In Denmark BNI is placed at the National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), Århus University in Roskilde.The institute employs about 20 scientists covering a wide range of disciplines. It is governed by an international executive board representing funding agencies and has an advisory board representing Baltic Sea stakeholders.
Together with Baltic Sea 2020 and the Institute for European Environmental Policy, it is also carrying out a project aiming to view best practices of fisheries management.
Decision support system - Baltic Nest
A decision support system called Baltic Nest was developed within the research programme Marine Research on Eutrophication, MARE. MARE ended in 2006 and Baltic NEST continues to be maintained and developed within the Baltic Nest Institute (BNI) in Sweden and Denmark.
The decision support system Baltic Nest has been developed mainly to provide the scientific basis for decision-making at international negotiations. Baltic Nest provides data and scenarios for the entire Baltic drainage basin and Baltic Sea, and links measures on land with effects in the sea.
With Baltic Nest it is possible to:
- Explore and synthesize information about the Baltic Sea environment
- Explore characteristics of the entire drainage basin and driving forces behind nutrient loads
- Calculate cost and effects on the marine environment of different management options
- Evalutate the effect of eutrophication and different fishery management options on fish stocks
