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The northern Bothnian Bay is a unique area in the most northern part of the Baltic Sea. It is shared between Sweden in the west and Finland in the east. What hides beneath its surface is today still largely unknow. To uphold an effective and sustainable management of the area and its ecosystem services, improved knowledge of the marine environment as well as management collaborations across the border is crucial.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — Bothnian Bay National Park (Perämeren kansallispuisto) outside of Torneå and Kemi on the Finnish side of the bay (Photo by Ville Savilampi, Metsähallitus)

The SEAmBOTH project is a three years project partly funded by Interreg Nord. The main goal of the project is to help ensure the conservation of the biological diversity, habitats, ecosystems and the ecosystem services existing within the Bothnian Bay.

The sea floor will be mapped by high-tech sonars and multibeam equipment, the vegetation will be investigated by scuba divers and in the very shallow areas laser scanning planes will fly across to measure the depths. With the help of the collected and existing data, maps of the underwater landscape are to be produced. The maps will in turn serve as support for decision-makers, urban planners, environmental inspectors etc., as well as providing valuable information for the public.

The Times They Are A Changin’ – and the landscape too

30 April, 202030 April, 2020 by suvisaarnio, posted in Final results

“The Times They Are A Changin’ “, wrote Bob Dylan a song once, a long time ago. But it is very true still today, when the current coronavirus situation is changing the world and our societal behaviour. Also, the environment is changing, partly due to our own activities, partly by natural forces. SEAmBOTH project started … Continue reading The Times They Are A Changin’ – and the landscape too

Endangered species

28 April, 202020 April, 2020 by suvisaarnio, posted in Special species

Most of the existing populations of the threatened species of macrophytes in the Baltic Sea can be found in the SEAmBOTH area. There are a lot of populations from before 1995 in the southern Finland, Sweden, and south of the Baltic Sea which have now vanished. Whether this is due to lack of recent knowledge … Continue reading Endangered species

Marine vegetation inventories

24 April, 20207 May, 2020 by behlina, posted in Final results

To make maps of the marine environment, the plants, and connected nature values, one of the basic pieces of information you need is marine biological data. Not only can this data be used for making models and maps, it also tells us a lot about the underwater landscape and provides knowledge about the existence of … Continue reading Marine vegetation inventories

Earth Observation for monitoring our aquatic environment

21 April, 20207 May, 2020 by suvisaarnio, posted in Final results

The SEAmBOTH project is coming to an end, and it is time to look back and see what we have accomplished in the field of Earth Observation (EO). In a previous blog, the basics of aquatic Earth Observation were already explained. Here, we can concentrate on what were our main results and take-home messages. EO … Continue reading Earth Observation for monitoring our aquatic environment

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