Artist Maria Sjöfn Dupuis Laufeyjardóttir´s two-month residency at Skaftfell was devoted to studying the marine animals that live in  Seyðisfjördur. Her research was in response to a recently published report on the impact of sea fish faring on the ecosystem of the fjord: Rannsóknir á lífríki Seyðisfjarðar: [Botndýr, mælingar í seti, fuglar og þörungar í fjöru (Research on the biosphere of Seyðisfjörður). Erlín E. Jóhannsdóttir, Halldór Walter Stefánsson og Cristian Gallo (2018).Náttúrustofa Austurlands, Neskaupstað. (https://rafhladan.is/handle/10802/29364)].  Among the many findings of the report is an assessment of the great abundance and variety of benthic species and subspecies living in the fjord. […]

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