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Assessing biotic integrity using functional and structural measures in boreal rivers

Assessing in-stream rehabilitation with a two-dimensional model of river hydrodynamics and fish habitat (River2D)

Assessing the adaptive capacity of the Finnish environment and society under a changing climate (FINADAPT)

Automatisation of the monitoring of the Rantamo-Seitteli

Baltic Operational Oceanographic System - developing services in context of international co-operation (BOOS)

Baltic Sea - Argumenta

Baltic Sea management - nature conservation and sustainable development in the marine ecosystem through spatial planning (BALANCE)

Bayesian data analysis in adaptive water resources research and management

Benchmark models for the water framework directive BMW

Benchmarking consumption choices

Bioavailability and bioaccumulation of brominated flame retardants in Finnish aquatic environments

Biological Effects of Anthropogenic Chemical Stress: Tools for the Assessment of Ecosystem Health (BEAST)

Bioremediation of contaminated soil with fungi (PIMA-FUN)

Bridging the gap between qualitative problem structuring and quantitative decision analysis in forestry

Carbon neutral municipalities

Climate Change Community Response Portal CCCRP

Climate change: a regional assessment of vulnerability and adaptive capacity for the Nordic countries (CARAVAN)

Climate impacts of peat utilizing chains – a critical review of Finnish and Swedish life cycle assessments

Climatic effects on soil carbon

Communication methods related to water resources management projects (VIEVE)

Compilation of pollution loads and assessment of the state of Baltic Sea for the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) and participation in the MONAS working group

Conflict over Consensus — The Potential and Limits of Collaborative Environmental Management (CoCo)

Control of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea region COHIBA

Controlling benthic release of phosphorus in different Baltic Sea scales (PROPPEN)

Co-operation in developing the High Resolution Operational Model for the Baltic Sea (HIROMB)

Coordination of research financed in the European Union on flood risk management (CRUE)

Cost-effective measures and multi-criteria strategies for the management of water resources (VeKuMe)

Cost-effective reduction of the nutrient load to the Baltic Sea sub-basin - combined study of economical and ecological effects

Cost-efficiency in agricultural water protection (KUVE)

Degradation and transformation of potential priority compounds and toxicants evaluated by chemical and biological methods (DEGTOX, extention to the project)

Demonstration of the Use of Monitored Natural Attenuation (MNA) as a Remediation Technology DEMO-MNA

Developing a biodiversity indicator collection for Finland

Developing mapping and modeling approaches as a part of flood risk management business (GIFLOOD)

Development of an accredited benthic macroinvertebrate laboratory as part of SYKE´s reference laboratory strategy

Development of fast analysis of biocides and surfactants in the environment (BIOSURFANA)

Development of monitoring and applying model tools for practical work in real watershed conditions (SeMaTo)

Development of observation and forecast systems for operational use

Development of rescue actions based on dam-break flood analysis (RESCDAM)

Dinoflagellate blooms in the Baltic Sea: diversity, ecology and toxic effects

Ecoefficient risk management of contaminated soil and groundwater

Eco-information society - the criteria and operational possibilities

Ecology, adverse effects and control of the Raphidophyceae alga Gonyostomum semen

Effective Environmental Management: law, public participation and environmental decision making (EMLE)

Effects of forest restoration on species recovery

Effects of land-use and climate change on runoff and nutrient loading in rural and urban catchments

Elimination of nitrate in soil and groundwater at fur farm (NITROS)

Energy reporting for innovations

Ensemble model simulations as a tool to study the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland eutrophication

Environmental and economic impacts from recycling of combustible wastes

Environmental communication research in Finland (VIETE)

Environmental impacts of material flows caused by the Finnish economy

European marine directives: concepts, overlap and synergy

Eutrophication-activity in the context of the WFD Common Implementation Strategy and the European Marine Strategy

Evaluating the effects in Finland of international efforts to reduce SO2 and NOx emissions from large point sources 1990-2000 (EUIPA)

