Research projects 2005
Atmospheric hydrogen, methane and ozone - new challenges to air pollution control in changing society
Doc. Tuula Aalto & research group
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Total 15 928 €
Effects of climate change on summer-time events of birds
MSc Markus Ahola & research group
University of Turku
Total 7 250 €
Contaminated sediments: from sink to source
PhD Jarkko Akkanen & research group
University of Joensuu
Total 19 927 €
Why are forest grouse populations declining in managed forests?
Prof. Rauno Alatalo & research group
University of Jyväskylä
Total 27 000 €
Dynamics of vegetation, carbon and nitrogen as indicators for peatland buffer operation
Doc. Jukka Alm & research group
Finnish Forest Research Institute
Total 21 178 €
A field comparison of the action spectra used in UV-B research with plants
Doc. Pedro J Aphalo & research group
University of Jyväskylä Bio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitos
Total 21 268 €
Fragmentation of seagrass habitats: mechanisms and effects on associated animal communities
MSc Heidi Arponen & research group
Åbo Akademi
Total 18 678 €
Three-dimensional geological modeling and groundwater flow modeling
FM (väit.) Aki Artimo & research group
Turun Seudun Vesi Oy
Total 18 222 €
Development and use of EURAD/MADE2 regional transport model for environmental research
MSc Ari Asmi
University of Helsinki
Total 17 427 €
Conservation genetics of the endangered Primula sibirica-group species
Doc. Jouni Aspi & research group
University of Oulu
Total 15 477 €
Interactions between forests and atmosphere: Biogenic terpenoids as sources for aerosol formation
Doc. Jaana Bäck & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 19 990 €
Modelling of thermodynamic balance in activated sludge plant
TkT Olli Dahl & research group
Helsinki University of Technology
Total 19 927 €
New particle formation in the boreal forest
MSc Miikka Dal Maso
University of Helsinki
Total 14 427 €
Ecological responses to stream habitat and catchment restoration in salmonid rivers
Research Prof. Jaakko Erkinaro & research group
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute
Total 22 428 €
Empirically evaluating habitat models and re-introduction as a tool for conservation
PhD Marianne Fred
University of Helsinki
Total 19 550 €
Nutrient loading of Latvian cities and rural areas into the Baltic Sea: trends of changes and scenarios of development
PhD Tom Frisk & research group
Pirkanmaa Regional Environment Centre
Total 21 960 €
Mechanisms of climate change over the past millenium
M.Sc. Aslak Grinsted & research group
Arctic Centre
Total 8 030 €
Ecological conditions of suburban planning. Suburban nature as providing potential and as requiring protection
PhD Yrjö Haila & research group
University of Tampere
Total 14 428 €
Global warming and ice-breeding seals
MSc Antti Halkka & research group
Suomen luonnonsuojeluliitto
Total 15 131 €
Microbial companions of introduced species
PhD Jarkko Hantula & research group
Finnish Forest Research Institute
Total 20 928 €
Fungal bioremedation of wood and soil contaminated by polychlorinated phenols, dioxins and furans in old saw mill areas
MMT Annele Hatakka & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 21 428 €
The emergence of environmental problems within urban residents' everyday life
VTM Risto Haverinen & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 8 218 €
Importance of habitat quality, management and landscape structure for vegetation and persistence of plant species
PhD Risto Heikkinen & research group
Finnish Environment Institute
Total 20 427 €
Development of biodiversity conservation capabilities: an institutional analysis of actors and practises
PhD Mikael Hildén & research group
Finnish Environment Institute
Total 15 427 €
Intensifying reitroduction methods to supplement endangered fish stocks: Why do survival skills degenerate in captive rearing?
