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We are delighted to announce the second edition of the UMF Symposium! If you would simply like to attend and listen, please register using the link below.
Conference Room at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre
Date: 08th December 2025
Time: 09:00 – 15:45
08:45 Arrival and coffee
09:00 Nick Kamenos: Welcome.
09:10 Dániel Tájmel: Soil microbial responses to climate warming and forest management
09:25 Embla Berg: The impact of historical timber floating on long-term environmental change in two northern Swedish river estuaries
09:35 Elsa Örnerstig: Will climate change lead to enhanced MeHg formation in contaminated sediments?
09:45 Terry Bidleman: Half a World Apart – Similar Processes? HMBs in the Bering-Chukchi Seas and the Baltic Quark
10:00 Patricia Mrazek: Using Ice Mesocosms to simulate overwintering in ice-associated diatoms
10:10 Fika
10:40 Alexandra Rouillard: Drivers of historical to deep time change in Arctic biodiversity: an update
10:55 Jenny Ask: Macrovegetation monitoring program
11:05 Jenny Ask: Macrofauna monitoring program
11:15 Mike Peedu: Zooplankton monitoring program
11:25 Mike Peedu: Fish monitoring program
11:35 Léon Serre-Fredj: Biodiversity in the Gulf and Bothnia across space and time
11:50 Luis A. Gonzalez Guerrero (presenter: Heidi Burdett): The Impact of Brownification on the Primary Production of Habitat-Forming Macrophytes in the Baltic Sea
12:05 Lunch
12:45 Christian Ramirez Gutierrez: Light harvesting in coralline algae: structural strategies for light capture in mesophotic marine environments
13:00 Jenny Ask: Ongoing research projects
13:15 Sara Brännström: Impacts of Elodea nuttallii on native biodiversity in shallow coastal bays in the northern Baltic Sea
13:25 Agneta Andersson: Food webs’ trophic shifts in the Gulf of Bothnia/northern Baltic Sea
13:40 Nick Kamenos: Hemispheric variability in coastal ocean acidification
13:55 Cornelia Jansson: Volcanic Ash as a Fertilization Agent: A Comparative Mesocosm Study of Mafic and Felsic Ash
14:05 Hoang Long Vu & Siddhi Joshi (presenter: Heidi Burdett): Blue carbon habitats and their socio-political aspects in Southeast Asia
14:20 Fika
14:40 Avery Wilson: Thermal Acclimation in Great Barrier Reef Corals Over Decadal to Centennial Time Scales
14:50 George Westmeijer: Cryogenic electron tomography on aquatic microbes: progress and upcoming
15:05 Regina Kolzenburg: AQUASERV & IRISCC TA and research projects
15:15 Anna Palmbo Bergman: Infrastructure at UMF
15:25 Linda Sandblad: SciLifeLab - National research infrastructures and the Planetary Biology strategic area
15:35 Markus Nordin: Communicating UMF to the world
15:45 Regina Kolzenburg: Wrap up.
Thank you for joining us at this year’s UMF Symposium!
👉Register:
If you want to join us and listen to the talks, please register through this link: https://forms.office.com/e/b457Qgdy4e.
You can register until the week before the Symposium, but we can only provide free lunch for anyone who registers until the 24th November.
Welcome!
