Our research is in Physical Geography, a wide-ranging scientific field dealing with the diverse physical and biological features of Earth.
Research units
Geomorphology and Glaciology
We analyze how the landscape is affected by glaciers and ice sheets to reconstruct environments and processes to understand future changes in a local to global perspective.
We investigate hydrological processes in water and land environments, the anthropogenic effects and their variability and change, to the knowledge needed for sustainable development.
We study changes in climate and the environment, both back in time and current conditions. Through climate models we also simulate future climate and environmental changes.
We research landscape ecology, environment, biodiversity and ecosystem services across parts of the world to understand interactions between humans, nature and climate.
Two scientific articles bring a better understanding of the spatial variability of soil organic carbon in the Arctic permafrost region. One article published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles led by Umeå researcher Matthias Siewert, and with Gustaf Hugelius as co-author, is describing how permafrost and periglacial landforms cause a unique variability in Arctic soils. A second article in Science Advances provides a new map for the soil organic carbon stored in the circumpolar permafrost region.