Jukka Laine - Curriculum Vitae

Full name

• Laine, Jukka Kullervo

Date and place of birth

• 11 May 1947, Kuopio, Finland

Education and training

• Matriculation examination, Kuopio 28.5.1966
  
• Bachelor of Science (Forestry), University of Helsinki 1973
  
• Master of Science (Forestry), University of Helsinki 1978
  
• Doctor's thesis, University of Helsinki 1984

Current position

• Professor of Peatland Research, The Finnish Forest Research Institute, 2004-

Previous professional appointments

• Platoon leader, PX-officer (Lieutenant), Watchkeeper (Senior Lieutenant), United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), 1968 -69.
  
• Assisting researcher (The Academy of Finland), 1971-74
  
• Assistant (University of Helsinki, Department of Peatland Forestry), 1975-80
  
• Research assistant (The Research Council for Agriculture and Forestry, The Academy of Finland), 1980-82
  
• Junior Fellow (The Research Council for Agriculture and Forestry, The Academy of Finland), 1982-92
  
• Senior Fellow (The Research Council for Agriculture and Forestry, The Academy of Finland), 1992-96
  
• Docent (Senior Fellow, Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki), 1996 - 2001
  
• Senior Scientist (Varttunut tutkija), 2002 - 2004, Academy of Finland / Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki

Research awards and research honours

• Docent (Peatland Forestry), University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, 1986
  
• Competence for professorship (Peatland Forestry), University of Helsinki, 1987

Major research project funding (working as principal investigator)

• Effect of forest drainage on the carbon balance and nutrient stores of peatland ecosystems (part of the research programme: "Carbon balance of peatlands and climate change), 1990-96, ca. EUR 432 000,-. The Academy of Finland
  
• Northern peatlands in global climatic change, 1996-98, ca. EUR 110 000,-. University of Helsinki.
  
• Restoration of peatland ecosystems - creating ecological buffer zones between forestland and watercourses, 1996 - 2002, ca. EUR 100 000,- Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
  
• Restoration of cutaway peatlands - impacts on greenhouse gas balances, 1996 - 2002, ca. EUR 90 000,- Vapo Oyj.
  
• Autogenic adaptation of boreal peatland ecosystems to hydroseral succession (AutoPeat, ), 2001 - 2003, EUR 220 000,- The Academy of Finland
  
• Greenhouse impacts of the use of peat and peatlands in Finland, 2002 - 2005 EUR 136 000,- in 2002-2003, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ministry of Trade and Industry.
  
• Trace gas exchange over boreal wetlands (BORWET, SA 201623)" (Responsible leader Doc. Anne Ojala) 2003-2006. Eur ca.75 000,- The Academy of Finland.

Postgraduate education (supervisor/consultation)

• Raija Laiho, Plant biomass dynamics in drained pine mires in southern Finland - Implications for carbon and nutrient balance (1st supervisor), Ph.D 1997 (3-/3), docent 2000.
  
• Veli-Matti Komulainen, "Ennallistamisen vaikutus metsäojitetun suon hiilidioksidi- ja metaanivirtoihin" (1st supervisor), Lic. Agr. For. (MML) 1/1999.
  
• Kari Minkkinen, Effect of forestry drainage on the carbon balance and radiative forcing of peatlands in Finland (1st supervisor), Ph.D 12/1999 (approved with excellence).
  
• Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, "Restoring vegetation and carbon dynamics in a cut-away peatland" (1st supervisor), PhD 11/2000 (3-/3).
  
• Timo Domisch (University of Joensuu), "Effect of soil temperature on Scots pine seedlings' litter formation and decomposition"(2nd supervisor), Ph.D. 12/2002 (2+/3).
  
• Niko Silvan, (1st supervisor), "Ennallistetun suon biologisen komponentin merkitys ravinteiden pidättymisessä", planned dissertation September 2004.
  
• Minna Väliranta, "Plant macrofossil evidence of past climatic changes" (ext. supervisor) planned dissertation 2004.
  
• Member of the steering committee of the Forest Ecology- graduate school 1995-98
  
• Member of the evaluation committee for the doctoral thesis of Torbjörn Nilsson, Dept. of Forest Soils, the Swedish university of Agricultural Sciences, 21 Nov 2001.
  
• Opponent for the doctoral thesis of Hannu Nykänen (Sensitivity of CH4 and N2O dynamics in boreal peatlands to antropogenic and global changes), University of Kuopio, 5 Dec 2003.

Memberships in scientific societies

• The Finnish Society of Forest Science
  
• The Finnish Peatland Society
  
• Society of Wetland Scientists, USA

Other academic and professional activities

• Editor of the scientific journal SUO - Mires and Peat, 1975 - 1982
  
• Coordinator of the Terrestrial Ecosystems subprogramme in the Finnish Research Programme on Climate Change, 1991-95
  
• Coordination of the research programme Carbon Balance of Peatlands and Climate Change 1990-95
  
• Member of the Administrative Commitee of the Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki 1994 - 2000
  
• General secretary of the Organizing Committee of the International workshop on Northern Peatlands in Gobal Climatic Change, Hyytiälä, Finland 1995
  
• Contributing author for Chapter 6 "Non-Tidal Wetlands" in the Climate change 1995, impacts, adaptations and mitigation of climate change: Scientific-technical analyses. Contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  
• Lead author for chapter 5 "Ecosystems and their Goods and Services: Inland wetlands" in IPCC Working Group II, Third Assessment Report 1998 - 2001.
  
• Advisory member of the Finnish IPCC committee 1998-
  
• External reviewer for the German Climate Research Programme (DEKLIM), German Federal Ministry of education and Research (BMBF) 2000.
  
• Member of the climate group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 2000 - 2006.
  
• Programme coordinator of the research programme "Greenhouse impacts of the use of peat and peatlands in Finland" 2002 - 2005.
  
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the 12th International Peat Congress, 2004, Tampere, Finland.
  
• Contributing author for the IPCC LUCF-Sector Good Practice Guidance 2002.
  
• Senior researcher in the Nordic Center of Excellence "Nordic Centre for Studies of Ecosystem Carbon Exchange and its Interactions with the Climate System" (NECC) 2002 -
  
• Roster Expert of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel for the Global Environment facility and the UN Environment Programme 2004 -
  
• Key note speaker in the 12th International Peat Congress "Wise Use of Peatlands", 6-11 June 2004 Tampere, Finland