Annual Report

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Annual Report

Annual Report
2012
Department of geology
Lund University, 2013
Annual Report 2012
Contents
Department of Geology 2012 .........................................................................
Staff 2012 .......................................................................................................
Undergraduate studies ..................................................................................
Post-graduate studies ....................................................................................
Special laboratories ........................................................................................
Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory .........................................................
Palaeomagnetic/Mineral Magnetic laboratory ....................................
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Ar/39Ar Geochronology Laboratory ...................................................
Lund Luminescence Laboratory ........................................................
Lund University Mineral Separation Laboratory .................................
Lund University Mineral Separation Laboratory .................................
Microfossil laboratory .........................................................................
National Resource Units .................................................................................
Laboratory for Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology ......................
Laboratory for Ceramic Research ......................................................
Other laboratories ...........................................................................................
Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences ....................................................
General research program .................................................................
Research workers and projects ..........................................................
Research students .............................................................................
Quaternary Sciences ......................................................................................
General research program .................................................................
Research workers and projects ..........................................................
Research students .............................................................................
Publications 2012 ...........................................................................................
Peer reviewed journals .......................................................................
Popular science ..................................................................................
Book chapters ....................................................................................
Other publication ................................................................................
Conference abstracts .........................................................................
Table 1. Members of the Board 2012 ..................................................
Table 2. Succesfull applications to the SwedishResearch Councuil ...
Table 3. Successful applications to the Swedish Research Council
special call for French Swedish collaboration. ........................
Table 4. Successful applications to the Geological Survey ................
Table 5. Members of the gender equality committee 2012. .................
Table 6. Courses in geology 2012 .......................................................
Table 7. Teaching staff 2012 ................................................................
Table 8. Bachelor and master theses 2012 ........................................
Table 9. PhD dissertations 2012 ..........................................................
Table 10. PhD courses organized by geology 2012 ...........................
Table 11. Guest scientists from abroad ..............................................
Table 12 Field expeditions outside Sweden ......................................
Table 13. Workshops arranged in Lund ...............................................
Table 14. International travel and visits ...............................................
Table 15. Participation in international conferences, workshops etc ...
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Frontpage: Mammoth tusk from sediments at Logata River, Taymyr, Siberia found during the
2012 SWEDARCTIC expedition. Photo P. Möller.
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Department of Geology 2012
Reserach at the Department is carried out
in Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences
(page 14) and Quaternary Sciences (page 21).
We have a three year Bachelor program and a
two year Master program in addition to a number
of evening, summer and net based courses The
research education in Geobiosphere Sciences is
a joint education with Physical Geography and
Ecosystem Analysis.
During 2012 there were 5 board meetings.
Members of the Board are shown in Table 1.
The Department is most research oriented
with c. 85% of the turnover related to research
Table 1. Members of the board 2012.
Chairman: The Prefekt
Teachers/researchers Suppliants:
● Helena A
● Johan L
● Carl A
● Helena F
● Svante B
● Dan H
● Anders S
● Ulf S
Technical/administrative staff
● Gert P
● Robin G
● Pia S
PhD students
● Anette Johansson
● Maria Åkesson
● Sanna Holm
● Karolina Bjärnborg
Student representative
● Wictor Linders
● Nils-Olov Nilsson
(faculty and externally funded, and contract based)
and c. 15% related to basic education. These figures have been fairly stable over the many years
despite increasing externa grants and resources
for basic education.
In the financial statement for 2012 (Fig. 1)
basic education shows a negative result with
1,4 million SEK as anticipated, whereas faculty
funded research for both Quaternary and Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences shows positive results. For basic education (GU) the agency
capital after 2012 has turned negative with 285
kSEK (Fig. 2). The agency capital after 2012 for
faculty funded research for both Quaternary and
Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences display
positive figures.
External funding shows a strong and continukSEK
1500
GU
Kvg
Vg 21
Vg 55
ous development between 2004 and 2011 with
an increase of 74% or almost 20 million SEK.
(Fig. 3). This trend was broken in 2012 with a
drop of almost 5 million SEK.
In 2012 there were a number of successful
research applications. Svante Björck, Anders
Scherstén and Ulf Söderlund all received significant amounts for most thrilling projects in
Swedish Research Council’s general call (Table
2). The total amount was 7.7 million SEK which
is 1.7 million SEK more compared to 2011. Carl
Alwmark received 1.27 million SEK in the category "young researchers" which on the other
hand is about 6 million SEK less compared to
Bgg
Vg 21
kSEK
Vg 55
7500
GU
Kvg
Vg 21
Vg 55
Bgg
Vg 21
Vg 55
6500
1000
5500
4500
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3500
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2500
1500
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500
-1000
-500
-1500
-1500
Fig. 2. Only Quaternary Sciences show a more significant positive agency capital after 2012 most of
which is assigned for different purposes. The very
by surplus for the basic education a couple of years
ago has turned negative.
Fig. 1. Financial statement for 2012.
GU = basic education, Kvg = Quaternary Sciences,
Bgg = Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences,
Vg 21 = faculty funded research, Vg 55 = reserach
on comission.
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Table 2. Successful applications to the Swedish
Research Council general call in 2012 and in the
category young researchers (last).
External funding 2004-2012
50000
45000
40000
Svante Björck - Modellering av södra halvklotets
cirkulationsförändringar - med fokus på avslutningen av den senaste istiden och inledningen
av holocen – 800 kSEK 2013, 900 kSEK 2014
Anders Scherstén - Gränsvärden för mekanismer
och takt för bildande av kontinentalskorpa genom
mikroanalys av isotopsystematik i zirkon – 4x
700 kSEK
Ulf S - Rekonstruktion av Jordens första superkontinent – 4x 800 kSEK
Carl Alwmark - En studie av den globala kraterfrekvensen under ordovicium - Uppbrytningen av en
asteroid och dess konsekvenser för jorden – 300
kSEK, 350 kSEK, 320 kSEK 300 kSEK.
Axeltitel
35000
30000
25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Fig. 3. The trend of increasing external funding betweem 2004 and 2011 was broken by a drop in 2012
by 4,570 million SEK.
2011. In a special call from the Swedish Research Council for French-Swedish collaboration Svante Björck and Dan Hammar-lund were
successful and receive 2,653 and 2,7 million
SEK crow respectively for three years (Table 3).
The outcome of applications to the Geological
Survey was also successful for the Department
with three approved projects, to Helena Alexandersson, Anders Scherstén and Ulf Söderlund
(Table 4). From the FORMAS geoinfra-call
Torleif Dahlin at Lunbd Technical university,
as main applicant, with Charlotta Sparrenbom
and Håkan Rosqvist as co-applicants has been
granted almost 7 milion SEK for 5 years for the
project "Geoelectrical Imaging for Site Investigation for Urban Underground Infrastructure“.
Torleif Dahlin, as main applicant, and Charlotta
Sparrenbom as co-applicant has been granted 1.6
million SEK from Lund Tachnical University infrastructure for a walk TEM-equipmewnt, a new
GPR-equipment and a DCIP. The application for
a High Resolution LA-ICP-MS from the Science
Faculty infrastructure call was unfortunately
turned down but an improved application ha been
submitted for the 2013 call.
The extensive research activity is reflected in
numerous ways. In 2012 altogether 112 papers (90
in 2011) were published (p. 33) in peer reviewed
scientific journals, some of which in very prestigious journals like Science, Nature Geoscince
and Plos One. This is 20% more compared to
2011. In 39 of these (43%) researchers from
geology were first author. A total of 120 conference abstracts (p. 39) were submitted in 2012
with researchers from geology as first author in
c. 70%. Considerable international collaboration
and activities are also reflected in several other
parameters. In 2012 the Department was visited
by more than 35 scientists from all over the world
(Table 10, p. 46). Several researchers from geology did more than 50 international travels and
visits (Table 8, p. 44) and participated in 47 international conferences and workshops (Table 9,
p. 47). Several field expeditions were carried out
to various parts of the globe e.g. Chile, Ghana,
Vietnam, Greenland and Botswana (Table 11, p.
46 ) and 1 conference/workshop was organised
(Table 12, p. 48).
The gender equality committee is a joint unit
between Department of Geology and Department of
physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis. The
committee consisted in 20121of 7 persons from both
departments (Table 5). The Gender and Equality plan
for 2012 the was approved by the two Department
Boards. The gender- and equality committee organised in November an interactive theater performance
with the group Puman/Nya Klassiska Teatern that
was attended by 35-40 participants. Eleven women
participated in a 1-day seminar for women in worklife - ”Kvinnor i tiden”.
With the end of December 2012 my six years as
head of department has come to an end. In all respects
it has been very inspiring but also very intense years.
I think that these years personally have been very
developing and I have come to know a number of
persons both within and outside the department which
has been most stimulating. Of all duties that comes
with this position staff related issues and problems,
probably are the single task that has taken up most
of my time and most of my energy.
The previous head of department, Per Möller,
struggled for many years with a huge negative agency
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Table 5. Members of the gender equality committee
2012.
Table 3. Successful applications to the Swedish
Research Council special call for French Swedish
collaboration.
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Svante Björck - Analys av Södra Oceanens roll för
det globala klimatsystemet - 2,653 million SEK
for three years.
Dan Hammarlund - Storskalig klimatdynamik i
Europa under de senaste 2000 åren baserat på
isotopanalys av sjösediment - 2,7 milliom SEK
for three years.
Johanna Stadmark (researcher, geology)
Hanna Alfredsson (PhD student, geology)
Amelie Lindgren (student)
Harry Lankrijer (teacher,Ines)
Florian Saballa (TA, Ines)
Filippa Karlstedt (student Ines)
Emmy Heidenbladh (administrative kansli)
over the last years has stabilized around 30. I think
a number of reasons can explain this very encouraging development. A lot of work has been devoted to
develop the bachelor and master programs by introducing a number of new courses. The labour market
for students with a degree in geology has been most
positive. We have a most qualified group of teachers. Of the lecturers 75% are professors all who are
engaged in research. The generally open and positive
attitude at the Department was reflected in e.g. the
"Studentbarometern" which shows that students in
geology are the most satisfied students at the faculty
with their teachers (Table 3:2 Renehed 2011). In June
2012 our former student administrator Margaretha
Kihlblom received the students Honorary Award for
"extraordinary services to the students". At the same
occasion Hans Jeppsson was awarded the students
Pedagogic Award. In the evaluation last year of the
Swedish National Agency for Higher Education of
all bachelor and masterprograms in geosciences in
Sweden both our bachelor and our master program
received the top grade - very high quality as the only
university in Sweden.
Another most significant and positive thing worth
mentioning is that over the last six years we have built
up a well functioning, very professional administrative unit jointly with our sister department Physical
Geography and Ecosystem Analyses.
I think we can all be very proud of our Department with top quality research and education as well
as qualified administrative and technical support.
The role as head of a department is most complex
and complicated and requires among other things
a true interest for staff and administration. I am
convinced that Mikael Calner is a most competent
successor and I wish him and the Department all the
best for the future.
Lund April 2012
capital, a problem that was more or less solved when
I succeeded him in 2007. In retrospective the last six
years have in most respects been a fantastic period
of expansion. The department has received two KVA
scholars (Raimund Muscheler and Vivi Vajda) and
Daniel Conley was appointed Wallenberg scholar in
2011, all three most prestigious appointments. That
money, along with several other grants, has allowed
Daniel Conley to develop a strong research group in
biogeochemical cycles and environmental change
especially in the Baltic Sea. Other new research
fields that has emerged over the last six years are e.g.
palaeooceanography and marine geology, astrobiology, impact research, and molecular palaeobiology.
In the RQ08 (Research Quality Assurance for the
Future) evaluation most of the research group were
considered oustanding.
The number of teachers with permanent position has increased significantly during the last six
years. Most of all the lecturers have been promoted
to professors. The first female professor in geology
was Charlotte Möller, appointed in 2009. Researchers, generally on short term contracts, have like PhD
students increased significantly due to the increasing
external grants.
Basic education has seen a similar expansion as
research. The number of student have doubled from
just over 100 "full time year student equivalents"
in 2007 to almost 200 in 2012. In 2007 there were
7 applicants to the geology program, a figure that
Table 4. Successful applications to the Geological
Survey.
Helena Alexandersson - ett outforskat miljöarkiv
och landskapselement - 1,65 million SEK for
three years.
Anders Scherstén - 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology
across the Mylonite Zone, south-west Sweden 1,3 million SEK for three years.
Ulf Söderlund - Geokemisk och geokronologisk
undersökning av nicke-kopparmineraliseringen i
Kleva Småland - 200 kSEK.
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Staff
Management
Sandgren, Per
Calner, Mikael
Ahlberg, Per
Vajda, Vivi
Björck, Svante
Barnekow, Lena
head of department (prefekt)
deputy head (biträdande prefekt)
head of Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences
head of Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences,
head of Quaternary Sciences
student counsellor
Secretariat (jointly with Department of physical geography and ecosystem analysis)
Andersson, Petra
economy administrator
Caesar, Gisela
head of economic administration
Habermann, Irma
Heidenblad, Emmy
staff administrator
Nottorp, Henrik
Rydahl, Michaela
Volkova, Ekaterina
Student administrator
Kihlblom, Margaretha
Mårtensson, Nina
student administrator (to 2012 05 31)
student administrator (from 2012 05 01)
System and network administrator
Olsson, Michael
IT technicial
Pettersson, Gert
IT administrator
Care taker
Eriksson, Hans
Geolibrary
Gullstrand, Robin
Hall, Rolf
Smångs, Britta
Yourstone, Linda
Teachers /researchers
Ahlberg, Per
Alexanderson, Helena
Alwmark, Carl
Barnekow, Lena
Benediktssonn, Ìvar Örn
Bercovici, Antoine
Björck, Svante
Caballero Alfonso, Angela
Calner, Mikael
Clyms, Wim
Conley, Daniel
Eriksson, Mats
Eriksson, Thomas
Filipsson, Helena
(jointly with Department of physical geography and ecosystem analysis)
1st librarian, head of geolibrary
librarian (part.-time)
librarian
librarian assistant
professor
professor
associate senior lecturer, fil dr
senior lecturer, fil dr, associate professor
associate senior lecturer, PhD
researcher, PhD
professor
researcher, PhD
professor
researcher, PhD
professor
professor
researcher, PhD
associate senior lecturer, fil dr, associate professor
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Gosh, Anupam
Haltia-Hovi, Eeva
Hammarlund, Dan
Holmgren, Sofia
Johansson, Leif
Liljegren, Ronnie,
Lindgren, Johan
Lindahl, Anders
Ljung, Karl
Meyer, Matthias
Muscheler, Raimund
Möller, Charlotte
Möller, Per
Nielsen, Anne Birgitte
Håkan Rosqvist,
Rundgren, Mats
Sandgren, Per
Schersten, Anders
Schmitz, Birger
Sjolte, Jesper
Skog, Göran
Snowball, Ian
Sparrenbom, Charlotte
Stadmark, Johanna
Sunyer, Raquel Vaquer
Söderlund, Ulf
Vajda, Vivi
Zillén, Lovisa
Van der Putten, Nathalie
Willumsen, Pi
researcher, PhD
researcher, PhD
professor
researcher, fil dr
professor
senior lecturer, fil dr (part-time)
senoir lecturer, fil dr, associate professor
professor
adjunct, fil dr
researcher, PhD
researcher, Dr. sc. nat., associate professor
professor
professor
researcher, PhD
guest teacher, PhD
professor
researcher, fil dr, associate professor
professor
researcher, PhD
professor
associate senior lecturer, fil dr
researcher, fil dr
researcher, PhD
professor
professor
researcher, fil dr
researcher, PhD
researcher, PhD
Adjunct professor
Mikael Erlström, Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU)
Guest professor
Babcock, Loren, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
PhD students
Adolphi,Florian
Beckman, Victoria
Bragée, Petra
Einarsson, Elisabeth
Frings, Patric
Johansson, Anette
Lindskog, Anders,
McKay, Claire
Nilsson, Mimmi
Petersson, Andreas
Striberger, Johan
Alfredsson, Hanna
Bergelin, Ingemar
Dowling, Tom
Fontorbe, Guillaume
Green, Johan
Le, Than
Lorraine, Tual
Mellgren, Johanna
Ning, Wenxin
Randsalu Wendrup, Linda
Åkesson, Maria
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Anjar, Johanna
Bjärnborg, Karolina
Edvardsson, Johannes
Fredh, Daniel
Holm, Sanna
Lenz, Conny
Lougheed, Bryan
Mehlqvist, Kristina
Olsson, Johan
Reinholdsson, Maja
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Technical/Laboratory staff
Cronholm, Anders
research engineer
Funkey, Carolina
project assistant
Linderson, Hans
research engineer,
Olsson, Mattias
research engineer
Romare, Pia
communicator
Tell, Carsten
laboratory assistant
Wallin, Åsa
engineer
Eklöv, Paul
Klintvik-Ahlberg, Git
Müller, Stefanie
Page, Laurence
Sköld, Pia
Terfelt, Fredrik
Emeritii/Emerita
Adrielsson, Lena
Bogdanova, Svetlana
Gorbatschev, Roland
Lindh, Anders
research engineer
research engineer
research engineer
Berglund, Björn E.
Digerfeldt, Gunnar
Hjort, Christian
Löfgren, Anita
New PhD students in 2011
Ning, Wenxin from February
Fontorbe, Guillaume (Kvg), from May
Green, Johan (Bgg) from August
Le, Than, (Kvg) from September
Promotions/appointments in 2012
Anders Lindahl was promoted to professor in Quaternary geology, specialization ...
Helena Filipsson and Anders Scherstén were promoted to docents
The following persons left the Department in 2012
Margaretha Kihlbom, retired in June
Thomas Eriksson, left for a position at the county board in Gävle
Eeva Haltia-Hovi, left in June
Henrik Nottorp moved to the central LU administration
Johan Olsson left after completing his PhD
Pi Wilumsen left at December 31
Birger Schmitz was moved to nuclear physics in March
E-mail addresses: firstname.surname@geol lu.se
Geolibrary: first [email protected]
Secreteriat: first [email protected]
Visiting/postal address:
Department of Geology
Lund University
Sölvegatan 12
SE-223 62 Lund
Sweden
Home page: www.geol.lu.se
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Undergraduate studies
Table 6. Courses in geology 2012.
From the 1st of July 2007 a new study and degree
structure was introduced in Sweden following a
European standardisation system for higher education (the Bologna program). The first three years of
undergraduate studies (basic level) leads to a Bachelor of Science in Geology (Fig. 7) and the following two years (advanced level) to a Master of Science in Geology (Fig. 8).
The undergraduate studies at the geology programme starts with 4 mandatory courses in basic
geology (yellow in Fig. 7). These are followed by
elective courses according to the choice of each student (blue in Fig. 7). Two of the elective courses
must be outside geology. To obtain the first degree
a Bachelor Theses corresponding to 15 credits is
mandatory (half a semester or 10 weeks work).
At the two year master program there are two
main specialisations: Bedrock geology and Quaternary geology (Fig. 8). The master program includes
a Master Thesis corresponding to 3/4 year (45 credits) of full time studies.
Code
Courses
Credits
Period
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In 2012 the department taught 40 courses (including degree theses, Table 4). Global and regional
maringeologi (15 hp VT1) was introduced as a new
master course.
In total 32 bachelor (13) and master thesis (19)
were presented in 2012 (Table. XX) compared to
22 in 2011. Teachers from the department also supervised a number of theses for students from the
Department of Environmental Sciences specialising
in geology. Our master student Samer Bou Dahers
received a prestigious price from the Geological
Survey of Sweden for the best thesis in 2012 presented at a Swedish university
The number of students starting studies in geology has significantly increased since 2007. The
last two or three years there has typically been 40+
students studying on program. Most of the students
finishing their Bachelor Thesis continue with the
Year 1
Mandatory courses
GEOA01
Planet Earth - an introduction
15
Ht 1
GEOB01
Life and Evolution - biostratigraphy,
palaenontolgy and palaeoecology
15
Ht 2
GEOB02
Climatology and Geomorphology
15
Vt1
The Lithosphere
15
Vt2
15
Ht1
GEOB03
Year 2
Mandatory course
GEOB04
Sedimentology
5 introductory courses
4 theoretical courses at basic level
3 applied courses at basic level
8 theoretical courses at advanced level
3 applied courses at advanced level
3 levels of theses work
• Bachelor Theses (15 credits)
• Magister Thesis (30 credits)
• Master Thesis (45 credits)
1 course in geology for archeologists
1 practical work
3 summer courses
4 net based courses
5 evening courses
Example of elective courses
GEOC06
Land Use and Waste Disposal
7.5
Ht2:1
GEOC02
Medical Geology
7.5
Ht2:2
GEOC04
Geophgysical Exploration Methods
15
Vt1
GEOP01
Hydrogeology
15
Vt1
GEOP04
15
Vt2
GEOP03
Earth Resources and Society
15
Ht1
GEOC01
Practical Training
15
any
15
Vt1
15
Vt2
Year 3
Elective courses as above
Mandatory course
GEOL01
Bachelor Thesis
Fig. 4. Program structure for the 3-year Bachelor program
in geology (180 credits). Yellow colour = mandatory courses, Light blue = elective courses. 30 credtis must be from
courses outside the geology program.
