New FINMARI publication demonstrates the power of new technologies in the detection of filamentous cyanobacterial blooms

Researchers of SYKE and FMI used for the first time high-frequency imaging (IFCB), combined with machine learning, to investigate bloom formation of filamentous cyanobacteria outside the Utö island, in the southern part of the Archipelago Sea, Baltic Sea.

The results open new promising opportunities to understand bloom dynamics in rapidly changing environmental conditions – temperature, salinity, wind speed - in the sea.

This publication is the first one in the world where the IFCB has been applied on filamentous cyanobacteria and the first IFCB publication of any kind from Europe.

Link to the article in the Frontiers in Marine  Science (2021) by Kaisa Kraft, Jukka Seppälä, Heidi Hällfors, Sanna Suikkanen, Pasi Ylöstalo, Sílvia Anglès, Sami Kielosto, Harri Kuosa, Lauri Laakso, Martti Honkanen, Sirpa Lehtinen, Johanna Oja and Timo Tamminen: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2021.594144

The study was funded by Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation, Academy of Finland (FASTVISION) and  EU Horizon 2020 (JERICO-NEXT, JERICO-S3).