Seaweed hunting

Tångskogjakten will be the thirteenth edition of Forskarhjälpen. This year the students will collect seaweed to investigate the biodiversity of the seaweed forest and they will get to press seaweed plants. This year we are working together with researchers Lena Kautsky and Ellen Schagerström at the Baltic Sea Center at Stockholm University. In this year's project Tångskogjakten, the researchers need your help to collect data to create a unique research base that stretches along the entire Baltic Sea coast from the Öresund in the west to the Bothnian Sea in the northeast. The collected material will also give a picture of the Baltic Sea's variations between spring and autumn in the seaweed forest. This will form a unique research basis.

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