Environmental Change Research Unit - ECRU

Palaeopeatland research group

Several lines of research (see also link: research projects) are in progress and they involve people from several different departments (e.g. in Helsinki: Dept. Forest Ecology, Dept. Physics), institutes (e.g. Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finnish Meteorological Institute) and countries (Sweden, Estonia, UK, Canada). In on-going projects we investigate 1) past water table fluctuations 2) carbon (accumulation/emission) dynamics 3) primary succession dynamics 4) peatland fire dynamics 5) biomarkers 6) permafrost dynamics 7) general palaeoecological, -botanical and -climatological aspects

Principal Investigator: Minna Väliranta

Master students: Elina Bertell, Mira Korpi, Noora Kähkönen, Antti Miettinen, Laura Sandholm, Eerika Niemelä, Annina Mellais
PhD students: Tiina Ronkainen, Liisa Maanavilja Paul Mathijssen (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/peatlanders/ )