Services

Luke's diverse research infrastructures are suitable frameworks for experimental research on renewable natural resources and are widely available throughout Finland.

The Otolith laboratory prepares and analyses fish otoliths and other calcified structures for age determination (e.g. herring and whitefish), a service that is used e.g. in the Northern Baltic Sea by ICES. The same method can be used to process other fish species and teeth from mammals, for example, seals, reindeer, moose, deer and roe deer.

Support offered

The TA user will receive advice on sample preparation and the full technical work to get analytical 42 results. The TA user will be supported by Luke’s extensive, well-established international research community in the fields of breeding, wild fish populations, aquaculture, genomics and computational genetics, to which the users join. Luke will train TA users to utilise the infrastructures and the associated analytical tools and databases. Luke staff will aid in finding accommodation either within Luke’s own accommodations or via external services.

Modality of access

Unit cost. The size of the project depends on the number of samples to be analysed.