Enäjärvi is a small lake near town Pori only one mile from the Sea. The lake is tightly between a highway and a railway and the traffic noise is apparent even night time. This was the first place for an inland colony of Great Cormorants in Finland. Today there’s hundred of nests in two small islets in the middle of the lake. 

 I made an over night recording and this starts from 04.40 in the morning, half an hour before sun rise with the Cormorants just being active, though not as most. Though the lake was still mostly frozen the Cormorants have been more than two weeks there. This is the most silent moment of the night of traffic, still there’s a train passing.

The train is carrying coal (or anthracite) from Novosibirsk in Russia, a distance of 4000 km.  Each train is making two weeks or longer time on the rails to Tahkoluoto Port on the Finnish West Coast.  From there the coal is shipped rounding Cape Hope to Bangladesh. Normally there's  2-3 trains passing daily in spite of the sanction policy against Russia. 

Listen with headphones.

 http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/220421/

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Cormorant Night - 21/4/2022 - Enajarvi Finland

Mikä on veden merkitys ilmakehässä? Tutkijatohtori Laura Riuttanen esittelee ilmakehätutkimuksen tutkimuspaikkoja ja kertoo, mitä sade merkitsee elämälle. 

Neliosaisen podcast-sarjan on tuottanut Helsingin yliopiston Ilmakehätieteiden keskus INAR, ja jaksot on toteuttanut äänitaiteilija ja toimittaja Leena Häkkinen. Jaksot on äänitetty Helsingin yliopiston tutkimusasemalla Hyytiälässä.

Veden kierto, osa 1: Ilma

Ilmakehätieteiden keskus INAR, Helsingin yliopisto
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki

Veden kierto, osa 1: Ilma

Ilmakehätieteiden keskus INAR

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