Underwater nature of Zanzibar, Tanzania, is spectacular with its coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests. Marine life is however facing severe threats as coastal zone is affected by increas......

Ghost nets refer to nets and other gear lost by fishermen that fish by themselves in seas and bodies of water. They are harmful to animals and constitute a part of the plastic problem in the seas. The......

The objective of WP4 is to create an online catalogue of the existing decision support tools used in the management of the Baltic Sea and its drainage basin. Furthermore, the aim is to propose a mech...

The aim of WP1 is to provide knowledge of existing decision support tools (DST) and how they are applied in the management of the Baltic Sea and its drainage basin. ...

An End-User Core Group has been established connected to the research project. This Core Group includes 10 end-users and it consists of representatives from international, governmental and private or...

The objective of WP2 is to develop a set of performance-based definitions for the existing DST and assess their performance according to a range of established criteria. The assessment will be compar...

The objective of WP3 is to make suggestions for the most needed decision support tools to be developed by future projects. This proposal will be based on a gap analysis between existing tools and pre...

Seaguide.fi is a new map for boaters, people with holiday homes and anyone on the coast. The service provides information generated by several Finnish organisations on topics such as the weather and c......

The Finnish Environment Institute has published an extensive information package about the status of Finland’s marine environment. The new report about the status of Finland’s marine environment is pu......

Past events: 16 June 2020  Online seminar: Baltic Sea Science Synthesized – Time to Take Evidence-based Actions for the Well-being of the Sea and People   Seminar presentations ...

Policy Briefs: Policy Brief No 1/3 from project BONUS DESTONY: How do virtual tools support the management of the Baltic Sea? (pdf) Policy Brief No 2/3 from Project BONUS DESTONY: Hig...

In October a smart navigation buoy system started to deliver real-time measurement data via satellite, monitoring oil and some other water quality parameters in the Baltic Sea’s water. It is located s......

Past events 16 June 2020   Online seminar: Baltic Sea Science Synthesized – Time to Take Evidence-based Actions for the Well-being of the Sea and People Upload the seminar s...

Articles: Joanna Storie, Monika Suškevičs, Mart Külvik, Virpi Lehtoranta, Suvi Vikström, Simo Riikonen, Harri Kuosa, Kristin Kuhn & Soile Oinonen: What evidence exists for the i...

Monetary and non-monetary valuation of marine ecosystem services in the Baltic Sea region This systematic map identifies, collates and describes the evidence base on marine ecosystem service val...

Read more about the synthesis in this article: Joanna Storie, Monika Suškevičs, Mart Külvik, Virpi Lehtoranta, Suvi Vikström, Simo Riikonen, Harri Kuosa, Kristin Kuhn & Soile Oinonen: What ...

Ecosystem service research in the Baltic Sea region This systematic map identifies, collates and describes the evidence base on ecosystem service research and application in the Baltic Sea in pe...

Project BONUS ROSEMARIE is summarized in the video above. NEW: BONUS ROSEMARIE Policy Briefs published BONUS ROSEMARIE science-policy brief 1 Scienti...

The goal of the ‘Meriroskahaaste’ marine litter challenge prize was to find solutions to decrease the amount of litter ending up in the Baltic Sea. The winning trio – Paptic Ltd, VTT’s PlastBug team, ......

Presidents Trump and Putin will meet in Helsinki 16.7. The experts of Finnish Environment Institute SYKE are available for the media to give more information on black carbon, climate change and on pro......