All stations offer advanced research facilities, transportation, instrumentation, and sampling equipment for ecological and environmental research, both in the field and in the lab. They provide extensive and diverse facilities for terrestrial as well as aquatic experimental research both indoors and in natural environments.
Experimental facilities include temperature-regulated chambers and rooms, aquarium facilities and mesocosms. The station’s research infrastructure supports a variety of projects, enabling the use of facilities like laboratories, microscopes, furnaces, and scales.
The staff of stations provides you with the local knowledge needed to plan your research and help you to apply for any required research permits. Expert research technicians are available to assist you with your research in the laboratory and in the field.
The need for environmental science has never been greater than in the era of climate change and biodiversity loss. The long-term time series of environmental monitoring conducted at field stations are an essential component of observing environmental changes and predicting their consequences.
The impacts of climate change are most pronounced in the northern hemisphere, and Finnish research stations gather data from the peripheral areas of the Arctic region. The oldest continuous environmental monitoring time series can be found at university research stations. For example basic research on aerosols carried out in Finland helps solve air pollution problems around the world.
The stations provide comprehensive long-term physical, chemical and biological data from their surrounding environments that span decades. High-frequency automatic data loggers provide online data to researchers as well as the general public. Environmental sampling is possible through remote access. This can, for example, entail collection of water samples or organisms from the surrounding area or deployment of research equipment. Stations provide observation sites for your monitoring network.
Most of the University’s research stations offer short- and long-term accommodation.
The stations that operate all year round offer accommodation in rooms that meet modern standards, along with catering services. Single rooms and family rooms are also available on request.
Pets are allowed in some of the rooms.
The rooms feature wired or wireless access to the internet.
The accommodation building and some of the rooms have small kitchens with a basic set of kitchen utensils and dishes for guests.
Further details about the equipment in the rooms as well as the price lists can be found on each station’s own pages.
At all of the research stations, guests have access to at least one sauna.
Those research stations that are open throughout the year offer an ideal setting for various kinds of seminars and courses.
They feature modern lecture and seminar rooms that can be booked for events. Accommodation is also available to seminar and course participants. The station’s staff can help with the arrangements.
All of the University of Helsinki research stations are located in a unique environment, representing aspects characteristic of Finnish nature and environment.
In other words, when you organise a seminar at one of our research stations, you get more than just a seminar room. You also get to experience Finnish nature at its best.
You can directly contact the research station where you would like to organise your seminar or course.
Further details on services, pricing, and contact information are available on each research station’s own website. The research stations offer services to researchers as well as other users.
Use of the research stations’ services is subject to a fee and must be booked in advance. When planning larger research projects or activities, users are encouraged to contact the station directly to confirm the availability of facilities and resources.
The research stations also welcome other university departments, non-university institutions, and private individuals to use their facilities, for example for workshops, seminars, and meetings.