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Marine monitoring in Marine Research Center Finnish Environment Institute SYKE. Seppo Kaitala Finnish Environment Institute SYKE. HYDROLOGIAYKSIKKÖ. ASIANTUNTIJAPALVELUT. “Marine research, protection and sustainable use”. Research Vessel management office.
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Marinemonitoringin MarineResearch CenterFinnish Environment InstituteSYKE Seppo Kaitala Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
HYDROLOGIAYKSIKKÖ ASIANTUNTIJAPALVELUT “Marine research, protection and sustainable use” ResearchVessel management office OilSpillEmergencyResponse Group Secretarial and economicservices MarineResearch CentreDirector Mari Walls Monitoring and Assessment MarineSpatialPlanning Modelling and Innovations Units: ExperimentalResearchFacility (Kumpula) SYKE main offices (Töölo) SYKE laboratiories (Hakuninmaa) Prem-ises: Total staffca. 100 persons: 35 Ph.D., ca. 40 M.Sc. Marine Research Centre
Marine ResearchCentre Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
Wintermonitoring2009-2010: Juha Flinkman – SYKE Merikeskus
Nutrients in the surfacewaters LessNitrate in the Bothnian Bay and in the ArhipelagoSea than in the previouswinter MorePhosphate in the eastern Gulf of Finland than in the previouswinter Nitrate Nitrate Winter Winter Phosphate Phosphate Winter Winter
Alg@lineHighlights • 1991: the first recordings on-route Helsinki-Tallinn with Georg Ots • 1992: the system installed on-board Finnjet • 1993: the ”official” launch of Alg@line • 1997: Finnish-Estonian operative monitoring system of the state of the Gulf of Finland 2003-2005 : Ferrybox EU project • 2005- current: ESA/MarCoast baseline service • 2008: Cooperation with SMHI for Oulu-Göteborg route • 2009: MyOcean In Situ TematicCenter • 2011: JERICO EU project • 2013: New line St. Petersburg - Århus • 2013: The 5thFerrybox workshop in Helsinki
Helsinki Operational since 1993 Travemünde Alg@line Flow-through recording and water sampling points by M/S FINNMAID Seppo.Kaitala@fimr.fi EARSel Workshop Bolzano, June 7-9, 2007 Helsinki Lighthouse • 12 0r 24 water sampling points • Twice a week • Nominal sampling depth 5 m • Flow through measurements with 250 m resolution
SeaPrism on the Helsinki Lighthouse in the Gulf of Finland Latitude: 59.94897° North , Longitude: 24.92636° East Seppo.Kaitala@fimr.fi EARSel Workshop Bolzano, June 7-9, 2007 http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/photo_db/Helsinki_Lighthouse.html
Nearrealtimeobservations on commercialferries Time, location, from GPS Salinity Temperature Chlorophyll Phycocyanin Turbidity Watersamples Traspaper in cooperationwith SMHI Finnmaid in coopertionwith IOW Silja Serenade in cooperationwith Uusimaan ELY center and Helsinki Environment Center
Nitrate in the surface water of the Baltic SeaAlg@line data mmol/ l 2006 2005 2004 Month
Phosphate Nitrate Phosphate in the surface water Alg@line mmol/ l 2006 2005 2004 Month
Risk assesment of cyanobacteria blooms 2012 • The riskassesmentwasdonewithmodellingusingwinternutrienconsiditions and scenarioclimateforcing • By the finnishcoast the cyanobacteriabloomrisk is moderate
Alg@lineFerrybox Data vs. EO Data, Chlorophyll-a Jenni Attila GEO/SYKE