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Registration will soon open for a new pedagogical course at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The course focuses on active learning as a central strategy to promote student-centred learning and teaching. The course is offered during the autumn semester and is primarily aimed at teachers and doctoral students at the Faculty of Social Sciences. In this course, you will, among other things, learn pract

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/active-learning-social-science-new-course-teachers-and-doctoral-students - 2025-11-07

This year's OSA survey (a survey of our organisational and social work environment) will soon be sent to all employees at the faculty. Keep an eye on your inbox and answer the survey! It is an important part of our systematic work environment process. The survey will be sent by e-mail to all faculty staff in mid-April. The sender of the e-mail is Lund University, lu [at] artologik [dot] net.The su

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/answer-facultys-work-environment-survey-your-input-matters-0 - 2025-11-07

The faculty's list of recognised and excellent teachers is growing. At the latest Faculty Board meeting, another eleven persons received recognition of their teaching skills through the appointment as Recognised or Excellent Teaching Practitioners. Newly appointed Recognised Teaching Practitioners:Isabel Bramsen Marie LedendalOla Thufvesson Nils Droste Tove LundbergSara Kalm Henrik LoodThomas Hick

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/eleven-new-recognised-and-excellent-teachers - 2025-11-07

Dan Metcalfe has written a perspective piece in Science about a recently published paper. Dr Dan Metcalfe at the department has written a perspective piece in Science about a featured paper. The paper itself looked at the effect of 26 years of continual experimental warming on soil microbial populations and carbon cycling. The authors found that over extended periods of warming the soil microbial

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/much-greater-portion-global-soil-carbon-store-could-potentially-be-vulnerable-decomposition-and - 2025-11-07

A large "curtain" is being installed in order to reduce water input to parts of the forest. NBC News recently covered the ongoing activities associated with a VR-Uforsk funded project coordinated by Dr Dan Metcalfe. The project is installing a 30 metres high, 40 metres wide curtain in the middle of pristine cloud forest in Peru. The purpose is to reduce cloud water inputs to a portion of the fores

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dan-metcalfe-coordinating-project-cloud-forest-peru - 2025-11-07

Anders Lindroth featured in several media outlets. Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus at the department, was interviewed in several media outlets about new research showing that earlier springs increase the forests’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Among other things, Lindroth explains that spring now arrives eight days earlier than 35 years ago.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earlier-spring-increases-forests-carbon-uptake - 2025-11-07

The COP23 climate change summit in Bonn will host a session during which Margareta Johansson will present the impacts of thawing permafrost. Warming at almost twice the global average rate, the Arctic is a key region for understanding wider climate change impacts. Mitigation and adaptation strategies in the Arctic are thus an integral part of the EU’s wider efforts to combat climate change and to

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-will-give-talk-cop23 - 2025-11-07

Petter Pilesjö, Andras Persson, Ali Mansourian, and Micael Runnström have, together with researchers at the Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU) in Mozambique, received a grant to develop educational programmes at EMU as well as training for PhD students in Sweden. Petter Pilesjö (professor), Andreas Persson (senior lecturer), Ali Mansourian (senior lecturer) and Micael Runnström (senior lecturer) ha

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-granted-sek-18-million-collaboration-project - 2025-11-07

The carbon and nitrogen losses attributable to forest fires are much larger than was previously thought. This has now been shown by an extensive study that has compiled fire experiments from around the world. It is not just vegetation that is lost in forest fires. When a forest burns, there is also an impact on the soil, through the loss of carbon and other nutrients. This loss of nutrients can ne

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/forest-fires-cause-unexpectedly-large-nutrient-losses - 2025-11-07

Two new research projects will shortly begin at Lund University in Sweden to investigate how particle emissions from spruce forests affect the climate. The trees’ emissions of reactive hydrocarbons are thought to have a cooling effect on the climate. Almost 70 per cent of land in Sweden is covered with forest, mainly commercially managed coniferous forest. The forests play a central role in affect

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-set-study-particle-emissions-coniferous-trees - 2025-11-07

Lund University is, together with Stockholm University, offering graduate school for upper secondary school teachers, focusing on climate and the environment. The initiative will benefit not only the teachers, but also their students. Upper secondary school teachers who want to increase their research skills will soon be able to graduate in sciences and geography. After four years of part time stu

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/upper-secondary-school-teachers-offered-research-training - 2025-11-07

Markku Rummukainen has recently been featured in a number of media outlets because of unusually high temperatures in the Arctic. He was also recently mentioned in Effekt News Magazine because of his participation in the newly launched Swedish Climate Policy Council. Markku Rummukainen, Professor at the Department, has been interviewed in several media after unusually high temperatures have been me

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-about-high-arctic-temperatures - 2025-11-07

Tomsk State University is offering a summer course for young scientists For the fifth summer in a row, Tomsk State University offers a summer course for students, PhD students or Faculty aged 18-35. The course is called "Natural and human environment of Arctic and Alpine areas: relief, soils, permafrost, glaciers, biota and life style of native ethnic groups in a rapidly changing climate" and it c

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/summer-course-offered-tomsk-state-university - 2025-11-07

Paul Miller has been interviewed in "Mission is possible" together with Birgitta Svenningsson. Mission is possible is a Lund University digital research magazine about the impact research has on the world outside academia. In the preamble it's stated that a "climate model developed by researchers from Lund University and other institutes is becoming increasingly significant in view of the next maj

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/climate-models-point-way-towards-future - 2025-11-07

Cecilia Akselsson has been interviewed in the Lund University research magazine "Mission is possible" together with her colleagues Edith Hammar and Johan Ekroos. The preamble states that "In recent years, ‘ecosystem services’ has become an increasingly common concept within the research community, as well as in municipalities, public authorities and industry. In simple terms, ecosystem services ca

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/human-and-nature-symbiosis - 2025-11-07

Geert Hensgens has received SEK 130 000 from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Geert Hensgens, doctoral student at the department, has received SEK 130 000 from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, for his project “Concentration, bioavailability and chemistry of dissolved organic carbon in tundra soils; the relationship between soil properties, plant/microbe commun

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/geert-hensgens-granted-funding-research-project - 2025-11-07

Patrik Vestin, research engineer at the department, has received the Alfort Prize of SEK 40 000 from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Patrik Vestin has received Alfortska prize of SEK 40,000 by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. The award is awarded for his dissertation entitled "Effects of forest management on greenhouse gas fluxes in a boreal forest".– Of cour

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/patrik-vestin-awarded-his-thesis - 2025-11-07

At least three members of our staff have been interviewed in different media outlets as experts in their field. Professor Emeritus Anders Lindroth was interviewed in Dagens ETC about greenhouse gases and harmful emissions. “Absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is the only way we can achieve the two-degree goal. We need negative emissions and must absorb more carbon dioxide than we release,

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/co-workers-featured-media - 2025-11-07

Jonas Ardö and Markku Rummukainen were featured in SVT News and Forskning & Framsteg respectively. Jonas Ardö, senior lecturer at our department, was interviewed by SVT News on the subject of NASA having mapped the world’s freshwater reserves using two satellites. “These satellites provide us with a global overview of the amount of water located underground, which is otherwise difficult to estimat

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/more-co-workers-featured-media-outlets - 2025-11-07

Master students at our department created a toolbox for ArcGIS 10.5. Three master students at our department – Szilvia Johansson, Nina Nesterova and Enzo Zerega – have developed a toolbox for the geographic information system software ESRI ArcGIS (v. 10.5).The toolbox is called Arctic DEM Data management, and helps retrieving a digital elevation model for a defined time range in a specified study

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/students-created-toolbox-gis-software - 2025-11-07