Finland
Institute: Åbo Akademi University, Turku
Local tutors: Associate Prof. Dr. Christian Pansch-Hattich
Participation: projects 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2021, 2020
Last update: January 2022
Turku (Åbo in Swedish), founded in the 13th century, is the oldest and fifth largest city in Finland. The GAME experiments take place at Husö Biological Station on the Åland Islands, which is one of the two field station of Åbo Akademi University.
The underwater environments are characterized by a very limited number of marine species due to low salinities, which are partly being replaced by freshwater species, making this an interesting study area. This area is ideally to studying the impacts from climate change in marginal communities, and represents the salinity borderline of several habitat-forming species in the Baltic Sea such as Zostera marina and Fucus vesiculosus.