Last summer, ELWIND – a joint Latvian-Estonian project to develop an offshore wind park in the Baltic Sea – signed an agreement with the Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (LHEI) to study the seabed, benthic organisms, pollution, and sediment transport in the wind park area. This data will help establish the current conditions in the planned wind park area and assess how its future construction and operation could affect the marine ecosystem. Benthic organisms are organisms that live in or…
Last summer, ELWIND – a joint Latvian-Estonian project to develop an offshore wind park in the Baltic Sea – signed an agreement with the Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (LHEI) to study the seabed, benthic organisms, pollution, and sediment transport in the wind park area. This data will help establish the current conditions in the planned wind park area and assess how its future construction and operation could affect the marine ecosystem. Benthic organisms are organisms that live in or on the bottom sediments of water bodies, as well as on submerged objects. In this case, the researchers focus on the seabed of the Baltic Sea and on seabed organisms visible to the naked eye – macroorganisms, also known as zoobenthos. They live on the…
