidisciplinary understanding of the coasts of the Baltic Sea and how they are affected by human activities, pollution and climate change.

Coasts of the Baltic Sea

Fritidsbåt åker ut från hamnen i gamla Oxelösund

Fisheries – Interactions with the Ecosystem

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Fisheries – Interactions with the Ecosystem

Herring. Photo: Anna Björn at the Skansen Baltic sea aquarium.

Food Webs and Fisheries

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Food Webs and Fisheries

Natural resources and sustainability

Several of our researchers and projects focus on how people utilise different environments and natural resources, and how this in turn affects the surrounding landscape and ecosystems.

Natural resources and sustainability

Nutrients and Eutrophication

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Nutrients and Eutrophication

Open Baltic Sea

Research on the open sea focuses on how the large-scale ecosystem dynamics of the Baltic Sea are changed by human impacts. Issues include eutrophication, fisheries and how environmental toxins are transported and dispersed in the sea.

Open Baltic Sea

Satellitbild över Östersjön med algblomning sydost om Gotland och Öland

Permafrost-biogeochemistry-climate Interactions

The Arctic is warming 3-4 times faster than the global average and already now shows rapid thaw of land and subsea permafrost, vegetation shifts, increased coastal erosion, sea ice decline and changes in ocean currents.