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Weiming Huang, a researcher and a recent doctoral graduate at our department, has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Singapore plus a two-year repatriation grant back to Sweden from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The project aims to connect and integrate different sources of data in order to enable a richer understanding of the world around us in relation to geospatial i

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/weiming-huang-awarded-fellowship-postdoc-studies-singapore - 2025-12-27

In a future warmer climate, evaporation from the northern hemisphere’s wetlands will increase significantly more than previously thought. This is shown by an international study involving researchers from Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The availability of water is one of the most vital factors for the functioning of different ecosystems. When water levels fall

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/rising-temperatures-affect-wetlands-and-disrupt-water-balance - 2025-12-27

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 the documentary A Tale from the Woods. Anders talks about the measurements of carbon dioxide made IC

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/anders-lindroth-interviewed-tale-woods - 2025-12-27

Net carbon emissions that is in general expected to increase with thawing permafrost, did not increase according to new study in the Abisko region. Massive permafrost thaw in snow experimentIn 2005, Margareta Johansson started a snow manipulation experiment on Storflaket mire in the Abisko area to record how increased snow predicted for the future would affect permafrost. The experiment has result

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/permafrost-thawing-may-not-cause-more-carbon-emissions - 2025-12-27

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 have made measurements of greenhouse gases at clear-cutting and found that there are large net emission

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-areas-emit-greenhouse-gases - 2025-12-27

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 research infrastructure INTERACT, gave an invited talk at the European Polar Science Week in late October. Polar

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/interact-presented-european-polar-science-week - 2025-12-27

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 SIDA and Makerere University that targeted teaching staff at Ugandan Public Universities. He is also a member of Faculty at the Departmen

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-thesis-gis-and-spatial-methods-epidemiology - 2025-12-27

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 Research Council (3.94 million SEK). His starting grant project "M

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/starting-grant-research-root-dynamics-arctic - 2025-12-27

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 short about who you are and how you came to be a doctoral student at INES?I am an industrial PhD student employed by Lantmäteriet an

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/thesis-about-harmonisation-3d-geodata-planning-and-building - 2025-12-27

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 interacts with phosphorus in forest ecosystems (Application title in Swedish: Interaktioner av fosforcykeln

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/funding-ecosystem-process-research - 2025-12-27

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 science article in The Conversation on how plans to use solar panels in the Sahara can affect the climate.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/solar-panels-sahara-could-boost-renewable-energy-damage-global-climate-heres-why - 2025-12-27

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 magazine? This interview / profile comes after the Swedish Astronomical Society's festival called "A

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/we-live-golden-age-satellite-research - 2025-12-27

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 the amount of carbon dioxide emitted, lakes, watercourses and wetlands are not included. If these ar

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/emissions-greenhouse-gases-sweden-are-greatly-underestimated - 2025-12-27

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 interviewed by the magazine Extrakt, after having co-authored a study in which he and 32 other researche

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/clearcutting-increasing-europe-not-previously-reported-rate - 2025-12-27

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 - 2025-12-27

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 - 2025-12-27

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 - 2025-12-27

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 - 2025-12-27

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 - 2025-12-27

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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/icos-supports-science-and-policy-making-first-comprehensive-article-describing-icos-published - 2025-12-27