In Focus

Follow the day-to-day of the project: field trips, preliminary results, team reflections and discoveries about the ecological processes studied by SERVICO2. An open window into the scientific work in progress.

Mapping 31 Years of Chemical Weathering Across Europe

How does water slowly transform rocks across Europe’s headwaters, and how does this process vary from year to year? A MSc thesis developed within SERVICO2 brings together three decades of hydroclimatic, geological and spatial data to explore chemical weathering across nearly 223,000 European headwater catchments.

From prototype to the field: developing SERVICO2’s GHG flux monitoring system

How can greenhouse gas fluxes be monitored continuously in remote headwater catchments, where access to power and communication networks is often limited? As part of SERVICO2, we are developing a modular and autonomous sensing system designed to measure natural greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.

Spring–Summer 2026: SERVICO2 Takes to the Field

Spring and summer 2026 marked an important step for SERVICO2 as field activities got underway across the project’s headwater catchments. Teams have been setting up monitoring sites, collecting the first measurements and putting the new automated greenhouse-gas chamber prototypes to the test under real field conditions. This slideshow offers a glimpse behind the scenes as SERVICO2 moves from preparation and development into field implementation across Europe.

SERVICO2 on the Move: An Active Year of Science, Collaboration and International Exchange

From Helsinki to Vienna, Windermere, Umeå and Banyoles, 2026 has been an exceptionally active year for SERVICO2. Project researchers have taken SERVICO2 and closely related science to major scientific conferences, international monitoring networks and stakeholder-oriented events across Europe, strengthening collaborations and sharing new research on carbon cycling, greenhouse gases, atmospheric deposition and the response of headwater ecosystems to global change.

SERVICO2 showcased at World Water Week 2026

SERVICO2 was represented at World Water Week 2026, one of the leading international events dedicated to water and sustainable development, through a promotional video featured at the Water4All consortium’s booth.

SERVICO2’s First Co-Creation Event: Local Voices Shape the Future of the Upper Kemi River

On 12 May 2026, the SERVICO2 research team from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) held the project’s first co-creation event in Savukoski, Finnish Lapland. Sixteen local stakeholders from across Lapland and six researchers from UEF, the Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) and the University of Helsinki (UHEL) took part in the event.

An international project

SERVICO2 is a project within the Water4All 2023 Joint Transnational Call, with participation of research institutions from Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland.