By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 10 August 2020 Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus, is featured in the documentary A Tale from the Woods. In the documentary, Anders speaks about carbon emissions from clear cuts, as well as provides a glimpse of the ICOS research station in Hyltemossa. Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus, has been interviewed in

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/anders-lindroth-interviewed-tale-woods - 2025-03-13

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 3 September 2020 The snow manipulation experiment in the Abisko area has just revealed that permafrost thawing does not necessary lead to more net carbon emissions, as generally expected. Photo: Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski. Net carbon emissions that is in general expected to increase with thawing permafrost, did not

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/permafrost-thawing-may-not-cause-more-carbon-emissions - 2025-03-13

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 7 September 2020 The forest and forest management are a hot topic in the climate debate, but there are still uncertainties in the mapping of the forest's function as a carbon sink or carbon source. In a new study, led by Patrik Vestin at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, the researchers hav

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-areas-emit-greenhouse-gases - 2025-03-13

Published 4 November 2020 INTERACT affiliated research station Hornsund on Svalbard. Aerial photo by Adam Nawrot. Margareta Johansson held an invited tak at the European Polar Science Week. The talk focused on research access in the Arctic to increase the understanding of this remote area. Arctic research infrastructureMargareta Johansson, researcher at the department and coordinator of the Arctic

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/interact-presented-european-polar-science-week - 2025-03-13

Published 12 November 2020 Augustus Aturinde, to the left, nailing his thesis in the Geolibrary accompanied by supervisor Ali Mansourian. Augustus Aturinde, PhD candidate, recently nailed his thesis “GIS and Health: Enhancing Disease Surveillance and Intervention through Spatial Epidemiology”. Augustus Aturinde is a PhD candidate at our department, who came here through a bi-lateral scholarship by

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-thesis-gis-and-spatial-methods-epidemiology - 2025-03-13

Published 13 November 2020 Research plot set up in Greenland Grant to research on Modelling root dynamics in arctic tundra ecosystems and quantifying vegetation feedback to regional and global climate change. Research on climate change in tundra ecosystemsWenxin Zhang, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been awarded a Starting Grant from the Swedish Resea

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/starting-grant-research-root-dynamics-arctic - 2025-03-13

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 20 November 2020 Source: Smart Built Environment On Friday 20th November Helen Eriksson is defending her thesis with the title "Harmonisation of 3D geodata – a prerequisite for a digital information flow for applications in the planning and building sector" Interview with Helen Eriksson, author of the thesisTell us

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/thesis-about-harmonisation-3d-geodata-planning-and-building - 2025-03-13

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 23 November 2020 The Swedish Research funding research on soil nutrient cycles and the interaction with carbon dioxide uptake in forest ecosystems. Benjamin Smith and David Wårlind from our department got the funding, as part of a larger research group.   The project aims to increase understanding of how CO2 interac

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/funding-ecosystem-process-research - 2025-03-13

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 26 February 2021 Zhengyao Lu, researcher at the department, has published a popular science article on The Conversation website. It's entitled “Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here’s why”. Zhengyao Lu, a researcher at the department, has published a popular scien

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/solar-panels-sahara-could-boost-renewable-energy-damage-global-climate-heres-why - 2025-03-13

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 6 April 2021 Hakim Abdi is amongst other things physical geographer, researcher, and keen bird watcher, currently featured in the new issue of the Swedish astonomy magazine Populär Astronomi. So what has physical geography to do with space? Hello Hakim... ...why is a Physical geographer featured in an astronomy maga

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/we-live-golden-age-satellite-research - 2025-03-13

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 15 April 2021 Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus, has been published in DN Debatt together with Lars Tranvik, professor of limnology at Uppsala University. Lindroth and Tranvik argue that Sweden's net emissions of greenhouse gases are much higher than society expects. In the method that the UN uses to calculate t

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/emissions-greenhouse-gases-sweden-are-greatly-underestimated - 2025-03-13

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 7 May 2021 A new study by 33 researchers questions the EU report on european forestry, which had a significant impact last year. In the study, data was misinterpreted which made volume of clearcutting to appear greater than it was, the researchers argue. Thomas Pugh, senior lecturer at our department, was intervie

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clearcutting-increasing-europe-not-previously-reported-rate - 2025-03-13

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 21 June 2021 View of the town Tasiilaq, Greenland. Photo by Filip Gielda on Unsplash. 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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/arctic-passion - 2025-03-13

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 7 July 2021 In urban planning, 3D models are important in simulations and as a basis for decision making. Source: Lund Municipality 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 uni

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/government-appoints-member-geodata-council-gis-center - 2025-03-13

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 13 September 2021 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),

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/copernicus-publishes-dataset-researchers-our-department-contribute - 2025-03-13

Published 4 October 2021 Clear-felling, a method which is now debated. Photo: Patrik Vestin, Departmetn of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science. 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 researche

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/our-researchers-battle-forest - 2025-03-13

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 26 October 2021 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 meeti

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dr-weiming-huang-awarded-best-phd-thesis - 2025-03-13

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 16 November 2021 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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/icos-supports-science-and-policy-making-first-comprehensive-article-describing-icos-published - 2025-03-13

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 26 October 2017 Picture of the experiment, showing warmed plots melted out of the snow. Credit: Audrey Barker-Plotkin 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 pa

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/much-greater-portion-global-soil-carbon-store-could-potentially-be-vulnerable-decomposition-and - 2025-03-13

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 26 October 2017 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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dan-metcalfe-coordinating-project-cloud-forest-peru - 2025-03-13