[3] It is currently owned and operated by a foundation named the Bornö Institute for Ocean and Climate Studies and provides educational facilities for the University of Gothenburg.

It is also available to let to companies or organizations for field courses, research, instrument development or national and international meetings.

[1] The station was originally built in response to the agreements of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) signed in Copenhagen in 1902 between Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

[3] Beginning in 1908, Otto Pettersson collected daily records on the temperature and salinity of the waters at the Bornö Station.

[5] Petterson also discovered internal tidal waves by studying variations of the boundary surfaces between the brackish and ocean waters, which led him to develop a photographic current meter.