Baltic Bar, Thursday June 11th
17:00-21:00
Mingle and bar at cost price (please bring cash)
17.30-18.00
Conversations with experts: Can better manure management reduce eutrophication in the Baltic Sea?
Beef, pork and poultry farms in the countries around the Baltic Sea produce enormous amounts of manure each year. Because the manure is bulky and expensive to transport, too much manure is applied as fertilizer on fields nearby the animal farms. Some of the excess nutrients, which are not taken up by the plants, eventually ends up in the Baltic Sea. What are the consequences for the marine environment ? Can better manure management reduce eutrophication in the sea? And what role does the increasing meat consumption in Europé play? (Will be held in English)
Science journalist Henrik Hamrén leads a talk with biogeokemist Michelle McCrackin and agronomist Annika Svanbäck, both at Baltic Eye, Baltic Sea Centre.
Place: Gula villan, next to the university library
