Research Projects

• GHG emissions of reed canary grass cultivations in bioenergy production on mineral soil, (MINHELPI)  (2009->)

• Microbial and carbon dynamics in cut-away peatlands cultivated with reed canary grass (MICA) (2007-2009)

• Quantifying the carbon budget in Northern Russia: past, present and future (CARBO-North) (2006-2010)

• The role of microbial diversity in the dynamics and stability of global methane consumption: microbial methane oxidation as a model-system for microbial ecology (METHECO) (2006-2009)

• Carbon sequestration of reed canary grass cultivations in bioenergy production: Measurements, modelling and upscaling (Helpi) (2005-2007)

• Winter-time Emissions of Nitrous Oxide and Nitric Oxide in Boreal Soils: The Effect of Environmental Factors and Microbiological Processes (WIENO) (2005-2008)

• Cultivation of reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) for bioenergy on a cutover peatland – balances of CO2, CH4 and N2O (BIO-C) (2003-2005)

• The effect of climate change on the pristine peatland ecosystems and (sub)actual carbon balance of the permafrost boundary zone in subarctic Western Siberia (CASUS) (2004-2007)

• CoastGas “Nitrogen and Greenhouse gas dynamics in rivers and estuaries of the Bothnian Bay (the Baltic Sea)” (2003-2006)

• Relationships between CO2 and CH4 exchange and vegetation in UV-B or O3 exposed peatland ecosystems (UVOCARB) (2003-2006)

• Greenhouse gas dynamics in Finnish rivers (2003-2005)

• Greenhouse gas emissions from cultivated or abandoned organic agricultural soils (2002-2005)

• Identification of active methanotrophic bacteria in a boreal forested peat soil by stable-isotope probing (1999-2005)
• The effect of forest fire and wood ash on the activity and diversity of methane producing and oxidizing microbial communities (2002-2005)
• Gaseous nitrogen emissions from pasture (2002-2004)
• The effect of elevated CO2 and temperature on microbial processes in coniferous forest soil (2002-2003)
• Regulation of microbial nitrous oxide and nitric oxide production: Processes at low temperature (2000-2002)
• Biospheric controls on trace gas fluxes in northern wetlands (CONGAS) (1998-2001).
• Tundra degradation in the Russian arctic (TUNDRA). Arctic feedbacks to global warming: a circumpolar assessment (ARCTICA) (1998-2002).
• Effect of ash and nitrogen fertilization on the greenhouse gas fluxes of forest soil (2000-2003)
• Inhibitor studies to characterise microbial processes responsible for CH4 oxidation in forest soils (1999-2001)
• Carbon dioxide exchange and methane emission on the littoral zone of boreal lakes (1997-1999).
• Production and consumption of methane and nitrous oxide in sediment and water column of boreal lakes (1998-2001)
• Greenhouse gas emissions from farmed organic soil (GEFOS) (1996-1998).
• Methane emissions from water ecosystems loaded by nutrients and organic matter (1997-2001)
• Kinetic studies to characterise microbial processes responsible for CH4 oxidation in forest soils (1997)
• Effect of ash fertilization on the greenhouse gas fluxes of forest soil (1997-1998)
• Effect of different ditching methods on the gas content in peat, hydraulic conductivity and the drainage efficiency (1996-1997).
• Effects of organic horizon and soil moisture on CH4 oxidation and uptake of a boreal Scots pine forest soil (1995)
• Methane oxidation in soil profiles of Dutch and Finnish coniferous forests with different soil texture and atmospheric nitrogen deposition (1993).
• Effects of forest management practices (nitrogen fertilization, liming, clear-cutting and mounding) on CH4 and N2O fluxes in a boreal Norway spruce stand (1992-1996)