Peatlands: Greenhouse Gas Budgets and Hydrology Workshop 25-27.4.2018

Helsinki, Finland, 25-27 April 2018. The workshop is about developing existing peatland models to better answer the questions related to climate-friendly peatland management for, e.g., food production and forestry. The aim is to bring together experts on modelling of peatland processes, observations of GHG and water vapor fluxes at peatland-atmosphere interface and peatland utilization for food and wood production, discussing and learning from methodologies applied in peatland, hydrology, forestry and …

Seminar 14.3.2019: How can boreal forest contribute to mitigation climate change?

Time: 14 March 2019 at 13:00-16:00 Place: University of Helsinki, Forest sciences building, hall 107 (lecture hall B4), Latokartanonkaari 7, Helsinki + webstreaming Chair: Raisa Mäkipää, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke PROGRAMME  Carbon modelling and analyses of forest sector climate change mitigation options in Canada:  Werner Kurz, Natural Resources Canada Mapping carbon sinks and sources in Finnish forests:  Mikko Peltoniemi, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) Coffee break Ecohydrological process models and academic curiosity for sustainable use …

Seminar 24.-25.9.2019: Policy instruments in agriculture guiding towards sustainable use of peatlands in Europe

Sompa hosted a two day research seminar on policy instruments guiding towards sustainable use of peatlands in agriculture between Nordic and Baltic projects focused on sustainable use of peatlands in agriculture. During Sept 24th and 25th researchers and stakeholders from Sompa, MYR –project and LIFEBaltOrg discussed how to advance research that supports policy measures incentivising effective measures and farm management for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands. Seminar slides are available publicly …

Blog: Future of peatland forestry in Scotland

Peatlands are very important for Scotland since they may cover, dependent on the definition and data source, up to 30% of the total land area, mostly occurring in the north and the country´s west. The Flow Country is the UK’s most extensive peatland region with over 400,000 ha of peat and wetland, of which around 67,000 ha is afforested. Afforestation of peatlands in Scotland started already in the 18th century …