Members

Professor

Photo Hanna Oksanen

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.

Mikromuovit kuriin – mutta miten?

Researcher

Maarit Kalliokoski Postdoctoral researcher

Ask me about tephrochronology, geochronology, lacustrine sediments, Icelandic volcanism and micro-XRF methodologies

Sarianna Salminen Postdoctoral Researcher

Ask me about varves, lacustrine and marine sediments, past and recent environmental and climate change, hypoxia, phosphorus

Nanna Tuovinen Postdoctoral Researcher

Ask me about diatom assemblages from fresh and brackish water environments

Mira Tammelin Doctoral Researcher

Ask me about paleolimnology, paleoecology, diatoms, eutrophication and naturally eutrophic boreal lakes

Karoliina Kehusmaa Doctoral Researcher

Ask me about paleolimnology; mine environments; diatoms; meromictic lakes

Viktoriia Pastukhova Doctoral Researcher
Mohib Billah Doctoral Researcher

Ask me about lacustrine and marine sediment, paleoclimate, subaquatic hypoxia, Fennoscandian sea-level change, XRF geochemical data

Sohvi Railo Doctoral Researcher

Ask me about diatom, seasonal succession, sediment trap, paleoceanography, microfossils

Samuel Bronstein Doctoral Researcher

Ask me about microplastic and Baltic Sea sediments and sedimentation

Laura Laaksonen Doctoral Researcher

Ask me about microplastics, marine geology, sedimentology, coastal geography, DIWA, Baltic Sea

MSc Students

Sofia Muurinen
Julia Puustinen
Henri Heikkinen
Camilla Westerlund

Janina Kondelin
Vilma Lahti

Team member over the years

Antti Sainio, MSc Student