On Tuesday, 23 April, Tobias Donath from the Kiel University, will give a seminar on ”Restoration of species-rich grassland – opportunities and obstacles”. The seminar will be given at 14:30 in room 5F416 at Karlstad University.
Everyone is welcome to attend the seminar.
On Tuesday, 18 April, Victoria Pritchard from the University of Turku, will give a seminar on “Conservation Genomics of Atlantic Salmon”. The seminar will be given at 13:30 in room 5F416 at Karlstad University.
Victoria has worked in the UK, USA, and Finland, and has published over 20 articles in leading conservation, evolutionary and fisheries journals. Everyone is welcome to attend the seminar.
Tomorrow (Tuesday), February 28, David Aldvén from the University of Gothenburg and Vattenfall AB, will give a seminar titled ”Downstream migration of anadromous brown trout”. David Aldvén finished his PhD with a thesis titled ”Migration in anadromous brown trout”. The frame of his thesis is available online here.
The seminar will be given at 13:30 in room 5F416 on Karlstad University. Everyone is welcome to attend!
Fish Passage 2017 – International Conference on Engineering and Ecohydrology for Fish Passage will be held in Corvallis, Oregon, USA on June 19-21 2017. The confererence “…promises to be an important international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange findings and experiences on fish passage issues.
Fish Passage 2017 will be of interest to researchers, educators, practitioners, funders, and regulators who have an interest in advancements in technical fishways, nature-like fishways, stream restoration and stabilization, dam removal, and the myriad of funding, safety, climate change, and other socio-economic related issues surrounding connectivity projects.
This is a three-day conference with concurrent sessions in engineering, biology, management and monitoring techniques. The conference will also feature plenary talks, professional networking opportunities, and a poster session. Independently offered short courses, workshops and tours will be available immediately before and/or after the conference.”
Plenary speakers will be say’ay’ – John Eli Sirois, Futoshi Nakamura, Tony Farrell, Paul T. Jacobson, and Kurt D. Fausch. Read more about the plenary speakers here. Also, pre-conference short courses and post-conference tours are available. Read more about the conference at www.fishpassageconference.com.
Last Tuesday, Ewa Orlikowska, PhD-student at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, gave a seminar titled “Gaps in ecological research on the world’s largest internationally coordinated network of protected areas: A review of Natura 2000” at Karlstad University. The seminar is available online upon request. Send an e-mail to john.piccolo@kau.se to get access to the seminar.
The papers Gaps in ecological research on the world’s largest internationally coordinated network of protected areas: A review of Natura 2000 and Contribution of social science to large scale biodiversity conservation: A review of research about the Natura 2000 network, both by Orlikowska et al. relate to the seminar content.
Natura 2000 sites. Map from European Environment Agency.
Imorgon, onsdagen den 7:e december, kommer Johan Watz, forskare vid Karlstads Universitet, att berätta om öringens vinterbeteende i rinnande vatten. Evenemanget är en del av universitetets “Möt en forskare”-serie och ges kl. 12:00 – 12:45 i Studieverkstaden på plan 3 i universitetets bibliotek. Alla är välkomna!
Radiotagged migrating brown trout.
Next week, Daniel Nyqvist, PhD-student at Karlstad University, will defend his (my…) thesis “Atlantic salmon in regulated rivers: migration, dam passage, and fish behavior”. The defense will take place on Friday, December 9th, at 10:15 in room 9C 203 on Karlstad University. The abstract and the frame of the thesis are available online here.
Scott Hinch (University of British Columbia, Canada) is the opponent and Eva Thorstad (NINA, Norway), Kim Aarestrup (DTU AQUA, Denmark) and Hans Lundqvist (Swedish University of Agriculture) constitute the grading committee (betygskommitté). The visiting researchers will give seminars at Karlstad University on Thursday, December 8th. The seminars start at 14:15 in room 5F322:
Scott Hinch: Using telemetry in adaptive management experiments at fish passage facilities
Eva Thorstad: New results on downstream migration of eel and salmon past power stations in Germany
Hans Lundqvist: Wild Baltic stocks of Atlantic salmon in northern Sweden: Where are we and where are we going in Umeälven?
Kim Aarestrup has yet to disclose the title of his seminar.
Everyone is welcome to attend both the PhD-defense and the seminars.
Sportfiskarna arrangerar nästa vecka två infokvällar om Vänern och Klarälven. Tisdagen den 8:e november hålls ett möte i Mariestads Folkets Park och den 9:e Novemeber på Stadshotellet i Karlstad.
