Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences - News

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the Zoological Museum of the University of Turku have published in the journal ZooKeys an official description for Scenopinus jerei, a new fly species from Finland.

The FishEDU Demonstration Fish Farm at the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University (KNAU) was launched . The demonstration fish farm consists of a rainbow trout unit and a carp unit for ongrowing of fish, with a production capacity of 1 tonne per year.

For the past 150 years, the European crayfish has been devastated by the crayfish plague. As an attempt to economically compensate for this decline, North American signal crayfish have been deliberately released into European rivers and streams.

Can the carbon cycle be complete in a cultivation method that combines aquaculture of fish and aquaponic cultivation of plants? This is now being studied at UEF for the first time.

With the addition of the striped horsefly to Finland’s fauna, there are now 39 horsefly species in Finland.

The University of Eastern Finland is a partner in the BATCircle 2.0 project, which constitutes part of Business Finland’s Batteries from Finland ecosystem. Led by Aalto University, the main goal of the BATCircle 2.0 consortium is to add value to the Finnish battery sector and turn it into a billion-euro industry.

Funding granted by the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering to UEF researchers amounts to more than 2.1 million euros.

The University of Eastern Finland, the University of Helsinki, the University of Oulu, the University of Turku and the University of Jyväskylä have launched a joint project to develop a nationwide biodiversity education network. The project is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

MSc Arūnas Meščeriakovas's doctoral thesis focuses on the development of novel carbon materials, their characterization, and application in energy storage and water purification.

“Photonics is about light: we create, modify, observe and move light from one place to another,” Head of the Institute of Photonics, Professor Jyrki Saarinen says.