Ht1/Ht2 = first/second part of autumn semester
Vt1/Vt2 = first/second part of spring semester
A group of students during the final exam on the initial
program course (GEOA01) trying to figure out
questions related to a sediment core from the dead ice
hole behind them. Photo U. Söderlund.
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Table 7. Teaching staff 2012.
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16 professors
4 senior lecturers
1 lecturer
4 associate senior lecturer
a number of researchers
reduced as a result of a decision
taken at the University level. This
will of course have a serious negative
impact on our department as well
as on all the other departments at
the Faculty. From 2014 the Faculty
will also implement a new model for
distribution of the money available
for basic education due to the fact the
Faculty produces too many student in
relation to the mission. Because of
Fig. 5. Program structure for the 2-year Master program in Quaternary
this a further reduction of available
geology or bedrock geology (120 credits).
money for basic education can
2-year master program. After the master program be anticipated. A reduction of money for basic
approximately 50% of the students continue with education will eventually lead to less teaching hours
a research education either in Sweden or abroad. per course and a reduction in the number of courses.
Practically all the other students leaving the De- From 2013 it has already been decided to cancel the
partment with a master degree in geology get rel- two summer courses (in geologic mapping) as well
as one net-based course.
evant jobs.
In 2012 the National Agency for Higher Education
in Sweden (Högskoleverket) started an evaluation
process of all programs in the country. In the
first round geoscience was evaluated. As the only
university in Sweden both the Bachelor and Master
programs in geology at our department were given
the highest grading - very high quality - which we
of course are very proud of. For 2013-2015 the
compensation for basic education will gradually be
Students starting on the geology
program in September 2012. Photo
U. Söderlund.
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Table 8. Bachelor (15 hp) and master theses (45 hp) presented in geology during 2012 (fulltext PDF-files
can be found on http://www.geobib.lu.se/). Thesis no. 296 by Bou Daher Samer was awared a price for the
best thesis in Sweden in 2012 by the Geologycal Survey of Sweden
295. Liu, Tianzhuo, 2012: Exploring long-term trends
in hypoxia (oxygen depletion) in Western Gotland
Basin, the Baltic Sea. (45 hp)
312. Olsson, Håkan, 2012: Prediction of the degree
of thermal breakdown of limestone: A case study
of the Upper Ordovician Boda Limestone, Siljan
district, central Sweden. (45 hp)
296. Samer, Bou Daher, 2012: Lithofacies analysis
and heterogeneity study of the subsurface Rhaetian–Pliensbachian sequence in SW Skåne and
Denmark. (45 hp)
313. Kampmann, Tobias Christoph, 2012: U-Pb
geochronology and paleomagnetism of the Westerberg sill, Kaapvaal Craton – support for a coherent Kaapvaal-Pilbara block (Vaalbara). (45 hp)
297. Riebe, My, 2012: Cosmic ray tracks in chondritic
material with focus on silicate mineral inclusions
in chromite. (45 hp)
314. Eliasson, Isabelle Timms, 2012: Arsenik: förekomst, miljö och hälsoeffekter. (15 hp)
298. Hjulström, Joakim, 2012: Återfyllning av borrhål i geoenergisystem: konventioner, metod och
material. (15 hp)
315. Badawy, Ahmed Salah, 2012: Sequence stratigraphy, palynology and biostratigraphy across the
Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Röstånga-1
core, southern Sweden. (45 hp)
299. Letellier, Mattias, 2012: A practical assessment
of frequency electromagnetic inversion in a near
surface geological environment. (15 hp)
316. Knut, Anna, 2012: Resistivitets- och IP-mätningar
på Flishultsdeponin för lokalisering av grundvattenytor. (15 hp)
300. Lindenbaum, Johan, 2012: Identification of
sources of ammonium in groundwater using
stable nitrogen and boron isotopes in Nam Du,
Hanoi. (45 hp)
317. Nylén, Fredrik, 2012: Förädling av ballastmaterial med hydrocyklon, ett fungerande alternativ? (15 hp)
301. Andersson, Josefin, 2012: Karaktärisering av
arsenikförorening i matjordsprofiler kring Klippans
Läderfabrik. (45 hp)
318. Younes, Hani, 2012: Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of the Late Silurian Lau Event, Gotland,
Sweden. (45 hp)
302. Lumetzberger, Mikael, 2012: Hydrogeologisk
kartläggning av infiltrationsvattentransport genom
resistivitetsmätningar. (15 hp)
319. Weibull, David, 2012: Subsurface geological
setting in the Skagerrak area – suitability for
storage of carbon dioxide. (15 hp)
303. Martin, Ellinor, 2012: Fossil pigments and pigment organelles – colouration in deep time. (15 hp)
320. Petersson, Albin, 2012: Förutsättningar för
geoenergi till idrottsanläggningar i Kallerstad,
Linköpings kommun: En förstudie. (15 hp)
304. Rådman, Johan, 2012: Sällsynta jordarts-metaller i tungsand vid Haväng på Österlen. (15 hp)
305. Karlstedt, Filippa, 2012: Jämförande geo-kemisk
studie med portabel XRF av obehand-lade och
sågade ytor, samt pulver av Karls-hamnsdiabas.
(15 hp)
321. Axbom, Jonna, 2012: Klimatets och människans
inverkan på tallens etablering på sydsvenska
mossar under de senaste århundradena – en
dendrokronologisk och torvstratigrafisk analys
av tre småländska mossar. (15 hp)
306. Lundberg, Frans, 2012: Den senkambriska alunskiffern i Västergötland – utbredning, mäktigheter
och faciestyper. (15 hp)
322. Kumar, Pardeep, 2012: Palynological investigation of coal-bearing deposits of the Thar Coal
Field Sindh, Pakistan. (45 hp)
307. Thulin Olander, Henric, 2012: Hydrogeologisk
kartering av grundvattenmagasinet Ekenäs-Kvarndammen, Jönköpings län. (15 hp)
323. Gabrielsson, Johan, 2012: Havsisen i arktiska
bassängen – nutid och framtid i ett globalt uppvärmningsperspektiv. (15 hp)
308. Demirer, Kursad, 2012: U-Pb baddeleyite ages
from mafic dyke swarms in Dharwar craton, India – links to an ancient supercontinent. (45 hp)
324. Lundgren, Linda, 2012: Variation in rock quality between metamorphic domains in the lower
levels of the Eastern Segment, Sveconorwegian
Province. (45 hp)
309. Leskelä, Jari, 2012: Loggning och återfyllning
av borrhål – Praktiska försök och utveckling av
täthetskontroll i fält. (15 hp)
325. Härling, Jesper, 2012: The fossil wonders of
the Silurian Eramosa Lagerstätte of Canada: the
jawed polychaete faunas. (15 hp)
310. Eriksson, Magnus, 2012: Stratigraphy, facies
and depositional history of the Colonus Shale
Trough, Skåne, southern Sweden. (45 hp)
311.
326. Qvarnström, Martin, 2012: An interpretation of
oncoid mass-occurrence during the Late Silurian
Lau Event, Gotland, Sweden. (15 hp)
Larsson, Amie, 2012: Kartläggning, beskrivning och analys av Kalmar läns regionalt viktiga
vattenresurser. (15 hp)
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Table 9. PhD dissertations in 2012.
Post-graduate studies
The research education in geology is a joint program within the GeoBiosphere Science Centre
(CGB). There are two specialisation in geology,
Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences and Quaternary Sciences The research education is focused
on Earth systems and their development through
space and time and aims at the understanding of the
Earth from processes of the geobiosphere on geological time scales, through present day climate-ecosystem interactions, predictions of future changes
in climate and the functioning of the Earth.
The post-graduate education includes four years
of studies and leads to a PhD exam in one of the
three main specialisations. After two years it is possible to obtain an intermediate exam called "Licentiate". A research education committee organises
the post-graduate education consisting of representatives from the three specializations and three PhD
student, chaired by the director of graduate studies,
in 2012 Jonas Ardö at the Department of Physical
Geography and Ecosystem analysis. The committee also coordinates the planning of PhD courses,
seminars and other PhD study activities.
In 2012 Johan Olsson in Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences and Daniel Fredh inQuaternary
Sciences (Table 7) defended their doctoral theses.
2008-2012 was a period of rather few dissertations per year (average 2.1) compared to the previous five year period 2003-2007 with with an average of 6.2. For the upcoming years again rather high
numbers can be expected. For 2013 at least 7 PhD
defences can be expected. The number of PhD students today is around 30 hwich is about 50% higher
than only five six years ago.
In 2012 four new PhD position were opened and
for 2013 there will be at least another four new positions.
Johan Olsson. U-Pb baddeleite geochronology of
Precambrian mafic dyke swarms and complexes in souther Africa, Litholund Theses 22
Daniel Fredh. The impact of past lTnd-ise change
on floristic diversity in southern Sweden – a
quantitative approach based on high-resoution
pollen data. Lundqua Thesis 66
In 2012 two PhD courses were organized jointly
between (Table 8) the geology and biology departments .
PhD student P. Fringe filtering water samples in the
Okavango Delta in Botswana. Field work in September related to research on Biogeochemical cycles and
environmental change. Photo D. Conley.
Table 10. PhD courses organized by geology in 2012.
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• Global Elemental Cycles and Environmental
Change. Organizers: Daniel Conley, Per Bengtson and Johannes RouskDepartment of Geology and Department of Biology (29 October-2
November 2012, 24 Participants, 3 ECTS),
• Impact of Climate Change on Aquatic Ecosystems Organizers: Christer Brönmark, Daniel
Conley and Emma KritzbergDepartment of Geology and Department of Biology, 5-10 February
2012, 20 Participants, 3 ECTS)
5
0
02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13
Figure 9. PhD and licenciate theses presented in
geology between 2002 and 2012 and expected PhD
defenses in 2013 (dark blue).
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chine. At present the performance of the SSAMS
system is as follows. Precision: ± 50 14C-years;
maximum datable age: ca. 48,000 BP; minimum
sample weight: ca 0.1 mg of carbon. Supplier is
National Electrostatics Corp. (NEC), Wisconsin,
USA. The equipment was funded by the Knut and
Alice Wallenberg Foundation and by the Swedish
Research Council.
Special laboratories
Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory
The Radiocarbon Dating
Laboratory in Lund performs dating on geological
and archaeological samples.
Examples of material that
we date are wood, charcoal,
peat, macrofossils, bone and marine shells. The
analyses are based on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS).
Natural 14C can be used in numerous applications,
of which radiocarbon dating, with the possibility for
dating back to about 50,000 years, is the best-known
and most practiced application. Radiocarbon dating
is based on the property that the activity concentration of 14C in dead tissues can be used to calculate
the time that has elapsed since death occurred. This
is possible since all living organisms contain nearly
the same proportion of radioactive carbon in their
carbon stores and since, upon the death of the organism, the carbon which survives decomposition
continuously loses 14C by its radioactive decay.
Most samples are first pretreated according to
the acid-alkali-acid (AAA) method. The samples
are washed in hot diluted HCl followed by hot diluted NaOH solution. The dried organic samples are
then combusted to CO2 and transported to a graphitizing reactor where it is mixed with H2 gas. The
reduction to elementary carbon takes place over a
hot (580 °C) Fe catalyst. The carbon-iron mixture
produced in the reactor is pressed into a small Al
cylinder and put into the ion source of the AMS
machine. As part of the LUGEOCLOCK project,
a new fully automated graphitization equipment
(AGE-3), directly coupled to an elemental analyzer,
was installed during the autumn of 2012. The AGE
machine, which has been developed at ETH Zürich,
will produce more homogenous samples and has a
higher capacity than the old graphitization system.
The carbon isotope ratios are measured in an Accelerator Mass Spectrometer, which was installed at
the GeoBiosphere Science Centre in 2004. It is a
compact and highly automated machine and based
on some new technology – ‘Single Stage Accelerator Mass Spectrometry’ (SSAMS). An upgrade to
improve the background and the ability to measure
ultra-small samples was made in February 2009.
To date (January 2013), around 5000 samples for
radiocarbon dating have been analyzed on this ma-
Staff: Göran Skog (head of laboratory), Pia Sköld,
Mattias Olsson and Mats Rundgren.
Laboratory home page:
http://www.geol.lu.se/c14/
Palaeomagnetic/Mineral Magnetic
Laboratory
The Palaeomagnetic and Mineral
Magnetic Laboratory (PMML)
houses a range of equipment
designed for research in ‘environmental magnetism’. The laboratory was rebuilt in 2011 to accommodate a new long-core 2G
Enterprises 760-Superconducting Rock Magnetometer (SRM), which is now operating. One room
is dedicated to an 2G Enterprises 755-SRM and a
Magnetic measunements Ltd thermal demagnetizer. The second room contains, in addition to the
760-SRM, a Princeton Measurements Corporation
alternating gradient magnetometer and a wide variety of other equipment items, such as magnetic
susceptibility (MS) bridges, pulse magnetizers and
a long-core MS surface scanning conveyor. Laboratory staff members are engaged in a wide range
of projects, such as (i)magnetostratigraphic studies
of Quaternary age lake sediments in Australia and
New Zealand, (ii) the identification of nanometre
scale particles in Baltic Sea sediments and (iii)
IODP expedition #347 ‘Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment.’
Head of laboratory: Ian Snowball
Laboratory homepage:
http://www.geol.lu.se/palmag
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Ar/39Ar Geochronology Laboratory
The 40Ar/39Ar method is a tremendously versatile
and powerful geochronometer which has been used
to date K-bearing rocks and minerals as young as a
few 10’s of thousands of years to the oldest rocks
on Earth. Argon for 40Ar/39Ar analysis can be released either by step-heating a sample (single grain
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Head of laboratory: Helena Alexanderson
Staff: Rajendra Shrestha (master student)
Home page: http://www.geol.lu.se/osl/
or rock aggregate) using a furnace or a defocused
laser and by in-situ Laser Ablation of a small ≥ 2
micron spot.
The main components of the 40Ar/39Ar laboratory consist of a Micromassociate-5400 Gas Source
Massociate Spectrometer with a faraday and an
electron multiplier. A custom designed and built
UHV gas metal extraction line, which contains two
SAES C50-ST101 Zr-Al getters and a cold finger
cooled to ca –155°C by a Polycold P100 cryogenic
refrigeration unit.
For gas extraction the 40Ar/39Ar laboratory is
equipped with the New-Wave Dual-Laser system
which contains two lasers: a high wavelength CO2
laser and a UV laser. The CO2 Laser can be used
for incremental heating on single or multi-grain aggregates or total fusion of a sample; while with the
UV laser, specific spots on a crystal may be fused
or ablated and an age estimated. A double vacuum
furnace from Modifications Limited may also be
utilized.
The entire analytical process is automated and
runs on a Macintosh with software modified specifically for the laboratory and developed originally at
the Berkeley Geochronology Center by Al Deino.
Mineral Separation Laboratory
Efficient techniques for mineral separation are
important in almost all geochronological studies.
From year 2000, we have used the so called “waterbased technique” for separation of baddeleyite (and
zircon). Baddeleyite is a reliable geochronometer for
dating the crystallization of mafic and other silicaundersaturated rocks. The technique is based on the
observation that small grains move much slower
than large grains as they move across a Wilfley
water-shaking table. In addition to the efficiency in
extraction of very small (≤ 30 µm) baddeleyite grains,
the water-based separation technique reduces the
risk of cross-contamination, and is less costly (e.g.,
no heavy liquids are necessary) than conventional
techniques. Over the years, baddeleyite from more
than 70 samples of dykes and sills in Fennoscandia,
Canada, South Africa and Zimbabwe have been
successfully recovered in our lab. Typical yields for
these rocks have been 200-300 grains/fragments per
0,5-1 kg sample.
Head of laboratory: Anders Scherstén
Staff: Laurence page
Laboratory homepage
http://www.geol.lu.se/ar/
Head of laboratory: Ulf Söderlund
Home page:
http://www.geol.lu.se/minsep/
Microfossil Laboratory
Department of geology houses one of the finest
laboratories in the world for processing microfossils.
Through decades of continuous refinement and
development, primarily by Professor Emeritus
Lennart Jeppsson, we are now able to process very
large samples (up to more than 100 kg each) and
get very concentrated sample residues that will
significantly decrease picking time. Using buffered
and diluted (c. 10%) acetic acid that will easily
digest different types of limestone without etching
phosphatic microfossils. After dissolving the rock
slabs the residues are treated further, for example
magnetic and/or density separation, depending on
what end product is requested. The technique is
primarily developed for phosphatic microfossils
(such as conodonts and fish scales) but works very
well also for organic-walled microfossils such as
scolecodonts, chitinozoans, and graptolites. Other rest
products obviously include silicified, phosphatized
and pyritized fossils and acid resistant mineral grains.
Luminescence Laboratory
Luminescence dating is a geochronological technique
that spans the Late Quaternary. It is particularly
useful for minerogenic sediments, for example as
optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of
quartz and infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL)
dating of feldspar. Thermoluminescence (TL) dating
can also be used to determine the age of pottery.
TheLundLuminescenceLaboratorywasestablished
last year, as the first of its kind in Sweden. It houses a
Risø TL/OSL-reader model DA-20, with options to
do OSL, pulsed OSL, IRSL and TL. In the adjoining
rooms mechanical and chemical preparation of
samples can be carried out under darkroom conditions.
In 2012, the laboratory received 69 samples, of which
30 came from external users. Ongoing research
projects at the laboratory concerns i.a. the timing
of aeolian deposition in Skåne and interstadial
periods in northernmost Sweden and on Svalbard.
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The head of the laboratory, Git Klintvik Ahlberg,
has years of experience of extracting acid resistant
microfossils.
Head of laboratory: Hans Linderson
Dendroclimatology project leader: Dan
Hammarlund.
Laboratory asisstant: Johannes Edvardsson
Laboratory home page http://www.geol.lu.se/personal/ore/netsc/dendro.xtm
Head of laboratory: Git Klintvik Ahlberg
Home page:
http://www.geol.lu.se/syralab/en/
National Resource Units
Two National Resource Units are attached to Quaternary Sciences: the Laboratory for Wood Anatomy
and Dendrochronology and the Laboratory for Ceramic Research. The status as a national resource
unit implies that the laboratory serves as national
centre for research and education within the special
field of competence. The laboratories are funded by
the Research Council (VR) and by the Faculty of
Science at Lund University.
Laboratory for Ceramic Research
The research at this laboratory includes mainly ceramic/archaeological research. This activity serves
the archaeological science with technological investigations of ceramic artefacts. The aim of the
technological analyses is to establish the choice of
raw materials, manufacturing techniques and vessel
function. In combination with studies of vessel shape
and decorative elements it is possible to shed light on
questions concerning provenance and distribution of
prehistoric and medieval ceramic materials.
By combining the results of several independent
analyses, it is possible to gain information concerning the handicraft as well as contacts and relations
between different groups of people. Furthermore, the
Laboratory for Ceramic Research serves as a centre
of education in the field of pottery documentation
and registration. Several courses are given each year
to groups of students and to individual researchers.
The laboratory has well-established collaboration
with archaeological institutions and museums in
northern Europe and participates in an international
ceramological network, the Society for Archaeological Ceramology (SAC).
Laboratory for Wood Anatomy and
Dendrochronology
Research at the laboratory also includes palaeoclimate reconstruction based on
tree-ring series (dendroclimatology), commonly as an integrated
part of other palaeoecological
and palaeoclimatic research at the
department. Two major research projects are carried
out at present: 1) A VR-funded project (SweDenClim) which aims at establishing a representative
reconstruction of climate variability and change at
sub-decadal resolution for the interior of southern
Sweden from AD1000 to the present. This work is
based on stable carbon- and oxygen-isotope analysis of wood cellulose extracted from pine tree-ring
series. A follow-up project (HACIDYS) aims at
characterizing large-scale, centennial- to millennialscale changes in atmospheric circulation across the
Scandinavian Peninsula during the Holocene, and
to attribute these changes to external and internal
forcing mechanisms. This work includes proxy-data
compilation and comparisons with regional model
simulations incorporating water-isotope diagnostics.
2) Holocene climate change and peatland dynamics
in southern Sweden based on tree-ring analysis of
subfossil wood from peat deposits. Apart from highly
resolved (sub-decadal to annual) and accurately dated
records of hydrological status of peat deposits in
southern Sweden, this project aims at extending existing regional pine dendrochronologies and filling gaps
between previously obtained floating chronologies.
Head of laboratory: Anders Lindahl
Laboratory home page:
http://www.geol.lu.se/ kfl
Other laboratories
Besides the special laboratories and national resource units mentioned above researchers at the
division have access to well designed laboratories
and sophisticated equipment for various types of
analyses.
