S/V Ocean Surveyor with crew arrived at the old industry port at Seskarö, an island not far from Haparanda, in the beginning of August. New for this year’s field work is that the launch vessel Ugglan have been equipped with a multibeam echosounder, the EM2040C. After some initial testing and calibration the echosounder proved to … Continue reading S/V Ocean Surveyor Reporting From the Bothnian Bay
The past few weeks the Metsähallitus SEAmBOTH-team has been experiencing all kinds of things for the last time. Some of our team members have already finished working and this week was the last field work week for Eveliina, Teemu and me. On Wednesday I did my last wading point and on Thursday I did my … Continue reading Field stories: the end is near
Geomari Early in the morning we leave from the Marjaniemi harbour, in Hailuoto, towards west, to Swedish border. We are at the southern edge of the SEAmBOTH project area. Today we were aiming to recover short sediment cores from the deep waters. Why bother, someone could ask? – To understand how the sediment is moving … Continue reading Mud on the deck – and in my mouth
This week Metsähallitus and Geological Survey of Finland worked together in order to take samples and do mapping on a clay labyrinth found in 2014 from Simo. https://youtu.be/bE5oTsZIejI Video by Jaakko Haapamäki, Metsähallitus. On Thursday morning Metsähallitus and GTK field workers put their heads together and made a plan for taking samples from a clay … Continue reading Field stories : Metsähallitus and Geological Survey of Finland mapping the clay canyon together
After the windy June, we had really been waiting for sunny days with no wind. But never would I ever had imagine that I would shout out of joy on last Tuesday morning when the wind was 6 m/s! Rocky shore of Iso-Huituri and calm sea (Photo by Teemu Uutela, Metsähallitus). We have been experiencing … Continue reading Field stories: heat wave
This year Metsähallitus started the field work on the Finnish side from Oulu and are moving northwards every week or every second week. At the moment, we are working in Simo and Kuivaniemi area, and next week we move to Tornio. Pond Water-crowfoot (Ranunculus peltatus), photo by Suvi Saarnio, Metsähallitus. Sea water has been unusually … Continue reading Field stories: windy June
New field surveyors of field season 2019 are learning the drop video technique at Metsähallitus field boat. Photo by Sjef Heijnen, Metsähallitus. Biological field season at sea always starts around June. New people come to work, some of them for the first time. There are also interns who haven’t even finished their university or other … Continue reading Practice makes a professional
When you work hard, you also play hard. Metsähallitus SEAmBOTH marine team's summer 2018 looks like this if you compress it into three minutes. The summer was great, the stake holder events grand and our own recreational parties relaxing. Ashley Gipson made it into a video. Sit back, relax and enjoy a bit of fun … Continue reading Memories from summer
The days are getting darker and colder and Christmas is just around the corner. In Finland and Sweden SEAmBOTH teams are working frenetically to compile and analys data from this year's field surveys in the northern Bothnian Bay. From the snorkel surveys in shallow areas in Sweden we have been going through vast amounts of … Continue reading Underwater in the shallow bays
This Summer the Metsähallitus marine team was working quite close to different kinds of human pressures. We worked most of the time close to the mainland, so we saw a lot more human activities then we normally do, from farther out at sea. In the earlier blogs there has been information about estimating human pressures … Continue reading Working close to human pressures
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