A new, free tool for oil spill response at sea is now available online for authorities and local response units. The aim of the tool is to minimize environmental impacts of oil spills in the Arctic an......

    Basic project information APP4SEA is a transnational competence project, which aims to strengthen the preparedness of environmental authorities and the awar...

  Basic project information The project "Enhancing Oil Spill response capability in the Baltic Sea Region" (OIL SPILL) has the overall goal to strengthen oil spill response capa...

  Basic project information SIMREC partner organisations have worked nationally and internationally in projects focusing into the Gulf of Finland environmental conditions and ri...

  Background In accordance with Kolarctic CBC 2014-2020 Joint Operational Programme and the Strategic Environmental Assessment “ oil and hydrocarbon pollution and the risk of ac...

In October a smart navigation buoy system started to deliver real-time measurement data via satellite, monitoring oil and some other water quality parameters in the Baltic Sea’s water. It is located s......

A major oil response exercise is ongoing on the Swedish coast this week. Finnish Environment Institute SYKE is one of the co-organizers of this year’s BALEX DELTA response exercise....

Burning of floating and stranded oil was successfully tested last summer in Greenland by Aarhus University, Greenland Oil Spill Response A/S, Lamor Corporation Ab and DESMI A/S. The experiments includ......

International Arctic oil recovery exercise will be held 7 March at the Bay of Bothnia off the coast of Oulu City in Northern Finland. All interested are welcome to follow the exercise in real time vid......

© Ilkka Lastumäki Our research and expertise support the protection and use of the sensitive environments in the Arctic regions. Syke is extensively involved in the Arctic Council's ...

The EU-funded project GRACE has launched a system for real-time monitoring of oil compounds in open seawater. This kind of technology could have a great potential onboard on many types of vessels that......

The new smart navigation ice buoy system will deliver real-time data on oil in water especially in cold climate conditions. It will help environmental and oil response authorities to monitor marine en......

Combating oil spill in Greenland © Lonnie B. Wilms The main objective of WP4 is to improve the knowledge base for combating oil spills in icy and cold waters. It is assessed that the...

A view of the Canadian coastal sea ice. © Kirsten Jørgensen Objectives - to manage the project work efficiently in order to produce a smooth reporting to EC- to coordinate the a...

Oil under ice in a tank. © Nga Phuong Dang Objective: Assessment of natural degradation rates of different oil fractions in seawater and sediments, and taking into account environmen...

Picture of the adverse impacts of oil in a zebrafish. © Thomas-Benjamin Seiler Objective:  The objective of WP3 is to improve the knowledge on the biological impacts of oil spil...

Installing a smartbuoy. © Meritaito Objective:  Evaluation of existing oil spill detection and monitoring systems, integration with decision support tools to improve situational...

Polar bear on an oily ice in Greenland. © Janne Fritt-Rasmussen Objectives: A Strategic Net Environmental Benefit Analysis tool will be developed for decision-making on inclusion of ...

More information Official project website: www.grace-oil-project.eu Aims The project will focus on developing, comparing and evaluating the effectiveness and environmental eff...

A consortium assembled by the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has been granted a significant amount of EU funding for the development of Arctic oil spill response methods and the evaluation of thei......