Background Invasive alien species Canadian waterweed ( Elodea canadensis ) has spread to hundreds of lakes around Finland. In favorable growth conditions, like in many lakes in Koillismaa...

Seaguide.fi is a new map for boaters, people with holiday homes and anyone on the coast. The service provides information generated by several Finnish organisations on topics such as the weather and c......

Our society is facing environmental problems of increasing complexity, such as climate change, urbanisation and global challenges related to sustainable development. In order to resolve these burning...

Short address: http://www.syke.fi/projects/envision Objectives The purpose of the project is to evaluate the suitability of the machine vision, using drones, to identify species i...

Over the coming weeks, climate change mitigation and the implementation of the Paris Agreement will be discussed in Bonn. In support of climate change mitigation, the Finnish Environment Institute (SY......

The health and well-being impacts of contacts with nature are increasingly being discussed in relation to environmental policies in Finland and around Europe. Access to nature is important even in den......

The project will produce the Finnish Marine portal, a national service bringing together information and data from various  Finnish marine data providers.The aim is to enhance the practic...

  Background In Koillismaa-region many lakes have been invaded by a harmful alien species Canadian waterweed ( Elodea canadensis ). In Finland, it has spread besides Koillismaa ...

® Anja Holmsten The Finnish Environmental Institute (Syke) together with its national mirror committees draw up methods standards for the environmental field By appointment of the Fi...

    After the 2 nd World War, a large amount of chemical weapons and ammunition was dumped in the Baltic Sea and the Skagerra...

There are three main Project’s component: Component 1. Cooperatio Experience and information exchange among organizations and ongoing Projects on the territory of Issyk-Kul Oblast. Carrying...

Representative environmental measurement and sampling are essential for reliable environmental research. The skills and responsibilities of field personnel are the major factors to assure the ...

The prolonged financial crisis that began in 2008 has evidently affected the environment in Finland, according to a report on the State of the Environment in Finland 2013 freshly published by SYKE. Th......

      ICP IM sites large  (PDF) The following countries have continued data submission to the ICP IM data base during the period 2016–2020: Austria,...

Background The national monitoring strategy of the state of the environment defines strategic targets for the gathering, storage and utilisation of environmental data, as well as means of, and ...

Expert institutes collect and report primary data to the National Focal Point (NFP). They are responsible for data quality. The NFP, with or without the help of expert institutes,...

Review of activities Meetings Data Scientific work in priority topics Activies and tasks planned for 2021.2023 Review of the ICP IM activities from June&#...

Links to Recent publications Kleemola, S. & Forsius, M. (eds.), 2021.  30th Annual Report 2021 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, ICP Integrated Monitoring. Report...

Alien invasive species originate from other ecosystems, and are intentionally or unintentionally transferred to new environments by human actions. Ships transport efficiently alien species enabl...

    Project objectives To develop concepts for assessment of conservation status of mar...