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Lithosphere and Paleobiosphere Sciences
fully characterize mineral phases, identify reaction
mechanisms, estimate reaction kinetics for both
endogenic and exogenic processes at the micro- to
nanometer scale. Mineral-oriented research includes
studies of chemically and biologically induced
weathering processes and of the resulting finegrained minerals. The Earth’s crust is essentially
formed by magmatic processes and to a large extent
reworked by deformation, metamorphism/re-melting
and weathering. Present-day research is directed
towards magmatism, plate reconstructions, large-scale
deformation and terrane analysis in time and space.
Besides field observations and measurements, this
research is heavily dependent on geochemical, isotopic
and mineralogical data. In igneous petrology, attention
is devoted to melt evolution by differentiation,
assimilation of crustal material and magma mixing
under various geodynamic regimes. Studies in
metamorphic petrology are integrated with isotope
geology and structural geology in order to unravel
pressure-temperature-time relationships. The main
tools we use for absolute dating are the radiogenic
U-Pb and Ar-Ar decay schemes. These methods
permit us to obtain age information on the timing
and rate on continental crust formation, the thermal
history of sedimentary basins, neotectonic uplift of
General research program
The formation of the Earth, changes in the Earth’s
climate and the evolution of life are preserved in the
rock record. Our research focuses on interdisciplinary
studies of processes and conditions in the lithosphere
and on the Earth’s surface throughout geologic time.
Research topics are currently diverse and embrace
several of the principal disciplines of geology.
Our principal research deals with igneous and
metamorphic petrology, tectonics, geochronology,
isotope geology, carbonate and clastic sedimentology,
chemostratigraphy, event stratigraphy, biostratigraphy,
palaeoecology, and applied and environmental
geology. Such research has a global perspective
with work undertaken on material from all continents.
International co-operation is carried out within
various organizations and projects, such as the
International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS),
International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS),
the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP),
the Swedish Polar Research Programme, and the
International Lithosphere Programme (ILP).
We further have a strong link to applied geology
via research on building materials, dating of
mineralization, CO2 geo-sequestration, geothermal
energy, and improved stratigraphic controls on
hydrocarbon resources.
Research sub-programmes and research groups:
1. Deep Crustal processes
2. Reconstruction of Super-Continents
through time and space
3. Extraterrestrial influence on the evolution
of Earth
4. Climate change: Evidence from the
Geological record
5. Evolution of Marine and Terrestrial
Ecosystems
6. Earth Resources – their sustainable
development
Within the research themes “Deep Crustal processes”
and “Reconstruction of Super-Continents through
time and space” the following studies are performed;
Mineralogical studies are based on scanning and
transmission electron microscopy and synchrotron
based methods. The techniques are combined to
Coffee break while doing field work in south Eastern
Greenland. Photo: M. Nilsson.
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young mountain ranges like the Alps and the Andes.
Combined with paleomagnetic studies, the dating
of major dyke swarms provides key information for
break up of supercontinents and reconstruction of
cratons on a geological time scale. The Ar-Ar method
is used to date extrusive rocks and moderate to low
temperature events, the latter of which is important
for reconstructing the youngest thermal and dynamic
history of the crust.
Within the research themes “Evolution of
Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems” “Extraterrestrial
influence on the evolution of Earth” and “Climate
change: Evidence from the Geological record” central
topics are:
The emergence of life and the evolution of
fauna and flora on a geological time scale; and
climate change through Earth’s history as seen in the
sedimentological record of both marine and terrestrial
ecosystems. Our work also has an astronomical
perspective whereby detailed mineralogical and
chemical studies of extraterrestrial particles provide
information about the history of the solar system,
and the possible relationship between the evolution
of life and astronomical processes.
Research fields include an integrated approach
of sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and
geochemistry. This research aims to reconstruct the
evolution of ancient sedimentary basins in order to
document environmental changes on local, regional
and global scales. Particular emphasize is paid to
fossil reef ecosystems that forms excellent archives
for changes in physical oceanography as well as
palaeoecology.
We study Paleozoic biotas and their relationships to
environmental changes as this time interval embraces
some of the most significant evolutionary events in
Earth history, setting the agenda for the development
of modern life. This includes the study of marine
fossils such as trilobites, which are used as tools to
assess biodiversity, paleobiogeographical patterns and
to aid stratigraphic correlations in the Cambrian. Other
groups such as Paleozoic teeth of proto-vertebrates
and polychaete jaws also provide key data for the
global correlation of Paleozoic strata. This research
is coupled with investigations of the earliest land
plant assemblages adding to our understanding of the
terrestrialization of life and its impact on atmospheric
CO2 and O2 levels and global climate.
From Mesozoic marine sediments we investigate
the evolutionary trends among aquatic reptiles such as
mosasaurs and elasmosaurs. From contemporaneous
continental strata we study the diversity, biology
and palaeoecology of dinosaurs and other reptiles
together with the vegetation in their environments.
These studies help chart the evolution of life through
the Mesozoic in relation to changes in climate and
continental configuration. Our goal to ever more
precisely chart the appearances and extinctions of
organisms in the rock record also provides us with
improved tools for dating and correlating rocks
between regions.
Studies of changes in the Earth’s environment
through deep time provide important new perspectives
on present global change. Apart from periods of stasis
or gradual change, Earth has experienced numerous
abrupt environmental catastrophes during the last
500 million years. The Cretaceous-Paleogene (KT)
mass-extinction event, which occurred 65 million
years ago as a consequence of an asteroid impact, is
being investigated and provides a model system for
interpreting biotic turnover during other crises for
life on Earth. Reconstructions of biogeochemical and
physical feedback processes during these events result
in a better understanding of the conditions for life on
Earth. Much focus in this research is on the history
of the carbon cycle and its relation to biodiversity
and climate. Understanding the long-term carbon
budget and the significance of different carbon
sinks and sources through time is a prerequisite for
understanding present carbon cycling.
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Research workers and projects
Ahlberg, Per (professor)
1. The Ordovician deep-water shelf successions
of Baltica – stratigraphy, faunal turnovers and
palaeoenvironmental changes. Collaborators:
Stig M. Bergström (Columbus, Ohio, USA), J.
Maletz (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), S.
Egenhoff (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA), and
David A.T. Harper (Durham Univ., England).
2. Cambrian chronostratigraphy and intercontinental correlations. Collaborators: F. Terfelt,
M.E. Eriksson, Loren E. Babcock (Columbus,
Ohio, USA), and S.C. Peng (Nanjing, China).
3. Cambrian palaeogeography and palaeobiogeography. Collaborators: F. Terfelt, J.J. Álvaro
(Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain) and Anna Zylińska
(Warsaw).
4. Trilobite palaeobiology – functional morphology, life habits, ontogeny, and evolution. Collaborators: M.E. Eriksson, Loren E. Babcock
(Columbus, Ohio, USA), E.N.K. Clarkson
(Edinburgh), Brigitte Schoenemann (Bonn),
and Peter Cederström (Eslöv)
5. The Alum Shale Formation of Scandinavia –
stratigraphy, faunas and depositional environment. Collaborators: F. Terfelt, M.E. Eriksson,
E.N.K. Clarkson (Edinburgh), S. Egenhoff
(Fort Collins, Colorado, USA), David A.T.
Harper (Durham, England), Timothy P. Topper (Geological Museum, Copenhagen), Anna
Zylińska (Warsaw), and J.J. Álvaro (Torrejón
de Ardoz, Spain)
P. Ahlberg and L. Holmer at the Miabanpo section
in Jianhe County, Guizhou Province, South China.
graphy, micro-Raman spectroscopy and highsensitivity noble gas analysis. Collaborators:
M. Meier, H. Busemann (SEAES, University
of Manchester, UK), U. Böttger (Institute of
Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center
DLR, Berlin, Germany), J. Gilmour (SEAES,
University of Manchester, UK), N. Spring (SEAES, University of Manchester, UK), I. Weber
(Institute of Planetology, University of Münster, Germany).
3. Reconstructing Holocene climate variations
in the South Atlantic from mineral fractions
of lake sediment cores from Tristan da Cunha.
Collaborators: S. Björck, K.Ljung.
4. Studies of impact structures and shock metamorphic features. Collaborators: S. Holm and
L. Ferrière (Natural History Museum, Vienna,
Austria), B. Hofmann (Earth Science Department, Bern, Switzerland).
Alwmark, Carl (fil. dr., ass. senior lecturer)
1. Constraining the Ordovician impact cratering
rate on a global scale – Clues to the evolution
of an asteroid break-up and the terrestrial consequences. Collaborators: M. Meier, A. Scherstén, U. Söderlund, W. Bleeker (Geological
Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada), L. Ferrière (Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria), E. Sturkell (Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg University, Sweden), J. Ormö
(Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain), S.
Goderis (Department of Analytical Chemistry,
University of Gent, Belgium), R. Wieler (ETH
Zürich, Switzerland).
2. The characterisation of the asteroid Itokawa
regolith - A correlated study by X-ray tomo-
Babcock, Loren (guest professor)
1. Agnostoid arthropods from Cambrian Stage
10. Collaborators: P. Ahlberg, M. Eriksson, F.
Terfelt, S.Peng (Nanjing Institute of Geology
and Palaeontology, China).
2. Palaeobiology of Anomalocaris (Cambrian
arthropod). Collaborator: M. Eriksson.
3. Cambrian organic-rich sediments. Collaborators: M. Bevis (The Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio, USA), P. Ahlberg, S. Peng
(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, China).
4. Chronostratigraphy of the Subsurface Sauk
Sequence, Ohio. Collaborator: M. A. Baranoski
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bus, Ohio, USA).
5. Cambrian trilobites of Utah. Collaborator: R.
A. Robison (University of Kansas, Lawrence,
Kansas, USA).
versity), K. Histon (Università degli Studi di
Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy), G.L. Albanesi
(Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
2. Ordovician sea-level and global climate, stable
isotope stratigraphy, and biodiversity (current
VR-project). Collaborators: M.E. Eriksson, O.
Lehnert, A. Munnecke and M. Joachimski (all
at Friedrich-Alexander Universität, ErlangenNürnberg), J.-O. Ebbestad, S. Egenhoff (Colorado State University), S.M. Bergström (Ohio
State University), J.G Maletz (Freie Universität
Berlin)
3. Silurian extinction events and climate – impact
on carbonate platform ecosystems.Collaborators: M.E. Eriksson, O. Lehnert, A. Munnecke
(both at Friedrich-Alexander Universität,
Erlangen-Nürnberg), and P. Männik (Tallinn
University of Technology).
4. The Palaeozoic geology of the Siljan impact
crater: Collaborators: O. Lehnert (Friedrich-A.
Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg), J.O. Ebbestad
(UU), and others.
Bercovici, Antoine (PhD, post-doc)
1. Timing of the recovery following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event in north
america. Collaborators: D. A. Pearson, T. R.
Lyson, K. R. Johnson.
Bogdanova, Svetlana (fil dr, Dr. sci., docent em.)
1. Precambrian rock provinces and active tectonic boundaries across the Baltic Sea and
in adjacent areas, Swedish Institute, Visby
Programme’s Research network. Project leader
and international coordinator. Collaborators: 54
researchers and students of 12 institutes from
Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden
and Ukraine.
2. Studies of the Mesoproterozoic granitoids on
Bornholm and Proterozoic rocks along the
Protogine Zone Collaborators: R. Gorbatschev,
T. Waight (Copenhagen University, Denmark),
A. Čečys (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
3. The Archaean of the East European CratonCollaborators: S. Claesson, M. Whitehouse
and K. Billström (NRM, Stockholm) and
researchers from the Russian State Oil and Gas
University and the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Moscow,
Russia
4. Complete the Plate Tectonic Revolution: Using
the Large Igneous Province Record to Reconstruct Continents Back to 2.7 Ga. Collaborators: U. Söderlund, M. Nilsson, R. Ernst and
W. Bleeker (Canada), N. Lubnina (I.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow,
Russia).
5. 40Ar-39Ar method testing the seismic structures
of the crust. Collaborators: A. Schérsten and L.
Page
Eriksson, Mats E. (professor)
1. Paleozoic scolecodont biostratigraphy, paleoecology and biodiversity, linked to sequence
and event stratigraphy. Collaborators: L. Jeppsson, M. Calner, O. Hints (Tallinn), P. Tonarová
(Prague), H. Paxton (Sydney), C.F. Bergman
(Kristianstad), S.M. Bergström (Columbus),
and P. von Bitter (Toronto).
2. Middle and upper Cambrian faunal dynamics,
bio- and event stratigraphy; including the Orsten Lagerstätte. Collaborators: P. Ahlberg, F.
Terfelt, B. Schmitz, L.E. Babcock (Columbus),
J. Ahlgren (Hällekis), P. Cederström (Eslöv),
D. Waloszek (Ulm), R. Elofsson (Lund), and
E.N.K. Clarkson (Edinburgh).
3. Diet and trophic structures in ancient ecosystems. Collaborators: J. Lindgren and K. Chin
(Colorado).
4. Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) high-resolution biostratigraphy and faunal dynamics
related to extraterrestrial influx. Collaborators:
A. Lindskog, J. Mellgren, S.M. Bergström
(Columbus), and B. Schmitz.
5. Synchrotron X-Ray Tomographic Microscopy
(SRXTM) applied to microfossils (including
the Orsten fossils). Collaborators: F. Terfelt, A.
Lindskog and F. Marone (Villigen).
Calner, Mikael (professor)
1. The Early to Middle Paleozoic Revolution
(IGCP 591). Collaborators: B.D. Cramer
(University of Kansas), T.R.A. Vandenbroucke
(CNRS, France), R. Zhan (Chinese Academy
of Sciences), M.J. Melchin (St. Francis Xavier
University, Canada), Ż. Żigaitė (Vilnius Uni17
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Collaborators: S. Lindström (GEUS).
5. Zircons from the Maniitsoq impact, SW Greenland, Collaborators: A. Garde and K. Esbensen
(both GEUS).
Gorbatschev, Roland (professor emeritus)
1. Precambrian crustal provinces in the southern
Baltic Shield. Particularly orogenic (crust-forming) events between ca 1.85 and 0.9 Ga ago.
2. The major tectonic belt (the “Protogine Zone”)
in southern Sweden. Collaborators: Svetlana
Bogdanova.
Lindgren Johan (researcher, ass. professor).
1. Mosasaur systematics, evolution, palaeobiology and palaeobiogeography. Collaborators:
A.S. Schulp (Maastricht, The Netherlands),
M.J. Polcyn (Dallas, Texas), M.W. Caldwell
(Edmonton, Alberta), A. LeBlanc (Edmonton,
Alberta), T. Konishi (Drumheller, Alberta).
2. Biomolecular preservation across deep time.
Collaborators: P. Uvdal (MAX-lab, Lund),
A. Engdahl (MAX-lab, Lund), D.E. Nilsson
(Dept. of Biology, Lund), P. Sjövall (SPA,
Borås), V. Thiel (Göttingen, Germany).
3. The preservation of fossil soft tissues. Collaborators: M.E. Everhart (Hays, Kansas), M.W.
Caldwell (Edmonton, Alberta), T. Konishi
(Drumheller, Alberta), L.M. Chiappe (Los
Angeles, California), H.F. Kaddumi (Amman,
Jordan).
4. Systematics of Cretaceous Lamniform sharks.
Collaborators: M. Siverson (Perth, Australia),
M. Newbrey (Drumheller, Alberta).
Erlström, Mikael (adjunct professor)
1. The Lund Cap rock test site. Collaborators: L.
Bjelm (Engineering Geology, LU), C. Juhlin (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Uppsala Univ.),
M. Ask (Div. Geotechnology, Luleå Univ. of
Technology).
2. Mustang CO2 (EU fp 7). Collaborators: A. Niemi (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Uppsala Univ.),
M. Sauter (Univ. of Göttingen), T. Roetting
(Spanish National Research council, CSIC), D.
Scradeanu (University of Bucharest), V. Shtivelman (Geophysical Institute of Israel, GII),
M. Wuttke (Institut für Geowissenschaftlische
Gemeinschaftsaufgabe (LIAG).
3. NORDIC CCS project. Collaborators: K. Lyng
Anthonsen (GEUS), A. Lothe (SINTEF), P.
Aagaard (University of Oslo), S. Gislason
(University of Iceland).
4. The Geothermal energy potential in Denmark
– reservoir properties, temperature distribution
and models of utilization. Collaborators: A.
Mathiesen, T. Bidstrup, S. Lindström, L. Henrik Nielsen, R. Hansen, L. Kristensen (GEUS),
N. Balling (Aarhus Univ.), B. Norden (GFZ
Potsdam).
Lindh, Anders (professor emeritus)
1. Granite geochemistry. Collaborators: M. AbuEl-Rus, M. Moneim (Assiut University, Egypt,
for studies on young Egyptian granite), A.
Scherstén (for isotope work).
Löfgren, Anita (ass. professor em.)
1. Early and Middle Ordovician conodonts from
Baltoscandia
Johansson, Leif (professor)
1. Petrology of charnockites and other high grade
rocks, SW Sweden. Collaborators: D. Harlov,
J. Förster (both Potzdam), A. van der Kerkhof
(Göttingen) and E. Hansen (Michigan, USA).
2. Energy optimised production of calcinated
carbonate products. Project funded by Energimyndigheten and the carbonate rock industry
(Omya, Nordkalk AB and Svenska Mineral
AB) and partially administrated by MinFo
(Föreningen för Mineralteknisk Forskning).
3. Mineral-biota interaction, Natural Lead pollution at Kastad, S. Norway. Collaborators: M.
Smits (project leader, Diepenbeek, Belgium),
H. Wallander (Lund).
4. Heavy metals in sedimentary rocks in Skåne.
Meier, Matthias (guest researcher, PhD)
1. Synchrotron-Radiation X-Ray Tomographic
Microscopy (SRXTM) of chromite grains from
fossil meteorites. Collaborators: B. Schmitz, C.
Alwmark, F. Marone, M. Stampanoni.
2. Noble Gases in sediment dispersed extraterrestrial chromite grains from the Ordovician
and other periods. Collaborators: B. Schmitz,
C. Alwmark, R. Wieler (ETH Zürich).
3. Cosmic ray exposure ages of fossil meteorites
from the Thorsberg quarry, Kinnekulle, Sweden. Collaborators: B. Schmitz, C. Alwmark,
P. R. Heck (Field Museum Chicago), R. Wieler
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isotope- and trace element systematics. Collaborators: A. Petersson, Dr. J. Andersson (Uppsala), Dr. A.I.S. Kemp (Perth).
2. Analyser för förståelse av stora strukturer i
Jordens skorpa genom 40Ar/39Ar-geokronologi.
Collaborators: S. Bogdanova, Dr. L. Page.
Söderlund, Ulf (professor)
1. Robust paleocontinental reconstructions back
to 2600 Ma using the Large Igneous Province
(LIP) record, implications for resource targeting. Collaborators: R.E. Ernst (Ottawa), W.
Bleeker (Ottawa), M. Hamilton (Toronto), and
others.
2. High-precision Lu-Hf, U-Pb and Ar-Ar geochronology for the calibration of the geological
time scale – opportunities and limitations. Collaborators: L. Jeppsson, P.J. Patchett, (Tucson),
D. Condon (Nottingham), L. Page, A. Scherstén.
Excursion in Halland in October with participants
from Univeristy of Iowa, the Geologucal Survey of
Sweden and the Department. Photo Charlott Möller
(ETH Zurich).
4. A study of the regolith breccia meteorite Ghubara (L5) as a sample of the source rock of fossil micrometoritic chromite grains. Collaborators: B. Schmitz, C. Alwmark, R. Wieler (ETH
Zurich).
5. Interstellar Li/Ne cosmic ray exposure ages of
giant presolar grains. Collaborators: P. R. Heck
(Field Museum Chicago), R. Wieler (ETH
Zurich).
6. Noble gases in indiviudal presolar grains of
type AB. Collaborators: P. R. Heck (Field
Museum Chicago), P. Hoppe (Max-Planck
Institute of Chemistry in Mainz), M. Pignatari
(University of Basel), R. Wieler (ETH Zurich).
7. Geochemical constraints on the new giant
impact models for the formation of the moon.
Collaborators: A. Reufer (University of Bern),
R. Wieler (ETH Zurich).
Vajda Vivi (professor)
1. Palynology, geochemistry and sedimentology
of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary with
focus on extinction and recovery of vegetation.
Collaborators: E. Ferrow, A. Bercovici (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France),
A. Ocampo (NASA, USA), I. Raine (IGNS,
New Zealand), C. Hollis (IGNS), M. Pole (UQ,
Australia), B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink (Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA).,
P. Schulte, (Erlangen, Germany); Stephen
McLoughlin (NMR). ,
2. Linking Atmospheric CO2 levels and temperature through geological time. Collaborators:
B. Schmitz, L. Larsson, K. Dybkjaer (GEUS,
Denmark), E. Skovgaard Rasmussen, (GEUS,
Denmark), S.McLoughlin (NRM, Stockholm),
I. Raine (IGNS, New Zealand), S. Jingeng
(Nanjing, China), R. Hori (Ehime University,
Japan).
