Samuel Morsbach

About Samuel Morsbach

PhD student in ecosystem modelling at Tjärnö Marine Laboratory under the supervision of Mats Lindegart and Göran Broström

I aim to quantify the effects that offshore wind farms have on biodiversity and how they can potentially alter marine food webs by applying an ecosystem modelling approach. The idea is a large-scale and holistic assessment from a whole-ecosystem viewpoint considering the entire life cycle of those installations. This study adds to and further develops existing knowledge in a rather new subject area, partly making use of already available data and marine spatial planning tools. I am therefore very much interested in any form of collaboration with people working in the broad field of offshore industries!

My PhD is part of the transdisciplinary C2B2 project (Co-Creating Better Blue) bringing together stakeholders from academia, government, civil society and industry to transform marine governance processes and sustainabilize the Swedish blue economy using a co-participatory approach. As such, I am planning to also investigate the multi-use potential of offshore wind farms as well as other interactions with potentially competing marine industries (e.g. fisheries) to get a comprehensive understanding of regional-scale ecological impacts of the emerging offshore renewables sector in Sweden.