The aim of the SEAmBOTH project is to improve knowledge on the Bothnian Bay marine nature though Finnish-Swedish cooperation. The project website maintained by Metsähallitus (coordinator): ...

Proposals are being made for locations in the Baltic Sea to be declared Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSA). The areas are located in the Bay of Bothnia, Kvarken, the Archipe......

International Arctic oil recovery exercise will be held 7 March at the Bay of Bothnia off the coast of Oulu City in Northern Finland. All interested are welcome to follow the exercise in real time vid......

The Baltic Sea is an important part of the Finnish national identity and international culture. As a shallow brackish water basin, the Baltic Sea is vulnerable and strained by the large population su...

Thursday, 21 September Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Marine Research Centre, Paula Kankaanpää Expert workshop: How Arctic Marine Protected Area Networks may reduce negative effe...

Senior research scientist, PhD   E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel: +358 295 251 504  Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Marine and freshwater solutions Mo......

*A Swedish and Finnish collaboration on increased protection of the Arctic marine environment 21–22 September 2017 Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) Mechelininkatu 34a, Helsinki ...

Printable practical information (pdf) Workshop The workshop will be held 21-22 September 2017 in the Finnish Environment Institute, Finland, address Mechelininkatu 34a , Helsinki. &...

Tentative workshop agenda (pdf) Wednesday, 20 September: 18:00-19:30                   
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Links to relevant websites and publications Report of AMAP/EU-PolarNet Workshop on Research Needs on Arctic Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services Marine Protected Areas Arctic...

The project will produce the Finnish Marine portal, a national service bringing together information and data from various  Finnish marine data providers.The aim is to enhance the practic...

The planning of coastal spatial management enables account to be taken of the effects of land-sea activities on coastal nature and local business activities. The objective of such planning is to exami......

The extensive information produced by SYKE is, as a rule, openly available to the domestic and international public. The information systems for inland waters are primarily national. Most of the...

Photo: Pirjo Ferin. SYKE collects long-term observations of river, lake, and groundwater water quality. The monitoring of inland waters began in the 1960s. Hydrological monitoring...

Photo: Seppo Knuuttila Our activities are organised into projects that involve producing information for decision-making needs and to ensure protection and sustainable use of water systems. ...

The EU-funded project GRACE has launched a system for real-time monitoring of oil compounds in open seawater. This kind of technology could have a great potential onboard on many types of vessels that......

Underwater noise in the Baltic Sea has been measured for the first time. According to an international project led by the Finnish Environment Institute, the level of human-introduced underwater noise ......

© Mats Westerbom Main Goals 1. Awareness of draft Baltic Sea standards and tools for management of underwater noise A thorough basis for standardised and appropriate managem...

The new smart navigation ice buoy system will deliver real-time data on oil in water especially in cold climate conditions. It will help environmental and oil response authorities to monitor marine en......

Satellite images show that the dredging for the Port of Bronka located near St. Petersburg just inside a flood dam has caused increased turbidity in a wide area at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finl......