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Svalbard Invasive Species (2024 – 2026)

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Svalbard Invasive Species (2024 – 2026)

Didemnum vexillum 02-11-2020_2_ErlingSvensen.jpg

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More on the project

Full title: Citizen Science Monitoring of Existing and Potential Marine Invasive Species Around Svalbard

Partners: Akvaplan-niva (lead), Svalbard Folkehøgskole, Artsdatabanken, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAN)

Project manager: Amanda Ziegler

Funding agency: Svalbard Miljøvernfond

See also project information on Research in Svalbard.

Objectives

  1. Develop user-friendly tools for the identification of existing and potential marine invasive species around Svalbard that could be used by local inhabitants at and visitors to Svalbard
  2. Test the developed tools and collect samples to monitor for newly established invasive species around Svalbard in collaboration with Svalbard Folkehøgskole

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