PhD, docent Heikki Hirvonen & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 22 500 €
Natura 2000 Networks implementation and legal effects in Finland and the EU
Prof. Erkki Hollo & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 20 050 €
Urban hedgehogs - ecology and the effects of environment on hedgehog populations in eastern Finland
Prof. Ismo J. Holopainen & research group
University of Joensuu
Total 20 724 €
Pine oil as a wood preservative
Prof. Osmo Hormi & research group
University of Oulu
Total 14 827 €
Development of novel analytical techniques for compherensive determination of organic compounds in urban samples
Doc. Tuulia Hyötyläinen & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 21 653 €
The role of quantity and quality of sedimenting organic matter in structuring profundal macroinvertebrate assemblage
PhD Heikki Hämäläinen & research group
University of Jyväskylä
Total 16 593 €
Response of ectomycorrhiza of pine (Pinus sylvestris) and spruce (Picea abies) to wood ash application
MMM Hanna Katriina Jokinen
University of Helsinki
Total 7 300 €
Impacts of biomanipulation on lake ecosystem structure
DPhil Roger Jones & research group
University of Jyväskylä
Total 22 427 €
Nitrogen retention processes in river ecosystems
Prof. Tuomo Karvonen & research group
Helsinki University of Technology
Total 15 927 €
Optimization of biogas upgrading method and treatment of process rejects
MSc Saija Kinnunen & research group
University of Jyväskylä
Total 19 028 €
Defense chemistry of Fucus vesiculosus and eutrofication - environmental and genetic variation
MSc Riitta Koivikko
University of Turku
Total 19 603 €
Predicting contaminant loads transported with runoff using catchment scale mathematical simulation models
TkT Harri Koivusalo & research group
Helsinki University of Technology
Total 4 000 €
Urban ecological corridors - do they work and how should they be planned?
Prof. Hanna Kokko & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 19 027 €
Finnish forests and wood products in climate change mitigation
OTT Kai Kokko & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 15 428 €
Triazine pesticides in Finnish environment: occurrence, degredation and remedation
Doc. Merja Kontro & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 22 327 €
The 11th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference
PhD Jouni Korhonen & research group
University of Tampere
Total 5 000 €
The size and density fluctuations of flying squirrel populations in Finland, Karelian Ishtmus and Russian Karelia, and immigration history to Finland
MSc Mari Koskela
University of Helsinki
Total 19 998 €
Photolytic decomposition of flame retardants in environment
PhD Tapio Kotiaho & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 20 427 €
The effects of habitat edges and trampling intensity on vegetation in urban foresta
PhD Johan Kotze & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 18 227 €
Subacute genomic responses of salmonid fish brown trout to aquatic pollutants
PhD Aleksei Krasnov & research group
University of Kuopio
Total 25 327 €
Determination of endocrine disrupters in municipial waste waters
Doc. Leif Kronberg & research group
Åbo Akademi
Total 22 478 €
EIA procedures role and effectiveness in projects and/or programmes
Prof. Markku Kuitunen & research group
University of Jyväskylä
Total 20 027 €
9th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology
MMT Jorma Kuparinen
University of Helsinki
Total 5 000 €
The role of environmental factors on decomposition of litter (needles, leaves, wood and roots)
MMT Anne-Marie Kurka
Finnish Forest Research Institute
Total 15 700 €
Harmful microalgae in the planktonic food web of the Baltic Sea
Doc. Pirjo Kuuppo & research group
Finnish Environment Institute
Total 19 628 €
Seal blubber: a source of ecotoxicological information
Doc. Reijo Tapio Käkelä & research group
University of Joensuu
Total 19 468 €
The effetcs of restoration fellings and burning on epixylic species
PhD Sanna Laaka-Lindberg & research group
Lammi Biological Station
Total 15 500 €
Gas-aerosol partitioning of atmospheric organic compounds
PhD Ari Laaksonen & research group
Kuopion yliopisto
Total 16 427 €
Role of birch leave flavonoids in the plant-herbivore interaction
MSc Maria Lahtinen & research group
University of Turku
Total 8 250 €
The preparation of bioethanol as fuel for alkalic fuel cell (AFC) in small-scale distributed generation systems
Prof. Markku Lampinen & research group
