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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 2009. They were all conduct
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2026-06-19
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 change for business. Markku
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2026-06-19
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 Sushama.In the thesis Wenxin Zhang presents findings from studies
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2026-06-19
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 Nordic Universities eng
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2026-06-19
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 research data that can be
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2026-06-19
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 published and we are happy to a
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2026-06-19
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 zone between rainforest and desert dominate th
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2026-06-19
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 Department of Physical Ge
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2026-06-19
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 University has an active rol
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2026-06-19
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 is a regional variant on
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2026-06-19
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 MERGE's development as
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2026-06-19
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 the goal to produce globa
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Something to announce
https://www.cgbkansli.lu.se/en/article/testnews - 2026-06-19
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. I Lokaltidningen Lund går det att läsa 26 oktober 2016 Nyligen tilldelas Odeum och dess director musices Patrik Andersson Lunds universitetshistoriska sällskaps pris på 25 000 kronor. Årets mottagare får priset med motiveringen ”för den stora betydelse Odeum genom sitt studentburna musicerande har för Lunds univer
https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/universitetshistoriskt-pris-till-odeum - 2026-06-19
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Wilhelm Theodor Gnosspelius, född i Stockholm 28 december 1809 och avliden i Lund 13 augusti 1887, var violinist, organist, dirigent, musikorganisatör och tonsättare. Han var verksam i Stockholm från 1822, i Linköping från 1843 och i Lund från 1858. Gnosspelius skrev musik i klassisk-romantisk stil, främst tillfälli
https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lar-dig-mer-om-wilhelm-gnosspelius-en-av-odeums-director-musices - 2026-06-19
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Inte bara första pris i division 1 utan också hederspris till dirigent Roger Andersson och pris för bästa sektion i division 1 till slagverkssektionen kom brassbandet hem med efter helgens SM i Värnamo. Lunds universitets brassband har under ledning av bandets dirigent Roger Andersson vunnit första pris i division 1
https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-brassband-tog-hem-brassbands-sm - 2026-06-19
Festivalhelgen Lund Contemporary blev en stor publiksuccé, med 1600 besökare på totalt 9 evenemang. 20 uruppföranden fördelade på sju välbesökta konserter, en föreläsning om förhållandet mellan musik och bildkonst på Skissernas Museum och en paneldebatt om vår tids musik i Kapellsalen - allt detta lockade sammanlagt 1600 besök under den helt nystartade festivalen Lund Contemporary 2017 (3-5 febr
https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lund-contemporary-drog-1600-besok - 2026-06-19
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Lunds universitets brassband har under ledning av dirigent Roger Andersson vunnit första pris i division 1 i svenska mästerskapen i brassband. Tävlingarna hölls under Svenska Brassbandfestivalen 9-10 november i Värnamo, där ett 30-tal brassband från hela Sverige deltog. Lunds universitets brassband segrade i första
https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/vinst-till-lunds-universitets-brassband - 2026-06-19
Crafoordska stiftelsen har tilldelat Odeum 75 000 kr i bidrag till festivalen Lund Contemporary. Festivalen anordnades för första gången 2017 och blev då en publiksuccé. Nästa upplaga, Lund Contemporary 2019, går av stapeln 7-10 februari. Läs mer om festivalen och dess program här!
https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/75-000-kr-till-lund-contemporary - 2026-06-19
Lund Contemporary 2019 lockade en månghövdad publik. Efter helgen kunde vi summera totalt ca 1350 besök. Festivalen bjöd på 10 olika evenemang och mer än 30 (!) världspremiärer av nyskrivna musikstycken! Liksom första upplagan av festivalen, för två år sedan, blev årets Lund Contemporary en publiksuccé, med total 1350 besök. Festivalen hade även i år ett varierat program med alltifrån storskalig e
https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lund-contemporary-drog-storpublik-igen - 2026-06-19
