School of Forest Sciences - News

Starting from 2023, UEF will be offering two degree programmes in the field of technology: one in technical physics and the other in sustainable materials and products.

MSc Blanca Sanz's thesis presents approaches designed to obtain detailed forest resource information from airborne laser scanning (ALS) data, aerial images, sample plots and a stem quality database.

Associate Professor Kim Calders from Ghent University is making his scientific expertise available to the UNITE Flagship, but he’s also drawn to Joensuu by a long-standing friendship.

​​​​​​​“Ecosystem modelling is a highly topical field of science. Modern forest management requires that several forest ecology issues be considered at once,” Professor Annamari (Ari) Laurén says.

Doctor of Education Anniina Kämäräinen, Doctor of Agriculture and Forestry Tuomas Yrttimaa, Doctor of Health Sciences Siiri-Liisi Kraav, and Doctor of Philosophy Niko Vartiainen have been recognised with the University of Eastern Finland’s Young Researcher Award 2021.

Professor Emeritus Seppo Kellomäki from the University of Eastern Finland School of Forest Sciences has published a new, comprehensive textbook, Management of Boreal Forests, in association with Springer Nature.

Following in the footsteps of his father, Professor of Wood Materials Science and Technology Antti Haapala entered the wood processing sector at the age of 16, when he started working in a UPM paper mill in Kajaani.

According to a new book Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Change, the use of fossil raw materials cannot be eliminated without replacement also by forest bioeconomy products.

The ash of both eutrophic and mesotrophic lake bottom biomass could be used as soil improvement, and fertilizer in forestry and eutrophic lake biomass produced the potential ethanol yield from fermentation, says MSc Sandra Sandar.

The most important thing a strong-sustainability forest service model can achieve is getting forest owners to ask themselves what they can and are ready to do for nature.