Members of The Finnish Environment Institute´s advisory board 2020: In front row from the left Elina Nikkola, Eeva Primmer, Lea Kauppi, Markku Ollikainen, in middle row from t...

The European Environmental Evaluators Network (EEEN) Forum will be organised online on 4-5 November, 2020.The programme will focus on scientific and practical evaluation knowledge on the implementatio......

Main office, Viikki Campus, Building D, Helsinki Laboratory Centre , Viikki Campus, Kaaritalo, Helsinki Marine Research Laboratory, Viikki Campus, Building EE, H...

Background and aims Rivers developed for hydropower production are important part of electricity supply with increasing role as a balancing power source in energy systems worldwide. Regulated ri...

Background River Oulujoki is one of the largest rivers in Northern Finland and is intensively used in hydroelectric power production. The Oulujoki watershed reaches from the eastern Finnish bord...

  Proftest SYKE will organize a phytoplankton proficiency test in December 2020 – January 2021. The target groups of the proficiency test are consultants and environmental authorities w...

  Proftest SYKE will organize a macroinvertebrate taxonomic proficiency test in November 2020. The test consists of three parts of which participants may select suitable samples. The te...

Shortcut:  www.syke.fi/projects/neas Objectives The aim of this project is to improve the capacity of the water sector in Nepal to seak, share and use the information and know-how on ...

Short address:  syke.fi/projects/DRYvER Background Rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands and other aquatic environments are among the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. They are also thos...

Vision 2030 Together with our partners and stakeholders we have succeeded in guiding society’s development onto a sustainable path. Mission statement The Finnish Environment...

Do you need hydrological data for the management of flood risks and the regulation of river basins, flood forecasts and hydrological modelling, planning and land use, or in research projects? Fi......

Do you need to find out the distribution of load in the recipient? Would you like to assess the impact of water load when changing mining activities or different scenarios, concerning, for example, t......

Are you looking for the best option for a regulation practice or environmental planning? Is there a controversial planning situation to be solved? Finnish Environment Institute SYKE offers servi......

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......

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE offers expertise on vast management measures for rivers, streams and brooks. We have knowledge from small forestry brooks to large hydropower streams and we can off......

Do you need information about water balances to set up or expand a mine? Do you need to summarise all the environmental information from a mine site into an easily understandable form? Finnish E......

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has strong expertise in risk assessment concerning the influence of mining on natural waters. We draw up guidelines and develop tools for environmental risk and imp......

Do you need to forecast the influences of your operations on water flow or quality in rivers, lakes or coastal areas? Environment Institute SYKE offers modelling for calculating water quality an......

The formation as well as the mitigation measures of street dust have been extensively studied in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area for several years. However, the results and lessons learned from these ...

Picture: Roosa Ritola Street dust contributes significantly to coarse fraction of ambient PM 10 and thus has a negative effect on air quality in Finnish cities especially during spring m...