Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, UR
Lectures on life below the surface and the marine environment at Öresund.
Recorded on September 3, 2021 at Naturum Öresund in Malmö.
Organiser: Naturum Öresund and Swedish Educational Broadcast Company, UR.
The strait that divides and unites us.
Öresund was the result in the late 1980s. But today, Öresund is seen as a model for how to change a vulnerable sea area. Michael Palmgren, director of operations at Naturum Öresund, shows and tells about efforts and improvements, and not least about the fascinating life below the surface in Öresund. Without a clean, healthy and productive ocean, people, animals and plants on land will not survive. Recorded on September 3, 2021 at Naturum Öresund in Malmö. Organiser: Naturum Öresund.
Are you ocean conscious?
At Naturum Öresund, we want to make visible the world that exists below the surface and how it is connected to us humans, says Elinor Hermansson, nature guide at Naturum Öresund. They want to create ocean awareness - or "ocean literacy" - through marine pedagogy where they mix theory with practice. Elinor Hermansson explains the seven basic principles on which ocean awareness is based. Recorded on September 3, 2021 at Naturum Öresund in Malmö. Organiser: Naturum Öresund.
Our vital ocean
Without the ocean, we humans would not be able to live on this planet. As the earth's largest ecosystem, it contributes many things that we need to live and feel well, so-called ecosystem services. Oxygen production, binding of carbon and water purification are some of the things we depend on. Here, nature guides Elinor Hermansson and Alexander Cammaroto talk about how and why the sea is so important to us. Recorded on September 3, 2021 at Naturum Öresund in Malmö. Organiser: Naturum Öresund.
Our history beneath the surface
Many exciting traces of our history are hidden beneath the surface in Öresund. It could be plants and flint axes from a time when you could walk from Skåne to Denmark in dry shoes, or wrecks from more recent naval battles. Michael Palmgren, director of operations at Naturum Öresund, shows findings and tells stories. Among other things, he talks about the wreck Nya Svärdet from the Battle of Öresund in 1658 and the wreck Charlotte Amalie from the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801. Recorded on September 3, 2021 at Naturum Öresund in Malmö. Organiser: Naturum Öresund.
Building for blue biodiversity
When the Öresund Bridge was to be built, many were worried that it would lead to bad consequences for the underwater environment. But mussels established themselves on the bridge piers and in the surrounding sea today a rich plant and animal life thrives. Kjell Andersson, now retired research engineer, monitored the bridge construction as an environmental control and tells about how he studied and followed life below the surface. Recorded on September 3, 2021 at Naturum Öresund in Malmö. Organiser: Naturum Öresund.
What is plankton?
Plankton are small, but so numerous that they are of enormous importance for oxygen production, for reducing the acidification of the world's oceans and for sequestering carbon. Plankton is also the beginning of the food web in the sea - without plankton there are no fish. But they are also fascinating plants and animals in their own right. Alexander Cammaroto, nature guide at Naturum Öresund, tells and shows examples from a microscopic, diverse world. Recorded on September 3, 2021 at Naturum Öresund in Malmö. Organiser: Naturum Öresund.
Through a diver's mask
Every time sports diver Jonny Magnusson puts his head under the surface of the water, he is enchanted by the world he encounters. For 40 years, he has followed Öresund through a cyclops. Here he shows and tells what he gets to see, from the shoal of sandpipers at the bathing jetty, through the eelgrass, to blue mussels, sea trout, rockfish and many other fascinating plants and animals. Recorded on September 3, 2021 at Naturum Öresund in Malmö. Organiser: Naturum Öresund.