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The Climate University network coordinated by the University of Helsinki has formed a teaching cooperation contract between 18 universities. A majority of Finnish university students can take the network’s climate and sustainability -themed courses.
Craig Michell, MSc, used genome sequencing to explore the speciation process of willow-galling sawflies.
A previously unknown source of the strong greenhouse gas nitrous oxide has been found in East Siberian Yedoma permafrost. Published in Nature Communications today, the observation was made by an international group of researchers, with the lead of researchers from the University of Eastern Finland.
Researchers of the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Eastern Finland and Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke Maaninka) unite their forces in a project started in 2021.
The findings of MSc Norul Sobuj's thesis suggest that climate warming would stimulate the growth and decrease the concentration of defensive phenolics in P. tremula in the future. The magnitude of the warming effect may reduce to some extent due to possible long-term temperature acclimation.
MSc Ayobami Salami's study provides groundwork by using high-resolution 2D NMR techniques to provide a structural assignment and concentration determination of the most abundant compounds in the distillates.
The mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture is one step in Finland's way towards carbon neutrality. In agriculture, emissions are released by animals and soil.
MSc Soroush Majlesi's dissertation focused on understanding the transfer of elements, relevant to radioactive waste and their toxicities in animals and plants of boreal ecosystems.