Bornö Marine Research Station, owned by the Bornö Institute for Ocean and Climate Studies,
is located at
Holma on the island
Stora Bornö in
Gullmarsfjorden
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, about north of
Gothenburg
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, Sweden. It was built in 1902 by and , both pioneers of Swedish marine research. The island has been considered by many Swedes to be the birthplace of Swedish
oceanography
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.
Description
The station grounds, covering , are a nature reserve.
It is currently owned and operated by a foundation named the Bornö Institute for Ocean and Climate Studies and provides educational facilities for the
University of Gothenburg. It is also available to let to companies or organizations for field courses, research, instrument development or national and international meetings.
The upper floors contain eight bedrooms housing 15 beds, as well as two kitchens. On the ground floor are four office spaces and a lecture hall with accommodations for 25 people.
History
The station was originally built in response to the agreements of the
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) signed in
Copenhagen in 1902 between
Denmark,
Finland,
Germany, the
Netherlands,
Norway,
Sweden
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,
Russia, and the
United Kingdom.
It was built with funding from Pettersson and Ekman, on Pettersson's land, and then rented to the Swedish Hydrographic Biological Commission (SHBK) to conduct studies on oceans and climate. In 1931, Pettersson's son
Hans
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, who was a professor at the
University of Gothenburg expanded the research on the island and then in 1932 the SHBK was able to purchase the island for the government.
Beginning in 1908, Otto Pettersson collected daily records on the temperature and salinity of the waters at the Bornö Station.
With few interruptions, mostly during
World War I and
World War II, these daily observations continued until the 1980s. Petterson also discovered internal
tidal waves by studying variations of the boundary surfaces between the brackish and ocean waters, which led him to develop a photographic current meter. When his son took over the investigations at the institute in the 1930s, he began to focus on the
radioactive dating
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of sediments and forged research collaborations with the scientists at the
Institute for Radium Research of Vienna.
References
Bibliography
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External links
Bornö Institute for Ocean and Climate Studies official site with photograph
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1902 establishments in Sweden
Oceanographic organizations
Research stations
Buildings and structures in Västra Götaland County