Katja Mäkinen
Docent, PhD
Biodiversiteettiyksikkö kamaki@utu.fi +358 29 450 3705 +358 50 353 6509 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 041.1 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3668-1528 |
Areas of expertise
marine ecology, reproductive biology of the Baltic herring, zooplankton, biological time series, time-series analyses, lipids and fatty acids in the Baltic Sea food web
marine ecology, reproductive biology of the Baltic herring, zooplankton, biological time series, time-series analyses, lipids and fatty acids in the Baltic Sea food web
Research community or research topic
Baltic herring research project
Baltic herring research project
Biography
Biodiversity Unit, Archipelago Research Institute:
- Title of docent (brackish water ecology) 27.10.2025
- Senior researcher (8.1.2023-)
- Postdoctoral researcher (2020-2023)
- PhD (2019)
- Preparator/Research technician (2013-2023)
Research
Research interests include Baltic herring reproductive biology, long-term changes in Baltic Sea zooplankton communities, Climate change impacts on the Baltic Sea pelagic ecosystem
Teaching
- Field course on brackish water ecology EKOL2308 since 2016
- Individual lectures in courses at UTU: BIOL2091 Eliökunta, EKOL3139 Eliökunnan monimuotoisuus: kasvit, sienet ja levät, ÅA__3093 Baltic Sea Ecosystems
- Individual lectures in courses 'Certi_07 Vesiympäristön biologinen näytteenotto' (Turku University of Applied Sciences & Finnish Environment Institute), Baltic University Programme (BUP) MOOC-course "The Baltic Sea Environment - Challenges and Solutions"
- Groups visiting the Archipelago Research Institute
Publications 
1 of 4
- The forgotten element: Why do we ignore calcium in otolith studies? (2025)
- Fisheries Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of incubation temperature and maternal phenotype on Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras) eggs and larvae: An experimental study (2023)
- Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Large-scale long-term passive-acoustic monitoring reveals spatio-temporal activity patterns of boreal bats (2023)
- Ecography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Silakkakantojen säilyminen elinvoimaisena riippuu ennen muuta lisääntymisen onnistumisesta (2023)
- Turun Sanomat
(E1 Popularised article) - The prevalence of Corynosoma parasite worms in the great cormorants and the Baltic herring in the northern Baltic Sea, Finland (2023)
- International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mesozooplankton trends and distributions in pelagic and littoral habitats of the Archipelago Sea, the northern Baltic
Sea, SW Finland (2022)- Memoranda Societatis Pro Fauna Et Flora Fennica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Saaristomeren tutkimuslaitoksen kesä oli täynnä tiedettä ja taidetta (2022)
- Biodivari - Biodiversiteettiyksikön uutiset
(Other publication) - Silakan rasvapitoisuuden ja rasvojen laadun ajallinen ja alueellinen vaihtelu Saaristomerellä. Tutkimusraportti Hankeno: 93977. [Temporal and regional variation of the Baltic herring fat content and quality in the Archipelago Sea]. Final research report no 93977] (2022) Rajasilta Marjut, Hänninen Jari, Karpela Tiia, Mäkinen Katja, Ollennu-Chuasam Priscilla, Sahlstén Johannes, Suomela Jukka-Pekka
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - The “Seili‑index” for the Prediction of Chlorophyll‑α Levels in the Archipelago Sea of the northern Baltic Sea, southwest Finland (2022)
- Environmental Modeling and Assessment
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Varying frequency of vateritic otoliths in the Baltic herring (2022)
- Journal of Fish Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Principal investigator
- Saaristomeren ympäristöseuranta301.05.2026 - 30.04.2027
- Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku
- RR_Huuhtoutumisprojekti01.04.2026 - 31.12.2027
- Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku
- Silakan elinpiiriprojekti01.04.2026 - 31.12.2027
- Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku
- Laihat silakat01.02.2023 - 31.12.2024
- Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku
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