Past Projects

Past projects 2005 - 2017
  • Long-term carbon dynamics in climate sensitive lakes (LO-CARB, Doctoral Programme in Geosciences, University of Helsinki, 2014-2017)
  • Academy of Finland project 257903 Deposition history of black carbon in the Arctic and its contribution to climate change as detected from lake sedimentary records (Academy of Finland, 2012-2016)
  • NordForsk Top-level Research Initiative Nordic Centre of Excellence CRAICC (Cryosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Arctic Climate) (NordForsk, 2011-2016)
  • Plankton resting stages in the Baltic Sea: ecological, evolutionary and geological perspectives (Walter and Andrée Nottbeck foundation, 2015)
  • Past and present dinoflagellate cysts from large northern inland seas (Hudson Bay and the Baltic Sea) – implications for primary productivity (Academy of Finland, 2011–2015)
  • Tracking carbon dynamic patterns and climate forcing through post-glacial mire development history by combining modern flux measurements and palaeoecological information (University of Helsinki, 2012-2014)
  • Impacts of climate change on Arctic environment, ecosystem services and society (CLICHE) (Academy of Finland, 2011-2014)
  • Biomarkers – a new potential method to study highly humified peat components (Academy of Finland, 2010-2013)
  • Past water table fluctuations and related changes in carbon accumulation rates in mires – a quantitative multi proxy-based reconstruction from different climate regimes (Academy of Finland, 2008-2010)
  • Impacts of multiple environmental stressors on subarctic lake food web dynamics (MESS) (Maj andTor Nessling Foundation, Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, 2010-2012)
  • Climate variability in NW Europe during the past 4000 years and its ecological consequences (CLIM-ECO) (Academy of Finland, 2008-2011)
  • Science workshop on past, present and fututure climate change (Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2007-2009)
  • Long-term changes in lake ice conditions in northern Finland (Kone Foundation, 2007-2008)
  • Responses of Boreal ecosystem carbon exchange to changing environment in different spatio-temporal scales (Helsinki University Environmental Research Centre, HERC, 2005-2007)