3. Astrobiology; signatures of life on Earth and
in cosmos. Collaborators: K. Mehlqvist, D.
Dunér, D. Ahrén, D. Dravins, S. Feltzing, G.
Holmberg, E. Persson & P. Persson, B. Fouke,
(University of Illinois, USA). A. Ocampo
(NASA, USA).
Möller, Charlotte (professor)
1. High pressure and temperature deformation
and metamorphism in the eclogite - granulite
region of SW Sweden. Collaborators: L. Tual,
J. Andersson (SGU) , A. Pinan-Llamas (Purdue
Univ., USA), M. Bastani (SGU) and M. Göransson (SGU).
2. Pressure- temperature- time evolution across
the southernmost Protogine Zone. Collaborators: L. Johansson, L. Page and A. Scherstén.
Scherstén, Anders (ass. professor)
1. Constraining the mechanisms and rates of
continental crust growth through in situ zircon
Wigforss-Lange, Jane (fil. dr. researcher)
1. Mapping trace element anomalies in the
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terrestrial palynological assemblage’s during
intervals of global change. Supervisors: V.
Vajda & K. Larsson and P. Steemans (Liège,
Belgium).
Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary layer.
Research students and PhD project
Beckman, Victoria, fil. mag.
Metamorphic zircon formation in mafic rocks implications for zircon dating of metamorphic
processes: C. Möller and U. Söderlund.
Nilson, Mimmi, fil. mag.
Barcoding the North Atlantic Craton (LIP-project). Supervisors: U. Söderlund, A. Scherstén,
R. Ernst.
Bergelin, Ingemar, fil. lic.
Carboniferous to Cretaceous magmatic activity in Skåne, southern Sweden. Supervisors:
U. Söderlund, S. Lindström, M. Calner and K.
Obst.
Olsson, Johan, fil. mag.
Dyke swarms in the Kaapvaal craton – age,
chemical signature and relations to the Bushveld Igneous Complex. Supervisors: U. Söderlund, L. Johansson, M. Klausen (Stellenbosch,
South Africa) and R. Ernst (Ottawa, Canada).
Bjärnborg, Karolina, fil. mag.
Geochemistry and geochronology of the Ni-Cu
sulphide mineralization in Kleva, Sweden. Supervisors: A. Scherstén, U. Söderlund and W.
Maier.
Petersson, Andreas, fil. mag.
A combined U–Pb, O and Lu–Hf approach
to crust generation. Supervisors: Anders
Scherstén, Charlotta Möller, Jenny Andersson
(SGU), Martin Whitehouse (NRM).
Einarsson, Elisabeth, fil. mag.
Late Cretaceous Marine Vertebrates from the
Kristianstad Basin, Sweden_ Palaeoenvironment, Palaeoecology and Palaeobiogeography.
Supervisors: B. Kear, V. Vajda and B. Smith.
Gren, Johan, fil. kand.
Biomolecular preservation across deep time.
Supervisors: J. Lindgren, M. Eriksson.
Holm, Sanna, fil. mag.
Studies of impact structures and shock metamorphic features. Collaborators: C. Alwmark,
L. Ferrière (Natural History Museum, Vienna,
Austria), B. Hofmann (Earth Science Department, Bern, Switzerland).
Lindskog, Anders, fil. mag.
Ordovician faunal dynamics and paleoecology
linked to marine sedimentary settings. Supervisors: M. Eriksson and P. Ahlberg.
Lorraine, Tual, MSc
High pressure and temperature deformation
and metamorphism in the eclogite - granulite
region of SW Sweden. (Supervisors : C.Möller,
A. Scherstén, A. Pinan-Llamas, Purdue
Univ. USA, J. Andersson, SGU Uppsala).
Mehlqvist, Kristina, fil. mag.
Silurian biodiversity; correlation of marine and
View from helicopter, Odins land, SE Greenland.
Shortly after this photo was taken the fog became
to thick for the helicopter to continue, and we had
to turn around - 4 hours back and forth. Photo: M.
Nilsson.
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Quaternary Sciences
e.g. Rogen, De Geer and Niemisel moraines, and
investigate their sedimentology and structural geology with the purpose to set up process-facies models
for their formation. Geomorphology is used to better
understand the dynamic behaviour of the Scandinavan ice sheet and for an increased knowledge of
the local deglaciation history. We also monitor and
describe present-day sub- and supra-glacial processes
to study the integration of sediments - processes and
the resultant landforms as a function of climate at
the margin of modern glaciers. The latter is done in
close collaboration with the DNA/Geology group in
Copenhagen.
General research program
The basic research is concentrated on physical,
chemical and biological changes and processes of
the Quaternary time, mainly based on well-dated
terrestrial and marine stratigraphies. The main aims
are paleoenvironmental, paleoclimatic and paleogeographic reconstructions, and to analyse and understand
underlying causes behind local, regional and global
changes and their impacts. The main purpose is to
gain an increased understanding of the complex Earth
System and its most recent geologic history. From
the Nordic region we have extended our field studies
to Russia, to central, eastern and southern Europe,
to Siberia, Iceland, Faroe Islands, and other North
and South Atlantic islands, Greenland, Svalbard, to
North and South America, New Zealand and Antarctica. Marine studies are growing and have been
performed in the Baltic and North Sea, the Atlantic
Ocean and the China Sea. We emphasize international
cooperation in research and education. We therefore
take an active part in different Nordic, European and
global programmes.
Applied research is also performed, particularly
within the Master´s programme, but lately also within
the research programme, such as hydrogeological
research questions. Understanding and modelling of
how, e.g., pesticides are spread to and within deep
groundwater aquifers is one such current and active
research field in Quaternary Sciences.
2. Reconstruction of Quaternary environments in
Polar and mid-latitude regions - paleoglaciology
and climate history
In the Polar regions the glacial history of the last two
glacial cycles - Saalian and Weichselian, i.e. from
isotope stage 6 and upwards, are studied in order to
identify some of the processes behind the growth
and decay of ice sheets, duration of the individual
ice-sheet advances and their role in climate changes
on the northern hemisphere. The methods are those
of traditional Quaternary glacial geology, utilizing all
kinds of remote sensing, morphological, sedimentological, and palaeontological information and most
available methods for absolute and relative dating.
The group currently works in Siberia, Greenland,
Svalbard and Argentina. The Siberian and Greenland
(LongTerm) and Svalbard studies are incorporated
into the APEX programme. The Argentinian work is
conducted within the VR-funded ATLANTIS project.
The main partners for the Siberian and Greenland
work are (AARI) in St. Petersburg and the DNA/
Geology group in Copenhagen.
Research sub-programs and research groups:
1. Glacial processes, sediments and landforms
This group has multiple research interests, emphasizing the relationship between processes, sediment
products and landforms of ancient and modern glacial environments. We study the glacier dynamical
behaviour of the last Scandinavian ice sheet. In South
Scandinavia, dynamic glacial reconstructions are attempted based on the sedimentation and landscape
evolution during Late Weichselian ice-lobe advances.
At the former southwestern margin of the ice sheet the
focus is directed towards gaining a better insight into
drainage conditions during the termination of the last
Scandinavian ice sheet. As a part of this programme
we also study the formation of specific landforms,
3. Hydrologic, biogeochemical, physical, biotic
and atmospheric response to climatic changes and
analyses of their triggering and feedback mechanisms, including climate modeling.
With a crossdisciplinary-multistratigraphic approach
we reconstruct past climate and environmental variability from lake, marine and peat records. This includes
sedimentology, stable isotopes, mineral magnetic
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Fieldwork in Taymyr ( SWEDARCTIC 2012 ) - unloading
Mi8 helicopter on Taymyr
Peninsula, Siberia. Photo
P. Möller.
past land-coverage.
Development of a methodology combining pollen/vegetation calibration, dispersal and deposition
models, historical maps, archaeological findings
and GIS makes this possible. It is applied to study
long-term dynamics of land-cover changes within
lake catchments areas and its affects on terrestrial
biodiversity and aquatic ecosystems, incl. the Baltic
and other marine coastal areas. The group has currently projects in different parts of the Nordic region,
Kamtjatka and on Atlantic islands.
parameters, biogeochemistry, trace elements, XRF
analyses, an array of biological proxy records, stomata
analysis, and multivariate and spectral analyses. High
resolution 14C dating, dendrochronology, laminated
sediments, and detection of tephra horizons are the
main tools in establishing detailed chronologies,
and for calculating atmospheric 14C changes. Leads
and lags between different responses are analysed
to evaluate possible triggers and couplings between
different interlinked processes. Correlations to ice
cores and marine records, and quantifications and
modeling of past conditions constitute important parts
of these studies. The investigations cover the entire
last interglacial/glacial cycle. The group has currently
co-operative research projects in Sweden, Denmark,
Faroe Islands, The Azores, Grenada, Tristan da Cunha,
Tierra del Fuego (Isla de los Estados), Southern Ocean
(incl. sub-Antarctica), Greenland, Russia, eastern and
southern Europe as well as global perspectives.
5. Late Quaternary geomagnetic field variability,
cosmogenic radionuclide production and reconstructions of solar activity, including modeling of
solar activity and climatic processes
We analyze paleomagnetic records and cosmogenic
radionuclides abundant in tree rings, ice-cores and
sediments to improve our understanding of (i) the
geomagnetic dynamo, (ii) changes in element cycles
and (iii) solar activity and its relation to climate change.
Reconstructions of past solar magnetic activity are
based on estimates of radionuclide production rates
in the atmosphere, which need to be corrected for
the modulating influence of the geomagnetic dipole
strength. Differences between the abundances of
different nuclides in ice-cores (10Be, 36Cl) and treerings (14C) are studied to reveal changes in element
cycles caused by circulation changes in the ocean and
atmosphere. We work with sediment and ice cores
records from both hemispheres.
4. Biosphere-climate-human-interaction and its
temporal and spatial variation
We study biologic and biogeochemical changes in
both terrestrial and aquatic (fresh-brackish-marine)
environments, mainly in the Holocene, by means
of multidisciplinary methods involving pollen and
plant macrofossil analysis, testate amoebae and pigment analysis, osteology, environmental magnetism,
biogenic silica, foraminifera and geochemistry etc.
We also develop methods for translating sediment
samples of the surrounding landscape into maps of
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6. Sea-level changes
Research is concentrated on Late Glacial to Holocene
land-uplift and sea-level changes within the area of
the Fennoscandian and Greenland glaciations as
well as southernmost Tierra del Fuego. The aim is to
record relative sea level history, and from that interpret causes in terms of glacio-isostasy, eustasy, and
neotectonic movement, but also to analyse and model
the postglacial Greenland ice sheet history. The field
area is southern Sweden, Denmark, East Baltic area,
northernmost Sweden, south Greenland and lately also
Tierra del Fuego. A close cooperation exists with ANU
in Canberra to use shoreline data bases for modeling
of the Greenland and Scandinavian uplift history.
(e.g. radionuclides, palaeomagnetism and pollution
isochrones). We are also active further afield, e.g.,
applying environmental magnetic methods to palaeoceangraphic studies of sediments from Disko Bay,
western Greenland. Two additional aspects of our work
are: environmental and climate reconstructions of
different marine environments, such as the upwelling
region off NW Africa, using benthic foraminifera but
also studies of culture- and field foraminiferal based
proxy calibration to improve climate reconstructions.
8. Biogeochemical cycles and environmental change
Our research is focused on nutrient biogeochemical
cycles, especially Si, and the linkages between land
and aquatic ecosystems. We investigate the accumulation and recycling of Si on land in soils from deposition of plant phytoliths and in aquatic ecosystems
as diatoms, which delays the export of weathering
products from the continents to the oceans. We are
studying long-term trends in biogeochemical cycles
driven by climate and nutrients, and how ecosystems
respond to changes in the drivers.
The group is particularly interested in weathering
and the linkages between CO2 and Si. We are making significant advances in our understanding of the
controls of long-term climate variations through the
study of interactions between the global biogeochemical cycles of C and Si. In our research we measure
pools and fluxes of elements, in addition to stable
isotope measurements of Si. The groups current research activities take place in the Baltic Sea, Brazil,
Canadian Arctic, the global oceans, Hubbard Brook
Experimental Forest (NH, USA), Iceland, Okavango
Delta (Botswana), and Svalbard.
7. Palaeoceanography and marine geology
Over the past few years we have expanded our interest in the marine environment. We are active in the
EU-FORMAS funded BONUS+ program and study
the evolution of the Baltic Sea, including the impact
of human activity on this sensitive ecosystem. Investigations focus on reconstructing the distribution of
hypoxia in time and space, including the impact of
salt water inflows on stratification, and natural gas
storage in the sea bed. A crucial aspect of these studies is geochronology and we apply a variety of dating
techniques to produce accurate and precise timescales
9. Groundwater processes and contaminants
Our groundwater research focuses on occurrence, fate
and behaviour of organic and inorganic contaminants
in groundwater and sediments within the groundwater
system, as well as changes in groundwater quality
over time. The research has during 2012 focused on
three different topics (i) occurrence and longterm
behavior of pesticides in groundwater (the Pegasus
project) and (ii) arsenic mobilization in groundwater
and the pollution of drinking water resources in the
Hanoi Area, Vietnam (the Amonas project) and (iii)
age determination and mixing of groundwater and its
relationship to contaminants.
Svante B
A. Ghosh, A.B. Nielsen, A. Aader and A. Broström
(left to right) recovering a sediment core from lake
Storsjön near Vimmerby in Småland, April 2012.
Photo: Ch. Åkesson.
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cesses with special respect to the formation of
drumlins. Collaborators: T. Dowling, P. Möller
5. Aeolian activity in the Nordic landscapes: an
unexplored landscape-forming process. Main
collaborator: L. Adrielsson.
Research workers and projects
Adrielsson, Lena (fil. dr., senior lecturer emerita)
1. Stratigraphy and absolute chronology of middle
and late Weichselian sediments in S Scandinavia. Collaborators: J. Anjar, S. Björck, H.
Filipsson, N.K. Larsen and P. Möller.
2. Subglacial processes - hydrology, sediment
transfer and glacier dynamics related to Weichselian ice-lobe advances in Skåne, S Sweden
(GPSL project).
3. Glacial erosional landforms and ice dynamics
in Ramsvikslandet, southwest Sweden (GPSL
project). Collaborators: N.K. Larsen and
B.Noresten.
Barnekow, Lena (fil. dr., ass. professor, senior
lecturer)
1. Studies of recent pollen deposition in the
Abisko area within “The European Pollen
Monitoring Program”. Collaborator: S. Hicks
(Finland).
2. Late Quaternary environmental change of
Kamchatka. Collaborators: D. Hammarlund, A.
Andreev, E. Andrén, K. Bennett and A. Klimaschewski.
3. Shore discplacement and deglaciation combined with human immigration in the Aarevaara
area, Norbotten. Collaborators: P. Möller, P.
Sandgren, O. Östlund and Frida Palmbo (Norrbotten Museum).
Alexanderson, Helena (professor)
1. Arctic natural climate and environmental changes and human adaptation . Main collaborators:
J. Landvik, M. Henriksen, H. Ryen (Norwegian
University of Life Sciences).
2. Determining the timing of interstadials at
Riipiharju, northern Sweden. Collaborators: M.
Hättestrand (Stockholm), J-P. Buylaert & A.
Murray (Aarhus).
3. Veiki moraines as archives of the Scandinavian
ice sheet during the Early Weichselian. Collaborators: M. Hättestrand & C. Hättestrand
(Stockholm), Leif V. Jakobsen (Norwegian
University of Life Sciences).
4. Subglacial sedimentary and landforming pro-
Ívar Örn Benediktsson (PhD, ass. senior lecturer
1. Largest end moraines in Iceland – the laterofrontal moraines of Gígjökull and Kvíárjökull.
Collaborators: Þ. Ágústsdóttir, Ólafur Ingólfsson, M. Sigurðardóttir, M. Tumi Guðmundsson
(all Univ. Iceland) and G.P. Hersir (Iceland
Geosurvey).
2. Glaciotectonics and glaciodynamics of lower
Borgarfjörður, Iceland. Collaborators: E. Phil-
Field work on Iceland in November,
collecting water samples for water
chemistry, diatoms and chironomids,
for calibration between present-day
flora/fauna and Holocene surge history. Photo S. Björck.
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lips (British Geological Survey), H.Norðdahl
(Univ. Iceland), Ó. (Univ. Iceland and UNIS).
3. The Múlajökull project - drumlin field and
end moraines. Collaborators: A. Schomacker
(PI, NTNU), Ó. Ingólfsson (Univ. Iceland),
M. Johnson (Gothenburg), N.R. Iverson (Iowa
State Univ.), T. Hooyer (Univ. Wisconsin Millwaukee).
4. Glacial history of Taymyr, Siberia. Collaborators: P. Möller (PI), D. Bolshyanov (AARI, St.
Peterburg).
2.
Berglund, Björn E. (professor emeritus)
1. Holocene Baltic Sea history, particularly
during the last 3000 years in Blekinge, SE
Sweden. Collaborator: P. Sandgren.
2. Human impact on the Late Holocene vegetation and environment in southern Sweden.
Collaborator: P. Lagerås (Swedish National
Heritage Board, Lund).
3. Deforestation, human impact and diversity
changes curing the last 3000 years in the Blekinge Archipelago. Collaborator: T. Persson.
4. Comparison of the Late Holocene cultural
landscape in Japan (Satoyama) and Scandinavia. Collaborators: Y.Yasuda, J. Kitagawa, H.
Nasu, N. Sasaki (Kyoto), K. Nakamura (Kanazawa).
3.
4.
5.
6.
Björck, Svante (professor, head of Quaternary
Sciences)
1. An interhemispheric transect: paleoclimatic
analyses of late Quaternary lacustrine and
7.
Palaeotsunami
related field work
in late December
2012, on the island
of Phra Thong in
Thailand, cleaning up and water
pumping an eeland snake filled
trench.
Arrow
shows a 600 yr old
tsunami deposit.
Photo S. Björck
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terrestrial records of Atlantic islands (ATLANTIS), incl. paleoclimate modeling of the Last
Termination and the Holocene. Collaborators:
D. Hammarlund, S. Holmgren, K. Ljung, R.
Muscheler, P. Möller, M. Rundgren, J. Sjolte,
N. Van der Putten, I. Unkel (Kiel), T. Rittenour
(Logan), E. Willerslev (Copenhagen), B. Wohlfarth (Stockholm), C. Porter (Puerto Williams)
and M. Fernandez (Ushuaia).
Deciphering the role of the Southern Ocean in
the global climate system. Collaborators: K.
Ljung, R. Muscheler, J. Sjolte, N. Van der Putten, M. Kageyama (Gif-sur-Yvette), E. Michel
(Gif-sur-Yvette) and other French colleagues.
Analyses of Holocene climate events around
the North Atlantic. Collaborators: D. Hammarlund, M. Rundgren, D. Conley, R. Muscheler,
C. S. Andresen (Copenhagen), K. Kjœr (Copenhagen), and J. Olsen (Århus).
Late Saalian and Eemian climate and CO2 variability. Collaborators: D. Hammarlund and M.
Rundgren.
Aeolian proxy records in peat bogs, and their
relation to climate and human impact. Collaborator: Rixt de Jong, (Bern), E. Hansen (Michigan), L. Clemmensen (Copenhagen) and K.
Schoning (Stockholm).
Late glacial and Holocene Baltic Sea history.
Collaborators: D. Conley, P. Sandgren, I.
Snowball, L. Zillén, T. Andrén (Stockholm)
and M. Jakobsson (Stockholm).
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deglaciation. Collaborators: R. Muscheler, M.
Friedrich (Hohenheim), F. Guibal (Aix-enProvence) and B. Kromer (Heidelberg).
8. Holocene melt water discharge and surge
history of Eyjabakkajökull (Vatnajökull), based
on Lake Lögurinn´s extra-glacial sediments.
Collaborators: J. Striberger, Ó. Ingólfsson
(Reykjavik), K. Kjær (Copenhagen) and L.
Hamerlik (Bratislava).
9. Seismostratigraphy and development of the
Lake Vättern basin. Collaborators: M. Jakobsson (Stockholm) and B. Wohlfarth (Stockh.).
M. Maldonado, CSI; K. Hendry (Cardiff Univ.)
Digerfeldt, Gunnar (professor emeritus)
1. Reconstruction and palaeoclimatic interpretation of Holocene lake-level fluctuations in lake
Igelsjön south-central Sweden. Collaborators:
S. Björck, D. Hammarlund, M. Rundgren and
C. Jessen.
Eriksson, Thomas (reseracher, fil. dr.)
1. Forty years of Laboratory analyses - Digitalization and evaulation of thin-section analysis”.
Collaborators SEAD-project, Umeå University.
2. Styles, Regions and Decorated Vessels during
the Migration Period.
Caballero Alfonso, Angela Maria (PhD, postdoc)
1. Managing multiple stressors in the Baltic Sea.
Principal Investigators: D. Conley, C. Akselsson, M. Berggren, S. Björck, A. Broström, H.
