People
Principal Investigator
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Dr. Céline Arzel
2020-2025 Academy research fellow, UTU
More about me here
Team members
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2021: PhD student at AGFOREE under the co- supervision of Petri Nummi, Céline Arzel, Kimmo Kahilainen
2021: research assistant as part of the WATBRO project (4 months) funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation
2020: 2nd year of Master studies from Angers university for an internship of 6 months; “Assessment of the impact of forestry activities on water colour and identification of aquatic invertebrate communities of boreal lakes in the Evo area, Southern Finland”
2019: 1st year Master student from Angers University for an internship of 2 months on “Analysis of the effects of land use change on water quality and the impact of brownification on lake ecosystem”, Lammi Biological Station, Finland
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PhD student within the WATBRO project 2021-2025 “Towards a sustainable and resilient management of temporary wetlands: learning from local ecological knowledge to improve biodiversity. ”
2017-2019: Project Officer IUCN Nepal
2015-2017: MSc. in Environment Science (Specialization in Environment
Planning and Management), UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education,
Delft (Netherlands)
2012-2015: MEd. in Environment Education and Sustainable Development | Kathmandu University, School of Education,
Kathmandu (Nepal)
2012-2015: Program Officer Youth Alliance for Environment, Nepal
2010-2012: Youth Officer Alliance for Environment, Nepal
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Msc student, Rennes 1 university, France
2021: Drainage network assessment and impact on the lakes’ brownification in Natura 2000 Evo zone, southern Finland
2022: Impact of browning on the abundance and diversity of aquatic invertebrates in temporary pools and beaver ponds from the Evo area (Finland).
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MSc student, Angers university, France
2022: impact of water browning on smooth newt, Lissotriton vulgaris, coloration, (Evo, Finland)
BSc student, Kiehl, Germany
2022: impact of brownification on aquatic invertebrate community (Evo, Finland)
Alumni
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