2023-03-27

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

DEEP researcher Hanna Johannesson comments the current series "The Last of Us"

In the current TV series "The Last of Us", the entire humanity is threatened by a parasitic fungus. The series may be fictional, but it raises awareness of the importance of researching fungi, since fungi are both a treasure trove and potential threat, says DEEP researcher Hanna Johannesson. Hanna has appeared as expert on the subject in a series of media outlets the last couple of weeks.

Plants, Animals and Nature

2023-03-10

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

Ash can protect against the bark beetle: 'Costs the forestry industry a hundred million annually.'

Thanks to the high level of silicon in ash, the return of ash to Swedish forests can increase the production of biomass and strengthen the trees' resistance to insect attacks, especially from the very harmful bark beetle. DEEP researcher Maria Greger, comments.

Climate and Environment Plants, Animals and Nature

2023-03-08

SU researchers will lead the development of new sustainable fibers for consumer use

The BIO-Lush consortium led by professor Aji Mathew from MMK/SUCCeSS has been awarded almost 5 M€ in funding from the EU-call Circular Bio-based Europe (CBE). The four-year project is planned to start in 2023 and will address a growing need to utilize biomass for sustainable and high-quality fibre extraction.

Chemistry Climate and Environment Plants, Animals and Nature Sustainable Chemistry

2023-02-20

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

Plankton - important for the climate

The world’s oceans play a central role in the global climate. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Rachel Foster, Stockholm University, is researching on marine plankton communities that impact nitrogen and carbon cycles. Plankton are of extreme importance for earth’s climate. They produce half of all oxygen, lock up enormous amounts of carbon and reduce carbon dioxide. But exactly how? And how long can they continue, now as the world heats up?

Climate and Environment Oceans and Lakes

Ingenjör Elizaveta Mattsson med den så kallade CTD-sonden, som bland annat mäter temperatur, syrehalt och indirekta parametrar för salthalt och djup, ska snart skickas ner 40 meter till strax ovan havsbotten vid den legendariska mätstationen Askö B1 i Trosa skärgård. Foto: Michaela Lundell

2023-02-03

Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

Laying the foundation for our understanding of the Baltic Sea

A van full of sampling equipment leaves Stockholm University at half past five in the morning. Twelve hours later it returns, carrying hundreds of bottles, jars and test tubes filled with water from different locations and depths in the Baltic Sea. Follow along on a day of environmental monitoring at sea!

Climate and Environment Plants, Animals and Nature Oceans and Lakes

2023-02-02

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

DEEP alumni Benjamin Jones elected President of the World Seagrass Association

Dr Benjamin Jones, a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at Stockholm University has started his two-year term as President of the World Seagrass Association (WSA). He steps up to the role having been elected at the WSA Annual General Meeting (AGM) in December 2022. Prior to this he’s served on the WSA Steering Committee for a number of years.

Climate and Environment Oceans and Lakes Plants, Animals and Nature

2023-02-01

Department of Geological Sciences

Flammable ice of profit and doom

Methane hydrate clogs pipelines, is difficult to extract profitably, and exists in quantities sufficient to screw up Earth’s climate. Brett Thornton and Christian Stranne, from the Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research at Stockholm University, consider this confounding cage compound.

Oceans and Lakes Geology, Geography and Landscapes

Photo: European Space Agency
(Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

2023-01-20

Department of Meteorology

Multidisciplinary marine science effort to secure future sustainable water resources on Gotland

The Formas Scientific Council has awarded SEK 14.5 million to Inga Monika Koszalka, to lead a multidisciplinary project on forecasts of algae blooms, and their impact on water resources on Gotland.

Climate and Environment Oceans and Lakes

2023-01-16

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

A journey across generations - Inheritance of the plant microbiome via the seed

What defines us and other living organisms best: nature or nurture? Researchers at, among others, the Leibniz Institute and the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) got another piece of the puzzle in a recently published study.

Plants, Animals and Nature Life Science

2022-12-06

Successful investment in ocean research network

The Baltic Sea Fellows initiative, a network of young Baltic Sea researchers from several disciplines, was launched to strengthen the environmental Baltic Sea research at Stockholm University. The results of this year's awarded research grants from the Swedish Research Council and Formas show that it is going well. The group of researchers has raised over 25 million Swedish crowns this year.

Oceans and Lakes Geology, Geography and Landscapes Climate and Environment Plants, Animals and Nature

2022-11-22

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

Rachel Foster promoted to professor at DEEP

Rachel Foster has been promoted to professor at Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP). We therefore have three questions for Rachel about becoming a professor.

Climate and Environment Oceans and Lakes

2022-11-08

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

We have a new doctor at DEEP, congratulations Dr. Barnabas Alphonce Tarimo!

Barnabas Alphonce Tarimo defended his thesis titled "Patterns of fish larvae and zooplankton distribution in mangrove-seagrass seascapes of East Africa" the 4th of November. Discover more about his findings here.

Oceans and Lakes Plants, Animals and Nature

2022-10-31

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

Two DEEP alumni now run a podcast called "Under the sea surface"

The former DEEP researchers Lina Rasmusson and Marcus Stenegren are still colleagues but at the County Administrative Board Västra Götaland working as marine biologists. There they took the initiative to start a podcast aimed to communicate topics covering what goes on under the surface and along the coast in Västerhavet to the broad public. The pod cast is in Swedish and called “Under havsytan”.

Plants, Animals and Nature Oceans and Lakes Climate and Environment

2022-10-26

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

The winner of DEEPs field work photo social media competition is Muhammad Saeed

The winner of DEEPs field work photo social media competition is our DEEP guest researcher Muhammad Saeed. Muhammad got a gift voucher to print out favourite photos and the winning photo will decorate our seminar room N399 in the form of a canvas.

Climate and Environment Plants, Animals and Nature

Heavily turbid water sample collected by India in snorkelling gear. Photo: Joakim Hansen

2022-10-12

Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

Master's studies by the sea

Imagine being able to do your Master's work by the Baltic Sea during the summer. India Findji, who studies marine biology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, managed to fulfill that dream this summer. She did her work at the Stockholm University field station Askö Laboratory, together with Jonna Källås, another Master's student from Sweden.

Climate and Environment Oceans and Lakes

2022-09-26

Plants can resist climate change challenges and recover by adjusting lignin “chemical code"

A new study shows that we can create and/or select plants that can better recover from drought without affecting the size of the plant or seed yield by genetically modifying their lignin chemistry. These results could be used in both agriculture and forestry to tackle future climate challenges.

Chemistry Plants, Animals and Nature Sustainable Chemistry

Baltic Sea Fellows overiew. Illustration: Azote

2022-09-14

Successful strategic funding of marine research

A progress report for the strategic research area funding to marine research at Stockholm University is now published. The report concludes that the research group Baltic Sea Fellows, which is financed by the strategic funding, has published 200+ publications and managed to double the funding with external grants.

Law, Crime and Justice Climate and Environment Oceans and Lakes Plants, Animals and Nature

2022-09-01

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

DEEP researcher Elias Broman recieved post doc funding from SUCCeSS

The research project Elias Broman will be working on is named "Safe water reuse in a changing environment –microbial degradation of contaminants in European rivers". Two other funded post doc projects were also announced during the SUCCeSS workshop this summer.

2022-03-24

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

A poorly known and critically endangered species of Merlin’s grass surprises researchers

A poorly known and critically endangered species of Merlin’s grass (Isoetaceae) endemic to the Eastern Cape of South Africa is demonstrated to be of substantial evolutionary significance. The species, Isoetes wormaldii, is sister to the rest of the family and genetically and morphologically distinct.

Plants, Animals and Nature

2022-03-17

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

The Smallest Animals in the Water: Tiny but Mighty

Monika Winder, professor at DEEP, shares insights about the wonders of zooplankton that are the smallest animals in the water, in a blog post for kids published in the Frontiers For Young Minds. If you're a teacher for example, feel free to share the article!

Skarvbo. Foto: Douglas Jones, Artdatabanken, SLU.

2022-02-09

Cormorant eggs – an opportunity for contaminant monitoring

The number of great cormorants in Sweden increased greatly during the 1990s and they are now a common species around the Swedish coast and many of the lakes. During the breeding season great cormorants build colonies with a distinctive fishy odor which, along with their voracious appetite for fish, has often made them unpopular. However, great cormorants could give valuable information on environmental contaminants found in aquatic environments according to a new collaborative study from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), the Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM) and Stockholm University.

Plants, Animals and Nature Oceans and Lakes Climate and Environment

2022-02-03

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

What Are the Small Lumps you see on Some Plant Roots?

Fede Berckx, PhD candidate at DEEP, shares insights about the wonders of plant roots in a blog post for kids published in the Frontiers For Young Minds. The blog post covers how microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, can live together with plants in a tight relationship where they help each other to provide nutrients.

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