Filipsson, Em Kritzberg, B. Smith
Filipsson, Helena (fil. dr., ass. senior lecturer,
associate professor )
1. Field and culture-based calibration of temperature and salinity proxies using benthic
foraminifera (CONTEMPORARY). Collaborators: W.E:N. Austin & D. McCarthy (both St
Andrews), K.Darling (Edinburgh University),
J. Groeneveld (University of Bremen), N. Gussone (University of Munster).
2. Using δ18O and δ13C for paleoceanographic
studies in coastal waters: field and foraminifera culture-based calibration studies. Collaborators: J.M Bernhard, D.C. McCorkle (both
WHOI, USA), A. Mackensen (AWI, Bremerhaven), K. Nordberg (Gothenburg University).
3. Upwelling regions during times of rapid
climate change. Collaborators: C. McKay, B.
Donner, (Bremen), O.E. Romero (Granada,
Spain), J.B.W Stuut (the Royal Institute of Sea
Clymans, Wim (PhD, post-doc)
1. Coupling the Carbon and Silicon Global Biogeochemical Cycles. Collaborators: D. Conley
et al.
2. Interactions between Si and Al with experimental additions of Si in terrestrial ecosystems (Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest,
New Hampshire). Collaborators: D. Conley,
G. Likens (Cary Institute), D. Buso (Hubbard
Brook).
Conley, Daniel (professor)
1. Ecosystem thresholds in response to climate
change, Collaborators: D. Hammarlund, L.
Randsalu Wendrup, J. Carstensen (Aarhus University;),S.C. Fritz (University of Nebraska).
3. Hypoxia and mitigation in the Baltic Sea.
Collaborators: R. Vaquer Sunyer, A. CabellaroAlfonso, J. Carstensen (Aarhus University).
4. Informing the public, policy makers, managers and stakeholders on mitigation measures
to relieve the detrimental effects of coastal
hypoxia and eutrophication in the Baltic Sea
(INFORM). Collaborators: J. Stadmark.
5. Managing multiple stressors in the Baltic Sea
(Multistressors). Collaborators: C. Akselsson,
S. Björck, A. Broström, H. Filipsson, E. Kritzberg, J. Stadmark, M. Berggren.
6. Coupling the Carbon and Silica Global Biogeochemical Cycles. Collaborators: W. Clymans,
Landing at the beach at Kapp Ekholm, one of the
key sites for Svalbard's glacial history, for another
day of fieldwork during a field course on Svalbard.
Photo: H. Alexanderson.
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4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Research),
Managing Multiple Stressors in the Baltic Sea.
Collaborators: D. Conley, C. Akselsson, S.
Björck, A. Broström, A. Callebero-Alfonso, A.
Ghosh, E. Kritzberg, A-B Nielsen, W. Ning, B.
Smith, J. Stadmark, J. Nyberg (SGU), and C.
Slomp (Utrecht).
Using scan and scale to study ocean acidification of Swedish coastal waters. Collaborators:
T. Toyofuku (Japan Agency for Marine Earth
Science and Technology) and O. Saski (University of Sendai).
Late Holocene temperature reconstruction of
NW Europe: Gullmar Fjord on the Swedish
west coast as a key climate archive. Collaborators: K. Nordberg (Gothenburg), I. Polovodova
(Gothenburg), R. Harland (Gothenburg).
Från hav till land – Östersjöns utveckling
under den senaste istiden Collaborators: J.
Anjar, L. Adrielsson, S. Björck, P. Möller, N.
K. Larsen (Århus University, Denmark).
Dating Holocene Baltic Sea Inflow Events (INFLOW) Collaborators: B. Lougheed, I. Snowball, R. Muscheler.
Hammarlund, Dan (professor)
1. Climate variability and change in southern
Sweden during the last millennium based on
isotope dendroclimatology (SweDenClim).
Collaborators: H. Linderson, J. Sjolte, T. Edwards (Waterloo), C. Sturm (Stockholm).
2. Holocene Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics
in Scandinavia (HACIDYS). Collaborators: J.
Sjolte, T. Edwards (Waterloo), J. Bakke (Bergen), H. Linderholm (Göteborg), C. Sturm
(Stockholm).
3. Holocene climate change and peatland dynamics in southern Sweden based on tree-ring
analysis of subfossil wood from peat deposits.
Collaborators: J. Edvardsson, H. Linderson,
M. Rundgren, N. Van der Putten, A. Poska, T.
Edwards (Waterloo) and H. Linderholm (Göteborg).
4. Increased humic content of South Swedish lake
waters – relations to recent changes in climate,
land use and acid deposition. Collaborators: P.
Brageé, A. Broström, W. Granéli, P. Choudhary (Uppsala), J. Routh (Linköping), J. Boyle
(Liverpool), F. Mazier (Toulouse) and P. Rosén
(Abisko).
5. Late Quaternary environmental change of
Kamchatka. Collaborators: L. Barnekow, A.
Andreev (Potsdam), E. Andrén (Södertörn), K.
Bennett, A. Klimaschewski (Belfast), T. Edwards and N. St. Amour (Waterloo).
6. Palaeolimnological assessment of alternative
ecological stable states in Lake Krankesjön.
Collaborators: L. Randsalu Wendrup, D. Conley, C. Brönmark, L.A. Hansson, P. Choudhary
(Uppsala), J. Routh (Linköping).
Funkey, Carolina (project assistant, M.Sc.)
1. Hypoxia drives the Cyanobacteria Blooms
in the Holocene Baltic Sea. Collaborators:
D.Conley, N. Reuss (Univ. of Copenhagen), C.
Humborg (Stockholm Univ..), T. Jilbert, and C.
Slomp (Utrecht Univ.).
Haltia-Hovi, Eeva (PhD, researcher)
1. A new liquid helium-free superconducting
magnetometer for research in environmental
magnetism. Collaborators: I. Snowball, S-Å
Elming (Luleå) and M. Jakobsson (Stockholm).
2. Mapping natural magnetic sandwiches. Collaborators: M. Reinholdsson, I. Snowball and the
MAX-Lab at Lund University.
Holmgren, Sofia (researcher, fil. dr.)
1. Climate and environmental changes on Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic, inferred from
diatoms in lake sediments. Collaborators: S.
Björck and K. Ljung.
Ghosh, Anupam (PhD, post-doc)
(FORMAS). Collaobrators: D. Conley, C. Akselsson, M. Berggren, S. Björck, A. Broström,
H.L. Filipsson, E. Kritzberg, B. Smith.
2. Land-sea interactions over the last two millennium and its consequences for the Baltic Sea
coastal Zone: a biological proxy approach.
Hulthén, Birgitta (fil. dr., ass. professor emerita)
1. A Roman Iron Age cinerary urn from Bastubacken, Tortuna parish, Västmanland. Original
function and production area. Collaborators
M. Arthursson, RAÄ, UV-syd. A. Lindahl, J.
Wikborg, Uppsala University.
2. The pottery from Snårarp, a late Bronce Age
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on the Tristan da Cunha islands. Collaborators: S. Björck, S. Holmgren, C. Alwmark, Z.
Zhang, A. Hicks.
2. Evolution of mega-paleolake Bungunnia, Australia. Collaborators: I. Snowball, E. HaltiaHovi.
3. Tracing climate and environmental changes
with organic geochemical proxies in peat. Collaborators: R. Evershed, R. Pancost.
settlement in NE Scania. Collaborators Regionmuseet Kristianstad /Landsantikvarien i Skåne.
Lindahl, Anders (professor)
1. Ceramics, metal craft and settlement in southeastern Zimbabwe since 1400 AD (Sida/SAREC). Collaborators: Institutes in Sweden and
Zimbabwe.
2. Ceramics and the Ethnographic Present: ceramic manufactureing techniques in southern
Africa. In co-operation with Dr. I. Pikirayi,
University of Pretoria, South Africa.
3. Situating Indian Ocean Archaeology in the
South-South-South Framework. Collaborator:
S. Gupta (Allahabad Museum, India).
4. Late Black Earthenware – The introduction
of modern pottery in Sweden. In co-operation
with. O. Stilborg.
5. Ceramics from the Mariana Islands, Forming
methods and raw material”. In co-operation
with O. Winter, Dept. of Archaeology and
Natural History Research School of Pacific and
Asian Studies, ANU, Australia.
6. Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological studies
in Sankarani Valley, Mali. In co-operation with
Dr. S. Camara.
7. Laboratory analyses of bricks from the Medieval kiln at Boo. In collaboration J. P. Lamm.
Muscheler, Raimund ( KVA-research fellow, Dr.
sc. nat, ass. professor)
1. Cosmogenic radionuclides in natural archives – clues about the causes and mechanisms
of climate change. Collaborators: G. Skog, I.
Snowball, S. Björck, B. Kromer (Heidelberg
University, Germany).
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2. Be measurements in ice from the GRIP ice
core for the last transition. Collaborators: A.
Aldahan, G. Possnert (Uppsala University), A.
Svensson, S. Johnsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).
3. Solar activity and carbon cycle changes at
the end of the last ice age. Collaborators: F.
Adolphi, I. Snowball, S. Björck, G. Skog.
4. Investigations of the temporal evolution of
climate and geomagnetic field changes via
high-resolution radiocarbon dating. Collaborators: A. Mellström, I. Snowball, S. Björck.
5. Disentangling the mechanisms behind the sunclimate link. Collaborators: Jesper Sjolte, I.
Snowball, S. Björck.
6. NEEM a new deep ice core from Greenland:
a unique contribution to reveal novel data on
past climate changes, Project leader G. Possnert (Uppsala University).
7. Atmospheric circulation patterns and relationship to external forcing, In collaboration with J.
Sjolte, Thanh Le.
Linderson, Hans (research engineer, fil. lic.)
1. Elaboration of regional dendrochronological
time-scale in Sweden.
2. Dendrochronological dating of historical and
archaeological constructions.
3. Dendroclimatological research in Sweden. Collaborators: K. Briffa (Norwich) and O. Eggertsson (Reykavik).
4. Dendroclimatological research on isotopes
on tree-rings from Småland and Östergötland
the last 1000 years. Collaborators: Dan Hammarlund, A. Nilsson and T. Edwards (Univ. of
Waterloo).
5. Dendrochronological investigations of medieval churches in Scania. Collaborator: B. Sundnér Archaeological dep. Lund University.
6. Development of Dendrochronological times
series on beech (Fagus) in southern Sweden.
Möller, Per (professor)
1. Glacial Processes, Sediments and Landforms
(GPSL): formation of moraines, e.g., drumlins,
Rogen moraine, Niemisel moraine, De Geer
moraine, Veiki moraine in Sweden. Collaborators: L. Adrielsson, H. Alexanderson, T. Dowling.
2. An interhemispheric transect: Palaeoclimatic
analyses of Late Quaternary lacustrine and
terrestrial records of Atlantic islands (ATLAN-
Ljung, Karl (fil. dr., lecturer )
1. Climate variability and environmental changes
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3.
4.
5.
6.
TIS). Collaborators: S. Björck, C. Hjort and
others.
APEX – Arctic Palaeoclimate and its EXtremes, umbrella program within IPY (International Polar Year). Collaborators: scientists from
different universities and institutes, among
others in Sweden (Lund and Stockholm), Norway (Bergen and NGU/Trondheim), Denmark
(Centre for GeoGenetics, Copenhagen and
Univ. of Aarhus), Finland (Finnish Geological
Survey), Germany (AWI/Bremerhafen, AWI/
Potsdam) and Russia (AARI/St. Petersburg).
Taymyr revisited – a quest for former Eurasian
Ice Sheet margins and megafauna extinction
during the last glacial cycles. Collaborators: L.
Håkansson (Geus), L. Dalén (RM), E. Willerslev (Centre for GeoGenetics, Copenhagen,
Copenhagen univ.), Í. Örn Benediktsson, D.
Bolsheyanov and G. Federov (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), St. Petersburg, Russia). (Subproject of APEX).
Sub-till sediments on the Småland peneplain –
chronology and implications for glacial stratigraphy and dynamics in southern Sweden.
Collaborators: Anna Broström, Nicolaj Larsen,
S Björck and. H. Alexanderson. G Lemdahl
(the Linné University, Kalmar).
Shore discplacement and deglaciation combined with human immigration in the Aarevaara
area, Norbotten. Collaborators: P. Sandgren,
L. Barnekow, O. Östlund and Frida Palmbo
(Norrbotten Mueum).
A. B. Nielsen, A. Aader and A. Ghosh (left to right)
subsampling a Kajak sampler sediment core on the
department's raft in lake Storsjön near Vimmerby in
Småland, April 2012. (Photo: Anna Broström).
for Urban Underground Infrastructure. Collaborators; T. Dahlin, T. and C. Sparenbom,
E. Auken,and G. Fiandaca (both Århus, Denmark), M. Svensson, D. Hagerberg, D. and S.
Johansson, (all Tyréns AB), M. Bastani, (SGU,
Uppsala) J. Moberg (ABEM Instr. AB).
Rundgren, Mats (fil. dr., associate professor,
senior lecturer )
1. Holocene dynamics of Store Mosse, a major
ombrotrophic bog in southern Sweden: climate,
hydrology, ecology and carbon accumulation.
Coollaborators: U. Kokfelt (Copenhagen), S.
Wastegård (Stockholm) and K. Schoning (Uppsala).
2. Holocene climate change and peatland dynamics in southern Sweden based on tree-ring
Collaborators: J. Edvardsson, D. Hammarlund,
H. Linderson, N. Van der Putten, A. Poska T.
Edwards (Waterloo) and H. Linderholm (Göteborg).
3. Regional and local vegetation reconstructions
– applications for revealing biodiversity dynamics. Collaborators: A. Broström, D. Fredh,
P. Lagerås, L. Zillén (Uppsala) and F. Mazier
(Toulouse).
Nielsen, Anne Birgitte (PhD, researcher)
1. Quantification of past land-use changes within
"Managing Multiple Stressors in the Baltic
Sea” (Multistressors). Collaboraors: D. Conley,
H. Filipsson, A. Poska, A. Ghosh, W. Ning,
J. Stadmark, A Broström (Swedish National
Heritage Board).
Romare, Pia (PhD, science communicator)
1. South Baltic WebLab – an EU-project within
the South Baltic Programme. Collaborators:
partners from Germany (IOW, Univ. of Rostock), Poland (IOPAN, Szczecin Univ.), Denmark (DTU) and Lithuania (Klaipeda Univ.).
Rosqvist, Håkan (fil. dr. guest lecturer)
1. Geoelectrical Imaging for Site Investigation
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D. Hammarlund, S. Holmgren, K. Ljung, R.
Muscheler, P. Möller, M. Rundgren, J. Sjolte,
N. Van der Putten, I. Unkel (Kiel), T. Rittenour (Logan), E. Willerslev (Copenhagen),
B. Wohlfarth (Stockholm), C. Porter (Puerto
Williams) and M. Fernandez (Ushuaia).
5. Analyses of Holocene climate events around
the North Atlantic. Collaborators: S. Björck,
D. Hammarlund, D. Conley, R. Muscheler, C.
S. Andresen (Copenhagen), K. Kjœr (Copenhagen), and J. Olsen (Århus).
6. Late Saalian and Eemian climate and CO2
variability. Collaborators: D. Hammarlund and
M. Rundgren.
S. Björck, D. Hammarlund, S. Holmgren, K.
Ljung, R. Muscheler, P. Möller, M. Rundgren,
N. Van der Putten, I. Unkel (Kiel), T. Rittenour
(Logan), E. Willerslev (Copenhagen), B. Wohlfarth (Stockholm), C. Porter (Puerto Williams)
and M. Fernandez (Ushuaia).
5. Deciphering the role of the Southern Ocean in
the global climate system. Collaborators: S.
Björck, K. Ljung, R. Muscheler, N. Van der
Putten, M. Kageyama (LSCE, Gif-sur-Vvette),
E. Michel (LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette) and several
other French colleagues.
Skog, Göran (fil. dr., associate professor, senior
lecturer)
1. Radiocarbon dating of geological and archaeological samples. Collaborators: M. Rundgren &
P. Sköld.
2. Source apportionment of organic aerosols using
14
C in μg-sized samples. Collaborators: J. Genberg, K. Stenström, E. Swietlicki.
3 Dating components of human atherosclerotic
plaques. Collaborators: K. Stenström, I. Goncalves, S. Mattsson,J. Nilsson
4. Old carbon release from soils and its effects on
ecosystem carbon balance and carbon isotope
composition of trees. Collaborators: J. Edvardsson, P. Vestin, et al.
5. Influence of potential radiocarbon-producing
installations on 14C-based source apportionment
of carbonaceous aerosols. Collaborators: N.
Perron, K. Stenström, S. Mattsson.
6. Intercomparison of radiocarbon dating of
wood samples. Collaborators: F. Adolphi, R.
Muscheler and L. Wacker (Zürich).
Sandgren, Per (professor)
1. Holocene Baltic Sea history, particularly studies in Blekinge, SE Sweden. Collaborators:
B._E. Berglund, S-Y. Yu (Tulane University,
New Orleans, USA).
3. Magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic radionuclide studies of Quaternary lake sediments in
south eastern and central Australia. Collaborators: I. Snowball, S. McLaren (Melbourne), A.
Aldahan (Uppsala) and C. Julhin (Uppsala).
4. Shore discplacement and deglaciation combined with human immigration in the Aarevaara
area, Norbotten. Collaborators: P. Möller,
L. Barnekow, O. Östlund and Frida Palmbo
(Norrbotten Mueum).
Sjolte, J (PhD., researcher)
1. Modelling of stable water isotopes in the past
millennium using the ECHAM5-wiso model
in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model set-up.
Collaborators: C. Sturm (BBCC, Stockholm),
M. Werner and G. Lohman (AWI, Bremerhaven).
2. Modelling of sun-climate links using climate
models with extended stratosphere chemistry
and physics. Collaborators: R. Muscheler and
E. Rozanov (ETH/PMOD, Zürich ).
3. Assessment of the geographical extent of the
2.8 kyr BP event in climate proxy records.
Collaborators: N. Van der Putten, A. Johansson
and F. Adolphi.
Snowball, Ian (professor)
1. Geomagnetic field fluctuations in northern Europe during the late Holocene: synchronisation
to the tree-ring derived radiocarbon calibration timescale. Collaborators: R. Muscheler, A.
Nilsson (Liverpool) and S. Wastegård (Stockholm).
2. Magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic radionuclide studies of Quaternary lake sediments in
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tors: P. Sandgren, S. McLaren (Melbourne), A.
Aldahan (Uppsala) and C. Julhin (Uppsala).
3. A new liquid helium-free superconducting
magnetometer for research in environmental
magnetism. Collaborators: E. Haltia-Hovi,
S-Å Elming (Luleå) and M. Jakobsson (Stockholm).
4. DYNAMITE: Dynamic Models in Terrestrial
Ecosystems and Landscapes. Collaborators: R.
Bradshaw (Liverpool/Lund).
5. Mapping natural magnetic sandwiches. Collaborators: M. Reinholdsson, E. Haltia-Hovi and
the MAX-Lab at Lund University.
(Multistressors) Collaborators: D. Conley, H.
Filipsson, C. Akselsson, M. Berggren, E. Kritzberg, B. Smith, A. Broström (The Swedish
National Heritage Board) and others.
Van der Putten, Natalie (ph D, researcher)
1. Palaeoclimatology and palaeoecology of the
Sub-Antarctic: a weak link in the knowledge of
the Earth’s palaeoclimate system. Collaborator:
S. Björck.
2. Assessment of the geopgraphical extent of
the 2.8 kyr BP event in climate proxy records.
Collaborators: F. Adolphi, A. Mellström, J.
Sjolte.
3. Deciphering the role of the Southern Ocean
in the global climate system. Collaborators:
S. Björck, K. Ljung, R. Muscheler, J. Sjolte,
M. Kageyama (Gif-sur-Yvette), E. Michel
(Gif-sur-Yvette) and several other French
colleagues.
analyses of late Quaternary lacustrine
and terrestrial records of Atlantic islands
(ATLANTIS), incl. paleoclimate modeling
of the Last Termination and the Holocene.
Collaborators: S. Björck, D. Hammarlund,
S. Holmgren, K. Ljung, R. Muscheler, P.
Möller, M. Rundgren, J. Sjolte, I. Unkel
(Kiel), T. Rittenour (Logan), E. Willerslev
(Copenhagen), B. Wohlfarth (Stockholm), C.
Porter (Puerto Williams) and M. Fernandez
(Ushuaia).
5. Holocene climate change and peatland
dynamics in southern Sweden based on treering analysis of subfossil wood from peat
deposits. Collaborators: J. Edvardsson, D.
Hammarlund, H. Linderholm, H. Linderson,
M. Rundgren, A. Poska and T. Edwards
(Waterloo).
Sparrenbom, Charlotte (fil dr., associate senior
lecturer)
1. Pesticide occurrence in the groundwater, a study for sustainable use in Skåne (PEGASUS).
Collaborators: M. Åkesson, C. Carlsson, A.
