The LIFE Lophelia project is now in its sixth and final year and it is time for the final conference on September 2-3, 2025. The conference will be held at Tanumstrand just outside Grebbestad, on the Swedish west coast.
All 160 artificial reefs that will save Sweden’s coral reefs are finally in place in the Koster Sea. Launching them has taken longer than expected, since the project was affected by the windy summer weather. Now there will be a few years of anxious waiting before they know whether the experiment has succeeded or not. But until then, the reefs will be a hotel for other marine animals, such as fish, squat lobsters, and sea anemones.
Now the concrete reefs are being launched to save Sweden’s coral reefs. 132 star-shaped reef structures will be placed in six locations in the Koster and Väderö fjords. The goal is for small coral larvae to find their way there and start building new living reefs.
We have finished up another season of coral spawning (see video below) and experiments with larvae. The larvae have given us a hint on what
Year 2022 was busy for the environmental data collection in the project. Three full field campaigns were completed, where instruments were left out at the
During this autumn and winter, textured panels have been retrieved from two locations in the Koster-Väderöfjord. We placed them on the seafloor in the spring
We have now started to retrieve some of the settling panels that now have been sitting on the sea floor for one and a half
Currents seem to have big influence on the coral’s presence, growth and health. Very weak currents probably reduce the supply of food, at the same
A five minutes video introducing the project in English is now available on the webb, under Om projektet. The video was made to an online
Right now the corals spawn and release a lot of eggs and sperm in the aquaria at Tjärnö marine laboratory (see also news Coral factory
