Projects

Current projects

    • Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Northern Rivers (RIVERVOC), 2023-2027, Jukka Pumpanen
    • EJP-SOIL FAMOSOS, 2023-2026, Lukas Kohl
    • Fate of nitrogen released from thawing permafrost: from microbial transformations to gaseous losses (Thaw-N) 2022-2027, Maija Marushchak
    • Emissions of reactive nitrogen gases (HONO and NO) from northern peatlands – Unraveling the nitrogen cycle in northern soils under changing climate (ERNO), The Academy of Finland, 2022-2026, Marja Maljanen
    • Microbial mechanisms regulating N2O metabolism in above-ground vegetation – significant northern N2O sink? 2021-2026, Henri Siljanen
    • A combined experiment and modelling approach to quantify the nitrous oxide budget of permafrost regions (N-PERM) / Consortium: N-PERM 2021-2025, Christina Biasi / Lukas Kohl
    • ACCC Flagship (RP1 Quantifying and activating the potential of land-based climate change mitigation) 2021-2024, Jukka Pumpanen

Past projects

    • CARBO-nurmi/ORMINURMI – Effect of cultivation techniques on carbon sequestration potential of grasslands on mineral and organic soils (CARBONURMI, 2019-2021 continues as ORMINURMI 2021-2023), Marja Maljanen
    • Methane uptake by permafrost-affected soils – an underestimated carbon sink in Arctic ecosystems? (MUFFIN) 2020-2023, Carolina Voigt
    • Cascading carbon flow in managed forested catchments (CASCAS; Academy of Finland, 2019-2023)
    • Reducing the effects of forest management to inland waters (REFORMWATER; WaterWorks2017 ERA-NET Cofund, 2019-2023), Jukka Pumpanen
    • Winter nitrogen cycling in sediments of large boreal lakes affected by browning and mining (Changing winters, UEF Water RC, 2020-2022), Carlos Palacin-Lizarbe
    • Grasslands as a carbon sink, effect of grassland renewal (JuuriHiili, 2019-2022)
    • Wise use of drained peatlands in a bio-based economy (PEATWISE, 2017-2020)
    • Holistic processes and practices for clean energy in strengthening bioeconomy strategies in Europe and India (INDO-NORDEN; ERA-NET, 2017-2020)
    • The origin of nitrous acid (HONO) emissions from northern soils and linkages to nitrogen cycle processes (OHNO2, 2016-2020)
    • Carbon dynamics across Arctic landscape gradients: past, present and future (CAPTURE, 2016-2020)
    • Towards constraining the circumarctic N2O budget (NOCA; Academy of Finland, 2018-2020)
    • Gaseous emissions of horse manure
    • Natural soil warming in natural grasslands and a Sitka spruce forest in Iceland (FORHOT)
    • Yedoma: an overlooked source of nitrous oxide (N2O) from the Arctic? (Yedoma-N)
    • Methane and algae trough zooplankton to valuable food (2016-2018)
    • Long term effects of fire on carbon and nitrogen pools and fluxes in the arctic permafrost and subarctic forests (ARCTICFIRE)
    • Ammonia oxidizing microbes and factors regulating their occurrence and activity in acidic boreal and Arctic peat soils (AMOBORA)
    • Constraining uncertainties in the permafrost-climate feedback (COUP)
    • Biochar as a tool for soil quality; can the biochar be used for increasing tree stand productivity and storing carbon into the soil
    • Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) – a process causing internal nitrogen loading in hypoxic coastal waters (DECREASE)
    • The effect of climate change on CO2, N2O and CH4 dynamics and ecosystem processes in Russian tundra (Finnish Warming Experiment in Russia, FiWER)
    • Mechanisms and atmospheric importance of nitrous oxide uptake in soils (NOS-A)
    • Methane temperature response of Finnish peatland ecosystems (FinnFen)
      Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century (PAGE21)
    • A changing cryosphere – depicting ecosystem-climate feedbacks as affected by permafrost, snow and ice (DEFROST)
    • Nitrous acid (HONO) emissions from acidic boreal soils (HONO)
    • Mechanisms underlying large N2O emissions from cryoturbated peat surfaces in tundra (CryoN)
    • Fate of radionuclide 14C in soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (KYT 14C)
    • Optimizing of biomass production and carbon sequestration of reed canary grass cultivation by hydrological control (Hydro-Helpi)
    • Microbial and carbon dynamics in cut-away peatlands cultivated with reed canary grass (MICFEED)
    • Mitigation of climate change impacts of cultivated peat soils (MYRKLIMA)