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August 25, 2024
Tua Nylén does research on coastal changes in the Artic – after seeing these field work photos you will also want to become a geomorphologist!
Tua Nylén seems to feel at home well above the Arctic Circle. She has just returned from a field trip...
August 25, 2024
New publication from Freshwater Competence Centre: warm and rainy winters double the turbidity of water, suggesting major erosion and nutrient loading
Gypsum treatment of agricultural fields has shown promising results in reducing phosphorus and suspended sediment loads, and therefore also eutrophication...
August 25, 2024
Sopitta Thurachen found a way to combine her interests and educational background in the DIWA PhD pilot
Freshwater Competence Centre and Digital Waters flagship are not only about hydrology and physical or natural sciences research on our...
June 28, 2024
What can meandering rivers tell us about the climate change?
Linnea Blåfield is a fourth-year PhD student in the University of Turku, conducting research mainly at rivers Oulanka and Pulmanki...
June 28, 2024
Freshwater Competence Centre discussed Finnish Water Quality Monitoring & analysis and gypsum application to agricultural lands in Aberdeen, Scotland
In mid-June our partner organization Syke and researcher Maria Kämäri took part in the High Temporal Resolution Water Quality Monitoring...
June 5, 2024
Freshwater Competence Centre is one of the 21 selected Water-Oriented living labs in the ATLAS of WOLLs edition 2024
On May 22nd 2024, the new Atlas of Water-Oriented Living Labs (WOLLs) was successfully released at the Water4All Partnership event...
May 31, 2024
Can hydrodynamic phenomena in the depths of a river be measured from a drone?
Article image: Eliisa Lotsari https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/esp.5853 Wouldn’t it be easy to do measurements and collect reference data for the hydrodynamic models...
May 31, 2024
Robots, drones and thermal cameras are measuring Vantaanjoki
Spring is here and so is the field work season. Finnish Environment Institute and Aalto university started the measuring campaign...
May 31, 2024
Research of Finnish peatlands at University of Oulu is helping to solve water issues around the world
The power of education and international competence building in solving global water issues is evident in this story about Omar...
May 31, 2024
What does El Niño, freeze-thaw season and reindeers have to do with Finnish riverbanks? Modeller Erik van Rooijen from Aalto University knows
Erik van Rooijen is finished collecting a whole year of riverbank erosion data from the three supersites we are working...
May 31, 2024
Karoliina Lintunen’s publication on climate change impacts on Finnish rivers sheds light on seasonal flooding
Karoliina Lintunen can smile with ease, because her first PhD publication as the first author is now out and published....
May 31, 2024
Freshwater Competence Centre scientists celebrate the World Water Day in the field
Today is World Water Day, which is an important day for the Freshwater Competence Centre. Our researchers from Finnish Geospatial...
March 19, 2024
Several water-related research of networking events coming up in March-April 2024!
27th March 2024 – For anyone interested in remote sensing The series of events begins on with our FWCC webinar...
March 19, 2024
Amin Sadeqi studies fluvial modelling in Finland to understand why the rivers have changed back home in Iran
Amin Sadeqi comes from the Azerbaijani side of Iran, the city of Zanjan, which is located in a mountainous region,...
November 22, 2023
WOLL water4all, Tulanet Infrastructure day, Geoforum Summit: Last week of October was great networking!
Water4All partnerships funded by the European Union include 79 partners from 31 different countries, bringing together problem owners and solution...
November 22, 2023
National Modelling Seminar 2023 gathered together researchers of hydrological and environmental modelling
Finland’s researchers in hydrological and environmental modelling gathered to the cultural centre Sofia in Vuosaari on 20th November, to discuss...
October 30, 2023
AI service for optical camera network “When will ice break?” released.
The new “When will Ice Break?” service uses artificial intelligence to identify the amount and location of snow, water and...
October 28, 2023
A virtual version of reality, digital twin, makes decision-making and testing easier – come hear all about it at Geoforum Summit
Based on an article from the National Land Survey Of Finland- Read the full article here Text & Image credit:...
October 28, 2023
Grand news – New flagship takes the Finnish Freshwater science to another level
Four new Finnish Flagships have been selected to the Research Council of Finland’s Finnish Flagship Programme, one of which is...
October 19, 2023
University of Turku leads new doctoral training project focused on green and digital transition with €7.4 million in EU funding
The University of Turku has received €3.3 million in EU funding for a doctoral training project that responds to the...
June 30, 2023
How are the snake-shaped meandering rivers changing? Academy Fellow Elina Kasvi will study the winding rivers of the world for the next four years.
What are meandering rivers, where are they found and how do they form? Most of us recognize the winding, slowly...
June 30, 2023
What happens if the water intake of the billions of Finnish trees would change one day?
This spring we welcomed two new Research Council of Finland fellows in the Freshwater Competence Centre – last week we...
June 30, 2023
Real-time data on eroding riverbanks is available now with new type of soil sensors – helping to build models for future river management
The freshwater scientists from Aalto university have recently started a fruitful cooperation with a Finnish company called Soil Scout, manufacturing...
January 16, 2023
Call: Water Competence Export – via FWCC project booster – check time in Doodle and join!
Project booster as service released by “Call: Water Competence Export” reply to our Doodle Interested? Please reply to https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/avQgJPne (Teams +...
December 29, 2022
Exploring unknown territories – hydrologists developing new concepts for modelling the Finnish water resources
Long gone are the days when hydrology science was done with waders, manually operated current meters and water sampling kits....
November 22, 2022
Research reveals what happens under the seemingly calm surface of river ice
Big news from this week is the joint Journal of Hydrology publication from Eliisa Lotsari (Aalto university) and Karoliina Lintunen, Elina...
July 27, 2022
Developing a rotating laser scanner for an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV)
When the rest of Finland is on holidays, the summer trainees take over the research institutes! Here is one of...
July 18, 2022
What is GeoAI – and how can it help making exact science from something as inexact and complex as water flow in the environment?
In the opening words of their latest publication, the fluvial and hydrological scientists from University of Turku, University of Oulu...
July 14, 2022
Detailed and accurate 3D data with airborne laser scanning – also underwater
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July 14, 2022
Proficiency tests and interlaboratory comparisons – Proftest SYKE event coming up in Oct 12th 2022!
Proftest SYKE event coming up in Oct 12th 2022, registration open until Sep 14th Read the news in LinkedIn