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Finnish Environment Institute, Marine Research Centre

Contact: Timo Tamminen and Maiju Lehtiniemi
Description

The Finish Environment Institute SYKE is both a research institute, and a centre for environmental expertise. SYKE operates under the auspices of the Ministry of the Environment, and its activities focus on five themes, one of which covers the Baltic Sea. Marine Research Centre (MRC) at SYKE coordinates the national marine research infrastructure FINMARI (http://www.finmari-infrastructure.fi/), and aims at producing information and new solutions that help decision-makers to promote the protection and sustainable use of the Baltic Sea. Besides coordination, SYKE-MRC role in FINMARI is management of the largest Finnish marine research vessel Aranda and the Alg@line on- line monitoring platform, participation in the construction of the Utö Marine Station, hosting a Baltic Sea phytoplankton culture collection, and R&D on automated measurement and experimental platforms in the MRC Marine Ecology Research Laboratory.

Role In Project

Timo Tamminen (m, Res. Prof., PhD 1990). Plankton ecologist with >35 years of research experience including international mesocosm experiments in several FP4 to H2020 projects. Coordinator of national marine RI consortium FINMARI. ISI WoS statistics: 34 papers, 1129 citations, h-index 17.

Project role AQUACOSM: Task Leader WP6.14: Provision of TA to SYKE: SYKE-MRC Mesocosm Facility, Subtask Leader WP8.1.2: Planning WS on flow-through technology at SYKE/Helsinki, Subtask Leader WP8.2.2: AquaBox; Contributor to all WPs.

Project role AQUACOSM-plus: Participation in WPs 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

Jukka Seppälä (m, PhD 2009 in aquatic sciences). Head of SYKE-MRC Marine Ecology Research Laboratory. Aquatic ecologist with >25 years of research experience including mesocosm experiments in international projects, focusing on plankton dynamics, bioenergy research and automated measurements, especially with bio-optical methods. Google Scholar statistics: ca. 40 papers, ca. 1500 citations, h-index 24.

Project role AQUACOSM: Subtask Co-Leader WP9.2.1: Salinity gradients; Contributor to all WPs.

Project role AQUACOSM-plus: Participation in WPs 7, 8 and 9.

Maiju Lehtiniemi (f, Research Professor, PhD 2001 in aquatic sciences). Plankton ecologist with >25 years of research experience in Baltic Sea food webs, non-indigenous species, microplastics in marine food webs, marine litter, and predator-prey interactions. ISI WoS statistics: 50 papers, 884 citations, h-index 16.

Project role AQUACOSM-plus: WP7 leader, participation in WPs 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 9.

Finnish Environment Institute, Marine Research Centre
Address

Finnish Environment Institute, Marine Research Centre

Finnish Environment Institute, Marine Research Centre

Latokartanonkaari 11

Helsinki

Finland

Website: http://www.syke.fi/en-US

Work Packages

WP1 | Consortium management

WP2 | Science and innovation strategy for society

WP3 | Science and innovation strategy for society

WP4 | Breaching barriers to open mesocosm science, including open science tools and data

WP5 | Outreach activities: Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation

WP6 | Defining Grand Challenges in aquatic mesocosm research

WP7 | Towards transformative mesocosm research – breaking the spatial and temporal barriers of aquatic ecosystem experimentation

WP8 | Pilot execution of Grand Challenge scenario-testing through bridging scales of experimental and observational RI networks

Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. - Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei
Müggelseedamm 301 and 310
12587 Berlin, Germany