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Map of the target area for the expedition ARTofMELT Oden is placed north east of Greenland.

ARTofMELT2023 expedition studies the arrival of summer in the Arctic

The fast-changing Arctic climate is determined by a balance between heat imported from the south, most of it in the atmosphere, and energy lost to space by radiation at the top of the Arctic atmosphere. The expedition ARTofMELT2023 (Atmospheric Rivers and the Onset of Sea Ice Melt 2023), led by researchers from Stockholm University has collected unique observations of the processes that govern the transition from winter to summer in the high Arctic, the time when the Arctic ice starts melting.

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Professor emeritus Hilding Sundqvist. Photo: MISU's photo archives
Department of Meteorology

Hilding Sundqvist in memoriam

Professor emeritus Hilding Sundqvist has passed away in Rättvik at the age of 90. Hilding worked at MISU for most of his career. At first as a research assistant and a PhD student, later as an associate professor and full professor. Hilding’s research area was dynamic meteorology with emphasis on cloud physics and numerical modeling.

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Department of Geological Sciences

Successful data collection in the Victoria and Nordenskjöld fjords

As of September 1st, the expedition GEOEO North of Greenland 2024 expedition (GEOEO24) have returned to the entrance of Victoria Fjord with icebreaker Oden after spending 16 days in the fjord and the nearby Nordenskjöld Fjord to the north. Martin Jakobsson, professor of marine geology and geophysics at Stockholm University, is one of two scientific leaders for the expedition. Read his update from the expedition.

Princip för strålningsmätning från rymden. Bild: Thorsten Mauritsen/MISU/Stockholms universitet
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MISU satellite project receives funding from the Swedish National Space Agency

MISU’s researcher Thorsten Mauritsen has been awarded funds from the Swedish National Space Agency to develop the satellite project Earth Climate Observatory (ECO) which is competing to be part of the European Space Agency ESA’s program Earth Explorer. The project is one of four main candidates and in 2029 one of these candidates will be chosen by ESA for the program.

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Students standing by the shore. The Baltic Sea in the background.
Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

PhD students connect coast and society in a changing climate

Solving complex questions about interactions between the sea and climate change, and how they relate to society, requires a broad set of skills. In a new research school, PhD students from diverse scientific disciplines at Stockholm University get a unique opportunity to learn how transdisciplinary approaches and research communication can lead to sustainable management of coastal environments.

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Bolin Centre for Climate Research

Registration is now open! Three questions to David Wårlind about Swedish Climate Symposium

On 15–17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to seek greater scientific understanding of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. David Wårlind is part of the steering group for the symposium, and we asked him three questions about why you don't want to miss the opportunity to participate.

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Student Competition

Climate and Health: A Vision for Stockholm 2029

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Major Baltic Sea research initiative - 12 PhD positions open

Within a new graduate school in ocean, climate and environmental issues, 12 doctoral students will be admitted at several of Stockholm University's departments.

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Krishnakant Budhavant and Prof Örjan Gustafsson at the station in the Maldives

Measurements reveal the impact of air pollution on climate and health in southern Asia

Researchers from Stockholm University are involved in the operation of two strategically placed measurement stations in the Maldives and Bangladesh, which capture air pollutants that affect people’s health and the climate. These pollutants come from diverse sources across the Indian subcontinent, which the research is seeking to pinpoint.

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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.

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MATS light

Satellite MATS takes its first image of the upper atmosphere

On November 9th, it was time for MATS to take the first images of the atmosphere. At 10:32 CET, MATS was approaching Esrange Space Center – a centre for space activities and satellite communication located about 40 kilometers east of the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. At that moment, the control center, operated by OHB Sweden that built the MATS satellite platform, came in contact with the satellite via the tracking antenna at Esrange.

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Swedish marine research stations have joined the EMBRC

The Askö laboratory is one of the twelve Swedish marine research stations that joined the network European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) in 2022. Thanks to the collaboration, researchers within the network get access to services, facilities, and technology platforms in Skagerrak, Kattegat, and the Baltic Sea, in addition to the other stations in the network.

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