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Taking measurements from carcasses reported by local people. Super grateful for all the messages I’ve received 😊

Miten kyttyrälohi muuttaa Tenon ekosysteemiä? University of Oulu Aino Erkinaro selvittävät mitä tulevaisuus tuo tullessaan, jos kyttyrälohen invaasio jatkuu. apu.fi/artikkelit/ten…

A huge thank you to University of Oulu and Kaisu Koivumäki (Innanen) for helping me spread the word about pink salmon carcass observations 🥰

Some sceneries from our most recent sampling campaign. Feeling quite lucky to work here in the north.

And the icing on the cake is doing it with these guys!

Searching for impacts of #alien pink #salmon on fluvial #ecosystems At least the brown bears seem to love the carcasses of dead fish. 🐟🐻🍂 Aino Erkinaro University of Oulu Stream Ecology UniOulu @LukeFinlandInt

"It’s quite dramatic", says our Doctoral Researcher Aino Erkinaro. "Given the sheer numbers of invasive fish involved it’s hard to imagine that there would be no effect on the nutrient concentrations." #UniOulu #kyttyrälohi #pukkellaks #pinksalmon theguardian.com/environment/20…

Check out this brand new article about pink salmon mass invasion in northern Finland and Norway in The Guardian!

The field season is now over, just in time because this is what the last field day looked like. Always sad to leave the north, but naturally I’ll be back in two weeks to do some extra sampling. A big thank you to everyone who made all this happen! Can’t wait for the results 😎

Now that the field season is over, me and @KLHuttunen would like to thank our funders Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland Emil Aaltosen Säätiö University of Oulu for supporting our research and making this past field season possible. Thank you all!

"Ne mätänevät elävältä kuin zombit", kertoo väitöskirjatutkijamme Aino Erkinaro kyttyrälohien zombi-invaasiosta Tiedetripissä kohdasta 10.40. Kun kyttyrälohet ovat jo muuttuneet zombilohiksi, ne hyökkäilevät raivokkaasti toisten kimppuun. #kyttyrälohi areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-50…

Managed to convince people that a microbial ecologist would be a great choice for a fish teacher at an aquatic ecology field course. Had a great time 😎

Back in the field! Looking for lag effects from last year’s pink salmon invasion. Got juvenile pink salmon in the kicknet 😄 University of Oulu Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)

Pukkellaks forskere in action 🐟 @KatariinaHakola @iida_ojala University of Oulu

A very normal and not at all weird day at the norwegian-russian border.

All’s well that ends well 😊 another sampling campaign done, thanks to these guys 🥰 @KatariinaHakola @iida_ojala

Tell me you do field work without telling me you do field work 🦟

Preparing juvenile pink salmon samples from two Barents Sea rivers (Teno/Tana, Skallelva) for stable isotope analyses. Aino Erkinaro Luonnonvarakeskus University of Oulu University of Waterloo

Back at it again! Taking control samples after last year’s #pinksalmon invasion. @KLHuttunen @KatariinaHakola University of Oulu Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap 🤘🏼