Fifth Baltic Sea Pollution Load Compilation

Finnish Long-Term Ecological Research network, FinLTSER

FINSKEN - Developing consistent global change scenarios for Finland

Forest policy institutions and biological diversity

Fractional snow cover monitoring using Earth observation data

From theory and plans to eco-efficient and sustainable practices to improve the status of the Baltic Sea – WATERPRAXIS

Future alternatives of Finnish agriculture: Dimensions and scales of sustainability (SUSAGFU)

Genomic tools in bioremediation: A case study with atrazine as pollutant (GENOTOOLS)

Global change impacts on sub-arctic palsa mires and greenhouse gas feedbacks to the climate system PALSALARM

GMES-projects at the Finnish Environment Institute

Heavy rains and floods in urban area (RATU)

Household Energy Awareness Technologies (HEAT'07)

How to reach an interdisciplinary research (IDR) community? Building the framework: Bioenergy as a pilot study

Identification of High Nature Value Farmland areas in Finland (High Nature Value Farmland)

Identification of Natura 2000 ecosystems in economical marine zones of Finland

Importance of particulate matter on phosphorus flow and lake eutrophication

Increasing eco-efficiency - an analysis of factors generating innovations (ECOINNO)

Industrial Symbiosis System Boundaries (ISSB)

Integrated assessment modeling of particulate matter in Finland

Integrated assessment modelling of global change impacts and adaptation (FINESSI)

Integrated Project to Evaluate the Impacts of Global Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems (EURO-LIMPACS)

Interaction between Environment and Fisheries - a Challenge to Management (IBEFish)

Interagtive systems to assess ecological status and recovery of water bodies (WISER)

Interdisciplinary research framework for ecosystem services

Introduction and implementation of life cycle assessment methodology in Estonia: Effects of oil shale electricity on the environmental performance of products (OSELCA)

Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas

Land-based heavy metal load to the Baltic Sea (HELCOM data base PLC-5)

Law, forests and biodiversity (FORBID)

Life Cycle Approach to Sustainability of Waste Management - a Case Study on Newspaper (LCA-WASTE)

Life Cycle Assessment Framework and Tools for Finnish Companies (FINLCA)

Littoral diatoms and macroinvertebrates in lake status assessment and management

Logistics & manufacturing trends and sustainable transport (LOGMAN)

Long-term Monitoring of coastal zoo benthos

Management of the runoff waters from arable land (VIHTA-Project)

Map-based assessment of vulnerability to climate change employing regional indicators MAVERIC

Marine and coastal ecosystem determination and mapping with geographical analysis (NorGIS)

Measurement, monitoring and environmental assessment (MMEA) research programme: WP2 Management systems for environmental efficiency (MSEE)

Microbiological processes control the elease of iron, manganese and phosphorus in mineral precipitations (MICON)

Migration of alternative de-icing chemicals in aquifers (MIDAS)

Modelling photochemical mineralization and microbial decay of DOC - FOKEMA

Monitoring and assessment of carbon balance related phenomena in Finland and northern Eurasia

Monitoring of harmful substances in aquatic environment by passive samplers

Monitoring of harmful substances using incubated mussels

Monitoring of radioactive substances in the Baltic Sea (HELCOM data base MORS)

Monitoring of riverine nutrient loads to the Baltic Sea

Monitoring of the Baltic sea coastal zone, vegetational changes in the Finnish coast

Monitoring of the state of the Gulf of Finland (R/V Muikku)

Monitoring strategy for marine underwater nature (VESTRA)

Multicultural Urban Nature - Integrating Multicultural Information in Urban Nature Policy and Planning

Multidimensional sustainability framework to evaluate forest and wood energy production (BioSus)

Near real time flood forecasting, warning and management system based on satellite radar images, hydrological and hydraulic models and in-situ data (FloodMAN)

Negotiating risks of genetically modified (GM) birches

Novel gypsum-based products for farm scale phosphorus trapping (TraP)

