Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences - News

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment announced yesterday 24 new Academy Research Fellow posts and 33 new Postdoctoral Researcher posts.

The Kyrgyz National Agrarian University named after K.I. Skyrabin (KNAU) and the University of Eastern Finland embarked on a tree-planting operation on the KNAU campus in Bishkek.

The main objective of STREAM is to create innovative collaboration with and build capacity of Mongolian research organisations, educational institutions, companies, producers, communities, administrative authorities and decision-makers in the development of climate-sustainable agro-ecological food production chains, as well as in the diverse, sustainable use of forest resources.

Researchers Anne Ojala from the Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) and Jukka Pumpanen from the University of Eastern Finland participated in an international study published in the Nature Geoscience journal that assessed the amount of CO2 fluxes from stream water to the atmosphere.

The Working Conditions of Home Offices (ETERGO) study examines, for the first time, the conditions of remote work as a whole, taking into account physical and cognitive ergonomics, communality, and indoor air, and their associations with recovery from work, work ability and health.

A new project launched at the faculty aims to enhance the supervision and well-being of postgraduate students, and to clarify the process experienced by postgraduate students.

The use of nanomaterials remains challenging to regulate because of their small size.

Time plays an important role when modelling the influx and accumulation of microplastics, as well as in predicting any environmental risks they might cause in the future.

The aim of MSc Mustafa Munawar’s dissertation is to develop rapid detection means for strawberry Phytophthora pathogens which can assist in halting the spread of the pathogens.