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The Calypso corer on board the R/V Marion Dufresne. Photo: Christian Stranne
Department of Geological Sciences

Investigate the role of the Amazon region in the Earth's climate system

The Amaryllis-Amagas expedition overarching goal is to investigate the role of the Amazon region in the Earth's climate system, and to reconstruct the climate history of the Amazon basin and northeastern Brazil, with R/V Marion Dufresne.

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Bolin Centre for Climate Research

Aerosol demasking enhances climate warming over South Asia – a potential climate overshoot process

In a new publication, observational constraints showed that removing aerosol air pollution led to climate warming (from Greenhouse Gases, GHG) over South Asia (aerosol demasking of climate warming).

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Department of Social Anthropology

Anthropologist admitted to the Pro Futura programme

Chakad Ojani has been admitted to the Pro Futura Sciencia programme for promising early-career scholars. In the coming five years he will be working on the project ‘Oceans in the sky’ that deals with fog capture in coastal Peru.

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Photo: Camille Akhoudas
Department of Geological Sciences

Study shows increased intensity of the atmospheric hydrological cycle in the Southern Ocean

Researchers have used a 30-year time series to analyze how surface salinity in the Southern Ocean has changed. By studying changes in ocean surfaces properties the researchers were able to trace back to the processes behind salinity changes.

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Department of Geological Sciences

Patrick Crill is ranked #1 in Sweden as Best Scientist in the field of Environmental Sciences

Once again, Professor Patrick Crill (Department of Geological Sciences) is among the Top Scientists in the area of Environmental Sciences according to the prominent academic platform for scientists, Research.com, 2023 Edition. Congratulations!

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Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

Baltic Breakfast: Messing with the seabed – and below it

The seabed and the bedrock could play an important role for the green transition; for mining of minerals and storing of carbon dioxide. But the environmental consequences of such activities are not fully understood, showed the presentations at the last Baltic Breakfast.

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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.

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Child picking coffee berries

Child labour contributes to the preservation of forest cover

The work with forest preservation in southwestern Ethiopia, where smallholder coffee farmers play an important part, is essential for global sustainability. But there are also negative consequences to the synergy between smallholder cash crop production and biodiversity values. A new study conducted by researchers from Stockholm University, published in the International Journal of Educational Development, shows that child labour plays an important role in the system.

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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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Department of Geological Sciences

The barrier that helped the Great Barrier Reef form

Scientists had always been puzzled why the Great Barrier Reef formed long after Australia had conditions suitable for reef growth. It turns out the answer might be K’gari, or Fraser Island, shows new research by Daniel Ellerton, Postdoctoral at IGV and James Shulmeister, Adjunct Professor (University of Queensland and University of Canterbury). They discussed the new research in "The Conversation".

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Dryland vegetation in Utah, US. Photo: Stefano Manzoni.
Department of Physical Geography

Drylands: complex ecosystems under increasing climatic and anthropogenic pressures

New review article in Nature Climate Change, on recent advances in the study of dryland productivity and major outstanding debates on dryland responses to environmental changes.

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Flygbild på metanläckaget från Nord Stream.
Department of Geological Sciences

Large local effect but small global climate impact of Nord Stream

The leakage of methane gas from the Nord Stream pipelines has a large local effect on ocean chemistry, but the global climate impact is likely to be small. This according to geochemist Volker Brüchert at Stockholm University.

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Male reindeer walking on a paved road

The majority of reindeer grazing land is under cumulative pressures

Reindeer herding has a long history in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland. It has shaped the Fennoscandian mountain landscape, and is also seen as means to mitigate climate change effects on vegetation. Yet a new study published in Scientific Reports shows that the majority of this grazing land is exposed to cumulative pressures, threatened by the expansion of human activities towards the north.

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Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

Students map the Baltic seafloor

When students of the Stockholm University course in Marine Geophysical Mapping Methods collect sediment cores from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, the cores are immediately used in research. No sample material is wasted. The ability to map the seabed is a much sought-after skill in today's job market.

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Measurement of the height of Kebnekaise’s southern peak

Kebnekaise’s southern peak once again lower than the northern peak

This year’s measurement confirms that the summit of Kebnekaise’s southern peak continues to be lower than that of the northern peak. However, in contrast to reports on extreme glacier mass loss in the Alps, glacier mass loss in Sweden was moderate during the summer of 2022, according to researchers at Tarfala Research Station.

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Department of Geological Sciences

Microorganism shell acts as a time capsule

A research team at IGV led by Helen Coxall is investigating the response of marine plankton to climate change in the Arctic Ocean. The team has sampled planktonic foraminifera from the ocean and seafloor sediments during the SAS cruise in 2021 with Icebreaker /Oden/. They will use these samples to investigate how different species have responded to warm periods in the past and how they are adapting to modern global warming. This article contains more information about the project and about the progress the researchers have made so far.

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Stockholm University Center for Circular and Sustainable Systems

Receivers of the SUCCeSS first Post doc funding round announced

During the SUCCeSS workshop on June 14th, the first three funded post doc projects were announced. We are now happy to share this piece of new with the world. The following projects will be funded:

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Forskningsfartyget Electra
Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

Electra on major expedition to map Baltic Sea methane

Stockholm University's research vessel Electra sets off today across the Baltic Sea for a major multidisciplinary expedition off the Finnish coast. Through extensive sampling of sediment, water and air, researchers at the new CoastClim centre will map how much methane from the seabed is reaching the atmosphere and affecting the climate.

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Poplar

Fast-growing poplars can release land for food production

Researchers at Stockholm University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have developed a novel value chain for production of textile and bio-fuel from fast-growing poplars. By applying sustainable catalysis on these poplars grown on marginal land in Nordic climates, the demand for cotton can be reduced. Consequently, considerable areas of productive agricultural land can be converted from cotton to food production.

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Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

Baltic Breakfast: The Danish example shows that nitrogen leakage can be reduced

Increased nutrient efficiency in agriculture and decreasing atmospheric deposition have had large and sustained effects on the Danish river loads of nitrogen. But to reach the goal of the Water Framework Directive, further measures are needed, such as taking areas out of agricultural production, means researcher Gitte Blicher-Mathisen, Aarhus University. Benoît Dessirier, researcher at Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre urges to reconsider today's focus on animal production to build a more resilient system and safeguard the water quality.

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Research projects

Landscape indicators for biological diversity

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's call "Indicators for biodiversity at landscape level" aims to increase our knowledge about the effects of fragmentation on biological diversity, important ecological structures, functions at a landscape level and proposals on how this can be measured.

Land use changed over the past 200 years
Practicing Food Sovereignty

Practicing Food Sovereignty focuses on indigenous communities and agricultural practices in four countries of the Eastern Himalaya region: Bhutan, Chittagong Hill Tracks of Bangladesh, Nepal, and Northeast India.

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Research groups

Ecography Lab

The Ecography Lab at the department is engaged in an ongoing research project focusing on environmental and multispecies anthropology, with the aim of combining ecology and ethnography into one ecographic method and way on anlysis.

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