Development manager
Development manager, Marine and Freshwater Solutions
PhD (Zoology, University of Oulu)
© Kai Widell
Contact information
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Marine and freshwater solutions
Address: Survontie 9A, FI- 40500 Jyväskylä, Finland
E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Mobile +358 295 251 422
Duties
- Development manager, Marine and Freshwater Solutions
- Head of the Jyväskylä office
Tasks
At the Finnish Environmental Institute (Syke) I am a development manager in the Marine and freshwater solutions unit and head of Syke’s Jyväskylä office. I am my organization’s coordinator in the European research institute network PEER. I also function as convener of the European standardization CEN Work Group 28 “DNA and eDNA methods”, which belongs to the technical committee TC 230” Water quality”.
Special tasks
- National representative in CEN TC 230/WG2 “Water quality” standardization and convener of WG28 “DNA and eDNA methods”
- Member of the research coordinators of the PEER network
- External member of the faculty council of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science of the University of Jyväskylä
Research interests
- Development and application of advanced monitoring approaches (BONUS FUMARI)
- Advance the use of computer vision and deep learning for taxa identification (DETECT)
- Advance the use of molecular tools for routine water monitoring (DNAqua-Net, SCANDNAnet)
- Advancing the use of deep learning and complex automated decision making
- Application of advanced statistical methods to improve monitoring designs and indices
- Aquatic community responses to land use with emphasis on peatland use
Keywords
Performance agreements, International cooperation, Monitoring strategy, novel environmental monitoring methods, aquatic biomonitoring, molecular biomonitoring, quality assurance, standardization, CEN, ISO, water quality, peatland land use, machine learning, computer vision, capacity building.
Projects
- (eDNAqua-Plan) Providing a framework for future marine and freshwater eDNA monitoring activities
- (MERLIN) Mainstreaming of ecological restoration in peatlands
- (BONUS FUMARI) Development and application of advanced monitoring approaches
- (YSS) National environmental monitoring strategy 2030 (in Finnish)
- National eDNA monitoring strategy
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DNAqua-Net, Advancing the use of genomic tools for routine water monitoring COST Action 15219
- EU BONUS FUMARI “Future Marine Assessment and Monitoring of the Baltic”
- Nordic Ministers Council project SCANDNAnet “Validating and intercalibrating a metabarcoding for routine use in Fenno-Scandinavian freshwater invertebrate biomonitoring”
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DETECT, Advanced Computational and Statistical Techniques for Biomonitoring and Aquatic Ecosystem Service Management, Finnish Academy, 2015–2018
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MONITOR 2020: National environment monitoring strategy & development program 2013–2019
- KORPI: Assessing the biological effects of domestic bioenergy harvesting on freshwater ecosystems ongoing
- TESTACEA: Assessing peatland use effects and restoration success using riparian and freshwater testacean amoebae 2014–2019
- POKON: Developing a prototype imaging device for benthic macroinvertebrates 2017
Past capacity building projects
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DEMMS: Capacity building mission on water quality monitoring to the Republic of Georgia
- EuropeAid/131199/D/SER/TR: Capacity building on water quality monitoring to the Republic of Turkey
Language skills
- Finnish, German and English (fluent), French (basic)
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