Helsinki University of Technology
Total 15 428 €
Population biology of European aspen
MMM Tarja Latva-Karjanmaa & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 15 650 €
Description of aerosol size distibutions in climate change models
Research Prof. Kari Lehtinen & research group
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Total 18 427 €
Novel measuring techniques for dissolved metals, phosphorus and sulfide in the Baltic Sea sediments pore waters
Ph.D. Mirja Leivuori & research group
Finnish Institute of Marine Research
Total 20 052 €
The antibacterial agent, Triclosan: its ecotoxicity in Finnish wastewater treatment plants and surface waters
Dr Tech. Raghida Lepistö
Tampere University of Technology
Total 21 038 €
Bioremedation of oil-contaminated soils
Doc. Kristina Lindström & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 25 328 €
Conceptual amendments in democratic decision -making and environmental law - a philosophical analysis
Doc. Olli Loukola & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 16 500 €
Membrane bioreactor potantial for small scale industrial wastewaters in Finnish conditions
TkL Antero Luonsi & research group
Pirkanmaa Regional Environment Centre
Total 20 028 €
Air quality and pollution in the city of Helsinki since 1945: a multidiscpinary study
Prof. Ilmo Massa & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 17 302 €
Experiencing urban nature and the environment - soundscape and green space in Helsinki during the 20th century
PhD Henrik Meinander & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 17 727 €
Introduced brook trout in boreal streams: interspecific interactions and ecosystem-level effects
PhD Timo Muotka & research group
University of Oulu
Total 23 928 €
Chemical fouling of heat exchangers
TkT Esa Muurinen & research group
University of Oulu
Total 19 142 €
Thinking through the environment. Turku methodological conference & Nordic environmental history conference
Prof. Timo Myllyntaus & research group
University of Turku
Total 5 000 €
The effect of coarse woody debris and forest fragmentation on the population dynamics of small mammals and diprionid sawflies
PhD Pekka Niemelä & research group
University of Joensuu
Total 17 601 €
Contribution of the soil surface CO2 efflux to the carbon flux of a boreal pine forest
MMM Sini Niinistö & research group
University of Joensuu
Total 7 250 €
Street as a growing site for trees
Doc. Eero Nikinmaa & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 18 427 €
Sedimentary zooplankton remains in determining reference conditions for the Water Framework Directive
MSc Mirva Nykänen
University of Helsinki
Total 10 820 €
The role of autotrophic picoplankton (APP) as a component of microbial loop in food webs of changing lacustrine environments, especially in lakes under restoration
PhD Anne Ojala & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 24 000 €
Emissions trading, transaction costs and uncertainty
MMM Kimmo Ollikka
University of Helsinki
Total 16 727 €
Ecotoxicity of metals and organometals in soils and aquatic environments
PhD Olli-Pekka Penttinen & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 20 428 €
Soil hydrofobicity and micropedological properties for erosion control
Doc. Liisa Pietola & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 24 927 €
Multi-level approach to studying the effects of agricultural landuse and pesticides on the common frog
MSc Henna Piha
University of Helsinki
Total 7 300 €
Nitrous oxide emissions from soils and vegetation
MSc Mari Pihlatie & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 14 428 €
Demographic and genetic population structure of declining bryophyts in fragmented forest landscape
MSc Maria Pohjamo
University of Helsinki
Total 10 500 €
Temporal and spatial variation in the genetic structure of Atlantic salmon in the river Teno - implications for conservation
Doc. Craig Primmer & research group
University of Turku
Total 22 472 €
Effects of artificial groundwater recharge: microbial community dynamics and biodegradation of organic matter
Prof. Jaakko Puhakka & research group
Tampere Technical University
Total 17 280 €
Distribution of aluminium and iron in natural waters and in water treatmenr processes
TkT Jaakko Rämö & research group
University of Oulu
Total 19 928 €
Passive monitoring methods in studying endocrine disrupters in a sewage treatment plant and in the receiving river
PhD Anna-Lea Rantalainen & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 20 427 €
