1. Marine monitoring in Marine Research Center Finnish Environment Institute SYKE Seppo Kaitala Finnish Environment Institute SYKE

2. Marine Research Centre Director Mari Walls Monitoring and Assessment Marine Spatial Planning Modelling and Innovations “Marine research, protection and sustainable use” Experimental Research Facility (Kumpula) SYKE laboratiories (Hakuninmaa) SYKE main offices (Töölo) Total staff ca. 100 persons: 35 Ph.D., ca. 40 M.Sc. ASIANTUNTIJAPALVELUT HYDROLOGIAYKSIKKÖ Marine Research Centre Research Vessel management office Oil Spill Emergency Response Group Secretarial and economic services Units: Prem- ises:

3. Marine Research Centre Finnish Environment Institute SYKE

4. Winter monitoring 2009-2010: Juha Flinkman – SYKE Merikeskus

5. Nutrients in the surface waters Less Nitrate in the Bothnian Bay and in the Arhipelago Sea than in the previous winter More Phosphate in the eastern Gulf of Finland than in the previous winter Phosphate Winter Nitrate Phosphate Winter

6. 1991: the first recordings on-route Helsinki-Tallinn with Georg Ots 1992: the system installed on-board Finnjet 1993: the ”official” launch of Alg@line 1997: Finnish-Estonian operative monitoring system of the state of the Gulf of Finland 2003-2005 : Ferrybox EU project 2005- current: ESA/MarCoast baseline service 2008: Cooperation with SMHI for Oulu- Göteborg route 2009: MyOcean In Situ Tematic Center 2011: JERICO EU project 2013: New line St. Petersburg - Århus 2013: The 5 th Ferrybox workshop in Helsinki Alg@line Highlights

7. Seppo.Kaitala@fimr.fi EARSel Workshop Bolzano, June 7-9, 2007 Alg@line Flow-through recording and water sampling points by M/S FINNMAID 12 0r 24 water sampling points Twice a week Nominal sampling depth 5 m Flow through measurements with 250 m resolution Helsinki Travemünde Operational since 1993

8. Seppo.Kaitala@fimr.fi EARSel Workshop Bolzano, June 7-9, 2007 SeaPrism on the Helsinki Lighthouse in the Gulf of Finland Latitude: 59.94897° North, Longitude: 24.92636° East http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/photo_db/Helsinki_Lighthouse.html

9. Near real time observations on commercial ferries Time, location, from GPS Salinity Temperature Chlorophyll Phycocyanin Turbidity Water samples Traspaper in cooperation with SMHI Finnmaid in coopertion with IOW Silja Serenade in cooperation with Uusimaan ELY center and Helsinki Environment Center

10. Real time monitoring havainnointi

11. Nitrate in the surface water of the Baltic Sea Alg@line data Month 2006 2005 2004  mol/ l

12. Phosphate in the surface water Alg@line Month  mol/ l 2006 2005 2004 Nitrate Phosphate

13. Risk assesment of cyanobacteria blooms 2012 The risk assesment was done with modelling using winter nutrien considitions and scenario climate forcing By the finnish coast the cyanobacteria bloom risk is moderate

14. 14 Alg@line data from MyOcean service

15. 15 Alg@line Ferrybox Data vs. EO Data, Chlorophyll-a Jenni Attila GEO/SYKE

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