Welcome!

The Fisheries and Environmental Management Group (FEM) focuses on the interaction between ecosystems and human society. Our research interests are

• Decision analysis of renewable resources and biodiversity
• Identification and quantification of risks in the use of natural resources
• Integrating different sources of data and knowledge: Bayesian analysis
• Cross discplinary modelling of exploitation processes of natural resources in the face of risks and uncertainty in the information

The leader of the group is professor Sakari Kuikka. The group works at two locations, in Viikki campus in Helsinki and in Kotka Maritime Research Center in Kotka.

The FEM group co-operates with governmental research organizations such as FGFRI and SYKE, as well research groups and organizations such as the Environmental Geoinformatics Group, Helsinki University of Technology, Fisheries Economics in the Department of Economics and Management, and Kotka Maritime Research Centre.

Current

• Dr. Samu Mäntyniemi will be one of the teachers in ICES training course: Introduction to Bayesian Inference in Fishery Science, 11-15 June 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Dr. Jarno Vanhatalo is one of the speakers in the Finnish Mathematics Days. The title of his talk is "Recent solutions to computational challenges with Gaussian process models"
• Jarno Vanhatalo partisipates in the final conference and workshop of Intersik project on 20-21st of October in Umeå Sweden.
• Prof. Sakari Kuikka is one of the speakers in informational event "Four Corners to the Baltic" (Neljä kulmaa Itämereen). The theme of this fourth part of the seminar series is "Baltic and research". The focus group of the event is journalists and it takes place on October 3rd in SYKE.
• FEM group will move to a new building in the Viikki campus in the end of October 2011. The new visiting address will be Viikinkaari 2, 2nd floor. All other contact information will remain unchanged.
• Research coordinator Eveliina Klemola will be on leave of absence from October 7th 2011 onwards. Kirsi Hoviniemi will take over her duties.
• The kick-off meeting of the project MIMIC will be held in Helsinki September 5th-6th 2011. More information on the new project at http://www.merikotka.fi/mimic/
• Sakari Kuikka is one of the conveners of the Theme Session R "Integration of multidiscplinary knowledge in the Baltic Sea to support science-based management" in the ICES Annual Science Confererence, Gdansk 19th - 23rd September. Additionally, FEM-members Mika Rahikainen, Jarno Vanhatalo and Päivi Haapasaari have presentations in sessions G, M, & R. More information can be found here.
• Sakari Kuikka is one of the theme session conveners in MODSIM 2011, Perth, 12. - 16.12.2011. The session is titled "Multidisciplinary Risk Modelling in the Management of Ocean and Coastal Resources". The other session conveners are Rich Little and Olivier Thebaud (CSIRO, Australia). More information can be found here.
• FEM office in Kotka, together with the whole Kotka Maritime Research Centre, will move to a new office in Datariina, a centre of digital business, in the heart of the City of Kotka in July 2011.
• ECOKNOWS Main Meeting 2 in Copenhagen, Denmark May 23rd - 26th 2011
• FEM group participates in HENVI Science Days on Interdisciplinary Environmental Research and Teaching on April 7th - 8th 2011 with poster "Bayesian network - a flexible tool to integrate multidisciplinary knowledge".
• March 11. 2011, 8-9:30 am. Helsinki -insight coffee seminar with topic "Oil Risks in the Baltic area". Sakari Kuikka will be one of the speakers. More information and registration here.
• Jakfish-conference 8.-9.3.2011 in Brussels.

Past news and activities are here.