Launiainen, Samuli

Ph.D., Researcher

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Expertise

• energy and mass exchange between forests and the atmosphere
• hydrology
• environmental physics
• carbon cycle
• water cycle
• greenhouse gases
• interaction between microclimate and vegetation
• water footprint

Research Projects

Current

• Forest hydrology and environmental responses of trees
  
• Forests and Water- transfer of knowledge and expertise
  
• Impacts of terrestrial organic matter loading on lake food webs and human health Challenges for environmental regulation- TERLA
  
• Need for ditch network maintenance in drained peatlands and the effects on water courses and timber production at forest owner and regional scale
  

Former

• Prediction and mitigation of nutrient and sediment load from forested catchments: Development of FEMMA-computation tool
  

Contacts

Keywords: agricultural and forest meteorology, carbon cycle, energy and mass exchange between forests and the atmosphere, environmental physics, hydrology, meteorology, microclimate, micrometeorological measurement techniques, water cycle, water footprint