Below are some examples of potential thesis topics related to seismology or supervised by personnel from the Institute of seismology.
- Hydrothermally altered mineralized systems: Seismic reflection properties of rocks (Kukkonen, Koivisto)
- Processing and analysis of seismic reflection data in exploration and mining camps (Koivisto, Kukkonen)
- Induced seismicity in enhanced geothermal systems (Kukkonen, Korja)
- Data processing and interpretation of seismic data from Siilinjärvi phosphate mine for mine planning (Koivisto)
- Applicability of Open quake software to Finnish conditions (Mäntyniemi, Seismology)
- Automatic assessment of seismic intensity for felt earthquakes in Finland (Mäntyniemi, Seismology)
- Harmonization of internet macroseismology in Fennoscandia (Mäntyniemi, Nordic colleagues)
- Several projects associated with the analysis of seismic data collected by 100+ stations around the 2018 geothermal reservoir stimulation in Otaniemi/Espoo (Hillers, Seismology)
- Several projects associated with crustal and fault zone monitoring and imaging using ambient noise correlations (Hillers, Seismology)
- Refocusing and time reversal (Hillers, Seismology)
- Automatic identification of seismic signals from frost events using deep learning (Tiira, Seismology)
- Detection and identification of glacier based seismic signals in Antarctica using unsupervised machine learning (Tiira, Seismology)
- Automatic detection of seismic events in urban areas, comparison of methods (Tiira, Seismology)
- Seismic signal onset estimation by combining different methods and machine learning (Tiira, Seismology)
- Study of dissimilarities of microearthquakes in concise earthquake populations with self-organizing maps (Tiira, Seismology)
- Influence of seismic station locations on data acquired and threshold event size, Kouvola, Finland (Vuorinen, Oinonen, Seismology)
- Ablative subduction in the Andes: An alternative mechanism for removal of mantle lithosphere? (Whipp)
- Quantifying rates of bedrock landsliding in mountainous regions and their implications for landscape erosion (Whipp)
- Effects of orographic precipitation on mountain evolution in 3D (Whipp)
- Where does landslide-derived sediment go and how long does it take? (Whipp)
- Mapping erosion in steep mountain landscapes using detrital thermochronology (Whipp, international colleagues)
- Paleoproterozoic plateaus: Implications for lithospheric evolution and crustal metamorphism (Whipp)
- Ground-motion characteristics of induced seismicity compared to natural earthquakes (Vuorinen)
- Radiogenic heat production model of the lithosphere based on geochemistry and seismic data (Kukkonen, Veikkolainen)
- Geoneutrinos and radiogenic heat production of the Earth (Kukkonen, Veikkolainen)
- Tectonothermal environment of the Wiborg rapakivi batholith (Veikkolainen)
- Geophysical properties of the Pyhäsalmi area (Veikkolainen)
- Low temperature thermochronology Fission track & He-U-Th-methods (Whipp, Kukkonen)
- Modeling of thermochronological data (Whipp, Kukkonen)