News

New web page published 

• Publications 

Final conference presentations

• Final conference 23-24.5.2019 in Tallinn, Estonia 

Press releases

• For the first time, a smart buoy with an oil sensor is delivering data via satellite in open sea conditions in the Baltic Sea (SYKE, Meritaito Ltd (SeaHow), Luode Consulting 9.11.2018)

• Burning of floating and stranded oil have been successfully tested in Greenland (SYKE & AU 6.3.2018)

• New method of sea bottom remediation to be studied in Töölö Bay (SYKE 11.8.2017)

• Real-time monitoring of oil compounds installed in Tallinn-Stockholm ferry (SYKE 24.3.2017)

• Smart Buoy will bring real time measurement of oil in Artic area conditions to oil spill response (SYKE 15.11.2016)

• Project assembled by SYKE granted EU funding for the development of Arctic oil spill response (SYKE 16.2.2016)

Videos

• Combat of oil spills in Arctic waters - in situ burning experiments, Greenland. Summer 2017

• FerryBox real-time monitoring of oil between Tallinn and Stockholm

• Smart Buoy will bring real time measurement of oil in Artic area conditions to oil spill response

• Tactical use of drones and drifter buoys in oil spill response

Data

• Ferrybox data

• Smart Buoy data (www.luodedata.fi). User name: grace / password: oil
  How to view and interpret the Smart buoy oil data
  The results of the measuring station are viewable by clicking the on the map or the button below the map on the front page. The results are first presented in graphic format (the last 30 days) and below the graphs the results of the latest hours are presented in table format. You can download the measurement series to your own computer in excel-compatible format by pressing “Download to a file” button. All service events at the measuring station can be viewed by clicking “Browse the service history of the station”.

  The results based on fluorometers (oil hydrocarbon and CDOM (colored dissolved organic matter)) are given as non-calibrated raw data and presented as RFU (relative fluorescence unit). A possible oil contamination drifting to the buoy area would result in a significant increase in oil hydrocarbon concentration compared to turbidity and CDOM, which would remain at the basic level at the same time. If an increase is also observed in CDOM values, an increased oil hydrocarbon concentration may not be the result of an oil spill, but merely a result of natural organic compounds being transported from coastal areas, as these compounds are measured at the same wavelengths.

More information

• Project co-ordinator, Leading Research Scientist Kirsten Jørgensen, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, firstname.surname@ymparisto.fi