Enell, D. Bendz, (all three SGI, Malmö), J.
Kreuger,. (Uppsala) and E. Nilsson, E., Visavi
God Lantmannased AB.
2. Sources and distribution of ammonium and
arsenic in the Red River delta aquifers (AMONAS). Collaborators: M. Berg, (Eawag, Dubendorf), D N Dang, (INST, Hanoi), Pham,
Qay Nanh (HUMG, Hanoi) and G. Jacks
(KTH, Stockholm).
3. Dating of groundwater from water work wells
in southern Sweden for status description
and trend analysis with a focus on pesticides:
Collaborators: M. Åkesson, P. Dahlqvist, M.
Gustafsson, (both SGU, Lund), K. Sjöstrand
(Municipality Board of Skåne, Malmö), J. Sültenfüss (Bremen), Troels Laier (Copenhagen).
4. Geoelectrical Imaging for Site Investigation
for Urban Underground Infrastructure. Collaborators; T. Dahlin, T. and H. Rosqvist, E.
Auken,and G. Fiandaca (both Århus, Denmark), M. Svensson, D. Hagerberg, D. and
S. Johansson, (all Tyréns AB), M. Bastani,
(SGU, Uppsala) J. Moberg (ABEM Instrument AB).
Vaquer-Sunyer, Raquel (ph D, post-doctoral
researcher)
1. The role of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON
Hypo) on the development and extent of
eutrophication-driven hypoxia and responses to
global warming. Collaborators:: D. Conley, E.
Kritzberg and J. Carstensen (Roskilde).
Stadmark, Johanna (fil. dr., researcher)
1. Informing the public, policy makers, managers and stakeholders on mitigation measures
to relieve the detrimental effects of coastal
hypoxia and eutrophication in the Baltic Sea
(INFORM) Collaborator: D. Conley.
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Zillén, C. Slomp, S. Björck and D. J. Conley.
Research students and PhD project
Adolphi, Florian, MSc
Solar activity and carbon cycle changes at
the end of the last ice age. Supervisors: R.
Muscheler, G.Skog, S. Björck and I. Snowball.
Le, Thanh, Master of Engineering
Can climate models explain the natural climate
variability? Testing the consistency between
different methods of reconstructing past climate
changes. Supervisors: J. Sjolte, S. Björck, D.
Hammarlund and R. Muscheler.
Alfredsson, Hanna, MSc
Amorphous silica in Arctic terrestrial landscapes. Supervisors: D.J. Conley, J. Stadmark and
P. Kuhry.
Lougheed, Bryan, MSc
Improving 14C and palaeomagnetic secular
variation (PSV) based Baltic Sea geochronologies. Supervisors: I. Snowball, S. Björck, H.L.
Filipsson and R. Muscheler.
Anjar, Johanna, fil. mag.
Middle to Late Weichselian stratigraphy and
glaciation history in Skåne, southern Sweden.
Supervisors: N.K. Larsen (Aarhus), L. Adrielsson, S. Björck, H. L. Filipsson and P. Möller.
McKay, Claire, MSc
An investigation into the response of the benthic environment to rapid climate change in
upwelling regions. Collaborators: H. Filipsson,
S. Björck, R. Muscheler, D. Conley, O. romero
(Granada), B. Donner (MARUM), J-B Stuut
(NIOZ) and D. Gallego Torres (Granada).
Bragée, Petra, fil. mag.
Brownification of streams, lakes and coastal
waters – an effect of climate change or landuse? Supervisors: D. Hammarlund, W. Granéli
(Limnology) and A. Broström.
Mellström, Anette, MSc
Investigations of the temporal evolution of climate and geomagnetic field changes via highresolution radiocarbon dating. Supervisors: R.
Muscheler, I. Snowball, S. Björck and G. Skog.
Dowling, Tom, MSc
Drumlin development within Swedish area of
the Fenno-Scandian Shield. Supervisors: P.
Möller, H. Alexanderson.
Edvardsson, Johannes, fil. mag.
Holocene climate change and peatland dynamics in southern Sweden based on tree-ring
Supervisors: D., Hammarlund, H. Linderson,
M. Rundgren, and H. Linderholm (Göteborg).
Ning, Wenxin
Climate variablility and human impact on the
Baltic Sea. Supervisors: H. Filipsson, A. Broström, D. Conley and S. Björck.
Randsalu Wendrup, Linda, fil. mag.
Ecosystem thresholds in lakes in response to
climate change. Supervisors: D. Conley, D.
Hammarlund, J. Carstensen (Aarhus University) and S. Fritz (University of Nebraska).
Fredh, Daniel, fil. mag.
Regional and local vegetation reconstructions – applications for revealing biodiversity
dynamics. Supervisors: A. Broström, L. Zillén,
M. Rundgren, P. Lagerås (Swedish National
Heritage Board) and F. Mazier (Toulouse).
Reinholdsson, Maja, fil. mag.
Holocene evolution of the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Supervisors: J. D. Conley, S. Björck, L.
Zillén and I. Snowball.
Frings, Patric, M.Sc.
Fluvial transport of amorphous silica. Supervisors: D.J. Conley, S. Björck and J. Stadmark.
Åkesson, Maria, fil. mag.
On the occurrence of pesticides in Scanian
groundwater. Supervisors: C.J. Sparrenbom, D.
Hammarlund and C. Carlsson (SGI, Malmö).
Lenz, Conny, Dipl. Geogr.
Understanding long-term trends of hypoxia in
the Baltic Sea – using Manganese as an indicator for redox conditions. Supervisors: L.
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Publications 2012
Paleogene mass-extinction interval in the Northern
Hemisphere. Journal of Stratigraphy, 36(2), 165178.
Bercovici, A., Bourquin, S., Broutin, J., Steyer, J-S.,
Battail, B., Véran, M., Vacant, R., Khenthavong,
B. & Vongphamany, S. 2012. Permian continental
paleoenvironments in southeastern Asia: new
insights from the Luang Prabang Basin (Laos).
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 60, 197-212.
Bercovici, A., Pearson, D. A., Vajda, V., VillanuevaAmadoz, U. & Kline, D. 2012. Palynostratigraphy
of John's Nose, a new Cretaceous-Paleogene
boundary section in southwestern North Dakota,
USA. Palynology 36(1), 36-47.
Bergström, S.M., Eriksson, M.E., Young, S.A. &
Widmark, E-M. 2012. Conodont biostratigraphy,
and δ 13C and δ34S isotope chemostratigraphy, of
the uppermost Ordovician and Lower Silurian at
Osmundsberget, Dalarna, Sweden. GFF 134, In
press.
Billström, K., Mattson, B., Söderlund, U., Årebäck,
H., Broman, C.& Lundström, I. 2012. Geology
and age constraints on the origin of the intrusionrelated, sheeted vein-type gold deposit at Åkerberg,
Skellefte district, Sweden. Minerals 2, 385-416,
doi:10.3390/min2040385.
Björck, S., Rundgren, M., Ljung, K, Unkel, I. &
Wallin, Å. 2012. Multi-proxy analyses of a peat
bog on Isla de los Estados, easternmost Tierra del
Fuego: a unique record of the variable Southern
Hemisphere Westerlies since the last deglaciation.
Quaternary Science Reviews 42, 1-14.
Blomdin R.L, Murray A.S, Thomsen KJ, Buylaert J.P,
Sohbati R, Jansson K.N & Alexanderson H. 2012.
Timing of the deglaciation in southern Patagonia:
Testing the applicability of K-Feldspar IRSL.
Quaternary Geochronology 10, 264-272.
Bogdanova, S., Gintov, O. B., Kurlovich, D. M.,
Lubnina, N. V., Nilsson, K. M., Orlyuk, M.
I., Pashkevich I. K., Shumlyanskyy, L. V. &
Starostenko, V. I. 2012. Late Palaeoproterozoic
mafic dyking in the Ukrainian Shield of VolgoSarmatia caused by rotation during the assembly
of supercontinent Columbia (Nuna). Lithos, DOI:
10.1016/j.lithos.2012.11.002
Calner, M., Lehnert, O. & Jeppsson, L. 2012. New
chemostratigraphic data through the Mulde Event
interval (Silurian, Wenlock), Gotland, Sweden. GFF
134 (1), 65-67.
Calner, M. & Eriksson, M.E. 2012. Microbially
induced sedimentary structures (MISS) from the
Paleozoic of Sweden. In: Nora Noffke and Henry
Chafetz (eds.): Microbial mats in siliciclastic
depositional systems through time. Society of
Economic Paleontologist and Mineralogist, Special
Peer reviewed journals
Ahlberg, P. & Terfelt, F . 2012. Furongian (Cambrian)
agnostoids of Scandinavia and their implications for
intercontinental correlation. Geological Magazine
149, 1001–1012.
Ahn, S. Y., and Babcock, L. E. 2012. Microorganismmediated preservation of Planolites, a common
trace fossil from the Harkless Formation, Cambrian
of Nevada, USA. Sedimentary Geology 263-264,
30-35.
Alexanderson, H. & Murray, A.S. 2012. Luminescence signals from modern sediments in a glaciated bay, NW Svalbard. Quaternary Geochronology
10, 250-256.
Alexanderson, H. & Murray, A.S. 2012. Problems and
potential of OSL dating Weichselian and Holocene
sediments in Sweden. Quaternary Science Reviews
44, 37-50.
Alwmark, C., Schmitz, B., Meier, M. M. M., Baur, H.
& Wieler R. 2012. A global rain of micrometeorites
following the break-up of the L-chondrite parent
body – evidence from solar wind implanted Ne in
fossil extraterrestrial chromite grains from China.
Meteoritics and Planetary Science 47, 1297 - 1304.
Anjar, J., Adrielsson, L., Bennike, O., Björck,
S., Filipsson, H.L., Groeneveld, J., Knudsen.
K.L., Krog Larsen, N. & Möller, P. 2012.
Palaeoenvironments in the southern Baltic Sea
Basin during Marine Isotope Stage 3: a multi-proxy
reconstruction. Quaternary Science Reviews 34,
81-92.
Babcock, L. E., Zhao, Y. L., Peng, J., & Yang, X.
L. 2012. A new Cambrian arthropod, Leanchoilia
robisoni, from the Kaili Lagerstätte, Guizhou,
China. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural
Science) 29, Supplement 1: 10-15.
Benediktsson, Í.Ö. 2012. Polyphase structural
evolution of a fine-grained, fold-dominated end
moraine, Brúarjökull surge-type glacier, Iceland.
Jökull 62, 167-184.
Benediktsson, Í.Ö., Björnsson, H., Larsen. G. &
Sigmarsson, O. (guest editors) 2012. Glaciology
and volcanology on the centenary of Sigurður
Þórarinsson’s birth: a special issue. Jökull 62.
Bercovici A, Vajda V. & Sweet A. 2012.
Palynostratigraphy of the Cretaceous-Paleogene
mass-extinction interval of the Northern
Hemisphere. Journal of Stratigraphy 36:1, 1-14.
Bercovici A., Vajda, V., Pearson, D., VillanuevaAmadoz, U. & Kline, D. 2012. Palynostratigraphy
of John´s Nose, a new Cretaceous-Paleogene
boundary section in southwestern North Dakota,
USA. Palynology 36, 36-47.
Bercovici, A. & Vajda, V. 2012. Sweet, A. Pollen
and spore stratigraphy of the Cretaceous33
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of the conspicuous Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician)
'Täljsten' interval, south-central Sweden. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 367368, 89-103.
Eriksson, M.E., Terfelt, F., Elofsson, R. & Marone,
F. 2012. Internal soft-tissue anatomy of Cambrian
‘Orsten’ arthropods as revealed by synchrotron
X-ray tomographic microscopy. PLoS ONE 7(8):
e42582. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042582
Fredh, D., Broström, A., Rundgren, M., Lagerås,
P., Mazier, F. & Zillén, L. 2012. The impact of
land-use change on floristic diversity at regional
scale in southern Sweden 600 B.C.-A.D. 2008.
Biogeosciences Discussions 9, 19085-19120.
Fredh, D., Broström, A., Zillén, L., Mazier, F.,
Rundgren, M. & Lagerås, P. 2012. Floristic
diversity in the transition from traditional to modern
land-use in southern Sweden A.D. 1800–2008.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21, 439-452.
Gacia, E., Marbà, N., Cebrián, J., Vaquer-Sunyer, R.,
Garcias-Bonet, N. & Duarte, C.M. 2012. Thresholds
of irradiance for seagrass (Posidonia oceanica)
meadow metabolism: An experimental approach.
Marine Ecology Progress Series 466: 69-79, DOI:
10.3354/meps09928.
Gladkochub., D.P., Donskaya, T.V., Ernst, R.E.,
Mazukabzov, A.M., Sklyarov, E.V., Pisarevsky, S.A.,
Wingate, M. & Söderlund, U. 2012. Proterozoic
basic magmatism of the Siberian Craton: Main
stages and their geodynamic interpretation.
Geotectonics 46, 273-284.
Göransson, G., Larson, M., Bendz, D. & Åkesson, M.
2012. Mass transport of contaminated soil releasedi
nto surface water by landslides (Göta River, SW
Sweden). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16,
10589-10633.
Hagström, J. & Mehlqvist, K. 2012. The dawn of
terrestrial ecosystems on Baltica: First report
on land plant remains and arthropod coprolites
from the Upper Silurian of Gotland, Sweden.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and
Palaeoecology 317-318C, 162–170.
Harlov, D.E., Van Den Kerkhof, A., & Johansson,
L. 2012. The Varberg-Torpa charnockite-granite
association, SW Sweden: Mineralogy, petrology, and
fluid inclusion chemistry. Journal of Petrology 54, 1,
3-40.
Harrison J.A., Frings P.J., Beusen A.H.W., Conley
D.J. & McCrackin M.L. 2012. Global importance,
patterns, and controls of dissolved silica retention in
lakes and reservoirs. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
26, xxx-xxx.
Hoffmann, J.E., Svahnberg, H., Piazolo, S., Scherstén,
A. & Münker, C. 2012. The geodynamic evolution
of Mesoarchean anorthosite complexes inferred
from the Naajat Kuuat Complex, southern West
Greenland. Precambrian Research 196-197, 149170. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2011.12.002
Holmgren, S. U., Ljung, K. & Björck, S. 2012.
Late Holocene environmental history on Tristan da
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Cederström, P, Ahlberg, P., Babcock, L.E.,
Ahlgren, J., Høyberget, M. & Nilsson, C. H.
2012. Morphology, ontogeny and distribution of
the Cambrian Series 2 ellipsocephalid trilobite
Strenuaeva spinosa from Scandinavia. GFF 134,
157–171.
Conley, D.J. & Stadmark, J. 2012. A call to
commission more women writers. Nature 488, 590.
Conley, D.J. 2012. Saving the Baltic Sea. Nature 486,
463-464.
Connor, S.E., Van Leeuwen, J.F.N., Rittenour, T.M.,
van der Knaap, W.O., Ammann, B. & Björck,
S. 2012. The ecological impact of oceanic island
colonization – a palaeoecological perspective from
the Azores. Journal of Biogeography, doi:10.1111/
j.1365-2699.2011.02671.x
Cramer, B.D., Condon, D.J., Söderlund, U., Marshall,
C., Worton, G.J., Thomas., A.T., Calner., M.,
Ray, D.C., Perrier, V., Boomer, I., Patchett. P.J. &
Jeppsson, L. 2012. U-Pb (zircon) age constraints
on the timing and duration of Wenlock (Silurian)
paleocommunity collapse and recovery during
the “Big Crisis”. Geological Society of America
Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B30642.1
Dahlqvist, P., Calner, M., Kallaste, T., Kiipli, T. &
Siir, S. 2012. Geochemical variations within the
mid-Silurian Grötlingbo Bentonite – discriminating
between magmatic composition, ash transport
fractionation and diagenetic effects. GFF 134, in
press.
Dinelli, E., Ghosh, A., Rossi, V. & Vaiani, S.C. 2012.
Multiproxy reconstruction of Late PleistoceneHolocene environmental changes in coastal
successions: microfossil and geochemical evidences
from the Po Plain (Northern Italy). Stratigraphy 9:2,
153-167.
Edvardsson J., Linderson, H., Rundgren, M.
& Hammarlund, D. 2012. Holocene peatland
development and hydrological variability inferred
from bog-pine dendrochronology and peat
stratigraphy – a case study from southern Sweden.
Journal of Quaternary Science 27, 553-563.
Edvardsson, J., Leuschner, H.H., Linderson, H.,
Linderholm, H.W. & Hammarlund, D. 2012. South
Swedish bog pines as indicators of Mid-Holocene
climate variability. Dendrochronologia 30, 93-103.
Eriksson, M.E. & Terfelt, F. 2012. Exceptionally
preserved Cambrian trilobite digestive system
revealed in 3D by synchrotron-radiation X-ray
tomographic microscopy. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35625.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035625
Eriksson, M.E., Hints, O. & Bergman, C.F.
2012. Kingnites diamondi gen. et sp. nov., an
exceptionally large Silurian paulinitid (Annelida;
Polychaeta) from shallow marine settings of
Baltoscandia. GFF 134, 217-224.
Eriksson, M.E., Lindskog, A., Calner, M., Mellgren,
J.I.S., Bergström, S.M., Terfelt, F. & Schmitz, B.
2012. Biotic dynamics and carbonate microfacies
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Cunha, South Atlantic, based on diatom floristic
changes and geochemistry in sediments of a
volcanic crater lake. Journal of Paleolimnology 42,
221-232.
Jørgensen, T, Haile, J., Möller, P., Andreev, A.,
Boessenkool, S., Rasmussen, M., Kienast, F.,
Coissac, E., Taberlet, P., Brochman, C., Bigelow,
N.H., Andersen, K., Orlando, L., Gilbert, M.P.T.
& Willerslev, E., 2012. A comparative study of
ancient sedimentary DNA, pollen and macrofossils
from permafrost sediments in Northern Siberia
reveals long-term vegetational stability. Molecular
Ecology 21, 1989-2003. doi: 10.1111/j.1365294X.2011.05287.x
Kabel K., Moros M., Porsche C., Neumann T., Adolphi
F., Andersen T.J., Siegel H., Gerth M., Leipe T.,
Jansen E.. & Sinninghe Damste J.S. 2012. Impact
of climate change on the Baltic Sea ecosystem over
the past 1,000 years. Nature Clim. Change advance
online publication.
Kokfelt, U. & Muscheler, R. 2012. Solar forcing of
climate in northern Fennoscandia, The Holocene,
1-6, doi:10.1177/0959683612460781, 2012.
Konishi, T., Lindgren, J., Caldwell, M.W. &
Chiappe, L. 2012. Platecarpus tympaniticus
(Squamata: Mosasauridae): osteology of an
exceptionally preserved specimen and its insights
into the acquisition of a streamlined body shape in
mosasaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32,
1313-1327.
Korte, M. & Muscheler, R. 2012. Centennial to
millennial geomagnetic field variations, J. Space
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Lazarova, M., Ivanov, D., Bozilova, E., Tonkov, S. &
Snowball, I. 2012. Late Pleistocene and Holocene
history of genus Isoetes L. (lycopodiophyta) in
the Western Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria: New
palynological and palaeoecological data. Comptes
Rendus de l’Académie bulgare des Sciences 65,
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Lehnert, O., Meinhold, G., Bergström, S.M., Calner,
M., Ebbestad, J.O.R., Egenhoff, S., Frisk, Å.M.,
Hannah, J.L., Högström, A.S., Juhlin, C., Maletz, J.,
Stein, H.J. & Sturkell, E. 2012. Preliminary report
on new drill cores from the Siljan meteorite crater
in central Sweden – an integral part of the Swedish
Deep Drilling Program. GFF 134, 87-98.
Lindgren, J., Uvdal, P., Sjövall, P., Nilsson, D.E.,
Engdahl, A., Schultz, B.P. & Thiel, V. 2012.
Molecular preservation of the pigment melanin in
fossil melanosomes. Nature Communications 3:824.
doi:10.1038/ncomms1819.
Lindh, A. 2012. Minute-sized crystals of HFSE
minerals in evolved, fluorite-bearing granite, an
example from the Sörvik granite, central Sweden.
GFF 134, 000-000.
Lindskog, A., Schmitz, B., Cronholm, A. & Dronov,
A. 2012. A Russian record of a Middle Ordovician
meteorite shower: Extraterrestrial chromite at
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from Univeristy of Iowa, the Geologucal Survey of
Sweden and the Department. Photo C. Möller.
Lynna River, St. Petersburg region. Meteoritics and
Planetary Science 47, 1274-1290.
Lougheed, B.C., Snowball, I. Moros, M., Kabel,
K., Muscheler, R. Virtasalo J.J. & L. Wacker.
2012. Using an independent geochronology based
on palaeomagnetic secular variation (PSV) and
atmospheric Pb deposition to date Baltic Sea
sediments and infer 14C reservoir age. Quaternary
Science Reviews 42, 43-58.
