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......

In the webinar, we represented the core results of our project Governing Digital Commons (GODICO), funded by the Academy of Finland. The main focus of research in the project was on governing open for......

Approximately 24,300 cormorant nests were counted in Finland in the summer of 2021. The first successful inland nesting was confirmed in Päijät-Häme. The nesting population in Finland has varied by on......

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...

Since 2017 CWPharma project has worked to gather and produce data on the consumption of pharmaceuticals and their concentrations in the environment, to identify the most problematic compounds and to f......

The Baltic Sea Pharma Platform (BSR Pharma) is a flagship under the PA Hazards of EUSBSR. The BSR Pharma brings together projects and stakeholders from the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) t...

The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, together with a wide range of experts, is preparing a proposal for a new habitat monitoring system. If implemented, monitoring would significantly improve the ...

Coordinator   Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Digital services Spatial data management Latoka...

Dolichospermum (blue green algae). Photo: Reija Jokipii. Background Ultrasound can prevent cyanobacteria from forming surface blooms. The method has rarely been studied in natural wa...

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...

Leading Researcher PhD (Environmental Science) © Kai Widell Contact information Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Built Environment Solutions Housing and Mo......

e-shape is a unique initiative that brings together decades of public investment in Earth Observation and in cloud capabilities into services for the decision-makers, the citizens, the industry and t...

MAIA aims to promote the mainstreaming of natural capital accounting in EU Member States and Norway. In MAIA, we use the United Nations System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Account...

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE is starting more than ten new EU projects this year. The projects tackle a wide range of questions, including ecosystem accounting, microplastics in agricultural lan......

The objective of this Horizon 2020 project is to provide an operational Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service to the water utilities industry in relation with the quality of the ‘water we drink’...

Marine litter, particularly plastic pollution, is one of the key threats for world ocean ecosystems. Petrochemical plastics do not readily biodegrade in the marine environment, but also biodegradable...

European directives such as the Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Directive require member states to reach good ecological status in their coastal and inland waters. In the Baltic Sea thi...

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