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By josefin [dot] martell [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Josefin Martell) - published 29 March 2021 Press Release Scientific Study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science
https://www.geology.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-lake-mien-was-formed-meteoric-impact - 2025-04-21
By gert [dot] pettersson [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Gert Pettersson) - published 22 April 2021 This Friday (23 April 2021) is the official opening for submissions to the new journal Interdisciplinary Egyptology. Co-founded by Dr Amber Hood, one of our geoarchaeologists/archaeological scientists at the Department of Geology, this is an exciting new initiative that she has been working on with her
By karl [dot] ljung [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Karl Ljung) - published 30 April 2021 Photo: Karl Ljung Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on Earth’s biodiversity. The findings suggest that the rate of change in an ecosystem’s plant-life increases significantly during the years following human settlement, with the most dramatic changes occurring in locations colonized in the last
https://www.geology.lu.se/article/study-reveals-extent-human-impact-worlds-plant-life - 2025-04-21
By johannes [dot] edvardsson [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Johannes Edvardsson) - published 22 June 2021 The annual dendrochronological conference TRACE 2021 (Tree-Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology) has for the first time ever been hosted by a University in Scandinavia. The event, which due to the Corona pandemic was virtual, had 273 participants from 37 countries. During the days befor
By dan [dot] hammarlund [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Dan Hammarlund) - published 28 June 2021 As of 17 August Lund University will initiate a stepwise return to campus-based work and education, provided that conditions allow with regards to the pandemic. The current decisions by the Vice Chancellor on June 17 and the Dean of the Faculty of Science on June 23 provide a time table for the return to
https://www.geology.lu.se/article/return-campus-based-activities - 2025-04-21
By charlotte [dot] moller [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Möller) - published 27 September 2021 Urueña, C., Andersson, J., Möller, C., Lundgren, L., Göransson, M, Lindqvist, J.E., Åkeson, U., 2021: Variation in technical properties of granitic rocks with metamorphic conditions. Engineering Geology. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1dlbq38lpFrh1
By karl [dot] ljung [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Karl Ljung) - published 5 October 2021 The application deadline is 1 November. A digital information meeting will be held on 7 October at 12:15–13:00. https://www.science.lu.se/education/international-opportunities/outgoing-exchange/plan-your-outgoing-exchange-studies
https://www.geology.lu.se/article/time-apply-outgoing-exchange-studies - 2025-04-21
By charlotte [dot] moller [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Möller) - published 27 October 2021 New publication in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Weller, O., Mottram, C., St-Onge, M., Möller, C., Strachan, R., Rivers, T, Copley, C. 2021. The metamorphic and magmatic record of collisional orogens. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. A review paper about mountain belts of Himalaya-type, o
By per [dot] moller [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Per Möller) - published 27 October 2021 Photo: Johanna Anjar New publication in Nature on ”Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics”. A cooperation between Per Möller at the Department of Geology in Lund and the Centre for GeoGenetics, Globe Institute in Copenhagen. Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles
Published 2 November 2021 Photo: Helena Alexanderson A former co-worker at the department, Professor Barbara Wohlfarth, now at the Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, has been awarded the Assar Hadding Prize in geology for her contribution to research in Quaternary geology. Prof. Wohlfarth is the first woman to receive the prize, which is awarded by the Royal Physiographic Soc
https://www.geology.lu.se/article/prof-barbara-wohlfarth-awarded-assar-hadding-prize - 2025-04-21
Published 2 December 2021 The Faculty of Science wants to provide early-career researchers with an opportunity over a six-year period to develop a long-term research activity as well as qualify for promotion to senior lecturer. The faculty is therefore announcing vacancies for up to four positions as associate senior lecturer within the faculty’s subject areas. To the faculty announcement
https://www.geology.lu.se/article/faculty-announces-four-advantageous-associate-senior-lectureships - 2025-04-21
Published 14 December 2021 The asteroid Vesta. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA A PhD studentship in planetary geology is hereby announced at the Department of Geology, Lund University (LU), Sweden. The research project is provisionally entitled: Crust, Core and Collision – Unraveling the evolution of differentiated asteroids. The main aim of the project is to improve our understanding of
https://www.geology.lu.se/article/doctoral-student-planetary-geology - 2025-04-21
Published 5 January 2022 Congratulations to Zoran Perić who has just been awarded Research Associate rank at the Department of Geography at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. The title is equivalent to a Swedish docent title and is granted by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological development to qualified scientists
Published 14 January 2022 An artistic reconstruction of Ophiopetagno paicei from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden. Painting by Joe Petagno. Present-day biodiversity is the result of millions of years of evolutionary change. Although we can trace back in time most of the major organismal groups using fossils, the very origin of these clades is generally deemed impossible to grasp, hampering our unde
Published 27 January 2022 Photo: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL Ancient ice reveals mysterious solar storm
https://www.geology.lu.se/article/ancient-ice-reveals-mysterious-solar-storm - 2025-04-21
Published 31 January 2022 "Volcanic temperature changes modulated volatile release and climate fluctuations at the end-Triassic mass extinction" Authors: Kunio Kaiho, Daisuke Tanaka, Sylvain Richoz, David S. Jones, Ryosuke Saito, Daichi Kameyama, Masayuki Ikeda, Satoshi Takahashi, Md. Aftabuzzaman, Megumu Fujibayashi Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117
Published 31 January 2022 Professor Andrew Knoll, Harvard University, USA, has received the Craaford Prize for his studies of the first three billion years of life on Earth. Press release
Published 16 February 2022 Link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825222000496
By charlotte [dot] sparrenbom [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Sparrenbom) - published 11 April 2022 The Swedish Research Council and The Department of Geology have the pleasure to invite you to the inaugural lecture by Beth Parker, as holder of the Tage Erlander Guest professorship, entitled 'Groundwater: An Invisible Resource Presenting Challenges and Opportunities’ 17 of May 14.15-16 in P
Published 1 December 2022 Congratulations to our excellent teachers Helena Filipsson and Sven Lukas, recently appointed Excellent Teaching Practitioners (ETP).