Martin-Puertas, C., Matthes, K., Brauer, A., Muscheler,
R., Hansen, F., Petrick, C., Aldahan, A., Possnert,
G. & Van Geel, B. 2012. Regional Atmospheric
Circulation shifts induced by a Grand Solar
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Matthias, I., Nielsen, A.B. & Giesecke, T. 2012.
Evaluating the effect of flowering age and forest
structure on pollen productivity estimates.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21, 471–484.
Mazier, F., Nielsen, A.B., Broström, A. Sugita, S.
& Hicks, S. 2012. Signals of tree volume and
temperature in a high-resolution record of pollen
accumulation rates in northern Finland. Journal of
Quaternary Science 27(6), 564-574.
Mehlqvist, K., Vajda, V. & Steemans, P. 2012. Early
land plant spore assemblages from the Late Silurian
of Skåne, Sweden. GFF 134, 133–144.
Meier, M.M.M. 2012. Moon Formation: Earth's
Titanium Twin (invited "News & Views" comment).
Nature Geoscience 5, 240 - 241.
Meier, M.M.M., Heck, P. R., Amari, S., Baur, H., &
Wieler, R. 2012. Graphite Grains in Supernova
Ejecta: Insights from a Noble Gas Study of 91
Individual KFC1 Presolar Graphite Grains from the
Murchison Meteorite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica
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Meier, M.M.M., Welten, K. C., Caffee, M. W.,
Friedrich, J. M., Jenniskens, P., Nishiizumi,
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gas and cosmogenic radionuclide analysis of
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Peng, S. C., Babcock, L. E., Zuo, J. X., Lin, H. L.,
Zhu, X. J., Yang, X. F., Qi, Y. P., Bagnoli, G., &
Wang, L. W. 2012. Global Standard Stratotypesection and Point (GSSP) for the base of the
Jiangshanian Stage (Cambrian: Furongian) at
Duibian, Jiangshan, Zhejiang, Southeast China.
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Polcyn, M.J., Lindgren, J., Bardet, N., Cornelissen, D.,
Verding, L. & Schulp, A.S. 2012. New specimens
of Halisaurus arambourgi and comments on the
phylogeny of Halisaurinae. Bulletin de la Société
Géologique de France 183, 123-136.
Puchkov, V. N., Bogdanova, S., Ernst, R. E., Kozlov, V.
I., Krasnobaev, A. A., Söderlund, U., Wingate, M.
T. D., Postnikov, A. V. & Sergeeva, N. D. 2012. The
ca. 1380 Ma Mashak igneous event of the Southern
Urals. Lithos, DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.08.021
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Kageyama, M., Krinner, G., Salas y Mélia, D. &
Sjolte., J. 2012. Large sensitivity of a Greenland
ice sheet model to atmospheric forcing fields. The
Cryosphere 6, 999-1018.
Randsalu-Wendrup, L., Conley, D.J,, Carstensen, J.,
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regime shifts in Lake Kälksjön, Sweden, in response
to abrupt climate change around the 8.2 ka cooling
event. Ecosystems 15, 1336-1350.
Reufer, A., Meier, M. M. M.. Benz, W. & Wieler R.
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Ronchi, B., Clymans, W., Barão, ALP., Vandevenne,
F., Struyf, E., Batelaan, O., Dassargues, A. &
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Sayer C., Bennion H., Davidson T., Clarke G., Hoare
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application of palaeolimnology to evidence-based
lake management and conservation: examples
from UK lakes. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and
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Scherstén, A., Szilas, K., Creaser, R.A., Næraa, T. Van
two ordinary chondrites from Almahata Sitta.
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Mellgren, J.I.S., Schmitz, B., Ainsaar, L., Kirsimäe, K.
& Eriksson, M.E. 2012. Conodont dating of the
Middle Ordovician breccia cap-rock limestone on
Osmussaar Island, northwestern Estonia. Estonian
Journal of Earth Sciences 61, 133-148.
Muscheler R. 2012. The enigmatic 1,500-year cycle,
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Næraa, T., Scherstén, A., Rosing, M.T., Kemp, A.I.S.,
Hoffmann, J.E., Kokfelt, T.F. & Whitehouse, M.J.
2012. Linking Mesoarchaean crustal growth with
modern style tectonic regimes in SW Greenland.
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Nielsen A.B., Giesecke T., Theuerkauf M., Feeser I.,
Behre K.-E, Beug H.-J., Chen S.-H, Christiansen,
J., Dörfler W., Endtmann E., Jahns, S., de Klerk P.,
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regional openness in north-central Europe reveal
new insights into old questions. Quaternary Science
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Nilsson, M.K.M., Klausen, M.B.K., & Ernst, R.E.,
2012. Precise U-Pb ages and geochemistry of
Paleoproterozoic mafic dykes from southern West
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Norkko, J., Reed, D.C., Timmermann, K., Norkko,
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Carstensen, J. & Conley. D.J. 2012. A welcome
can of worms? Hypoxia mitigation by an invasive
species. Global Change Biology 18, 422–434.
Norström, E., Risberg, J., Gröndahl, H., Holmgren,
K., Snowball, I., Mugabe, J.A. & Sitoe, S.R. 2012.
Coastal paleo-environment and sea-level change at
Macassa Bay, southern Mozambique, since c 6600
cal BP. Quaternary International 260, 153-263.
Overballe-Petersen , M.V., Nielsen, A.B., Hannon,
G.E., Halsall, K. & Bradshaw, R.H.W. 2012.
Long-term forest dynamics at Gribskov, eastern
Denmark with possible early Holocene evidence
for thermophilous broadleaved tree species. The
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Bradshaw, R.H.W. 2012. Quantitative vegetation
reconstruction from pollen analysis and historical
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Paxton, H. & Eriksson, M.E. 2012. Ghosts from
the past – ancestral features reflected in the jaw
ontogeny of the polychaetous annelids Marphysa
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2012. Complex calc-alkaline volcanism recorded
in Mesoarchaean supracrustal belts north of
Frederikshåbs Isblink, southern West Greenland:
implications for subduction zone processes in the
early Earth. Precambrian Research 208-210, 90-123
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boninite/komatiite affinities from southern West
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of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass-extinction
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Van den Putte, A., Govers, G., Diels, J., Langhans, C.,
Clymans, W., Vanuytrecht, E., Merckx, R. & Raes,
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in the Belgian Loam Belt. Soil and Tillage Research
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Van den Putte, A., Govers, G., Leys, A., Langhans,
C., Clymans, W. & Diels, J. 2012. Estimating the
parameters of the Green-Ampt infiltration equation
from rainfall simulation data: Why simpler is better.
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Van der Putten, N., Mauquoy, D., Verbruggen, C. &
Björck, S. 2012. Subantarctic peatlands and their
potential as paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic
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Van der Putten, N., Verbruggen, C., Alexanderson,
H., Björck, S. & Van De Vijver, B. 2012.
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Van der Putten, N., Verbruggen, C., Björck, S., De
Beaulieu, J. L., Barrow, C. J. & Frenot, Y. 2012.
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Vaquer-Sunyer, R., Duarte, C.M., Holding, J.,
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the Meso- to Neoarchaean Storø greenstone belt,
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Sender, L-M., Villanueva-Amadoz, U., Diez, J. B.,
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Siverson, M., Ward, D.J., Lindgren, J. &
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Smirnov, A.V., Evans, D.A.D., Ernst, R.E., Söderlund,
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Li, M., Hun, L. & Li, J. 2012. Pollen assemblages
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Åkesson, M., Sparrenbom, C.J., Carlsson, C. &
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Wang, H., Liu, H., Zhao, F., Yin, Y., Zhu, J. &
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Welten, K. C., Meier, M. M. M., Caffee, M. W.,
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Baziukaite, D., Fassnacht .L, Hentzsch, B., Hille,
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Benediktsson, Í.Ö. 2012. Myndun Hrauka í
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Bergelin, I. & Calner, M. 2012. Skånsk vulkanism
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Abstracts. Geoscience Society of Iceland. 216 p.
Zhao, J. L., Peng, J., Yuan, J. L., Babcock, L.E., Guo,
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C. J., Lin, J. P., Gaines, R. R., Sun, H. J., & Yang,
Y. N. 2012. Discussion of candidate stratotypes
for the GSSP defining the contermonous base of
Cambrian provisional Series 3 and Stage 5. Journal
of Guizhou University (Natural Science), 29,
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Zhao, Y. L., Zhu, M. Y., Peng, J., Yuan, J. L., Parsley,
R. L., Babcock, L.E., Yang, R. D., Yin, L. M.,
Yang, X. L., Lin, J. P., Sun, H. J., & Tai, T. S.
2012. The Kaili Biota – an informal review
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Science), 29, Supplement 1: 1-9.
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Ahlberg, P. & Bergström, S. M., 2012. Idérik och
omdömesgill forskare blev internationellt ledande
gestalt – minnesord Jan Bergström. Sydsvenska
Dagbladet 20 december.
Ahlberg, P. & Bergström, S. M., 2012. Jan Bergström
har gått ur tiden. Hallandsposten 10 december.
Calner, M., Bergström, J., Johnson, M. and Ripa, M.
2012. Rapid publication and the importance of the
‘short story’. [editorial preface]. GFF 134 (1), p. 1.
Calner, M., Johnson, M. and Ripa, M. 2012. Jan
Bergström 1938-2012. [editorial preface]. GFF
134 (4), p. 1.
Clymans, W. 2012. Land use related silica dynamics
in terrestrial ecosystems. Dissertation, Dept. Earth
and Environmental Sciences 20 januari: ISBN
978-90-8649-485-9.
Einarsson, E. 2012. Geologi i skolan – en
samlingspunkt i inlärningen. Geologiskt Forum 74,
31.
Einarsson, E., Lindgren, J., Schmitz, B. & Vajda, V.
2012. Unmasking a mid-Campanian climate and
marine extinction event – evidence from fossil
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& A. Lindroth (eds) LUCCI Annual Report 2011.
Lund Centre for Studies of Carbon Cycle and
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Eliasson, T., Scherstén, A., Andersson, J. &
Petersson, A., 2012. U-Pb zircon age of the late
Gothian Vättnet granite on Nord-Koster in the
Idefjorden Terrane, south-western Sweden. In: J.
Andersson (Ed.): U-Pb zircon geochronology of
granitic and syenitoid rocks across the southern
part of the Sveconorwegian orogen. SGU-rapport
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Fredh, D. 2012. The impact of past land-use change
on floristic diversity in southern Sweden – a
quantitative approach based on high-resolution
pollen data. LUNDQUA thesis 66.
Ghosh, A. 2012. Estuarine Foraminifera along the
Gulf of Cambay, Journal Geological Society of
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Lindahl, A. 2012. XRF-analys av tegel från
Riddarholms¬kyrkans gravtumba. KFLRAPPORT
12/0625.
Lindgren, J., Uvdal, P. & Engdahl, A. 2012. New tools
for old molecules. MAX-IV laboratory, Highlights
and Activities 2011–2012, pp. 22-23.
McKay, C.L., Filipsson, H.L., Romero, O.E. Donner,
B. & Stuut, J-B. 2012. The response of primary
productivity and palaeo-biodiversity of the benthic
environment in upwelling regions during past
periods of rapid climate change. LUCCI Annual
Report 2011/2012, Centre for Studies of Carbon
cycle and Climate Interations (LUCCI, Lund
University) Annual Meeting, Fjälkinge, Sweden. 7
March 2012.
Sæmundsson, Þ. & Benediktsson, Í.Ö. (eds.)
2012. 30th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting,
Reykjavík, Iceland 9-12 January. Programme and
Conference abstracts
Adolphi, F., Guettler D., Wacker L., Skog, G. &
Muscheler, R. 2012. Intercomparison of radiocarbon dating of wood samples at Lund university and
ETH Zurich: Extraction, Graphitization, and Measurement. 21st International Radiocarbon Conference,
Paris, July 9th – 13th 2012.
Adolphi F., Muscheler R., Aldahan, A., Possnert, G.,
Sturevik, Storm, A., Svensson, A. & Beer J. 2012.
New 10Be data from the GRIP ice core for the last
termination – A record of solar activity into the
last ice age. International Partnerships in Ice Core
Sciences first open science conference. 1-5 October
2012, France.
Ahlberg, P. & Terfelt, F. 2012. Furongian agnostoids
of Scandinavia: stratigraphic assessment and intercontinental correlation. In Y. L. Zhao, M. Y. Zhu, J.
Peng, R. R. Gaines & R. L. Parsley (eds): Cryogenian–Ediacaran to Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Guizhou, China. The 17 Field Conference
of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group,
Studies of the beautiful succession of raised beach
ridges at Vankeulenhamna on Spitsbergen during
a field course on Svalbard. The stay here had to be
cut short due to the arrival of a polar bear. Photo:
H. Alexanderson.
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elsewhere. Classic Rocks. American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, Eastern Section, p. 23.
Barao, L., Clymans W., Vandevenne, F., Struyf, E., Van
der Spiet, T. & Cools, A. 2012. Oral presentation
– Quantification of Niogenic and Inorganic Amorphous Silica in different Land Uses. 28-30 May:
IBIS, Hamburg (Germany).
Barão, L., Clymans, W., Vandevenne, F., Schoelynck,
J., Struyf, E., Meire, P. , Van der Spiet, T. & Cools,
A. 2012. Developing a new method to measure
Biogenic Silica in soils. 2-6 July: 4th International
Congress Eurosoil 2012, Bari (Italy).
Benediktsson, Í.Ö. & Schomacker, A. 2012. Landmótunarkort af framlandi Eyjabakkajökuls – laus
jarðlög og landform. Vorráðstefna Jarðfræðafélags
Íslands (Geoscience Society of Iceland Spring Meeting), Reykjavík, 30 March.
Benediktsson, Í.Ö. & Schomacker, A. 2012. The
landscape architecture of the forefield of Eyjabakkajökull, a surge-type glacier in Iceland. 30th Nordic
Geological Winter Meeting, Reykjavík, Iceland 9-12
January.
Bercovici, A., Vajda, V., Lyson, T. R., Chester, S. G.
B., Sargis, E. J., Pearson, D. A. & Joyce, W. G.
2012. Terrestrial ecosystem collapse associated to
the K-Pg boundary and dinosaur extinction: palynological evidences. European Geosciences Union,
Vienna.
Bercovici, A., Vajda, V., Lyson, T. R. & Pearson, D.
A. 2012. Climatic disruption after the Cretaceous
- Paleogene mass extinction event – evidence from
North Dakota, USA. LUCCI (Centre for Studies
of Carbon Cycle and Climate interactions) annual
meeting, Örenäs, Sweden.
Björck, S., Holmgren, S. & Ljung, K. 2012. A 36000
year long lacustrine record in the central South
Atlantic exhibiting large-scale climate shifts during
the last glacial (Invited key-note lecture). The13th
Symposium of the International Paleolimnology Association, Glasgow, August 21-24.
Bogdanova, S., Postnikov, A.V. & Bibikova E.V. 2012.
The Volga-Don orocline stitching Volgo-Sarmatia.
Geophysical Research, Abstracts Vol. 14, EGU201211762. EGU General Assembly, April 22–27,
Vienna, Austria
Bogdanova, S., Lubnina, N. & Gintov, O.B. 2012.
Formation of the East European Craton (Baltica) in
the Late Paleoproterozoic as caused by episodic rotations and collisions within assembling supercontinent Columbia (Nuna). Abstract 1484469 presented
at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif.,
3–7 Dec.
Bogdanova, S., Gintov, O.B. & Lubnina, N.V. 2012.
1.80–1.75 Ga mafic dykes in the Ukrainian Shield
– a key to the paleogeography of Baltica within Columbia. Supercontinent Symposium 2012, Helsinki,
Finland, Sept. 25–28, Programme and Abstracts,
22–23.
Clymans, W., Govers, G., Elisabeth, F., Ronchi, B.,
Van Wesemael, B., Struyf, E. & Conley D.J. 2012.
Pine trees on the peat bog Store mosse, southern
Sweden, in October 2012 (study objects in Anton
Hansson's MSc project and J. Edvardsson's PhD
project). Photo: D. Hammarlund.
International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy and Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of
the Discovery of the Kaili Biota. 9–19 June 2012,
Guizhou 2012. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Sciences) 29 (Supplement 1), pp. 153–154.
Alexanderson, H. 2012. Late Quaternary chronology
of the Arctic: a review of methods and applications.
Arctic Palaeoclimate and its Extremes (APEX) (6th
International Conference and Workshop), Oulanka,
Finland. 14-18 May 2012.
Alexanderson H, Ingólfsson Ó, Murray AS & Dudek
J. 2012. An in,terglacial polar bear and an early
Weichselian glaciation at Poolepynten, western
Svalbard. Arctic Palaeoclimate and its Extremes
(APEX) (6th International Conference and Workshop), Oulanka, Finland. 14-18 May 2012.
Alwmark, C., Holm, S., Meier, M.M. M., &. Hofmann, B. A. 2012. A Study of Shocked Quarz in
Distal Ries Ejecta from Eastern Switzerland. Lunar
Planetary Science Conference XLIII, Abstract
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Anjar, J., Larsen, N.K., Adrielsson, L. 2012: Weichselian stratigraphy and glacial history of Kriegers
Flak in the southwestern Baltic Sea. Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, 9-12 January 2012.
Babcock, L.E., Ahlbeg, P., Peng, S. C., Terfelt, F., &
Eriksson, M.E. 2012. Morphologic variation, taphonomy and biostratigraphic range of the agnostoid
Lotagnostus (Cambrian: Furongian) from Sweden.
Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Science),
29, Supplement 1: 154-155.
Babcock, L.E., Peng, S.C. & Zhu, M.Y. 2012. The
Cambrian GSSP: strengths, weaknesses and a
proposed modification of its definition. Proceedings
of the 34th International Geological Congress 2012,
p. 1740.
Babcock, L.E., Bevis, M., & MacKenzie, P. 2012. A
new class of unconventional hydrocarbon play in
the lower Paleozoic of the Appalachian Basin and
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Tracing land use controls on silica dynamics in the
soil-vegetation continuum. V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Momtréal (Canada). 24-29 June: 22nd
Conley, D. & Stadmark, J. 2012. Nutrient loading to
the Baltic Sea over the last 2000 years. How do we
get there? Workshop at Cornell Univeristy, USA,
"Understanding temporal trends in nutrient and
carbon fluxes to coastal oceans: Toward a linking
of different modeling approaches”, October 16-18,
2012
Conley, D.J., Reuss, N., Humborg, C., Jilbert, T. &
Slomp. C. 2012. To bloom or not to bloom. Investigating cyanobacteria abundance in the Baltic ea
during the Holocene Epoch. Paleolimnology Symposium held in Glasgow, Scotland. August 21-24
Edvardsson, J, Hammarlund, D., Linderson, H. &
Rundgren, M. 2012. Subfossil Swedish bog-pines
as indicators of mids-Holocene palaeohydrology
and climate. In T. Magnussuon (ed.): Abstracts of
the 14th International Peat Congress, Stockholm,
June 3-8, 2012, p. 12.
Edvardsson, J., Hammarlund, D., Linderson, H. &
Rundgren, M. 2012. Subfossil bog trees as indicators of palaeohydrology, climate and peatland
development. LUCCI, Örenäs slott, Sweden.
Egenhoff, S., Fishman, N., Jackson, A., Kolte, K.,
Mackie, J., Newby, W., Petrowsky, M. J. & Ahlberg, P. 2012 High life on the seafloor during an
ocean anoxic event – the sedimentology of Spice
Middle to Late Cambrian Alum Shale, Sweden. In
AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, April
22–25, 2012, Long Beach, California.
Einarsson, E. & Vajda, V. 2012. How improve
teachers’ motivation to educate in Geology within
the Swedish school system. Brisbane, Australia,
August 5-10
Ellehoj, M.D., Johnsen, S.J., Steen-Larsen, H.C.,
Sjolte, J. & Werner. M. 2012. Ice-vapor equilibrium fractionation factor of hydrogen and oxygen
isotopes: Experimental investigations and implications for stable water isotope studies. EGU General
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Table 11. Guest scientists from abroad
Jan. 10 - 12
Dr W.E:N. Austin, University of St Andrews,UK in collab with H.L. Filipsson.
Jan. 16
Troels Laier, Geus, Denmark participated in sampling of groundwater in Skåne. In collab.
with M. Åkesson and C. Sparrenbom.
Jan. 16 - 19
Dr Jürgen Sültenfüss, Bremen University,HELIS-laboratory, Germany. In collab. with M.
Åkesson and C.J. Sparrenbom sampling groundwater for noble gas-tracers to determine
groundwater age of aquifers around Skåne.
Jan. 20 and Nov. 21
Dr Timothy Topper, Geological Museum, Copenhagen, visited the Department for discussions on Cambrian research projects. In collab. with P. Ahlberg.
Febr. 17 - March 22
Professor Loren E. Babcock, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. In collab. with P. Ahlberg and others.
Apr. 9 - 13
Dr K. Taylor, Organic Geochemistry Unit, University of Bristol, UK.
