Wednesday 19th March

– Session 1

9:15 Opening words
9:30 Mark Spa

East or West, Where Does Morbidity Manifest? Spatial Patterns of Historical Death Causes in Finland

9:45 Waqar Khalid

Bed-form Dynamics and Morphological Changes in a Meandering River: A Case study of the Pulmanki River, Finland

10:00 Sanna Pausio

Top-Down or Bottom-Up: The Impact of Resource Environment and Predation on Bacterial Community Assembly and Resilience

10:15 Somnath Chindhe

Genetic adaptations towards past epidemics and infectious diseases in the Finnish human population

10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 Constantina Georgiade

Forest grouse species in the vicinity of wind turbines

11:15 Leticia Duarte

Howling Against the Wind: Assessing the Impact of Wind Energy Development on Finnish Wolves Using Acoustic Monitoring

11:30 Akanksha Ingale

Understanding Public Perception of Invasive Species: The Role of Social Conditions

11:45 Sewwandi Alwis

Diet and reproductive success in birds exposed to metal pollution: A DNA metabarcoding study

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

 

 

– Session 2

13:00 Keynote speaker: Fred Krüger

Thinking Green Future Cities – Towards Just, Sustainable, Climate Change and Disaster-resilient Urban Environment

14.00-14:30 Coffee break
14:30 Akseli Tolvi

Landscape Approach and GeoAI in Sustainable Management of Cultural Heritage

14:45 Antti Hynni

Uncovering barriers to circular economy in agriculture – a case from Southwest Finland

15:00 Inka Kuusisto

Vegetation changes in high-elevation high-latitude mountain

15:15 Giorgio Zavattoni

Management and threats of Natura 2000 protected areas and their relationships to agricultural Practices

15:30 Leonie Jonas

The Potential of Conservation Measures to facilitate Waterbird Responses to Climate Warming

15:45 Karen C. Tse

Parental care and male plumage coloration are linked to hatching (a)synchrony in the pied flycatcher

16:00 Poster session (with bubbly drinks)