NOvel Methods for Integrated Risk Assessment of CumuLative stressors in Europe

Oil spill detection

Optimizing Lipid Production by planktonic Algae - LIPIDO

Path Dependence and Path Creation in Energy Systems – A Multi-Level Perspective on Technological, Business and Policy Innovations (EnPath)

Patterns in the diversity, distribution and abundance of stream organisms

Phytoplankton causing harmful algal blooms in the Baltic Sea (Head project)

Probabilistic assessment, management and advice model for fishery management in the case of poor data availability (POORFISH)

Problems in small ground water works: planning, maintaining and monitoring

Producing land cover and land use data in CORINE Land Cover 2000 and Image 2000 projects in Finland

Producing land cover and land use data in CORINE Land Cover 2006 project in Finland

Productivity tools: automated tools to measure primary productivity in European seas (PROTOOL)

Protection of aquatic communities in the Gulf of Finland: risk-based policymaking - part I (EVAGULF)

Quality assessment of coastal waters and regional variation in water quality

Reducing environmental risks in use of plant protection products in Northern Europe (PesticideLife)

Relationships between ecological and chemical status of surface waters (REBECCA)

Remediation of contaminated groundwater using permeable reactive barriers - RESET project

Remote sensing and measuring technology in coupling of process-based catchment and lake models (Catch Lake)

Remote Sensing of chlorophyll-a

Remote sensing of sea surface temperature

Remote sensing of water quality and temperature (Head project)

Remote sensing of water quality in lakes and coastal waters

Remote sensing of water turbidity

Reseach projects on Best Available Techniques (BAT)

Round-year treatment of runoff from peat production areas (TuKos)

Screening of Priority Substances: problem anticipation, compound identification and developing a monitoring program (VESKA)

Searching efficient protection strategies for the eutrophied Gulf of Finland (SEGUE)

Seatrack Web and HIROMB –the Baltic Sea forecast systems

Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal and Ecological Scales (SCALES)

Significance of the Finnish agri-environment support scheme for biodiversity and landscape (MYTVAS)

Soil carbon model - Yasso

Spatial scaling, metacommunity structure and patterns in stream communities

Strengthening the Capacity in Selected METAP Countries to Assess the Cost of Environmental Degradation in Coastal Areas (METAP)

Structural changes of phytoplankton during spring bloom in variable environmental conditions in the Baltic Sea

Sustainability of biomass utilisation in changing operational environment (SUBICHOE)

Technology platform for the development of environmental information services – case MAASÄÄ

Telework and commuting in Finland

The Eco-efficiency of Regions - Case Kymenlaakso (ECOREG)

The existence of potentially toxic dinoflagellates and dinoflagellate toxins in the planktic food web of the Northern Baltic Sea

The Finnish Inventory Programme for the Underwater Marine Environment (VELMU)

The Impact of Environmental Policy Instruments on Activities, Products and Environmental Capabilities in the Electrical and Electronics Industry (YPSE)

The silicon cycle in freshwater and coastal marine environments: implications for nutrient dynamics, primary production and paleolimnological research

Threatened and insufficiently known aquatic insects and bryophytes of small water bodies - distribution, habitat requirements, and forestry impacts

Threatened lichens of calcareous rocks

Thresholds of Environmental Sustainability (THRESHOLDS)

Tools for estimating forestry nutrient loads (HAME)

Toxicity of Dinophysis dinoflagellates in the Baltic Sea

Transnational River Basin Districts on the Eastern Side of the Baltic Sea Network (TRABANT)

Trilateral Gulf of Finland co-operation (Estonia, Russia, Finland)

Usability estimation and development of Marine underwater nature monitoring data (VITKA)

Water quality models for WFE implementation in estamating target loads and lake monitoring

Water quality monitoring of rivers (Eurowaternet)

Water Scenarios for Europe and for Neighbouring States (SCENES)

Vision and action plan for European freight transport until 2050 (Freightvision)

Vulnerability Assessment of ecosystem services for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation (VACCIA)

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