Icelandic Seal Center
Sandra Granquist seal specialist at the Icelandic Seal Center will present our latest research findings on the impact of tourists on seals at the Oikos Conference. The Conference is to be held at the Swedish Natural Museum, February 3rd-5th 2014.
Further information on the conference can be found here.
Recently Lotte Lille visited the Seal Center and interviewed our specialists on the Center. The result can be found on Lotte Lille’s blog.
Click here to read the coverage (in Swedish)
Sandra Granquist seal specialist at the Icelandic Seal Center has started DNA analyses of harbour seal feces to determine their food intake. The project is a cooperation between the Icelandic Freshwater Institute, The Natural Museum in Sweden and University of Stockholm. The analyses takes place at the Molecular Systematics Laboratory in Sweden.
Sandra Granquist, who runs the biological department of the Seal center, gave a seminar at the The European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) at Mid Sweden University in Östersund last week. The seminar was called “Balancing use and protection of wildlife – An interdisciplinary approach for biology and tourism research” and was about the interdisciplinary research Sandra has been working on at the Seal center together with Per-Åke Nilsson, a former employee of the Seal center. The study is about the importance of combining results from ecological research and tourism research for wildlife tourism mangement purposes. This research is part of a licentiate thesis that Sandra defended at the zoological department of Stockholm University, Sweden in November.
A new information webpage for the Hunathing vestra has been opened. Now you can find information on things to see and do in the area as well as a guide to accomodation and dining. On the site you can also find listings of events and happenings in the Hunathing vestra area as wells as coverage of the local company of the month.