Published 5 May 2015 QS Top University ranking for 2015 places Lund University as the world's twentieth by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 20 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is an improvement from last year's position of 21. Lund University as a whole also climbs to rank #60, maintaining a firm grip on the "A top 10

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-20-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2025-04-25

Published 6 May 2015 ICOS Carbon Portal is the central data portal for a European-wide Greenhouse Gas monitoring network. It offers access to research data from ICOS scientists all over Europe, and provides facilities and IT resources supporting modelling activities for elaborated data products. Alex Vermeulen, director of the Carbon Portal Hello Alex Vermeulen! What is the Carbon Portal?– The ICO

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/carbon-portal-access-carbon-research-data - 2025-04-25

Published 22 May 2015 Climatic covariates of NBP extremes. Findings from an international research group including Anders Ahlström (main author) and Ben Smith from INES, reveals news that changes the view on neglected areas: the semi-arid ecosystems has a key role in carbon cycling. The group has published their findings in Science. Terrestrial bioshere is absorbing about 1/4 of the carbon dioxide

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/semi-arid-ecosystems-play-key-role-global-carbon-cycling - 2025-04-25

Published 1 June 2015 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Embassy in Washington asked four experts on the Arctic. First to be asked is Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department. Watch her answer or watch all four expert answers.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/why-do-we-need-care-about-arctic-region - 2025-04-25

Published 8 June 2015 Daniel Metcalfe, associate senior lecturer at our department, has received a grant from the Göran Gustafsson Foundation for nature and environment in Lapland. The money is to enable him to investigate how grazing insects affect soil processes in the birch forests of Lapland. Visit Dan Metcalfe's staff page

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/money-research-lapland - 2025-04-25

Published 3 August 2015 Ylva Persson, PhD student in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University, is conducting research on cloned trees. Her aim is to understand how the substances secreted by trees affects, and is affected, by climate. Ylva Persson studies the trees' volatile organic compounds (BVOCs).  It does not only give the plants their characteristic smell, but it also hav

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/trees-communicate-and-affect-climate - 2025-04-25

Published 25 August 2015 The new ESA (European Space Agency) satellite SENTINEL-2 is now in orbit, producing preliminary test data. The satellites' sensor is unique in terms of having both high spatial resolution, as well as temporal resolution. Data from SENTINEl-2 is used by the Lund Earth Observation research group in their research.For more information, use the following links:https://scihub.e

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/esa-satellite-provides-remote-sensing-data - 2025-04-25

Published 28 August 2015 Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology, has written an article in Miljömagasinet on climate change. It is still possible to influence the ongoing development, he writes. Read article here (Google translated)Staff page of Markku Rummukainen

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-climate-change - 2025-04-25

Published 14 September 2015 The latest issue of LUM features Emma Li Johansson's research. The article in LUM mentions the exhibition that will take place at the department on September 17th.Read the article in LUMSee event in our calendarVisit the staff page of Emma Li Johansson

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/article-lum-physical-geographer-uses-art-her-research - 2025-04-25

Published 18 September 2015 Svalbard. Photo credit: Frans-Jan Parmentier "Changes in the Arctic Ocean can affect ecosystems located far away on land, " says Dr. Frans-Jan Parmentier at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, lead author of the newly pyublished international study. As the sea ice melts the reflection of sunlight is replaced by absorption by the open sea surface.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/accelerated-methane-emissions-when-arctic-sea-ice-melts - 2025-04-25

Published 24 September 2015 The candidate will carry out development, testing and application of the Earth system model EC-EARTH in preparation for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) and the next Assessment Report of the IPCC. Apply no later than October 13th. You'll find the full job announcement here.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/job-opening-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-system-modelling - 2025-04-25

Published 30 September 2015 Professor of climatology Markku Rummukainen was interviewed in many media outlets due to the fact that the number of flood damages in 2014 was five times higher than in 2013. “The climate is getting warmer and there will be more and heavier downpours, which increases the risk of flooding and subsequent damages”, he said.Articles, in Swedish, in Svenska Dagbladet, SVT Ny

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/climate-change-creates-more-flood-damage - 2025-04-25

Published 5 October 2015 Frans-Jan Parmentier, researcher at our department, was interviewed in NyTeknik about his new research that shows that methane emissions from the Arctic tundra increase when the Arctic ice melts. “The decreased amounts of Arctic sea ice is one of the most visible consequences of climate change, and has a huge impact on the Arctic climate”, he said. International media also

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/melting-sea-ice-arctic-accelerates-methane-emissions - 2025-04-25

Published 12 October 2015 On Monday October 12th, all campus activity was cancelled due to a threat to the university, which the police judged needed to be taken seriously. After it turned out the threat had been distributed to several other higher educational institutions as well, a decision has been taken to reopen the university. Activities are expected to be running as usual from Tuesday morni

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/campus-teaching-cancelled-october-12th-due-threat - 2025-04-25

Published 5 November 2015 Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department, has been interviewed by Sveriges Radio - Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster - about her research on permafrost. Margareta Johansson said she is measuring the active layer, that is, the part of the permafrost that thaws every year, as well as looking at trends and changes over time.Read the full article he

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-interviewed-sveriges-radio - 2025-04-25

Published 5 November 2015 Markku Rummukainen has been featured twice in Dagens Nyheter recently, and once in Forskning & Framsteg. In one article in Dagens Nyheter, Rummukainen was interviewed about capturing and storing of carbon dioxide as a strategy for mitigating climate change. The technology is called CCS, which stands for carbon, capture and storage.Rummukainen says he'd prefer if emissions

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/marku-rummukainen-featured-media-topic-climate-change - 2025-04-25

Published 17 November 2015 Dr Dan Metcalfe is co-author to a paper coming out in Nature on the 23rd November, based upon his work with the longest-running tropical drought experiment. The study uses measurements from an Amazon forest subjected to over 12 years of severe artificial drought to pinpoint the mechanisms of drought induced tree mortality.Remarkably, even after widespread mortality the l

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/article-tropical-drought-experiment-nature - 2025-04-25

Published 25 November 2015 Abisko-Stordalen is one of the measurement sites at ICOS Sweden. The igloo is a field laboratory which provides shelter to the sensitive parts of the measurement equipment. Photo: Jutta Holst On November 20 2015, the ICOS ERIC is officially established in Brussels, one of twelve large EU research companies. This will enable a comprehensive approach to map the European gr

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/icos-eric-establishment-strong-message-towards-cop21 - 2025-04-25

Published 1 December 2015 SVT reporter Calle Elfström from the news programme Rapport ("Report") interviewed ICOS Project leader and Professor Anders Lindroth on the measurements being done at the research station Norunda, which is located about 30 km north of Uppsala, Sweden. – We know from what we have been seeing for a long time that [carbon dioxide levels] keep increasing, and we see no tangib

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/swedish-television-news-program-rapport-paid-visit-icos-research-station-norunda - 2025-04-25

Published 3 December 2015 Recently, the media has been featuring some of the research being conducted at the department. Here are some of the articles. The world's vegetation has increasedProfessor Ben Smith has been interviewed about satellite measurements that show the earth's vegetation has increased during the last 30 years. Smith says that this is not only due to the greenhouse effect, but al

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/departments-research-media - 2025-04-25