Research at Uppsala University
New biomarkers can lead to breakthrough in diabetes research
18 February 2021. With the discovery of two new biomarkers, Olof Eriksson, researcher in translational imaging, may le ...
Producing more sustainable hydrogen
12 February 2021. Hydrogen for energy use can be extracted in an environmentally friendly way from water and sunlight, ...
The professor wanting to contribute to peace on Earth
25 January 2021. Isak Svensson is, as he describes it, a product of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Si ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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Earth´s past environmental crises: Large Igneous Provinces and sedimentary basins
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are of enduring interest to scientists and the general public because of their link to paleoclimate change, mass extinctions, evolution of life, and economic ore deposits ...
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A new approach to assess volcanic terranes for geothermal energy potential: VOLTAGE
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
The sources of volcanic geothermal energy are a poorly understood phenomenon. This is especially true in Indonesia, one of Earth?s most populous countries and most volcanically active areas. Despite ~130 ...
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STATe-of-the-ART GEOphysical & geological methods for DELINEATION of mineral deposits and associated structures
Research project from 2014-12-01 to 2018-06-30
Purpose and goal: StartGeoDelineation´s innovative exploration solutions were tested at two geologically different environments: Siilinjärvi alkaline-carbonatite deposit in Finland and Blötberget iron-oxide ...
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BigOx: Understanding and predicting long-term oxygen decline in northern lakes using big data
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 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. ...
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Boron isotope behaviour in crustal magma chambers: Insights into the recycling scale of a volatile tracer element
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
This proposal concerns the origin of low d11B magmas. These peculiar magmas are usually inferred to reflect recycling of dehydrated subducted slab components with highly fractionated, low d11B values to ...
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Carbon dioxide sequestration in deep-sea gas hydrates
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
The rapid accumulation of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere has raised the fear of global warming, which can have serious consequences to mankind, such as rise in sea level and catastrophic floods in ...
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Degradation of natural organic matter: chemodiversity and continuum of reactivity
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Large quantities of DOC (dissolved organic carbon) are washed from the terrestrial environment into inland waters, where it is degraded and evaded as CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere, buried in the sediment ...
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Detecting preserved methanogenic organisms in ancient terrestrial and Mars-analogue rocks
Research project from 2018-06-01 to 2018-12-31
According to the NASA Astrobiology Roadmap (Des Marais et al., 2008), a biosignature is, "an object, substance and pattern whose origin specifically requires a biological agent". When preserved in rocks ...
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Divergence of Proterozoic-Cambrian phytoplankton and timing of the endosymbiotic origins of chlorophyte algae
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
The project objective is to reveal the biological affinities of organic-walled microfossils, which presumably represented phytoplankton from the Proterozoic and Cambrian times, through phenotypic studies ...
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Does stream evasion of CO2 double the amount of terrestrial C exported by the Aquatic Conduit? The origin and age of evading CO2 has the answer.
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
In efforts to define how much carbon is being sequestered in the soil and vegetation, the importance of greenhouse gas (GHG) evasion from inland water that returns terrestrial C & N to the atmosphere via ...
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Dynamics of magma-sediment interaction with implications to paleo-climate change
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 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 ...
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Unravelling the origin of Kiruna-type iron oxide apatite (IOA) ores
Research project from 2020-12-01 to 2024-11-30
Kiruna-type iron-oxide-apatite ores are key sources of iron for modern industry, yet their origin is highly controversial and existing formation models range from low-temperature hydrothermal processes ...
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Genesis and evolution of the UHP/HP rocks in the Caledonides of northern Jämtland (Sweden)
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
The goal of the proposed research is to investigate pressure-temperature paths of eclogites and peridotites occurring within the Seve Nappe Complex of the central Swedish Caledonides in northern Jämtland ...
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Geochemical forensics of an active volcanic arc: Sumatra, Indonesia
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Andesite volcanoes are relatively common and extremely hazardous but the processes responsible for their magma generation are only partly understood. Andesite genesis is equivocal with proposed models ...
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How important is compositional layering within the Earth? Testing the hypothesis using seismic anistropy
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Seismological observations indicate that large regions within Earth show directionally dependent seismic wave speeds. Such seismic anisotropy is a unique and invaluable indicator for material transport ...
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How to differentiate a rocky planet – insight from the basaltic volcanism of the Moon
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
The purpose of this project is to understand the evolution of the Moon’s mantle through time by deciphering the origin of the chemical characteristics of lunar basaltic rocks. To achieve this goal, this ...
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LIMBIC - LInking Magma Batch Intrusion to the Construction of geothermal systems and mineral deposits
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
The recent realisation that large, molten magma chambers are extremely rare and that magma chambers instead form by the amalgamation of small magma pulses over long time obviously changes our view of the ...
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Identifying sources of mercury in Arctic rivers
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Mercury (Hg) is a toxic heavy metal that accumulates in aquatic ecosystems, and poses a threat to wildlife and humans across the Arctic. This project aims to identify the terrestrial sources of Hg that ...
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The High Arctic Large Igneous Province: coupled ore formation and climate impact of LIPs
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) have seen renewed interest due to their rapid assembly, their ore potential, and their ability to affect global climate. The High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP) exposed ...
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Mechanistic Understanding of Formation and Degradation of Dimethylmercury in Marine Systems
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2018-01-09
Mercury (Hg) accumulates as monomethylmercury (MMeHg) in marine food webs to concentrations of concern for human and wildlife health. It is unknown whether future alterations to the biogeochemical cycle ...
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Nickel isotopes as a biosignature
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Precise in situ measurements of nickel isotopes in fossilized microorganisms holds great potential for differentiation between non-biologic and biologic microstructures in rocks. Living organisms scavenge ...
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Oxygen isotopes as proxies to palaeoclimate: environmental versus physiological signal in aquatic vertebrate biominerals
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
This project aims to study oxygen isotopic composition of living and fossil shark teeth, to determine their reliability as a geochemical tool to explore ecology, environment and climatic changes of the ...
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Varför är organiskt material både reaktivt och uthålligt? (REACT)
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
Organic matter (OM) degradation is key to mobilizing the greenhouse gas CO2 from soils and freshwater ecosystems which can influence climate change. The reactivity of OM is highly variable. In fact, OM ...
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Research spotlight: The coronavirus
Limited transmission of COVID-19 from open schools but teachers were affected
12 February 2021. Most countries introduced school closures during the spring of 2020 despite uncertainty regarding th ...
New clues to how SARS-CoV-2 infects cells
8 February 2021. The molecular details of how SARS-CoV-2 enters cells and infects them are still not clear. Researche ...
Interdisciplinary collaboration provides new answers about immunity after Covid-19
8 January 2021. Only weeks after the coronavirus reached Sweden, blood samples were taken from more than 2,000 emplo ...
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