Kubin, Eero

Ph.D., M.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Senior Researcher, Customer Manager, Oulu

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Expertise

• director of research unit
• external lecturer (docent) in the Universities of Oulu and Helsinki
• forest regeneration
• phenology
• Environmental specimen banking and monitoring

Research Projects

Current

• Boreal forest mosses as indicators of nitrogen deposition
  
• Development of spatial combined plantation in Northern Ostrobothnia
  
• Phenology and crop forecasts of forest plants in changing climate
  
• The ecological constraints of sustaineable use of forest bioenergy and the feasibility of the present sustaineability criteria used in forestry
  

Former

• Artificial regeneration
  
• Cultivation of exotic and special tree species
  
• Ecological and silvicultural impacts of stump removal and collecting of logging residue
  
• Ecological bases on forest regeneration
  
• Effect of forest regeneration on site and environmental factors
  
• Effects of dense mixed seedling stands on the nutrient status of the groundwater
  
• Effects of forestry on Water courses
  
• Energy Agency of North Ostrobothnia
  
• Environmental effects of forest regeneration
  
• Establishment of plant phenological monitoring network and forecast system of berry and mushroom yield
  
• Exhibition of Paljakka Environmental Specimen Bank
  
• FAO/EFC 26th Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watershed. 18.-22. August 2008
  
• Heavy metal deposition and bioindicators
  
• Modelling of stand and tree development at the early stage and the effects of different young stand treatments on timber production
  
• Models for simulation and decision support based on ecological processes in forest regeneration
  
• Survey of atmospheric heavy metal deposition by bioindicators in 2000
  
• Survey of heavy metals by bioindicators
  
• Sustainable forest management in the coastal areas of Ostrobothnia
  
• The alternatives of the forest regeneration methods and their ecological and social sustainability in Northern Finland
  
• The development of know-how cetralization of Oulu region natural resource branch
  
• The development of patchingmethod in reforestation at Koillismaa
  
• The granulation of ashes in North Ostrobothnia
  
• Timing of phenological events in changing climate - research on trees and their seeds, yields of wild berries and mushrooms
  

Contacts

Keywords: environmental effects of forestry, forest regeneration, heavy metals, phenology