Sportfiskarna skriver:
“Sportfiskarna arrangerar träff för medlemmar, klubbar och andra sportfiskeintresserade kring Vänern och Klarälven. Välkomna till infokväll med Sportfiskarna och referensgruppen för Sportfiskarnas fångstdataprojekt i Vänern! Det blir föredrag från olika aktörer inom sportfiske och fiske i Vänern.”
Plats: Mariestads Folkets Park (8 november) och Karlstads Stadshotell (9 november).
Tid: 18-21.30Program:
• Sportfiskarna och vår verksamhet 2016
• Sportfiskarnas projektverksamhet i Vänern och Klarälven.
• Avelsfiske, odling och utsättningsverksamhet i Vänern och Klarälven.
• Verksamhet, projekt och arbetet med Vänerns fisk, fiske och vattenmiljö.
• Frågor och diskussion
• Mingel och möjlighet att ta en öl efteråt (OBS endast Karlstad)Sportfiskarna representeras av generalsekreteraren Anders Karlsson och styrelseledamot Mikael Tuneld. Från Sportfiskarna region Värmland kommer Peter Belin och Simon Jonsson.
Övriga föredragshållare:
Jonas Andersson, Länsstyrelsen Värmland
Eva Bergman, Karlstads universitet
Marco Blixt, Fortum
Thomas Johansson, Laxfond Vänern
Jens Karlsson, Fiskeområde Vänern
Johnny Norrgård, Gammelkroppa lax AB
Jens Persson, Havs- och Vattenmyndigheten
Alfred Sandström, Sveriges LantbruksuniversitetAnmälan och frågor: peter.belin@sportfiskarna.se , 070-6894820
Sportfiskarna bjuder på fika. Det finns ett begränsat antal platser och föranmälan krävs. Det går att anmäla sig veckan ut.
Från Karlstads Universitet återfinns Eva Bergman bland föredragshållarna.
On Tuesday, October 18, Ryan Sponseller, from Umeå University, will give a seminar titled “Land-water interactions and stream ecosystem dynamics in northern boreal landscapes”.
Ryan Sponseller describes his research: “My research focuses on the controls over ecosystem structure and functioning in streams, rivers, and watersheds. We study these systems to understand their condition as natural resources, and as models to test general ecological and biogeochemical principles. This work employs a number of different tools and approaches, including long-term watershed monitoring, the use of isotopic tracers, and field studies of productivity and nutrient dynamics in aquatic habitats.
One current set of projects in my lab evaluates how ecological changes in terrestrial environments shape the productivity of streams and rivers through controls over habitat conditions (e.g., light) and the availability of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to aquatic food webs. Applications of this work include understanding the impacts of land use (e.g., forestry) and climate change on freshwater habitats in boreal and sub-arctic landscapes. At the same time, we also pursue basic questions about how light, organic energy, and resource limitation interact to govern biotic structure, productivity, and nutrient use in aquatic systems.
A second component of my research program asks how and why terrestrial environments retain (or lose) important resources. We focus on hydrologic export of nutrients to streams and rivers, with particular attention to nitrogen (N), which limits the productivity of terrestrial and aquatic habitats in northern Sweden, and is one cause of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea. The drivers of material export from land vary with scale. At small scales, our research addresses basic questions about the role of landscape heterogeneity and hydrologic routing as factors that determine patterns of N export from headwater catchments. At broader and longer scales, current work explores how long-term (multi-decadal) changes in land management and climate are altering N storage and export across boreal and subarctic Sweden.”
The seminar will be given at 13:30 in room 5F416 on Karlstad University. Everyone is welcome to attend!
Barn studerar ål under ett liknande arrangemang 2011.
För nionde året presenterar “Barnens universitet” föreläsare och forskningsämnen på Karlstads Universitet. Under sex måndagar i höst är barn 8-12 år välkommna att träffa forskare på universitetet. Nästa måndagen, den 10 Oktober, klockan 15:00-15:45 är det dags för Olle Calles och Martin Österling, biologer och forskare vid Karlstads Universitet, att presentera ålen. Martin och Olle berättar om upplägget: “Ålen är en klurig fisk med många hemligheter. Den lever djupt nere i sjöar och hav, men kan faktiskt också klara sig i luft under flera timmar, och klättra uppför lodräta väggar! En annan konstig sak med ålar är att de kan bli väldigt gamla, trots att de är utrotningshotade. Varför är det så? Vi ska lära er mer om ålen och vad man kan göra för att hjälpa till att rädda den.”
Ålen presenteras i Ljungbergsalen, på Karlstads universitet. Barn, föräldrar och andra intresserade är välkomna!
