My role as an associate professor (2ⁿᵈ phase) at the research station of the Archipelago Research Institute gives me a chance to participate in many ongoing projects at the University of Turku. Close to my heart are 1. Global climate impacts on Baltic freshwater runoff and it's abiotic/biotic regulation of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea ecosystems by using time series analysis. 2. The effect of Baltic seawater salinity decrease on growth, maturity, and feeding trade-off of the Baltic herring. 3. Sedimentology together with nano-/microplastics in the Archipelago Sea. 4. Ticks and tick-borne pathogens in Finland.
Fields of research and special fields of expertise:
• Marine Biology & Aquatic Ecology, Biological Oceanography
• Ecology of the Baltic Sea environment, especially the Archipelago Sea
• Long-term climatic changes, especially climatic seawater salinity decrease and eutrophication processes in the Baltic Sea and their effects on marine/aquatic biodiversity
• Predictive statistical time series modelling (e.g. ARIMA, Transfer Functions), Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLIMMIX) and Statistical Downscaling using environmental monitoring data series.