Integrated land ecosystem - atmosphere processes study
PhD Anni Reissell
University of Helsinki
Total 5 000 €
Fuel ethanol from D-galacturonic acid
Doc. Peter Richard & research group
VTT Biotechnology
Total 29 295 €
Seventh Finnish Conference of Environmental Sciences 2005
TkT Jukka Rintala & research group
University of Jyväskylä
Total 5 000 €
Archipelago bird monitoring in environmental research and development of the applicability of data
MSc Mia Rönkä & research group
University of Turku
Total 7 300 €
The effects of mowing on roadside biodiversity (NIINI)
PhD Kimmo Saarinen & research group
South Karelian Allergy and Environment Institute
Total 12 970 €
Study of suitable methods for in vitro culture of glochidia of endangered freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera
PhD Mari Saarinen & research group
University of Jyväskylä
Total 17 173 €
The regulation of onshorebuilding - a study of the legal requirements for building an equitable treatment of landowners
OTL Juha Sario
Ympäristölakiasiaintoimisto Niemelä & Sario
Total 14 427 €
Operational detection of cyanobacterial biomass in the Baltic Sea
MMM Jukka Seppälä
Finnish Institute of Marine Research
Total 14 896 €
Effects of pollution in foodchains from plants via insects to birds
MSc Saila Sillanpää
University of Turku
Total 22 753 €
Spectral imaging of sedimentary pigments in varved sediments - a new high resolution tehnique for historical monitoring
PhD Heikki Simola & research group
University of Joensuu
Total 12 780 €
Landfilling of waste incineration bottomash - emissions and their management
MSc Leena Sivula & research group
University of Jyväskylä
Total 19 557 €
Challenges and potentials in socialscience and humanistic research on environment- seminar
PhD Sanna Sorvari
Helsinki University Environmental Research Center
Total 3 000 €
Particle and trace gas fluxes between forest and atmosphere in Northern and Southern hemisphere
PhD Tanja Suni
University of Helsinki
Total 11 700 €
Historiikkiteos: "Suomen ympäristöliikkeen seitsemän vuosikymmentä"
MSc Teuvo Suominen
Total 3 000 €
Environmental education: Creating sustainable futures
PhD Sirpa Tani & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 15 427 €
Fish epidermal papillomatosis as a water quality indicator
Doc. Jouni Taskinen & research group
University of Joensuu
Total 19 731 €
Sustainable nature tourism
Doc. Anne Tolvanen & research group
Finnish Forest Research Institute
Total 12 118 €
Dissolved natural organic matter (DNOM) and micropollutants in groundwater and evaluation risks of contaminants
Prof. Tuula Anneli Tuhkanen & research group
Tampere University of Technology
Total 19 527 €
Social values and meanings of urban green areas
MMT Liisa Tyrväinen & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 17 927 €
Wind power policy and the future of wind power in Finland
MMM Vilja Varho
University of Helsinki
Total 17 485 €
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of UV-B phototoxicity in fish
MSc Eeva-Riikka Vehniäinen
University of Jyväskylä
Total 9 618 €
Measurement and modelling of aerosol particle dry deposition into forest
Prof. Timo Vesala & research group
University of Helsinki
Total 22 500 €
Ecosystem consequences of cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea
Prof. Markku Viitasalo & research group
Finnish Institute of Marine Research
Total 8 300 €
Accumulation of persistent environmental contaminants to osprey in Finland: Time trends, sources of emission and toxic effects
Doc. Matti Viluksela & research group
National Public Health Institute
Total 30 000 €
Genomics of antibiotic resistance in microbes in aquaculture areas
PhD Marko Virta & research group
University of Turku
Total 20 427 €
Density analysis of atmospheric aerosols: new method and its application
TkT Annele Virtanen & research group
Tampere University of Technology
Total 16 265 €
Effects of climate change on the structure and dynamics of the crown of Scots pine
MML Virva Volanen & research group
University of Joensuu
Total 14 427 €
mRNA transkription as indicator of gene activation in fish due to exposure to municipal wastewater
Doc. Tom Wiklund & research group
Åbo Akademi
Total 19 853 €
Thermal processing of problematic solid wastes
Doc. Ron Zevenhoven & research group
Helsinki University of Technology
Total 20 000 €
Why leaf beatle Chrysomela lapponica outbreaks in polluted areas?
PhD Elena Zvereva
University of Turku
Total 12 242 €