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Tua Nylen casting away! Photo by Mikel Calle Navarro

Tua Nylén does research on coastal changes in the Artic – after seeing these field work photos you will also want to become a geomorphologist!

Tua Nylén seems to feel at home well above the Arctic Circle. She has just returned from a field trip…

Bathymetric mapping at Savijoki with ADCP, Elina Kasvi

New publication from Freshwater Competence Centre: warm and rainy winters double the turbidity of water, suggesting major erosion and nutrient loading

Gypsum treatment of agricultural fields has shown promising results in reducing phosphorus and suspended sediment loads, and therefore also eutrophication…

Sopitta Thurachen from Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI

Sopitta Thurachen found a way to combine her interests and educational background in the DIWA PhD pilot

Freshwater Competence Centre and Digital Waters flagship are not only about hydrology and physical or natural sciences research on our…

Researcher Linnea Blåfield with the Otter USV, photo Ville Kankare

What can meandering rivers tell us about the climate change?

Linnea Blåfield is a fourth-year PhD student in the University of Turku, conducting research mainly at rivers Oulanka and Pulmanki…

Maria Kämäri & Eva Skarbøvik, NIBIO, Norway, looking at Eva's poster on”Sensors for stakeholders?” from NORDBALT ECOSAFE: Nitrogen and phosphorus load reduction approach within safe ecological boundaries for the Nordic Baltic region - Nibio, where Syke is also a partner. Photo credit: Paul Glendell

Freshwater Competence Centre discussed Finnish Water Quality Monitoring & analysis and gypsum application to agricultural lands in Aberdeen, Scotland

In mid-June our partner organization Syke and researcher Maria Kämäri took part in the High Temporal Resolution Water Quality Monitoring…

Freshwater Competence Centre and SYKE staff with Andrea Rubini from Water Europe posing with a laser scanner from FGI

Freshwater Competence Centre is one of the 21 selected Water-Oriented living labs in the ATLAS of WOLLs edition 2024

On May 22nd 2024, the new Atlas of Water-Oriented Living Labs (WOLLs) was successfully released at the Water4All Partnership event…

Article image C Lotsari 2024 from: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5853

Can hydrodynamic phenomena in the depths of a river be measured from a drone?

Article image: Eliisa Lotsari https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/esp.5853 Wouldn’t it be easy to do measurements and collect reference data for the hydrodynamic models…

Freshwater Competence Centre supersite VANTAANJOKI

Robots, drones and thermal cameras are measuring Vantaanjoki

Spring is here and so is the field work season. Finnish Environment Institute and Aalto university started the measuring campaign…

Omar Nimr, University of Oulu, doing wintery field work

Research of Finnish peatlands at University of Oulu is helping to solve water issues around the world

The power of education and international competence building in solving global water issues is evident in this story about Omar…

Article image from VAN ROOIJEN & LOTSARI 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109140

What does El Niño, freeze-thaw season and reindeers have to do with Finnish riverbanks? Modeller Erik van Rooijen from Aalto University knows

Erik van Rooijen is finished collecting a whole year of riverbank erosion data from the three supersites we are working…

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