CV Outi Meinander

• Saharan dust in Finland

• Cryosphere-atmosphere interactions

• Black carbon, organic carbon and Icelandic volcanic particles in snow and ice

• High latitude dust

• Effects of light absorbing impurities on snow albedo, melt and density

• Arctic and Antarctic snow albedo at UV, VIS and NIR (300 – 2500 nm)

• IBA-ILMA: Climate change and Arctic ecosystems: Desert dust, street dust and mining dust and their impacts on ecology and health in Finland and in the Arctic (Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, 2023-2025, PI Outi Meinander, FMI)

• IBA-Permafrost: Assessing the effects of permafrost thaw on environment, infrastructure, source of livehood, economy and health in the Arctic region (Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, 11/2020-12/2022, PI Outi Meinander, FMI), https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/iba-project

• BBrCAC: Black and Brown Carbon in the Atmosphere and the Cryosphere (Academy of Finland, 2022-2025, PI Aki Virkkula, FMI)

• NordSnowNet: Nordic Snow Network in five meteorological institutes focused on snow in Nordic and related Arctic areas (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordic Arctic Co-operation Programme, 2019 – 2022, PI Ali Nadir Arslan, FMI), https://nordsnownet.fmi.fi/

• BLACK: Black Carbon in snow and water, a EU-Interact project of International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (H2020 EU-Interact Grant Agreement No. 730938, 2018-2019, PI Outi Meinander, FMI)

• NABCEA: Novel Assessment of Black Carbon in the Eurasian Arctic, From Historical Concentrations and Sources to Future Climate Impacts (Academy of Finland, 2016-2020, PI Jussi Paatero, FMI)

• IBA-BCDUST: Black Carbon in the Arctic and significance compared to dust sources (Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland project No. PC0TQ4BT-25, 12/2018-12/2020, PI Outi Meinander)

• InDust: International Network to Encourage the Use of Monitoring and Forecasting Dust Products (EU COST Action CA16202, 2017-2021, PI Sara Basart, Spain), https://cost-indust.eu/

• HARMOSNOW: European network for a harmonised monitoring of snow (EU ESSEM COST Action ES1404, 2015-2018, PI Ali Nadir Arslan, FMI),https://harmosnow.eu/

• A4: Arctic Absorbing Aerosols and Albedo of Snow (Academy of Finland, 2012-2015, PI Gerrit de Leeuw), a project within the Nordic Top-level Research Initiative TRI Nordic Centre of Excellence NcoE of Cryosphere-atmosphere interactions in a changing Arctic climate, CRAICC (PI Markku Kulmala)

• Docent (Adjunct Professor), Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Nov 2022

• PhD (Environmental sciences), 2016, University of Helsinki, Finland

• Met-PD (Professional development in meteorology), 2007, University of Helsinki, Finland

• PhLic (Environmental sciences), 1995, University of Helsinki, Finland

• MSc (Environmental sciences), 1992, University of Helsinki, Finland

• Finnish Meteorological Institute, Head of group, 2017

• NCoE TRI CRAICC Fellowship (Cryosphere-atmosphere interactions in a changing Arctic climate), 2015-2016

• Finnish Meteorological Institute, Senior research scientist, 1995-

• Finnish Meteorological Institute, Research scientist, 1991-1995

• Finnish Meteorological Institute, Research assistant, 1989-1991

• Ministry of the Environment, Air pollution exhibition guide, 1989

• Ministry of the Environment, Trainee, 1988

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