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......

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......

Increasing the proportion of vegetables, legumes, and fish in the diet helps ease climate change, eutrophication of the Baltic Sea and inland waters, and the decline of biodiversity. SYKE's Policy bri......

Despite long-term work on water protection, the condition of the marine environment of the Archipelago Sea has not improved as hoped. The amount of nutrients in the Archipelago Sea, phosphorus in part......

How can the most cost-effective measures be identified to help in assessing the status of a waterbody and the management practices needed to achieve good ecological status? The effect of differe......

Does your lake suffer from eutrophication? Is there a need to diminish diffuse loading? Finnish Environment Institute SYKE offers its know-how and expertise for lake restoration projects and exp......

Research Vessel Aranda's research cruises in 2020. Aranda and research cruises 21.01.2020 - 08.02.2020 Chemical and physical monitoring of the Baltic Sea (COMBINE 1). Cruise leader: ......

In the workshop, several issues related to hydrological monitoring were presented and discussed. Russian hydrological monitoring system was presented to Finnish hydrologists. Finnish presentations inc......

First meeting of the SEVIRA Steering Committee at Finnish side took place in Kouvola on November 7th....

An on-line water quality station was installed in the river Rakkolanjoki at the end of October. This operation is part of the modelling work package of the SEVIRA-project....

There was held the EURegionWeek in October. There were experts from many different countries both from EU and outside EU. The project coordinator on environmental education Anna Kryukova from Ecocentr......

First meeting of the SEVIRA Steering Committee in Russian side took place in St.Petersburg on September 9th....

A joint hydrological monitoring event of the SEVIRA project was held in Vyborg on 4th to 6th September. Russian and Finnish experts in hydrological monitoring conducted measurements at/in Seleznevka (......

In the framework of SEVIRA project Institute of Limnology, Russia Academy of Sciences IL RAS has continued field works at the catchments of Sestra and Russian part of Rakkolanjoki river....

The first SEVIRA hydrological, hydrochemical and hydrobiological monitoring on Vyborg Bay took place at the end of August 2019. On Russian side the monitoring cruise was organized and arranged by the ......

In the Gulf of Finland, the areas suffering from oxygen depletion have expanded from last summer. The anoxic areas in the Baltic Proper are approximately similar in size than in the autumn of 2018, wh......

Goal of the project is to produce science-based information for strengthening the knowledge base for agricultural water protection and nutrient load regulation. We will examine the nutrient load from...

The overall goal of the modeling task is to use the calibrated models for simulating land-use changes, testing of the effectiveness of water protection methods and climate change scenarios. One of the......

    Researcher Marine and Freshwater Solutions, Modelling Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel.: +358 295 251 572 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke......

Background Invasive alien species Canadian waterweed ( Elodea canadensis ) has spread to hundreds of lakes around Finland. In favorable growth conditions, like in many lakes in Koillismaa...