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SOS! Surviving On Swedish island 4

SOS! Sensation Of Succeeding

Hi all! This is S.O.S’s final blogpost!
Last days have been extremely busy: we were collectors, movie makers, statisticians, writers and presenters! All those skills needed to be a good scientist.

The final steps to finish our research included making 3D models of the substrate structure of the different materials.


Science can look magical, don’t you think?

To resume, our aim was to describe the species composition on natural cliffs, concrete and plastic in three different locations in Tjärnö Bay.
Regarding our results, we found that the location where the samples of macrofauna and macroflora were taken, as well as the surface type (natural, concrete, and plastic substrate) had an influence on the diversity in the samples. However, in what intensity, depended on both those factors and no solid conclusions can be made.

Besides scientifically analysing our samples, we also made a short documentary for all of you to see how we’ve been doing this Summerschool.
Please check it out on the IMBRSea YouTube channel :)



Team S.O.S. - Study Of Substrate - Alexandra, Carmen, Gizem, Mar, Maria (Lola), Rita, and our supervisors Marco and Jens

Just like all beautiful songs, this one has an ending too.
Saying goodbye to friends is never fun to do. Fortunately we will all see each other again at the annual symposium in June 2019!


This was it! We enjoyed the research, and we sure hope you enjoyed reading our blogs!

Big thank you to our supervisor Marco Palma!


Team S.O.S. - Study Of Substrate - Alexandra, Carmen, Gizem, Mar, Maria (Lola), Rita

Veni vidi vici

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