A new method for climate risk assessment has been developed that improves decision-making for climate change adaptation under uncertainty. The international work, led by researchers from the Finnish E......

Researcher Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Finnish Environment Institute Syke Quality of information /Novel monitoring Visiting address: Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki ......

Group manager PhD (General microbiology), University of Helsinki Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel.: +358400148596 Finnish Environment Institute (......

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EU Member States recognise the importance of adapting to impacts of heatwaves, droughts, floods, heavy precipitation and changing temperatures and of mainstreaming climate change adaptation to a wide ......

The Finnish Environment Institute has tested the possibilities of using a genetic method to support the Finnish marine phytoplankton monitoring. The eDNA method revealed previously undetected species ......

Aims Green-Digi-Basin project is targeted to find the most effective green solutions for the boreal-subarctic river basins and improve existing calculations for river connectivity, i.e. nut...

  The MAAMERI project is included in the research section of the water protection programme (2019–2023). The project aims to improve the understanding of the impact of changes in nut...

The main goal of the Freshwater Competence Centre is to promote the research infrastructure, equipment, and the outstanding Finnish freshwater competence and knowledge both nationally and internationa......

Scientific publications Ahti Lepistö, Antti Räike, Tapani Sallantaus, Leena Finér (2021), Increases in organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations in boreal forested catchments — Change...

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an established method to simultaneously quantify multiple environmental impacts arising from the whole value chain including all processes related to the life cycle of ...

  FINMARI Consortium Manager FT, Dos. Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 50 307 5964 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Resear......

Background Droughts and floods are increasing demographic, economic and climate change is increasing social vulnerability, tacit knowledge with aging people is disappearing and the sustainabili...

Plankton community ecology and ecosystem research is currently hampered by the bottleneck of acquiring species-level information from the communities due to the slow analysis with traditional microsc...

The risks posed by climate change and the adaptation measures required to address those risks are usually evaluated using methods based on climate scenarios. A different approach is used in the doctor......

Little things together make a huge difference and clean environment. Further, responsible operators undoubtedly attract conscious visitors better than their less responsible competitors. Considering t......

  Shipping contributes to the uncontrolled introduction of invasive species to the Baltic Sea, which has severe environmental and economic consequences. A successor of the initi...

Backgroud Currently, Finnish marine phytoplankton monitoring is conducted using a standardized microscopy method. The resulting data are used for ecological status assessment and for eutrophicat...

The annual spring monitoring cruise of R/V Aranda took place in late April. This time the researchers ventured into new fields, as they also took genetic samples for phytoplankton. During the cruise t......