Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were exceptional circumstances during the spring 2020. There were challenges to carry out SEVIRA-project according to the plans, but nevertheless the project has co......

The Water monitoring kits’s materials were translated into Russian to enable better cooperation. Such kits help to measure water transparency, temperature, algal situation, turbidity, pH and oxygen. ......

First results of catchment modelling within the framework of SEVIRA project were showed by Dr Alexandra Ershova and Ksenia Korobchenkova (Russian State Hydrometeorological University) during the Fift......

Cross-border cooperation in on-line monitoring...

One of the key issues in SEVIRA-project is to obtain reliable data from rivers. This means not only necessity to carry out accurate measurements but to analyze the samples in laboratories and to com......

SEVIRA project arranged third hydrological joint monitoring event in 19th - 21st of February. Finnish and Russian experts gathered in Virolahti region to perform winter time hydrological measurements.......

Two new regional nature reserves have been established in the Russian regions neighbouring Finland. A natural monument was established on the Zaonezhye Peninsula in Karelia, while a larger conservatio......

SEVIRA-project was presented for communication specialists in an open event in the House of journalists in St. Petersburg at the end of November. In the event there was presented the Gulf of Finland c......

In the workshop, several issues related to hydrological monitoring were presented and discussed. Russian hydrological monitoring system was presented to Finnish hydrologists. Finnish presentations inc......

First meeting of the SEVIRA Steering Committee at Finnish side took place in Kouvola on November 7th....

An on-line water quality station was installed in the river Rakkolanjoki at the end of October. This operation is part of the modelling work package of the SEVIRA-project....

There was held the EURegionWeek in October. There were experts from many different countries both from EU and outside EU. The project coordinator on environmental education Anna Kryukova from Ecocentr......

First meeting of the SEVIRA Steering Committee in Russian side took place in St.Petersburg on September 9th....

The compatibility of Finnish and Russian monitoring data has been improved by taking samples together and comparing the countries' water quality analyzes. Here we are leaving for sampling for Lak...

A joint hydrological monitoring event of the SEVIRA project was held in Vyborg on 4th to 6th September. Russian and Finnish experts in hydrological monitoring conducted measurements at/in Seleznevka (......

In the framework of SEVIRA project Institute of Limnology, Russia Academy of Sciences IL RAS has continued field works at the catchments of Sestra and Russian part of Rakkolanjoki river....

The first SEVIRA hydrological, hydrochemical and hydrobiological monitoring on Vyborg Bay took place at the end of August 2019. On Russian side the monitoring cruise was organized and arranged by the ......

The overall goal of the modeling task is to use the calibrated models for simulating land-use changes, testing of the effectiveness of water protection methods and climate change scenarios. One of the......

The environmental awareness of the local public in the study area is increasing the Seleznevka (fin. Rakkolanjoki) and Virojoki Rivers due to the Water meets people – learn, act and influence SEVIRA f......

Of the three rivers examined by the SEVIRA project, the Sestra makes an especially interesting case, because there is no previous information of its water quality. The results from November 2018 – Apr......