Members
Professor
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Saija Saarni
Associate Professor in applied environmental geology
saija.saarni@utu.fi
Ask me about aquatic sediments from both lake and estuarine systems, paleoclimate, microplastic pollution, and environmental change, field monitoring and micro-XRF methodologies
Read more: Science of the changing sea
Microplastics in the mud: Finnish lake sediments help us get to the bottom of plastic pollution.
Researcher
Ask me about tephrochronology, geochronology, lacustrine sediments, Icelandic volcanism and micro-XRF methodologies
Ask me about varves, lacustrine and marine sediments, past and recent environmental and climate change, hypoxia, phosphorus
Ask me about diatom assemblages from fresh and brackish water environments
Ask me about paleolimnology, paleoecology, diatoms, eutrophication and naturally eutrophic boreal lakes
Ask me about paleolimnology; mine environments; diatoms; meromictic lakes
Ask me about lacustrine and marine sediment, paleoclimate, subaquatic hypoxia, Fennoscandian sea-level change, XRF geochemical data
Ask me about diatom, seasonal succession, sediment trap, paleoceanography, microfossils
Ask me about microplastic and Baltic Sea sediments and sedimentation
Ask me about microplastics, marine geology, sedimentology, coastal geography, DIWA, Baltic Sea
MSc Students
Team member over the years
Antti Sainio, MSc Student