Related Research Projects
Digital Waters Flagship
Digitals Waters (DIWA) is a Research Council of Finland Flagship project that gathers together research partners, public stake-holders, and business actors for advancing digitalization in water sector. DIWA creates a unique ecosystem for development of smart, justified, intelligent and sustainable water solutions and enables a transition towards the digital representation of real-world water systems (Digital Twin) to reproduce hydrological storages, their states, fluxes and processes, as well as ecosystem responses with novel options for improved scenario analysis, planning and governance.
DIWA consortium consists of research teams at University of Oulu, University of Turku, Aalto University, Finnish Environment Institute, Finnish geospatial research institute and Finnish meteorological institute.
Digital Waters fosters a doctoral education pilot that offers a structured doctoral education path for doctoral researchers. The pilot is a 3-year-program that equips doctoral researchers with the methodological, digital and management skills to become game-changers in water research, governance and innovation.
Fluvial and Coastal Research Group
The Fluvial and Coastal Research Group (FCRG) at the Department of Geography and Geology studies fluvial and coastal processes and environments. Its research focuses on river and coastal dynamics with particular interest in changing riverine and coastal environments and how human interactions with these systems influence natural processes, leading to changes in flow regimes, erosion–sedimentation processes, and physicochemical water dynamics. FCRG is led by professor Petteri Alho.
UTU-GreDiT doctoral training program
Solutions for Green and Digital Transition (UTU-GreDiT) is a COFUND doctoral training programme co-funded by European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. UTU-GreDit trains the experts required to deliver transformative change towards sustainable societies, with skills and knowledge to operate across sectors, at regional, national and international level. UTU-GreDiT integrates its doctoral researchers with 14 research groups and the cutting-edge research infrastructures at the University of Turku.
AnthroCliMocs
The Anthropogenic and climatic controls on meandering river morphodynamics (AnthroCliMocs) project is led by Academy Research Fellow and Assistant Professor Elina Kasvi at the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku. The project investigates how climate change and pressures caused by human activities affect the dynamics of meandering rivers by combining advanced 3D field observations, remote sensing, and computational modeling. The project is funded by the Research Council of Finland.
NEMESIS
Networked Environmental Monitoring and Evaluation System for Intelligent Surveillance (NEMESIS) is a research infrastructure funded by the Research Council of Finland and coordinated by Turku University of Applied Sciences accompanied by the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi university. The NEMESIS research infrastructure produces data on the environmental status and maritime safety of the Archipelago Sea’s coastal and marine areas as well as their catchment areas. This data enables research related to the condition of catchment areas and coastal waters, coastal and aquatic ecology, and the safety of marine areas. At the University of Turku, the infrastructure project is led by Academy Research Fellow and Assistant Professor Elina Kasvi at the Department of Geography and Geology.
Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotic Systems lab (TIERS)
TIERS team, positioned at the Department of Computing and the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, conducts pioneering research and development in robotics and autonomous systems. TIERS team develops robotic applications for environmental monitoring, localization and mapping and field operations. Key researchers in TIERS include professor Tomi Westerlund, professor Wallace Moreira Bessa and professor Jukka Heikkonen.
