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FINMARI receives FIRI2016 funding from Academy of Finland
2.2.2017
2nd building phase 2017-2018 starts! FINMARI partners were granted a total of 2 M€ for novel instrumentation - Academy of Finland FIRI2016 funding covers 1.4 M€ Major new investments of the FINMARI…
The 2nd FINMARI Researcher Days with the new SAB were a success in Tvärminne
4.11.2016
Finnish Marine Research Infrastructure FINMARI met in Helsinki and Tvärminne Zoological Station 1 - 3 November 2016 Full house, with more than 60 scientists and the Scientific Advisor Board of…
FMI contracts Flydog Marine for a cabled profiler to Utö station
13.9.2016
FINMARI profiler network will be strenghtened in 2017 with a bottom-mounted profiler for year-round operation in rough field conditions The Director General Juhani Damski of Finnish Meteorological…
FMI’s first glider mission started in the Bothnian Sea
13.9.2016
After initial trials in UHEL field stations Tvärminne and Lammi, the first Finnish glider was launched for a multiweek expedition to study dynamics of water exchange between the Baltic Sea Proper and…
SYKE/MRC receives the first Imaging FlowCytobot delivered to Europe
18.8.2016
SYKE/MRC has just received the instrument, and the initial priming and testing phase in the lab has started The IFCB instrument from McLane Research Laboratories is an automated imaging flow cytometer…
ÅAU/Husö new profiling buoy deployed
17.8.2016
Åbo Academi University's Husö Biological Station received their new Flydog profiling buoy, which was successfully deployed at the NW coast of Åland, on August 10, 2016. Congratulations! The new buoy…
GTK measures sediment particle size distribution and concentration
16.8.2016
The first field deployment of laser-diffraction in-situ sensor (LISST-100X) for measurement of suspended particle size distribution and volume concentration on the seafloor is ongoing between June and…
UHEL/Tvärminne deploys new Aquatic Eddy Covariance instrument
16.8.2016
New instrument measures continuously near-bottom gas fluxes and is currently deployed in the littoral bladderwrack (Fucus) zone. Click for larger photos! (by Camilla Gustavsson). The system was…
2nd FINMARI Researcher Days: Mark the dates!
30.6.2016
The annual all-partnership Researcher Days in 2016 will be arranged on November 2nd-3rd in Tvärminne. The purpose of the FINMARI Researcher Days is to collect the Finnish marine research community to…
Most recent FINMARI RI purchases
20.6.2016
FINMARI partners have recently purchased (or are currently in process of purchasing) the following major enhancements of marine RI with the Academy of Finland FIRI2014 funding (1.25 M€ for 2015-2016),…
New FINMARI application submitted
16.5.2016
FINMARI consortium submitted a new application to Academy of Finland (FIRI2016 Call), with a new partner institute, Natural Resources Institute Finland. The first building phase of FINMARI is being…