About IVL Press room Event Career English OUR AREAS CURRENT RESEARCH CONSULTING ASSIGNMENT LAB & ANALYSIS SUSTAINABLE MUNICIPALITY PUBLICATIONS PLUG MENU search Our areas Current research Consulting assignment Lab & analysis Sustainable municipality Publications plug About IVL Press room Press releases News Debates Comments, chronicles and Q&A Reportage and interviews Press photos Movies Newsletter Logo Event Career start / press room / news News 2018-08-13 Isabella Lövin visited Kristineberg's research station On Monday 13 August, Climate Minister Isabella Lövin visited Kristineberg's research station to take part in ongoing marine research projects and discuss marine environment issues. IVL participated and presented some of the research areas that the institute works with, including microplastics, pollutants from ship transports and cultivation of oysters. Kristineberg Marine Research Station in Bohuslän is one of the world's oldest marine stations for research and education, and in May this year the new Kristineberg Marine Research and Innovation Center was inaugurated, which will become a national arena for marine research and innovation with a focus on sustainable blue growth. Behind the initiative are five strong research actors - the University of Gothenburg, Chalmers, KTH, IVL Swedish Environmental Institute and RISE with the support of Lysekil Municipality. The business focuses on the main areas of marine food, marine energy and marine management and restoration. IVL has for several years had operations at Kristineberg and during the minister's visit, some of the research areas that the institute works with were presented. Among other things, Kerstin Magnusson and Maria Granberg talked about analyzes of microplastics and pollutants from ship transports. Anna-Lisa Wrange spoke about oyster research linked to sustainable aquaculture and the management of natural oyster and mussel stocks. Also present at the meeting was Anna-Sara Krång, who works with marine environment issues at IVL. For questions contact: John Munthe, john.munthe@ivl.se , tel. 010-788 68 06 PRESS ROOM Press releases News Debates Comments, chronicles and Q&A Reportage and interviews Press photos Movies Newsletter Logo Page last modified: 2018-08-13 Share this content IVL Swedish Environmental Institute plug 010-788 65 00 (vxl) Our offices our coworkers Social Media Other Sitemap © 2015 IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet AB About Cookies Privacy Policy