Lammi LTER - Finland

The Lammi Biological Station (LBS) belongs to the University of Helsinki, Finland, and is the primary facility of the Lammi LTER site. The station is situated in the middle of the LTER site. The laboratories and experimental facilities of LBS are excellent, and the station owns several cars, boats and snowmobiles as well as a nice set of sampling devices and on-line sensors for field measurements. In addition, the dormitory buildings (>120 people) were recently renovated and has excellent cafeteria services. Besides the facilities of the LBS, the Finnish Meteorological Institute has had its met station next to the station since 1963, and Finnish Environment Institute its network for hydrological measurements since the beginning of 1970s. All these facilities are situated within the drainage basin of Lake Pääjärvi. In the Evo Forest and Lake Area, some 20 km north of LBS, the station owns a field camp and a simple field lab in the drainage basin of Valkea-Kotinen, which belongs to the Integrated Monitoring Network.