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Harri Kuosa is affiliated with the Finnish Environment Institute in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to earth and planetary sciences. Kuosa's work spans several subfields including oceanography, management, monitoring, policy and law, environmental chemistry, ecology, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's research addresses topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, coastal and marine management, marine biology and ecology research, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and fisheries research, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Frequent co-authors in Kuosa's research include Heidi Hällfors, Sanna Suikkanen, Sirpa Lehtinen, Laura Uusitalo, and Maiju Lehtiniemi, indicating collaborative efforts particularly in marine and environmental sciences.

Kuosa's publications appear mainly in several recurring scholarly venues, reflecting their research interests and expertise. These publication venues include Frontiers in Marine Science, Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive, Helda (University of Helsinki), ICES Journal of Marine Science, and BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway)).

Recent research papers by Harri Kuosa include the following:

  • Evaluating the effects of nutrient load reductions on the biomass of toxic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea, 2024, Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Validation of three-dimensional hydrodynamic models of the Gulf of Finland, 2024, BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway))
  • First Application of IFCB High-Frequency Imaging-in-Flow Cytometry to Investigate Bloom-Forming Filamentous Cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Annual variability of biomass and heterocysts of the N2-fixing cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae in the Baltic Sea with reference to Anabaena spp. and Nodularia spumigena, 2024, Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Vertical and temporal distribution of the dinoflagellates Dinophysis acuminata and D. norvegica in the Baltic Sea, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)

Best Publications

  • Hypoxia-Related Processes in the Baltic Sea

    Daniel J. Conley;Svante Björck;Erik Bonsdorff;Jacob Carstensen

  • Internal Ecosystem Feedbacks Enhance Nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria Blooms and Complicate Management in the Baltic Sea

    Emil Vahtera;Daniel J. Conley;Bo G. Gustafsson;Harri Kuosa

  • The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Jan Dierking;Helen C. Andersson;Erik Bonsdorff

  • Characteristics of dissolved organic matter in Baltic coastal sea ice: allochthonous or autochthonous origins?

    Colin A. Stedmon;David N. Thomas;Mats Granskog;Hermanni Kaartokallio

  • Nutrient limitation and grazing control of the Baltic plankton community during annual succession

    K. Kivi;S. Kaitala;H. Kuosa;J. Kuparinen

  • Fate of a phytoplankton spring bloom: sedimentation and carbon flow in the planktonic food web in the northern Baltic

    R. Lignell;A. S. Heiskanen;H. Kuosa;K. Gundersen

  • Proportion of copepod biomass declines with decreasing salinity in the Baltic Sea

    I. Vuorinen;J. Hänninen;M. Viitasalo;U. Helminen

  • Sea ice in the Baltic Sea - A review

    Mats Granskog;Hermanni Kaartokallio;Harri Kuosa;David N. Thomas

  • Picoplanktonic algae in the northern Baltic Sea: seasonal dynamics and flagellate grazing

    H. Kuosa

  • Food utilisation of pelagic mysids, Mysis mixta and M. relicta, during their growing season in the northern Baltic Sea

    M. Viherluoto;H. Kuosa;J. Flinkman;M. Viitasalo

  • Identification of a Thiomicrospira denitrificans-Like Epsilonproteobacterium as a Catalyst for Autotrophic Denitrification in the Central Baltic Sea†

    Ingrid Brettar;Matthias Labrenz;Sébastien Flavier;Julia Bötel

  • Validation of three-dimensional hydrodynamic models of the Gulf of Finland

    Kai Myrberg;Vladimir Ryabchenko;Alexei Isaev;Roman Vankevich

  • Dissolved organic matter in the Baltic Sea

    L. Hoikkala;L. Hoikkala;P. Kortelainen;H. Soinne;H. Kuosa

  • Phytoplankton distribution in relation to sea ice, hydrography and nutrients in the northwestern Weddell Sea in early spring 1988 during EPOS

    F. Bianchi;A. Boldrin;F. Cioce;Gerhard Dieckmann

  • Evaluating the effects of nutrient load reductions on the biomass of toxic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

    Mikko Kiirikki;Arto Inkala;Harri Kuosa;Heikki Pitkänen

  • SHORT COMMUNICATION The effect of temperature, food concentration and female size on the egg production of the planktonic copepod Acartia bifilosa

    Marja Koski;H. Kuosa

  • Prorocentrum minimum (Dinophyceae) in the Baltic Sea: morphology, occurrence—a review

    Susanna Hajdu;Sari Pertola;Harri Kuosa

  • Long-term development of inorganic nutrients and chlorophyll alpha in the open northern Baltic Sea.

    Vivi Fleming-Lehtinen;Maria Laamanen;Harri Kuosa;Hannu Haahti

  • Bacteria and heterotrophic flagellates in the pelagic carbon cycle in the northern Baltic Sea

    H. Kuosa;K. Kivi

  • The influence of climate variability on zooplankton abundance in the Northern Baltic Archipelago Sea (SW Finland)

    J. W. Dippner;J. Hänninen;H. Kuosa;I. Vuorinen

Frequent Co-Authors

David N. Thomas
David N. Thomas University of Helsinki
Mats A. Granskog
Mats A. Granskog Norwegian Polar Institute
Gerhard Dieckmann
Gerhard Dieckmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Colin A. Stedmon
Colin A. Stedmon Technical University of Denmark
Maiju Lehtiniemi
Maiju Lehtiniemi Finnish Environment Institute
Jens K. Ehn
Jens K. Ehn University of Manitoba
Markku Viitasalo
Markku Viitasalo Finnish Environment Institute
Hilary Kennedy
Hilary Kennedy Bangor University
Timo Tamminen
Timo Tamminen Finnish Environment Institute
Henn Ojaveer
Henn Ojaveer University of Tartu

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