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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4D Strain quantification in analogue models simulating compressional tectonic regimes
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Converging plate boundaries are areas where upper crustal rocks are subjected to intense compressional deformation. