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4 Apr 2022
Digital maps of tomorrow improve how we find our way
Many of us have digital maps at our fingertips in our smartphones, but these maps are not adapted to guide us when walking or finding our way in new environments, for example, as t...
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23 Feb 2022
Agricultural hotspots may move in a future climate
High-yield food production is concentrated today in certain geographical areas, so-called "breadbaskets". But what will happen to these areas in a warmer climate? To secure food pr...
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11 Feb 2022
Congratulations Margareta Johansson...
...who has been nominated by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) to be the Swedish representative in the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Cryosphere working...
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17 Dec 2021
Awarded for popular science article
Associate Professor Frans-Jan Parmentier has been awarded in Norway for his article about climate and permafrost.
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9 Dec 2021
Award-winning thesis combines remote sensing and botany
Dr. Oskar Löfgren, who works interdisciplinary between remote sensing and botany to understand plant communities and their ecology, has been awarded for his thesis. "Plants can pro...
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6 Dec 2021
Improved model for monitoring CO2 emissions
Researchers have investigated the possibilities of independent, global monitoring of fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions globally based on satellite observations. This would impro...
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26 Oct 2021
Dr. Weiming Huang awarded best PhD thesis
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...
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4 Oct 2021
Our researchers in “The battle of the forest”
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 fores...
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13 Sep 2021
Copernicus publishes dataset - researchers from our department contribute
Copernicus has published a dataset that shows growing seasons and vegetation productivity in great detail. Researchers from the department - Lars Eklundh, Zhanzhang Cai and Hongxia...
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7 Jul 2021
The government appoints a member of the Geodata Council from the GIS center
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, representin...
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21 Jun 2021
With Arctic PASSION
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 fu...
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7 May 2021
Clearcutting is increasing in Europe – but not at the previously reported rate
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 cle...
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15 Apr 2021
"Emissions of greenhouse gases in Sweden are greatly underestimated"
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 Swede...
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6 Apr 2021
"We live in a golden age for satellite research"
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. S...
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26 Feb 2021
“Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the global climate – here’s why”
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 b...
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23 Nov 2020
Funding to ecosystem process research
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 departm...
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20 Nov 2020
Thesis about harmonisation of 3D geodata for planning and building
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 p...
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13 Nov 2020
Starting Grant to research on root dynamics in the Arctic
Grant to research on Modelling root dynamics in arctic tundra ecosystems and quantifying vegetation feedback to regional and global climate change.
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12 Nov 2020
New thesis: GIS and spatial methods in epidemiology
Augustus Aturinde, PhD candidate, recently nailed his thesis “GIS and Health: Enhancing Disease Surveillance and Intervention through Spatial Epidemiology”.