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Name: Kilpisjärvi Biological Station
Location: Village of Kilpisjärvi, Northwestern Finnish Lapland
Co-ordinates: 69º03?N, 20º50?E
Operating Institutions: University of Helsinki

Web site/Other contact points:
Web site - www.helsinki.fi/ml/kilpis
Contact person - Director Antero Järvinen
Postal code and city - FIN-99490 Kilpisjärvi
Country - Finland
Phone - +358 16 537712
Fax - +358-16 537709
Email -

Administration
The station is run by a permanent staff of seven people.

Main facility
Biological field station (founded in 1964) in mountain birch forest (alt. 475 m). Open the whole year round. Accommodation capacity 35 persons, besides the permanent staff. Meals are served daily at the station. Laboratories have supply of electricity, gas, compressed air and running water, and are equipped with refrigerator, ovens, spectrophotometer, micro- and macroscales, microscopes, centrifuges, pH- and conductivity meters, thermometers, etc. Telephone, fax, copy machines and computers with access to email and internet are provided. Bicycles, cars, snowscoters, boats, etc. are available. Small library contains zoological, botanical and geographical handbooks.

Major Field Sites
lie in nearby (0-2 000 m) mountain birch forests and alpine heaths