Name
SYKE-MRC (Marine Research Centre) Mesocosm Facility
Legal name of organisation
Marine Research Centre
Country
Finland
Continent
Europe
Organisation address
Marine Research Centre (MRC)
Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
P.O.Box 140
FI-00251 Helsinki
Finland
Primary contact information (PI)
Years of Mesocosm Experiments
periodically since 1988
Description of Facility
pelagic – marine – indoor
Indoor experimental systems in a range of volumes, with integrated incubation condition control, data retrieval, and their on-line presentation. Also ice tanks available for ice ecology research
Controlled Parameters
Temperature, light, pH, pCO2, nutrient levels, community composition
Research Topics
Planktonic food web, phytoplankton ecology, stoichiometry, biodiversity, ice ecology
Facility location(s)
60.203843,24.9617237
Primary interests
Specialist areas
Equipment
Wet labs, climatic chambers, advanced bio-optical instrumentation (spectrophotometry, spectrofluorometry, FRRF), microscope imaging instrumentation, flow cytometry, isotope lab, chemistry lab
Lodging
City location – commercial lodging
Source of Information
Photos of experiments/installations
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