Duties
Biodiversity and ecosystem research, biodiversity monitoring and sustainability
Subject area
Education and academic titles
PhD (Biodiversity and Environmental Science), University of Turku
Title of Docent (Geography, biodiversity and ecosystem services), University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
Duties
- Leading of biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring research in Syke
- Chair of Finnish Nature Information coordination group Lukki, 2024-2026 (luontotieto.syke.fi)
- Responsible director of Finnish Ecosystem Observatory (FEO)
- European Biodiversity Partnership Biodiversa+, leader of Biodiversity monitoring of WP2 (biodiversa.eu)
- GEO BON, co-leader of BON Development WG (geobon.org)
- Coordinating Lead Author, IPBES Monitoring Assessment, 2024-2026 (ipbes.net)
Research interests
- Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services
- Monitoring, mapping, indicators
- Earth Observation applications
- Sustainability science
- Petteri Vihervaara in LinkedIn
Some recent projects
- Observation of Ecosystem Changes for Action OBSGESSION, Horizon Europe, 2024-2027, coordinator (obsgession.eu)
- Finnish Ecosystem Observatory FEO, 2020-2024, director of the project
- Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility FIRI2021, 2022-2026, contributor
- EO4Diversity ESA Biodiversity+ Precursors, terrestrial, 2022-2023, Syke PI (eo4diversity.info)
- Drafting of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, NBSAP, 2021, responsible leader
- Roadmap for implementing eDNA and other molecular biological methods in Finland 2021-2025, 2021, responsible leader
- Novel methods for the accounting of forest ecosystems and circular materials 2019-FI-ENVECO Eurostat Grant for 2020, consortium leader
- e-shape EuroGEO, H2020, 2019-2022, SYKE PI (e-shape.eu)
- Finnish Ecosystem Observatory FEO, Phase 1, 2019, responsible leader
- MAIA - Mapping and Assessment for Integrated ecosystem Accounting (H2020, 2018-2022, SYKE PI)
- IBC-CARBON - Integrated Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon Sequestration in the Changing Environment, 2018-2023, WP4 co-lead (ibccarbon.fi)
- From existing environmental and economic data and models to experimental accounting of marine, freshwater and forest ecosystem services in Finland (Eurostat Grant for 2019, consortium leader)