Who we are

 

PhD Kajar Köster

Expertise: disturbance ecology; greenhouse gas fluxes.

Current position: Academy Research Fellow (2016-2021), Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki and Principal Investigator in Viikki Plant Science Center (ViPS), University of Helsinki

PhD, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Forestry 2009
MSc, Estonian Agricultural University/ Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 2005

 

Research interests: 

Carbon dynamics in forest soils, with special interest in disturbed (fire, wind, reindeer grazing, etc.) areas

E-mail: kajar.koster@helsinki.fi


dsc_0262bProf. Jukka Pumpanen

Expertise: Climate change; greenhouse gas fluxes; fire ecology; boreal and arctic ecosystems.

Current position: Professor, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences,
University of Eastern Finland

PhD, University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences, 2004

 

Research interests:

Processes related to the decomposition of soil organic matter (mechanisms of the decomposition of soil organic matter and the role of living rhizosphere in decomposition). The effects of disturbances (e.g. wild fires, forest harvesting and herbivory) on soil carbon and nitrogen pools and fluxes. The effects of black carbon and biochar on soil organic matter decomposition and nutrient availability in boreal forest soils.

E-mail: jukka.pumpanen@uef.fi


Prof. Frank Berninger

Expertise:

Current position: Professor, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences,
University of Eastern Finland

Research interests: The interactions of forests and the environment. The long term dynamics of soil organic matter after forest fires and the energy exchange of norther ecosystems.

E-mail: frank.berninger@helsinki.fi

 

 

 


PhD Marjo Palviainen

Current position: Researcher, Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki

 

Docent, University of Helsinki, Forest Soil Science (2012)

PhD, University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu), Forestry (2005)

MSc, University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu), Biology (2001)

Research interests: 

Carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes in forest ecosystems, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry of forest catchments

E-mail: marjo.palviainen@helsinki.fi

 


PhD Egle Köster

Current position: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki

 

 

 

Research interests: My research is focused on two different areas. I am working on long-term effects of forest fires on soil greenhouse gas fluxes. My second area of research is the use of biochar in the field of forestry. At the moment the main focus is on the effects of biochar on tree seedlings growth and survival.

E-mail: egle.koster@helsinki.fi

 

 


M.Sc. Heidi Aaltonen

Current position: PhD student, University of Helsinki

Research interests: 

E-mail: heidi.m.aaltonen@helsinki.fi

 

 

 

 

 


M.Sc. Xuan Zhou

Current position: PhD student, University of Helsinki

Research interests: 

E-mail: xuan.zhou@helsinki.fi

 

 


M.Sc. Huizhong Zhang-Turpeinen

Current position: PhD student, University of Eastern Finland

Research interests: 

E-mail:

 

 

 


M.Sc. Christine Ribeiro- Kumara

Current position: PhD student, University of Helsinki

Research interests: 

Various short and long-term effects of forest fires on soil carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes in different regions of the boreal biome.

E-mail: christine.ribeiro@helsinki.fi