Published 10 February 2015 See the recent article with Daniel Conley in Nature Climate Change on Connecting the Seas of Norden.The Nordic Seas are highly sensitive to environmental change and have been extensively monitored and studied across a broad range of marine disciplines. For these reasons, the Nordic seas may serve as a pilot area for integrated policy development in response to ongoing cl

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/connecting-seas-norden - 2025-08-03

Published 30 October 2017 https://eos.org/research-spotlights/microfossils-illuminate-ancient-ocean-currents

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/spotlight-eosorg-gullaume-fontorbe-et-als-article-ancient-pacific-ocean-currents - 2025-08-03

Published 27 November 2017 Svante Björck has been elected as a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS).“For distinguished contributions reconstructing Quaternary environments in the northern and southern hemispheres, and for leadership in the international community of Quaternary geoscientists.”AAAS: https://www.aaas.org/List of elected Fellows 2017: https://www.a

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/svante-bjorck-has-been-elected-fellow-american-association-advancement-sciences-aaas - 2025-08-03

Published 4 January 2018 In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean without oxygen has gone up more than four-fold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. Protecting sensitive species, controlling eutrophication and climate change and improving monitoring are some solutions to the problem, according to r

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/oxygen-worlds-oceans-declining-scientists-reveal-dangers-and-solutions - 2025-08-03

Published 15 March 2018 Exciting news - Hedda Andersson guest professorshipWe are very pleased to announce that Prof Anna Godhe from the University of Gothenburg has been awarded a Hedda Andersson guest professorship at our department. Godhe is a biologist by training but has a very broad background. Her main research interests include the role of phytoplankton life-cycle stages (diatoms and dinof

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/prof-anna-godhe-awarded-hedda-andersson-guest-professor - 2025-08-03

Published 16 March 2018 Svante Björck and Sherilyn Fritz have been awarded the International Paleolimnology Association (IPA) Lifetime Achievement Award.These awards will be presented at the International Paleolimnology Symposium (IPS) which will be held in Stockholm this June 18-21 (this will be a joint meeting with the International Association of Limnogeology (IAL).https://ipa-ial.geo.su.se/

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Published 24 April 2018 Svante Björck and colleagues publishes a paper in Nature: "Warm summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal"

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/collapse-atlantic-ocean-heat-transport-might-lead-hot-european-summers - 2025-08-03

Published 4 June 2018 We are proud over our Bachelor students, who gave their poster presentations June 1 2018, hope to see you in the fall!

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Published 10 September 2018 Since Sept. 1, Helena Alexanderson is also employed by the Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsö, Norway. The 20% position as professor II includes both research and teaching. Please contact Helena if you’re interested in collaboration with the University of Tromsö, which has a strong Arctic profile in e.g. Quaternary sciences and mari

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/new-position-and-collaboration-university-tromso - 2025-08-03

Published 2 October 2018 Photo: Lena Björk Blixt Silicon has a crucial effect on the planet’s climate A comprehensive research project on the mineral silicon and the anonymous climate heroes in the oceans, diatoms, is now starting. Every day, the tiny diatoms, which are a type of phytoplankton, absorb enormous amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. And when they die, they take the carbon with the

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/daniel-conley-has-been-awarded-nearly-eur-33-million-five-year-project-global-silicon-cycle - 2025-08-03

Published 6 December 2018 Fossilized skin forming the trailing edge of the right pelvic fin (Image: Johan Lindgren) More information here: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/remarkably-preserved-fossil-sea-reptile-reveals-skin-that-is-still-soft Article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0775-x

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/johan-lindgren-publishes-article-nature-about-soft-tissues-jurassic-ichthyosaur - 2025-08-03

Published 14 January 2019 Amber Hood Highcock is since Jan. 1, 2019 employed as a researcher, linked to the luminescence lab, and will during the coming six months work on developing luminescence dating in archaeological contexts.

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/new-colleague-amber-hood - 2025-08-03

Published 17 January 2019 Per Möller and Helena Alexanderson got a new 3-year project funded from SGU, starting in 2019: "Sub-till sediments and deflation surfaces in south Sweden - what are their implication for the glacial history of this area?"

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/moller-and-helena-alexanderson-got-new-3-year-project-funded-sgu - 2025-08-03

Published 26 February 2019 50000-year-old peat is seen as a dark layer buried under 2 m of sediment deposited by the Scandinavian ice sheet. Thorbjörg Sigfúsdóttir investigates the sediments at Rauvospakka in Norrbotten, N Sweden. Photo: H Alexanderson, Lund University. Scientists have unearthed and pieced together evidence on more than 1,000 ancient wetland sites from across the globe, that are p

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/dating-ancient-peat-northern-sweden-contribute-new-insight-global-carbon-cycle - 2025-08-03

Published 12 March 2019 Solar storms can be far more powerful than previously thought. A new study with researchers from the dept. of Geology, has found evidence for the third known case of a massive solar storm in historical times. The researchers believe that society might not be sufficiently prepared if a similar event were to happen now. More reading: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/r

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/researchers-uncover-additional-evidence-massive-solar-storms - 2025-08-03

Published 28 March 2019 Daniel Conley, professor of biogeochemistry at the Department of Geology, Lund University, has received EUR 2.5 million (just over SEK 26 million) for a five-year project on the impact of the evolution of diatoms on the oceans. Diatoms have a significant impact on the global biogeochemical cycle of carbon, silica and other nutrients that regulate ocean productivity and ulti

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/daniel-conley-has-been-awarded-eur-25-million-five-year-project-impact-evolution-diatoms-oceans - 2025-08-03

Published 15 August 2019 https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/the-composition-of-fossil-insect-eyes-surprises-researchers

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/johan-lindgren-et-al-present-study-composition-fossil-insect-eyes-nature - 2025-08-03

Published 14 January 2020 Prof. Mary Higby Schweitzer is without doubt the foremost scientist in the field of molecular palaeobiology. Over the last two decades, she has developed detailed protocols to extract, recover and characterize ancient proteinaceous matter. Additionally, she has been able to demonstrate that collagenous sequences obtained from Late Cretaceous dinosaurs closely match those

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/prof-mary-h-schweitzer-nominated-honorary-doctor-lund-university - 2025-08-03

Av filippa [dot] jonsson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Filippa Jonsson) - publicerad 29 maj 2024 Photo: Abigail Enzaldo Den världsberömda konstnären Nairy Baghramian har utsetts till ny hedersdoktor för 2024 vid Lunds universitets Konstnärliga fakultet. Den hedersamma titeln kommer att tilldelas henne under ceremonin som äger rum på fredagen den 31 maj i Lund.Nairy Baghramian är en världsberömd kons

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/nairy-baghramian-utnamns-till-hedersdoktor-den-31-maj - 2025-08-03

Av Filippa [dot] jonsson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Filippa Jonsson) - publicerad 11 juni 2024 Edstrandska stiftelsen är en av de största stipendiefonderna för bildkonst i Sverige och har tidigare mottagits av några av Nordens mest framstående konstnärer. Nu har stipendiaterna för 2024 annonserats.Edstrandska stipendiestiftelsen har i år tilldelat ett stipendium om 500 000 kr vardera till konstnä

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/edstrandska-stiftelsens-stipendiater-2024 - 2025-08-03