Aquatic modelling in boreal conditions
Water management is a crucial part of sustainability in modern sustainability both in Finland and throughout the world. In Finland water management issues are mostly linked to mining industry as well as pulp and paper industry. With stricter requirements especially from EU level, there is a clear need to be able to simulate the water…
Geographic information system for monitoring metal concentrations in environmental waters
Real-time water quality information is beneficial for effective management of environmental waters under different conditions. Field-operative and affordable techniques/devices are fostering the interest of the citizens in the conditions of their environment supporting the actions related to community-based monitoring. On the other hand, these approaches can also support industrial setups to prevent disturbances in water…
Modelling groundwater flow and dissolved carbon transport in a boreal peatland-aquifer-river ecosystem
The accelerating climate change together with the intensified land use put major pressure on the groundwaters and carbon transport. Understanding the groundwater’s role in catchment scale element transport is thus essential in fostering sustainable land use practices and in climate change adaptation. So far northern groundwater resources are rarely linked to the transport of dissolved…
Spatial sub-arctic ecohydrology with high-resolution data and process models
Sustainable land management requires a systemic understanding of the water and biochemical cycles from point to catchment scales. Hydrological connectivity, landscape heterogeneity, and changes in land use have a direct impact on the release and transport of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and on the catchment greenhouse gas budget. New methodological and numerical approaches are required…
Water quality control and tools for iron transport management in urban and peatland landuses
Increased iron concentrations in surface waters have been observed in several studies during the last decades in the boreal zone. The excessive iron load has many effects on the aquatic ecosystem causing brownification with a direct impact on primary production and the entire food web, weakening the survival of fish and other aquatic organisms. The…
Integrating water quality crowdsourcing into hydrological modelling and prediction
The importance of ensuring good water quality is important for many ecosystem services. Despite the vast infrastructure of sensory systems and remote observation technology, there are still gaps in reporting fine-grained details about water quality due to sparsity of observations and dynamic nature of water ecosystems. Crowd observations or citizen science in general contribute to…