Research at Erken Laboratory

Research at the Erken Laboratory focuses on the long-term monitoring of water quality, climate effects on aquatic systems, circulation of nutrients, and population and community dynamics in lakes.

For visiting researchers, we offer:

Data from an extensive environmental monitoring program for Lake Erken, including both manual and high-frequency automatic measurements. The monitoring programme includes measurements of physical and chemical parameters, phytoplankton, and greenhouse gas fluxes. Go to the Lake monitoring programme
Possibilities for the implementation of experiments (e.g. mesocosms), for example using the SITES AquaNet mesocosm infrastructure
Technical expertise for sensor based measurements
Help with sampling and measurements in lake Erken as well as surrounding lakes
Services of an accredited laboratory for water and sediment sampling and analysis and for phytoplankton and zooplankton determination. Go to Analytical services

Contact information

If you are interested to carry out a project at the Erken laboratory or use the data from our monitoring measurements, please contact us to discuss the possibilities:

New sampling programmes, field measurements or experimental work:
Silke Langenheder

Data from the Erken monitoring programme, in particular high frequency measurements:
Don Pierson

Networks

We are also a member of several national and international networks:

SITES: Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Sciences. Erken lab participates in the SITES programs Water, AquaNet och Spectral.
GLEON: Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network
NETLAKE: Networking Lake Observatories in Europe
LTER-Europe: Long-Term Ecological Research Network
SWE-NPN: Swedish phenology network
AQUACOSM: EU network of mecososm facilities

Publication list

List with older publications related to Erken (1940-2016) [pdf] Pdf, 196 kB.