Piispanen, Juha

Ph.D., Researcher

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Expertise

• Head of Laboratory
• inorganic analytical chemistry
• environmental research

Research Projects

Current

• Boreal forest mosses as indicators of nitrogen deposition
  
• The ecological constraints of sustaineable use of forest bioenergy and the feasibility of the present sustaineability criteria used in forestry
  
• The effect of soil preparation and fertilisation on forest soil and tree stand
  
• The effects of stemwood and wholetree harvesting in drained peatlands on leaching of nutrients and heavy metals to water courses and nutrient sufficiency for sustainable treeproduction
  

Former

• Effects of harvesting drained peatland forests on the leaching of mercury and other heavy metals to surface waters
  
• Heavy metal deposition and bioindicators
  
• Hydro-biogeochemistry of drained peatlands: impacts of bioenergy harvesting on trace metal transport under different hydrogeological settings (HYPE)
  
• Processing the matter and reporting of the afforestation experiments on cut-away peatlands
  
• Survey of atmospheric heavy metal deposition by bioindicators in 2000
  
• The environmental impact of the afforestation on cut-away peatlands
  

Contacts

Keywords: bioindicators, heavy metals, inorganic analytical chemistry, laboratory services