Vindel River LIFE is collaborative project between Umeå University, Vindel River Fishery Advisory Board, and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Tributaries that were affected by fragmentation and channelization during the timber-floating era will be restored with the objective to widen the floodplain, increase the variation in the stream habitats, and to improve the . . . → Read More: Vindel River LIFE
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From February 15 Elisabet Carlborg will work 50 % as substitute for Johanna Gardeström, who now is on maternal leave. Vindel River LIFE wishes you all a really happy new year! The project steering group and the scientific reference group both had the final meeting for 2011 on the 29th of November. The focus was on the field season of 2011. This fall’s unusual high flows delayed much of the work. We do though plan to be on schedule already after next field season since . . . → Read More: Meetings The project leader and the project coordinator, Johanna and Christer, attended the ReNo conference (Restoring the North-Challenges and Oppertunities) in Iceland, 20-22 October 2011. Johanna gave an oral presentation, in which she gave an overview of the project, presented some completed restorations and some preliminary results. Christer also gave an oral presentation about the . . . → Read More: ReNo conference in Iceland Vindel River LIFE has been active in media lately. Below you can watch a short story from the local news about fish finding our restored spawning areas and also listen to a longer program about us in radio P1’s Vetandets värld (“a world of knowledge”).
. . . → Read More: Vindel River LIFE in media It has been reported that fish are spawning on many of the spawning beds which we have restored within the project. Usually fish spawn in the beginning of October but the water level is unusually high this year, which has led to warmer water than normal. Therefore it has taken longer for the water . . . → Read More: Fish are spawning! On the 28th of September the project invited researchers to a meeting at Hotel Forsen in Vindeln, where we informed about what restoration actions that have done so far in the tributaries and discussed possible research in the area. The Project leader, Johanna, presented the project organization and showed photos of done restorations. We . . . → Read More: Information meeting On the 22nd of September we did, together with Naturskolan, arrange a research meeting for two 5th-grade classes from Vännäsby. The day was spent outside, by and in a stream on the campus area of Umeå University. We ha assistance of two researchers who work in stream: Christine Weber, who studies fish movement during winter time . . . → Read More: The school project The project leader Johanna and the financial administrator Marie visited Västerås on the 12th to 13th of September for the annual LIFE platform meeting. This year’s host was Mia-Lake Mälaren Inner Archipelago. We were served the latest LIFE-news from the EC, got to hear about one new Swedish and two new Danish LIFE projects, . . . → Read More: Platform meeting in Västerås A picture is worth a thousand words..? This may be true but they also have their limitations. We find it difficult to use regular photos to demonstrate the structural effects of stream restoration. To improve the picture /image as a demonstration tool we have chosen to show 360-images from four sites that will be . . . → Read More: Check out the 360-images from our tributaries! |
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