Areas of Expertise

• Marine biodiversity and marine inventories
• Spatial ecology and conservation planning
• Marine restoration
• Sediment-biological interactions
• Genetic (molecular markers)
• Macroalgal-invertebrate interactions
• Marine indicator development

Research Projects

• Biodiversea-project, funded by EU LIFE IP
• Center for Sustainable Ocean Sciences (SOS), Center of Excellence, funded through ÅAU Endowment
• RIKI- project ("Nutrient turnover in the Archipelago Sea") in cooperation with the ELY Center, funded by the Ministry of the Environment
• The Finnish Inventory Programme for Underwater Marine Diversity, VELMU

Special Methodologies & Techniques

• Marine mapping methods, including UW video camera and photography
• Aquarium experiments
• Sediment analysis
• Molecular markers of selected species (charophytes, blue mussels)
• Spatial modeling

Major Funding & International Networks

• The present funding comes through EU Life, ÅAU endowment, and the Ministry of Environment/ELY-center. Recent funding: Baltic Sea Conservation Foundation, Government of Åland, European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, and the Ministry of Environment

Selected Publications

• Sediment Characteristics in Stonewort Chara tomentosa Assemblages. Ecology and Evolution. 2026. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.72772
• Water depth affects the biodiversity and functional trait composition of Fucus vesiculosus-associated macroinvertebrate communities in the Baltic Sea. Marine Ecological Progress Series. 2026. DOI: 10.3354/meps15029
• Untangling the literature on unattached Fucus (Phaeophyceae): an overview of current knowledge. European Journal of Phycology. 2025. DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2025.2532468
• Marine biodiversity loss in Finnish coastal waters: evidence and implications for management. AMBIO. 2025. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02185-x
• Finnish inventory data of underwater marine biodiversity. Scientific Data. 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04092-4

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