Lakes and Watercourses programme

We provide data and expertise to further the work on Sweden's environmental objective Flourishing Lakes and Streams and other objectives related to water quality. We also support various public agencies in their work under the EC Water Framework Directive and on Sweden's other international water quality commitments.

Portrait of a woman, outdoors by the sea at sunset.

Anna Székely, coordinator for the Lakes and watercourses programme

+46 10 4784114, anna.szekely@slu.se. Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Division of Microbial Ecology, SLU.

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Brendan Mckie, assisting coordinator for the Lakes and Watercourses programme

+46 18 67 31 55, brendan.mckie@slu.se. Professor at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Division of Ecology and Biodiversity, SLU.

Selection of environmental analysis data for the environmental objective Flourishing lakes and streams

In SLU's environmental data catalogue, you can search and browse open data from our environmental monitoring and assessment.

Recources within Lakes and Watercourses

  • Data host lakes and watercourses

  • Laboratory for environmental analysis

  • Fish data hosting

    We are acting on behalf of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management as the data host for the data collected within national and regional environmental monitoring, as well as data at international level within the Data Collection Framework.

  • Crayfish

    Sweden has two freshwater crayfish species: the native noble crayfish and the introduced signal crayfish. Populations of the noble crayfish have declined dramatically in Sweden since the early 20th century, primarily due to the spread of crayfish plague.

  • eDNA

    Can a water sample show which species live in a lake? We test and develop the eDNA method as a complement to traditional environmental monitoring.
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