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By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 12 April 2022 Despite cooling, net autumn release of carbon dioxide from ecosystems have increased, according to research from an international research group. The results come from a large study of ecosystems in North America and Eurasia, which since 2004 have had a decreasing temperature trend in the autumn, despi

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/increased-carbon-dioxide-release-ecosystems-despite-negative-temperature-trends - 2024-11-17

Update 17th May 2022: THIS WEBFORM IS CLOSED. If you wish to add anything to your participation, please contact Jonathan. Welcome to INES retreat 2022! We will gather at Milgårdarna in northwest Skåne for two days 13-14 June. INES will organise buses to leave from Lund in the morning of the 13th, and bring us back in the afternoon of the 14th. We strongly encourage everyone to participate in this

https://www.nateko.lu.se/form/ines-retreat-2022 - 2024-11-17

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 29 April 2022 Are weather events such as drought and agricultural productions shocks the main reason for violent conflicts, or are there other mechanisms that should be more considered? A recent study highlights the importance of including land-use dynamics and climate change for understanding linkages between meteo

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/investigating-drought-and-other-mechanisms-behind-migration-and-conflict-syria - 2024-11-17

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 9 May 2022 A research team has created a picture of historical temperatures in the Arctic, spanning over a thousand years. A new technique and a recently published database of proxy data have been used in the research, and the results are an important contribution to understanding temperature changes now and in the

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/arctic-temperature-analysis-over-thousand-years - 2024-11-17

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 6 July 2022 Thimas Holst, researcher and teacher at out department, have been awarded the pedagogical prize 2022 by the science student union LUNA. The pedagogical prize is awarded to an outstanding teacher. On the LUNA website one can read the nominating students' motivation: "From the students who nominated Thomas

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/thomas-holst-awarded-lunas-pedagogical-prize - 2024-11-17

Working with sustainability Name: Katarina Crafoord Education: Bachelor's degree in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science from Lund University. Master's degree in Applied Climate Strategy at Lund University. When you started thinking about university studies, what were you interested in and thought you would work on after graduation? I have always been interested in the environment and sustaina

https://www.nateko.lu.se/education/students-and-alumni-stories/alumni-katarina - 2024-11-17

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 30 August 2022 The summer 2022 brought extreme heatwaves in many places globally, and the debate has a included the term "killer heat". In moist areas the high temperatures will be even harder to the human body, and the rising temperatures may make certain areas very hard to live in by the end of this century. High

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/killer-heat-may-make-middle-east-uninhabitable-within-century - 2024-11-17

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 6 September 2022 A brand new publication on climate issues is released by ICOS. The leaflet FLUXES - the European Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, aims at highlighting climate issues to an audience of policymakers, policy advisors, and climate journalists. The very first volume of FLUXES focuses on regional and year-over-ye

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/fluxes-european-greenhouse-gas-bulletin-now-released-icos - 2024-11-17

NGEA07 Course contents This course gives you an introduction to the basic physics, matematics and statistical methods used within physical geography. After the course you will have an improved insight and understanding of basic mathematical and statistical methods of physical processes in the biosphere, the atmosphere and the hydrosphere, as well as their mathematical formulation. You will be able

https://www.nateko.lu.se/education/basic-courses/theory-and-methods-physical-geography - 2024-11-17

NGEN27 The course is an elective course at second cycle level for a Degree of Master of Science (120 credits) in GIS and remote sensing and for a Degree of Master of Science (120 credits) in physical geography and ecosystem science, all specialisations. Course content Students will learn applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques for spatial modelling and analysis, including predictiv

https://www.nateko.lu.se/NGEN27 - 2024-11-17

NGEA09 Course contents This course will provide you with in-depth and applied knowledge of Earth's landscapes. You will learn about the processes by which landscapes evolve and change in different climate and space scales. The course focuses on: the Earth's surface landforms the Earths's origin and development human impact on the landscape dynamics and lasting changes You will mainly study Nordic

https://www.nateko.lu.se/education/basic-courses/land-surface-processes-and-landscape-dynamics - 2024-11-17

Published 26 September 2022 Photo: Johanna Asch och Ulrika Ervander Looking at old forests, in the small areas of forest lands where they are left untouched, and looking among other things at carbon dynamics. For the team this was a unique experience, and two field assistants have now published a film showing some of the environment and work deep in the forests far from common roads. Pristine or v

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/studying-old-forests-and-carbon-uptake - 2024-11-17

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 20 October 2022 Satellite photo showing the eutrophication of lake Chahu, Anhui Province, China, and the source of this photo is Landsat 8, provided by Assoc. Prof. Feng, from Southern University of Science and Technology. In May and June 2020, more that 300 dead elephants were found in Botswana´s Okavango Delta. In

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/mapping-lacustrine-algal-blooms-globally - 2024-11-17

Understanding of the environmental and climate processes Research at the department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science is mainly focused on interdisciplinary studies of how climate and environmental changes affect the function and composition of terrestrial ecosystems. The goal is to increase understanding of the processes that take place in the exchange between the biosphere and atmosphe

https://www.nateko.lu.se/research - 2024-11-17

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 2 November 2022 Lina Eklundh, Tomas Pugh, Anders Ahlström and Markku Rummukainen have been interviewed in different media outlets as experts in their corresponding fields.   Lina Eklund Lina Eklund, associate senior lecturer, was recently interviewed in Göteborgs-Posten about a new report which warns that extreme

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ines-staff-featured-media - 2024-11-17

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 20 December 2022 The Aurora group are young people who recently initiated a process against the state of Sweden for not taking action and treating the climnate crisis as a crisis. More than 1600 researchers and teachers including researchers from our department, agreeing with the Aurora, have signed a debate article

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/academics-debate-article-young-people-are-right-sue-state - 2024-11-17

NGEA31 This course gives you a broad practical and theoretical knowledge for future work with digital geographical data and GIS (Geographical Information Systems). Course contents You will learn how to manage, analyse and visualise digital geographical data, and how to use these to solve geographical problems within environmental and planning applications. This applies both in a national and inter

https://www.nateko.lu.se/education/basic-courses/geographical-information-systems-basic-course - 2024-11-17

NGEN28 7,5 credits Course content The course gives a theoretical basis for application of 3D-geodata, e.g. 3D-city models and digital terrain models. The theoretical parts also provide advanced knowledge of different methods for collection of 3D data. Both methods for direct collection of 3D-geodata, GNSS/GPS and laser scanning as methods based on images, photogrammetry and structure-from-motion w

https://www.nateko.lu.se/NGEN28 - 2024-11-17

Within LU Fluxes we are investigating how the biosphere - atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases (GHG) and energy in ecosystems is affected by natural forcing mechanisms, management practices and natural disturbances (drought, storms etc.). We are studying exchange processes of GHGs and energy with a variety of methods, but eddy covariance and chambers are most commonly used. How does forest mana

https://www.nateko.lu.se/research-physical-geography/biosphere-atmosphere-interactions/lu-fluxes-biosphere-atmosphere-interaction-research - 2024-11-17

Published 15 May 2023 Photo by Ulrika Ervander Old- growth forests are to a large extent unprotected to logging, and the rate of cutting them down is high, not least in Sweden. Even protected forests are at risk, and the EU is on the way to failure, writes researches from Europe and USA in a debate article in Science. The pressure on Europe´s biomass rich old-growth forests have increased with the

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/risk-failure-protecting-old-forests - 2024-11-17