InterEarth especially stresses the second of Universityʼs cross-cutting priorities – top-quality research infrastructures, with a special emphasis on data. This includes not just developing our capacity for gathering and analysing big environmental data to enable scientific breakthroughs, but also for promoting open science to facilitate the usage of the data and knowledge throughout society.
The profiling area unites research across three faculties - Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Biological and Environmental Sciences - and the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus. The research focuses on four core themes.
We integrate multidisciplinary big data on environment and natural resources with experimental work and modelling across ten fields: physics, biology, ecology, chemistry, forestry, agriculture, geosciences, geography, environmental sciences, and data science. All the University of Helsinki people associated with InterEarth are listed here.
Thanks to University of Helsinkiʼs top research and globally unique supersites in the Arctic-Boreal region (including the national nodes of six European Research Infrastructures) and tropical Africa, we have an excellent opportunity to become a leading player in this emerging field of interdisciplinary Earth system science.
The University of Helsinki supersites include the Värriö, Kilpisjärvi, Hyytiälä, Lammi, Muddusjärvi and Tvärminne research field stations and the Viikki research farm in Finland, and the Taita research station in Kenya. The supersites, together with the extensive Luomus biodiversity collections, offer excellent opportunities for truly integrative multidisciplinary research.
InterEarth supersites include Finnish national nodes of 6 European Research Infrastructures: