As we predicted, 2021 was a quiet year for the project due to Covid restrictions, although Filip and Sara still managed to take monthly samples from the catchment outflow where the Anråse river enters the sea. But things look more hopeful for 2022 already, and at the start of February the first synoptic sampling campaign went ahead. This involved visiting the 16 regular sites, plus 24 river mouths draining into the fjord system between Gothenburg and Uddevalla. Filip and Mike went off to sample the regular sites, where everything went to plan, apart from the surprise finding that an entire forest below one of the headwater lakes had been felled (thus making the approach rather more 'interesting'). Whilst Sara and Johanna did the long drive across the islands of Tjörn and Orust to Uddevalla, before returning south along the mainlaind, to sample the river mouths (which included several scenic woodland streams but also some less-pleasant channelised urban rivers). The next synoptic sampling should be in a few months, when the terrestrial work will be complemented by a thorough sampling of the marine waters along the coast and out towards the open sea.
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