Who's Who - Polar Acronyms

The Kevo Research Station (University of Turku) is situated by Lake Kevojärvi in the community of Utsjoki, the northernmost municipality in Finnish Lapland. The site (69°45'N, 27°01'E, 80 m asl) lies about 60 km north of the northernmost limit of pine trees and belongs to the subarctic forest tundra zone, a birch subzone of the boreal coniferous forest. The research area as a whole comprises mainly the biological province of Inari Lapland, an area of approximately 20 000 km² that includes the large Lake Inari.