A new paper discusses the climate gas nitrous oxide (N2O) in boreal lakes, using data from 112 lakes in Finland. Lakes and streams act as recipients of carbon, nitrogen, and other nutrients transported from land, but also contribute to landscape greenhouse gasses (GHG) by emitting carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (N2O). Freshwater N2O has received much less interest compared

Economic development creates challenges for land-use planners in balancing between increasing the use of natural resources and safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services. In a new BIOWATER-paper, peat production in Finland has been used to analyse the trade-offs between economy, biodiversity and other ecosystem services. The authors have used multi-objective numeric optimization models. The results show that with a relatively small decrease

Biowater’s PhD student Mette Carstensen has, together with colleagues, produced a paper on controlled drainage. Their research questions were: Can controlled drainage be applied during the drainage season (September to April) without harming winter crops? How will it affect N and P loss? And will it enhance denitrification in the root zone? To answer these questions they investigated controlled drainage

Main messages from BIOWATER Annual Camp (October 2019) BIOWATER is now two years’ old, and we have three more years as a Centre of Excellence. At the Annual BIOWATER Camp 2019 we discussed our Centre’s achievements so far, but we did not rest on our laurels too long: Rather, we spent the time to develop our plans and priorities for

During two intensive days, the participants of the BIOWATER PhD course at the University of Oulu, Finland, had no less than 12 lectures on the topic of Catchment hydrology, biogeochemistry and processes. The course was fully booked, and although some had to cancel due to the flu season, 18 students followed our two-day course. Lectures and topics Lecture topics on

In Oulu (Uleåborg) in Finland, we organise a PhD course for early career scientists (PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers), with a goal to deepen the understanding of catchment hydrology and biogeochemistry processes. Methods and uncertainty of water monitoring is also covered. The course is linked to the on-going work in Biowater, where we study the responces in catchment processes due

A PhD course is organised by SLU on September 19-25, 2019. ‘Watershed Ecology and Biogeochemistry’ addresses the foundational concepts and modern challenges within the broad field of watershed science. Here we will take an integrative approach that focuses on the hydrological, biogeochemical and ecological connections between upland, riparian, and aquatic components of forest landscapes. Specific topics includes: 1) an overview

Biowater was presented at the annual BioFuture2025 seiminar in Lahti 16 – 17 April 2019. The BioFuture2025 programme is funded by the Finnish Academy, and aims to support the creation of a new knowledge base and to promote major scientific breakthroughs through new ways of doing science. The programme will seek out the best ideas, identify new opportunities and support research exploring

BIOWATER’s PhD Student Mette V. Carstensen is first author of a paper on “Reducing adverse side effects by seasonally lowering nitrate removal in subsurface flow constructed wetlands”. Losses of nitrogen (N) from agricultural lands can be effectively reduced by constructed wetlands (CW). A specific type of CW is a wetland that receives subsurface-flow from drainage, and with a filter of

In all four Nordic Biowater countries, national stakeholder interactions are presently on-going to discuss how a future with bioeconomy will affect the rural land use. Biowater’s Module 1 has refined the five Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs, see below) into five Nordic Bioeconomy Pathways, complete with a set of 15 attributes for agricultural and forested lands. In order to further assess