Research professor © Kai Widell Contact information Email: forename.surname@syke.fi Tel: +358 295 251 356 Skype: maiju.lehtiniemi1 Finnish Environment Institute
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Monitoring cruises show that the Gulf of Finland has recovered from the deterioration caused indirectly by salt pulses in the Baltic Sea in the mid-2010s. Weather-regulated flows between the Gulf of F......

Poll on BSR Pharma activities in 2024 PharmaSea: Which are the environmentally hazardous pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea? Interreg BSR Project APRIORA – prioritising pharmaceutical...

In her doctoral dissertation, Pinja Näkki, a researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, has studied risks that organisms such as bivalves living on the seafloor face from microplastics. As much ......

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...

Project Background and overview Despite national and international nutrient emission restrictions, large quantities of nutrients continue to be washed into the sea from the Baltic basin, depleti...

  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 risk of significant and widespread cyanobacterial blooms this summer in the eastern Gulf of Finland and the main basin of the Baltic Sea is slightly higher than in summer 2020....

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......

  The Alliance+ extension project aims to open the Alliance network to blue biotechnology actors beyond the reach of the limited partnership of the Alliance main stage project. The A...

  BlueBioSites Seed Money project aims to develop a ‘large scale’ project with the objective to create a Baltic Sea wide effective system for the identification and monitoring of sus...

Water temperatures in the Baltic Sea are increasing and the deep-water temperatures are record-high in some areas. Phosphorus concentrations are rising in the central part of the Archipelago Sea and t......

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Testing five antifouling paints for recreational craft showed that the paint choices may significantly impact the spread of invasive species. Antifouling paints were tested as part of the EU-funded CO......

The threat status of Finnish habitat types was assessed for the second time in 2018. This report was now produced in English for the 48 marine habitat types of the Baltic Sea to facilitate internation......

The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has again produced an assesment of the state of the coastal waters of the Gulf of Finland and the open sea surrounding Finland from the southern Baltic Sea to th......

A new, free tool for oil spill response at sea is now available online for authorities and local response units. The aim of the tool is to minimize environmental impacts of oil spills in the Arctic an......