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New Formas project about ecosystem services in running waters

Published: 15 November 2021

Amélie Truchy, post doc at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, has been granted 5,2 million SEK by Formas.

In the Formas call about mobility grants for early-career researchers Amélie Truchy has been awarded 5,2 million SEK for a project about identifying ecosystem services in running waters at the national scale. The project title is Tailoring a functional approach for identifying and mapping ecosystem services in running waters: Towards a national assessment.

Amélie Truchy is currently doing a post-doc at INRAE in France. She has received her Ph.D. at the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU. During the new project she will return to the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment but will do most of the work at the collaboration partner, the University of Toulouse in France.

In the project Swedish environmental monitoring data will be used.