Department of Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences is the studying of the earth and its history as well as the processes that operate in and on the Earth's surface. We study how the humans uses the earth and our common natural resources and the consequences that result from it.

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Geology student Nils Gies flew over the Geldingadalir volcanic eruption

No one could have missed the Geldingadalir volcanic eruption on Iceland. Nils Gies, a master’s student at the Department of…

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Tobias Rütting professor of biogeochemistry

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Start date 15 Apr 2021

Sustainability and environment
Geo seminar: Hui-Wen Lai "Dynamics and importance of convection for precipitation in the Third Pole region: model
simulations"
Start date 22 Apr 2021

Science and Information Technology
Geo seminar: Vidar Petersson "Hur vem som helst kan utföra havs- och väderundersökningar med eget mottagna
vädersatellitbilder!
Start date 29 Apr 2021

Science and Information Technology
Geo seminar: Mark Johnsson "The subglacial sedimentologic record of supraglacial-lake
drainage"

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News – 26 February 2021

Scientists about the rover on Mars: "The planet feels closer than ever"

The noise over the rover Perseverance that landed on the planet Mars on February 18 has been substantial. The US space…

News – 15 December 2020

Deforestation in tropical mountain areas increases warming

Deforestation is happening over tropical mountainous regions, giving space for agriculture to expand. This changes the land…

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Health and medicine
Deliang Chen and Gunnar C Hansson receive medal from H.R.H. The King
Science and Information Technology
Deforestation in tropical mountain areas increases
warming
Sustainability and environment
Researchers will investigate sub-Arctic soil crusts at nanoscale using nanoSIMS
imaging
Sustainability and environment
Report of a workshop on extreme weather under climate change published by
Tellus
A new method for dating ancient earthquakes and rock
fracturing

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Our research

At the Department, we study the field of Earth System Science which consists of nature and human society and their…

Doctoral Studies

Third cycle education are for those who have a keen interest in issues in natural and earth sciences. The program gives you…

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The Department of Earth Sciences offers two international master's programmes our master in Earth Science or the master in…

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About us

The Department of Earth Sciences is situated in The Earth Science Center at Wavrinskys plats. We have Bachelor and Master’s…

The August Röhss chair

In 1901 August Röhss, a Swedish businessman donated 350 tSEK (which corresponds to about 21 million SEK in today’s monetary…

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8 April 2021