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A new project is launched, called Arctic PASSION, with focus on climate change in the Arctic. The European Union will provide 15 million euros from the Horizon 2020 Programme to fund the project from 2021 to 2025. The department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science is represented by two teams. There are two Swedish participants, both with connetions to is the department of Physical Geograph
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/arctic-passion - 2025-11-19
Lars Harrie, professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES) and GIS Center, has been appointed a member of the National Geodata Council, representing universities and colleges. The Council aims to develop strategies and activities to ensure that geographical data can be used in, for example, climate change adaption, the creation of sustainable cities and disaster ma
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/government-appoints-member-geodata-council-gis-center - 2025-11-19
Copernicus has published a dataset that shows growing seasons and vegetation productivity in great detail. Researchers from the department - Lars Eklundh, Zhanzhang Cai and Hongxiao Jin - have developed the algorithms that form the basis of the databases. Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), a service that provides geographic data from satellites, has recently published a large dataset cover
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/copernicus-publishes-dataset-researchers-our-department-contribute - 2025-11-19
Forest management in the climate debate is splitting the forest community of researchers, forest owners, organisations and companies. Which way is the right way to go to make forestry work to help to counteract climate change? Several of our researchers appear in this, and professor emeritus Anders Lindroth explains his view on today´s forest management. Swedish National television program Vetensk
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/our-researchers-battle-forest - 2025-11-19
Weiming Huang is awarded in EuroSDR Award winner 2021 for the best PhD thesis related to geoinformation science for his thesis about knowledge-based geospatial data integration and visualisation with Semantic Web technologies. The thesis was presented during the 139th EuroSDR Board of Delegates meeting on October 22, 2021. Dr. Weiming Huang has been awarded by the European Spatial Data Research fo
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dr-weiming-huang-awarded-best-phd-thesis - 2025-11-19
The increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing our climate to warm at an alarming rate. The consequent changes are unprecedented, and difficult to predict due to the complexity of the Earth system. While we know that half of the carbon emissions released to the atmosphere by fossil fuel usage are re-captured by the ocean and land ecosystems, we still lack knowledge when i
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
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
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 - 2025-11-19
