At the opening of the photo exhibition at SLU in Umeå (photo: Anne Honsel)
Today, the photo exhibition “An Eye for Science” was opened at SLU in Umeå. Every photo is accompanied by a longer article describing the story behind the photo. The SSF funded project “Landscape breeding”, which is led by Rosario García Gil from UPSC, is one of eleven research projects that are highlighted in the exhibition.
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) wants to show with the photo exhibition “some concrete examples on how SLU takes on fundamental issues that affect all of us”. Since May, the exhibition has toured around all main SLU campuses in Sweden starting in Uppsala, followed by Alnarp and Skara. Finally, it has now arrived in Umeå where it will be displayed until the end of October.
The selected eleven photographs cover a wide range of different research fields from biodiversity research, sustainable ecosystem management to research on antibiotic resistance, food security and safe drinking water. Rosario García Gil’s project “Landscape breeding” aims on providing new tools for sustainable forest management by developing a novel tree breeding strategy.
The research team includes experts in tree breeding and genetics, forest pathology and remote sensing technologies coming from SLU, Skogforsk (Forestry Research Institute of Sweden) and RISE (Sweden’s research institute and innovation partner). Together they want to develop tools that allow fast and accurate predictions on the performance of specific Norway spruce trees in a certain environment. The project is funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF).
The photo exhibition "An eye for science" will be displayed in Lyckan (floor 2) at SLU in Umeå until the 31st of October.
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