Apr. 14
Dr. Roland Purtschert, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, participated
in sampling of groundwater in Skåne. In collab. with C. Sparrenbom and M. Åkesson.
April 19
Dr Svend Funder, Copenhagen, visit for discussions and seminar.
April 23 - 24
Dr Elisabeth Michel, Gif-sur-Yvette, visit for discussion and writing of research proposal.
May 05 - June 13
Prof. Natalia Lubnina, Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia.
May 7 - 9 and
Oct. 1 - 31
Professor Tom Edwards, University of Waterloo, Canada. In collab. with D. Hammarlund.
May 21-31
Dr. J. Groeneveld, University of Bremen in collab. with H.L. Filipsson.
May 22-24
Dr. WEN Austin, Dr D. McCarthy, University of St Andrews, Dr K. Darling, University of
Edinburgh, UK in collab. with H.. Filipsson.
May 28 - June 12
Prof. Ed Hansen , Hope College, Michigan, USA. Field work At Stensjöstrand,
Halland. In collaboration with L. Johansson.
May 29 - June 10
Dr. Jörg Maletz, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. In collab. with P. Ahlberg.
May 30 - c. June 10
Professor Daniel Goldman, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA. In collab. with P. Ahlberg.
June 4 - 8
Dr. Claudia Rubinstein from Mendoza, Argentina. In collab. with V. Vajda and K. Mehlqvist.
Jun. 11 - 13
Dr Gary Bilotta, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton. Visited
for discussion with P. Frings.
June 17 - July 02
Dr. Dzmitry Kurlovich, Belarussian State University, Faculty of Geography, Minsk, Belarus.
In collab. with S. Bogdanova.
June 22 - 29
Dr. Markus Helfert. Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Goethe-University, Frankfurt
am Main and Dr. In collaboration with A. Lindahl.
July 23 - 26
Dr. Zhaohui Zhang, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing Univ., China.
July 29 - Aug. 1
Prof. Stig M. Bergström, Columbus, Ohio, USA. In collab. With M. Eriksson.
Aug. 13
Prof. Irmgard Hein. Institut für Ägyptologie und stellv. Leiterin der interdisziplinären Forschungsplattform für Archäologie, Universität, Wien and Visiting Professor in Egyptology,
uppsala uniniversity. In collab. with A. Lindahl.
Aug 27 - 30
Olaf Winter, The Australian National University, Australia. In collab. with A. Lindahl.
Sept. 10
Paweł Gan and Robert Żukowski Department of Applied Sciences Institute of Archaeology
and Ethnology Poland. In collab. with A. Lindahl.
Table 12. Field expeditions outside Sweden
March
J. Lindgren
Fieldwork in the marine Cretaceous of Texas, USA.
March 12-30
J. Wigforss-Lange
Fieldwork in southern Canada and northern USA.
April
V. Vajda
Fieldwork in central Colombia
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April
Í.Ö. Benediktsson
The latero-frontal moraines of Gígjökull, Iceland.
mid-May
M. Calner.
Fieldwork in the Triassic and Jurassic of the Erfurt-Halle area, Germany.
June
Í.Ö. Benediktsson
The latero-frontal moraines of Kvíarjökull, Iceland.
June 15-Aug. 10
A. Bercovici, V.
Vajda,
Paleobotanical work in the K–Pg record of North Dakota, USA.
June 19-July 2
I. Snowball
RV Poseidon research cruise ‘Holocene Bothnian Sea and Baltic Proper
Linkages’.
June 25-30
A. Bercovici,
Fieldwork in the Upper Permian of the Black Hills, South Dakota. Description of the Spearfish Formation.
mid-July
M. Calner
Fieldwork in the Palaeozoic of the Oslo region, Norway.
July 21-28
H. Alexanderson
Field course on W Svalbard.
July 1 – Aug. 18
P. Möller, J. Anjar,
Field work In Taymyr, SWEDARCTIC 2012
July-Aug. 2011
M. Nilsson
6 week field work in SE Greenland
Aug.
V. Vajda
Paleontological fieldwork in central Australia
Aug. 20-29
A. Bercovici,
Fieldwork and excavation in the lower Permian of Muse, Burgundy France.
Aug. 20–31
S. Bogdanova
Field work in Ukraine, examinations and sampling of mafic dykes and
host metamorphic rocks
Sep. 4-27
D. Conley and P. Fieldwork in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Frings
Sept. 10-19
W. Clymans
Sept. 4-27
D.J. Conley and P. Field work in the Okavango Delta, northern Botswana
Frings
Oct. 2-9
M.E. Eriksson, A.
Lindskog M. Meier
Fieldwork in western Russia.
Oct. 15 – Nov. 5
P. Frings
Field work in collaboration with Aquatic Ecology Unit on the Paraná
river floodplain, Brazil
Oct. 17 - 30
A. Lindahl
Field work in Zimbabwe
Nov 12-18
S. Björck
Field work in southern and eastern Iceland for sampling of recent diatoms
and chironomids in glacial-aquatic systems combined with opponentship in Reykjavik
Fieldwork in Hubbard Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA.
Transport down the
Luktakh River during
expedition to Taymyr
Peninsula, Siberia,
during the 2012 SWEDARCTIC expedition. Photo P. Möller.
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Nov. 14-18
J. Wigforss-Lange
Fieldwork in northern Italy.
Dec. 28-Jan. 6
S. Björck
Field work in Thailand for paleotsunami deposits
Table 13. Workshops arragned in Lund
May 25
Workshop on the Maniitsoq impact. Organized by A. Garde and L.Johansson
Sept. 24-26
Workshop for the AMONAS-project and public seminar arranged at the Department of Geology. Organised by C. Sparrenbom within the AMONAS II-project.
Table 14. International travel and visits
Jan. 7-13
D. Conley visited Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, USA.
Jan. 18
H. Alexanderson visited the Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence Dating at Risø, Denmark.
Jan. 19-21
D. Conley visited Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven for participation in the examination committee of Wim Clymans.
Jan. 27-Feb.11 and
Sept. 30-Oct. 5
S. Bogdanova visited Department of Lithology, I.M. Gubkin State University of Oil & Gas
Moscow, Russia.
Jan. 30-Feb. 1
D. Conley delivered a Distinguished Lecture at the Baltic Sea Research Institute, Germany.
March-Apr. and
Oct.-Dec.
C. Lenz visited C. Slomp at the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht University, The
Netherlands for supervision and further paper discussions.
Feb. 1-2
C. Sparrenbom and M. Åkesson visited The He/T-facility at the Institute of Environmental
Physics, University of Bremen.
Feb. 13-17
H. Alexanderson visited the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences for collaboration.
March 14-15
J. Wigforss-Lange visited The Geological Survey of Canada in Calgary
P. Ahlberg with Chinese
colleagues west of Zunyi,
during the 17th Field Conference of the Cambrian Stage
Subdivision Working Group,
. Guizhou Province, South
China.
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April
J. Lindgren visited Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Apr. 1-5
M.E. Eriksson, A. Lindskog and M.M.M. Meier visited Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland, for analyses of geologic samples at the synchrotron light source.
Apr. 3-5 and
June 18-19
M. Eriksson visited Paul Scheerer Institute, Viligen, Switzerland. TOMCAT beamline. Synchrotron analyses.
Apr. 15-28
A. Lindahl visited Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Pretoria, South
Africa.
Apr. 18-May 19
B.E. Berglund and P. Lagerås (Swedish Natural Heritage Board, Lund) visited International
Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, lecturing at Kyoto and Kanazawa Universities besides palaeoecological excursions In central Honshu, Japan.
Apr. 25-28
B. Lougheed visited School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, for an
invited talk.
Apr. 30-May 4
H.L. Filipsson visited Department of Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht and NIOZ, the
Netherlands for collaboration and gave two talks.
May
M. Calner visited Friederich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg for cooperation with
Oliver Lehnert.
May 10
P. Romare participatd in the South Baltic WebLab workmeeting, Univ. of Rostock, Rostock,
Germany.
May 25-June 5
S. Björck visited Hui Jiang at the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research,
East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China
June
J. Lindgren visited the Eternal River Museum of Natural History in Amman, Jordan
June 6-8
A. Bercovici visited with Bill DiMichele and Dan Chaney at the Smithsonian institution ,
Washington DC USA for preparing fieldwork
June 9-11
A. Bercovici visited with David Fastovsky at Rhodes Island University, USA for preparing
fieldwork
June 9-July 27
H.L. Filipsson worked at Japan Agency of Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
as a Guest Researcher. Funded by Japan Society for Promotion of Science and the Royal
Swedish Academy of Science.
June 12-15
A. Bercovici visited with Kirk Johnson and Doug Klines at Denver Museum of Nature and
Science, USA for preparing fieldwork
June 19-20
D. Conley visited Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Base camp at Luktakh River during expedition to Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia. Photo P. Möller
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June 25-30
G. Fontorbe visited British Geological Survey, Nottingham, UK
June 30-July 8
Africa.
Aug. 3-12
Africa.
Aug. 20-31
S. Bogdanova visited Institute of Geophysics, National Academy of Sciences; Kiev, Ukraine
Aug. 26
H. Alexanderson and R. Shrestha visited the Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence Dating
at Risø, Denmark
Sep. 10-13.
H.L. Filipsson visited St. Andrews University, UK.
Sept. 19-21
W. Clymans visited Department of Biology, Boston University, USA for collaboration and
presenting previous research in an invited seminar.
24-26 sept 2012
M. Reinholdsson visited Utrecht Univeristy, for collaboration with Caroline Slomp and Tom
Jilbert.
Oct. 22-25
N. Van der Putten visited Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE),
Gif-sur-Yvette, France for collaboration within the KAVIAR 2500 project
Oct. 28-Nov. 10
M. M. M. Meier visited Department of Geology at the Field Museum in Chicago, USA.
Oct. 29-30
K. Mehlqvist & V. Vajda visited the Natural History Museum in London to meet with P. Kenrick
and look at the paleobotanical and palynological collections
Nov. 1 - Dec 6
Africa.
Nov. 21-22
D. Hammarlund visited Natural History Museum, London, UK for collaboration with Stephen
J. Brooks.
Nov. 22
L.Tual visited Oslo University (for the PhD Defense of Jacqueline Elisabeth Reber Vettiger
on “Sheath fold in simple shear)
Nov. 26-Dec. 4
K.Bjärnborg visited the Department of Geology, Oulu University.
Dec. 10-17
W. Clymans visited Department of Biology, ECOBE group, University Antwerp, Belgium,
discuss collaboration and conduct Laboratory experiments
Dec. 26-Jan. 12
Africa.
Dec. 29-30
A. Bercovici visited Johan Vellekoop at Utrecht University, Netherlands for discussion on
K–Pg dinoflagellates from the K–Pg boundary of North Dakota
International Research Institute
for Japanese Studies with a division for environmental archaeology, in Kyoto visited by B. Berglund
an,d P. Lagerås, April-May 2012.
Photo B. Berglund April19 2012.
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Table 15. Participation in international conferences, workshops etc.
Jan. 9-12
Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Reykjavík, Iceland
Jan. 25-30
Baltic Sea IODP Expedition 347 Workshop, 24 May, Gdansk, I. Snowball
Poland.
Feb. 4
Archäologischer Workshop für junge Wissenschaftler/Innen- A. Lindahl, T Eriksson, P. EkNaturwissenschaft-liche Analysen vor- und frühgeschichtlicher löv Pettersson
Keramik: Methoden, Anwendungsbereiche, Auswertungsmöglichkeiten, Archäologisches Institut, Hamburg University
Feb. 9-13
International Paleolimnological Symposium 2012, Glasgow, A. Ghosh
Scotland
Feb. 18-26
AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
D. Conley, A. Caballero-Alfonso
Feb. 20-24
Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, USA
A.M. Caballero-Alfonso, D.
Conley,
March 5-7
“Tipping Points in Ecological Systems”, Helmholtz Office, Berlin, D. Conley
Germany.
March 11-14
The Deep-Sea & Sub-Seafloor Frontiers Conference, 11-14 I. Snowball
March, Sitges (Barcelona), Spain.
March 16-20
Excursion on Isle of Islay, Scotland
March 19-23
43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas M. Meier, C. Alwmark, S. Holm
March 23-26
Microtectonics PhD course. Mainz, Germany. 23-26th March.
L. Tual
March 29
Lund Imaging Group workshop.
M. Eriksson
Apr. 15-22
Sub-arctic lake coring field course, Kevo, Finland.
F. Adolphi, A. Mellström
Apr. 22–27
European Geological Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria S. Bogdanova
Apr. 25-27
2nd BIOCOLD (Biotic response to climate change in cold cli- A.B. Nielsen, D. Hammamates) workshop, Kernaves, Lithuania
rlund, L. Randsalu, W.
Ning, L. Randsalu- Wendrup
May 3-5
Storytelling och filmproduktion (VT2012)
May 9-12
Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology - Potsdam/ J. Edvardsson
Eberswalde
May 15-18
Arctic Palaeoclimate and its Extremes (APEX) (6th International H. Alexanderson
Conference and Workshop), Oulanka, Finland.
May 24
Baltic Sea IODP Expedition 347 Workshop, Gdansk Polen.
H. Filipsson, I. Snowball,
May 24-26
XX Nordic Diatomists’ Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark
L. Randsalu-Wendrup
May 26-June 4
Field and Laboratory Course in Micropalaeontology, Department C. McKay
of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
May 27-29
GAC-MAC conference, 27-29 May 2012. St John’s, Canada.
May 27-29
Zircon U-Pb, Hf and O isotope constrains on the growth versus A. Petersson, A. Scherstén,
recycling of continental crust in the Grenville orogen, Ohio, USA.
May 28-30
Isotopes in Biogenic Silica (IBiS) Conference, Hamburg, Germany G. Fontorbe, H. Alfredsson
May 30-June 3
Post-excursion filed trip: The Grenville Province of southeastern L. Tual, C. Möller
Labrador and adjacent Quebec.
June 3-8
The 14th International Peat Congress, Peatlands in Balance, M. Rundgren, J. Edvardsson
Stockholm.
June 9-12
Sediment sample collection in R/V Skagerrak arranged by A. Ghosh, W. Ning
Södertörn University (Elinor Andrén & Thomas Andrén)
Í.Ö. Benediktsson, J. Anjar
S. Björck
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Participants at the BioCold (Biotic responses to climate change in cold climates) workshop in Lithuania in
April 2012. Photo L. Ransalu-Wendrup.
June 9-19
Cryogenian–Ediacaran to Cambrian Stratigraphy and Pale- P. Ahlberg, L.E. Babcock
ontology of Guizhou, China. The 17th Field Conference of the
Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy and Celebration of the
30th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Kaili Biota. Guizhou.
June 20-21
ICES (International Council for the Explorations of the Sea) A.M.Caballero-Alfonso
Training course. Copenhaguen, Denmark
June 19-22
BioCold Svalbard Workshop and Excursion, Svalbard
June 21-23
The Micropalaeontology Society Satellite Worshop: North-East C.McKay
Atlantic benthic foraminifers: a new taxonomy for the 21st century,
University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland
June 24-29
Goldschmidt, Montreal, Canada.
June 26-July 8
Excursion to Kapp Linné, Svalbard, with the PhD course “Geo- H. Alfredsson
biosphere processes in the Arctic permafrost environment”.
July 5-21
ECORD Summer School 2012; Impacts of the Cryosphere Dy- C. Lenz
namics from Land to Ocean. Montreal, Canada.
July 8-13
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting: Voyages of Discovery, Lake H. Filipsson
Biwa, Japan, 08-13 Jul. 2012.
July 9-13
21st International Radiocarbon Conference, Paris, France.
F. Adolphi, B. Lougheed, A.
Mellström, R. Muscheler
July 15-21
Field Workshop on Living Foraminifera in Japan.
H. Filipsson
July 18-Aug. 2
Guest lecturer at AG-332 Arctic Terrestrial Quaternary Stratig- H. Alexanderson
raphy, UNIS, Svalbard.
July 25-Aug. 5
Participation in the field course “Alaska Soil Geography” at H. Alfredsson
University of Alaska Fairbanks.
L. Randsalu-Wendrup, A.
Ghosh
W. Clymans, P. Frings
H. Filipsson
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Cruising in the Okavango
Delta in September during field work (Photo D.
Coney).
Aug. 5-10
34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia
Aug. 21-24
The13th Symposium of the International Paleolimnology Associa- S. Björck, A. Ghosh, K. Ljung,
tion, Glasgow (S. Björck invited as key-note speaker)
L. Randsalu-Wendrup, C.
Funkey
Aug. 22-28
EGU Summer School: Structural Analysis of Crystalline Rocks. L. Tual
Nevessee area – South Tyrol, Italy.
Aug. 23-30
IPC XIII/IOPC IX 2012 in Tokyo, Japan,
Sept.
International PhD-course: Groundwater geochemistry and reac- M. Åkesson
tive transport modelling, FIVA-network, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sept. 1–7
The Archaean in the Ukrainian Shield ( IGCP/SIDA 599 “Early S. Bogdanova
Earth”)
Sept. 6-13
Summer training school on dating methods and their applica- F. Adolphi, A. Mellström
tions, Potsdam, Germany and Gliwice, Poland.
Sept. 9-14
11th International NCCR Climate Summer School “The Water M. Åkesson
Cycle in a Changing Climate: Observations, Scenarios, Impacts”,
Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Ticino, Switzerland.
Sept. 19-21
South Baltic WebLab 6th workshop and project meeting, IOPAN, P. Romare
Univ. of Klaipeda, Klaipeda Lithuania.
Sept. 22-26
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Eastern Section, L. E. Babcock
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Sept. 25-28
Supercontinent Symposium 2012, Helsinki, Finland
Sept. 26
"Diversity Management in a Transitional Time" in the framework A.B. Nielsen
of the EU project STAGES. Aarhus University, Denmark.
Oct .1-5
International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences first open sci- R. Muscheler, F. Adolphi
ence conference, Giens, France
Oct. 5-7
Field excursion in SW Sweden: Traverse across the high-P and C. Möller, J. Andersson, L.
high-T deep interior of the Sveconorwegian Orogen, southern Johansson, L. Tual & V. BeckEastern Segment
man, V. Beckman, L. Johansson, C. Möller), M. Nilsson, L.
Tual
Oct. 7-10
Field excursion in Halland
L. E. Babcock ,V. Vajda
Wenxing Ning
S. Bogdanova
M. Calner et. al
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Oct. 8-11
PAGES workshop on Holocene land-cover change in Eastern A.B. Nielsen
Asia for climate modelling -A contribution to PAGES Focus 4,
Theme Land use and Land cover (LULC). Hebei Normal University, Shijiahzuang, China
Oct. 9-11
Paneth Kolloquium, Nördlingen, Germany
M. Meier
Oct. 15-17
GDAT-conference, Rennes, France
C. Sparrenbom and M. Åkesson
Oct. 15-19
GDAT2012 (Groundwater Dating Meeting 2012), Rennes, France. M. Åkesson, C.j. Sparrenbom
Oct. 15-19
“Understanding temporal trends in nutrient and carbon fluxes D. Conley, J. Stadmark
to coastal oceans: Toward a linking of different modelling approaches,” Cornell University, NY, USA.
Oct. 17-20
72nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, J. Lindgren
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Oct. 23-24
South Baltic Programme Annual Event, Ronneby, Sweden
P. Romare
Oct. 26
MERGE Autumn Meeting, Helsingborg, Sweden
T. Le, J. Sjolte, R. Muscheler
Oct. 31
Linnean Society of London, Palaeobotany Specialist Group, K. Mehlqvist, V. Vajda
Autumn Meeting, London
Oct.-Dec.
International PhD-Course: Environmental Impact Assessment M. Åkesson
for Natural Scientists, Uppsala, Sweden.
Oct. 28-Nov. 3
PhD Course “Global Elemental Cycles”, Lund
Nov. 1
Linnean Society, Palynology Specialist Group, Understanding K. Mehlqvist, V. Vajda
pollen and spore diversity, London
Nov. 19-21
The Swedish Marine Sciences Conference, Kalmar, Sweden
A. Ghosh, W. Ning,
Filipsson, C. McKay
Nov. 26-Dec. 1
Course; Magmatic ore deposits, University of Oulu, Finland
K. Bjärnborg
Dec. 3-7
AGU Fall Meeting, San Fransisco, USA
J. Sjolte, S. Bogdanova
Dec. 7-12
Pew Marine Conservation Fellows Meeting, Gamboa, Panama. D. Conley
Dec. 16-18
56th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland K. Mehlqvist, V. Vajda
Dec. 17
INTIMATE Bayesian Chronology Training Day, Oxford University, C. McKay
Oxford, UK
Dec 18-19
INTIMATE Working Group 1, Timescales Workshop, Oxford, R. Muscheler
Great Britain
G. Fontorbe
Coring site Jaga-ike in Tamba upland N Kyoto, possibly an ancient crater lake,
with sediments back to 25 000 BP and detailed documentation of forest history
covering the last 5000 yrs. Photo P. Lagerås April 25 2012.
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