Published 1 December 2014 We would like to welcome Franziska Aemisegger, who will be a MERGE guest researcher for the coming two years. For the coming two years, Franziska Aemisegger will be a MERGE guest researcher with a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship (SNSF). In her current research she is studying land-atmosphere interactions in the midlatitude water cycle from a weather systems p

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-guest-researcher-franziska-aemisegger - 2025-08-07

Published 27 November 2014 Comparing the first simple climate models with those of today is like comparing a little blurry black and white line drawing with a large, high-resolution full-color photo. Everything has increased dramatically - both complexity, geographical resolution and model datasets. Read the interview with Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE. - The development is quickly movi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/advanced-climate-models-lacks-computing-power - 2025-08-07

Published 10 December 2014 Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. MERGE is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-08-07

Published 25 January 2015 Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate c

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-08-07

Published 5 March 2015 Arctic View, CC Photo: UN, Mark Garten The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system is the name of Wenxing Zhangs thesis, which he defended on February 6 2015. On February 6th Wenxin Zhang defended his thesis The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system. Opponent was Laxmi Sus

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2025-08-07

Published 9 March 2015 ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-08-07

Published 16 March 2015 DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the r

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-08-07

Published 30 April 2015 The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was publish

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2025-08-07

Published 28 May 2015 Photo: Luciana Porfirio Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-08-07

Published 15 June 2015 On May 11-13 an international LUsTT/BECC/MERGE workshop was organized in Landskrona, with around 60 leading researchers within the field of dynamic vegetation modelling. Report from the LUsTT/BECC/MERGE Workshop: “Dynamic global vegetation modelling: towards a third generation”.LPJ-GUESS is a Dynamical Global Vegetation model (DGVM) maintained and further developed at the De

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2025-08-07

Published 2 April 2015 On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund Unive

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-08-07

Published 18 June 2015 A recently published report is a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book. Several MERGE researchers has contributed to this work. The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book.“The current publication for the Baltic Sea area i

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2025-08-07

Published 23 June 2015 On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2025-08-07

Published 23 June 2015 A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has th

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-pages-working-group-will-produce-global-recontructions-anthropogenic-land-cover-change - 2025-08-07

Publicerad 31 januari 2019 Den 17 januari meddelade Norrköpings tingsrätt dom i ett omfattande mål avseende fusk på högskoleprovet. Rättegången och dess konsekvenser har fått stor uppmärksamhet. Högskoleprovet är gemensamt för alla högskolor i Sverige och det är Universitets- och högskolerådet (UHR) som ansvarar för att provet tas fram och beslutar om resultat på provet. Har den som gjort provet f

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fusk-pa-hogskoleprovet-det-har-galler-vid-lunds-universitet - 2025-08-07

Av louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - publicerad 4 februari 2019 Anders Dahlvig och Irvine Lapsley blir Ekonomihögskolans hedersdoktorer 2019. Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet har utsett årets hedersdoktorer: civilekonomen Anders Dahlvig och professor emeritus lrvine Lapsley. De har båda engagerat sig i fakultetens arbete och bidragit till dess utveckling. De

https://www.lu.se/artikel/anders-dahlvig-och-irvine-lapsley-blir-ekonomihogskolans-nya-hedersdoktorer - 2025-08-07

Av eva [dot] nelsson [at] ch [dot] lu [dot] se (Eva Nelsson) - publicerad 31 januari 2019 På sikt planerar nätverket en större satsning på innovation och samverkan genom ett AI-center. Foto: Pixabay Under tisdagen den 29 januari samlades Lunds universitets forskarnätverk inom artificiell intelligens och maskininlärning i Helsingborg för en workshop på temat ”AI i offentlig sektor”. Nätverket AIML@

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ai-forskare-samlades-i-workshop-om-automatisering-i-den-offentliga-sektorn - 2025-08-07

Av jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - publicerad 1 februari 2019 Dyngbaggen rullar sin dyngboll under ett, på konstgjord väg, belyst himlavalv. Foto: Chris Collingridge Av alla nattaktiva djur är det bara dyngbaggar som navigerar med hjälp av polariserat månsken. Nu visar forskare vid Lunds universitet att skalbaggarna kan använda ljussignalerna trots att de tidvis är myck

https://www.lu.se/artikel/manens-faser-paverkar-skalbaggar - 2025-08-07

Av emma [dot] holm [at] education [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Holm) - publicerad 1 februari 2019 I somras utlyste Svenska institutet (SI) möjligheten för svenska lärosäten att söka finansiellt stöd för anordnande av kapacitetshöjande utbildningsprogram riktade till yrkesverksamma. Fokus skulle vara Agenda 2030 och totalt fem program beviljades medel inom ramen för satsningen. Många var de som lämnade

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitet-tar-hem-storsatsning-pa-utbildningsprogram-kopplade-till-agenda-2030 - 2025-08-07

Av catrin [dot] jakobsson [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Catrin Jakobsson) - publicerad 4 februari 2019 I Sverige började man 2012 att vaccinera flickor i mellanstadiet mot humant papillomvirus, som man vet är den vanligaste orsaken till livmoderhalscancer. Om det ger någon effekt på antal cancerfall vet vi först om ett antal decennier. Foto: Shutterstock I Sverige drabbas årligen cirka femhundra kvi

https://www.lu.se/artikel/effektivare-screeningprogram-livmoderhalscancer - 2025-08-07