Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Inland waters are a large source of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere, and ebullition, i.e. gas bubbles, is the dominating pathway of inland water CH4 emission. Ebullition is extremely stochastic in time ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The present project will meet the swedish national scientific, industrial and societal demands within high-quality material analysis by sustaining and advancing the role of the Tandem laboratory at Uppsala ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2017-12-31

This project aims at investigating plant dynamics and forest development in the past (the last 130 000 years) and using this information to assist scientists modelling geographical range shifts in response ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Atmospheric rivers are long narrow bands of large integrated water vapor transport in the troposphere. At land fall they are usually associated with extreme conditions in terms of wind and precipitation ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2011-01-01 till 2013-12-31

Continued investigation into the molecular basis of animal development has led to novel theories of how the basic animal body plans evolved. However, these theories have not in general been constrained ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Oxygen is essential for the health of lake ecosystems, but global climate warming may severely deplete oxygen concentrations by increasing microbial respiration rates and stifling atmospheric exchange. ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Scandinavia was assembled by collision of multiple continental blocks during billions of years. While its eastern part is the oldest, Scandinavia was expanded by younger mountain building events in the ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The rich archaeological and paleoenvironmental records from the Peloponnese peninsula (Greece) are investigated to provide an integrated understanding of the role of climate and climate change for Bronze ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-12-01 till 2024-11-30

Världsekonomin riskerar att välta jorden över de planetära gränserna, bortanför vilka katastrofal miljöförändring hotar. Omedelbara insatser krävs, men välmenande politik för att undvika en planetär gräns ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Stora områden (20%) av svensk skogsmark har artificiellt dränerats genom dikning under de senaste århundradena för att öka produktionen av timmer. När dessa diken åldras, måste dikesrensning ofta utföras ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Exceptionally well-preserved remains of a large theropod dinosaur have recently been found in Skåne. Outstanding details of the bones are visible with the naked eye but does that mean there is a potential ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Landscapes are multifaceted archives combining natural forming processes with cultural practises and land use strategies of past generations. The aim of the project is to explore the rich archives of the ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2019-12-31

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of global warming some 55 Ma, was triggered by multiple injections of isotopically light carbon into the atmosphere. Methane venting due to magma intrusion ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2013-12-31

EPOS is a virtual European infrastructure - the link between real solid Earth sciences infrastructures (EPOS nodes) and the users (research community, also education, policy makers, the public). EPOS will ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2019-12-31

The Neoproterozoic Era (1000-541 million years ago) was a time of major environmental change in Earth´s history such as the oxygenation of the atmosphere and the oceans, low-latitude glacial episodes ( ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2021-12-31

India’s agriculture, economy, water resources and societal well-being heavily rely on the Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR). But ISMR is strongly influenced by the El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

Current global warming, associated with the rapid release of CO2 by burning of fossil fuels, impacts ecosystems both on land and in the ocean, most notably in polar regions. Marine phytoplankton play a ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The purpose of this 3-year project is to initiate a collaborative Indo-Pacific Seagrass research Network (IPSN), aimed to build capacity and perform standardized, coupled social-ecological surveys of seagrass ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Deep sea sediment archives form the backbone of global palaeoclimate understanding. Such palaeoclimate reconstructions rest upon the geological law of superposition; sediment core layers become older with ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2019-12-31

The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) is an integrated solid Earth Sciences research infrastructure approved by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and included in the ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The impact of large-scale environmental alteration on mammalian biodiversity is poorly understood, especially in Australasia, where many native marsupial lineages are experiencing high rates of extinction ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Extreme weather events, floods and droughts—problems that are likely to become more frequent and extreme due to climate change— inflict major losses and disproportionally affect lower income countries, ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2022-11-30

Frågeställningarna i projektet är: I vilken utsträckning förändras förekomsten av extrema händelser och omfattningen av påverkan på kustzonen i ett ändrat klimat? Fokus är på stormar, översvämningar och ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-04-20 till 2012-12-31

Nanoteknologi är en av de viktigaste teknikerna i detta århundrade och det frammanar en ny industriell revolution. Carbon Nanotube (CNT) är viktiga till verkade nanopartiklar med unika och välgörande ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-08-22 till 2016-08-25

Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia vid Uppsala universitet har blivit inbjudna att arrangera den 4e internationella konferensen i serien Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC). Dessa arrangeras ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

An emerging study system for scaling from genes to ecosystems is peat mosses (Sphagnum) and their role in the global carbon cycle. Sphagnum has arguably a greater impact on global carbon fluxes than any ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Vertebrates are animals of enormous ecological and economic importance. Their body plan has radiated into an astonishing range of morphologies and lifestyles, including our own. This project aims to undertake ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

There are several forms of uncertainties in the predictive modeling of glacial mass balance. One of these uncertainties is to what degree melt water will refreeze, advect latent heat into, and stay as ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Leading to a PhD thesis, the project aims to (i) explain why Quaternary sedimentary sequences near the North Pole show evidence of a disproportionate number of geomagnetic polarity reversals, which have ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

Glaciers outside the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are at present, despite their small volume (200,000 glaciers on Earth. A range of remote sensing and in situ observations of surface conditions and ...