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...

  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...

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...

A newsletter summarizing the main results of the project has been published The results of WP 5 were reviewed at the Final Review meeting on Apr 19, 2023. The deliverables are a...

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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Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) under the Finnish Ministry of Environment, is  a government research institute, and a center for environmental expertise. Syke's research focuses on chang...

The Service Delivery phase (WP4) of the BalticAIMS project has officially ended but the service provision is continued while the project extension is being negotiated. Access to EO, in situ, GIS and ...

The most common infill material used in the constructions of artificial football turfs is styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) granulate. Evaluations from other Nordic countries suggest that artificial tur...

The following schematic shows the work packages of the project and the interaction between them and the users and stakeholders.   WP Schedule The project kick-off was in...

Researcher M.Sc. Sustainability science, University of Helsinki Doctoral candidate, University of Helsinki   Contact information E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Te......

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Background The New Urban Agenda (NUA) was adopted at the United Nations Conference Habitat III in Quito 2016 to guide sustainable urban development. It supports the implementation of the Ag...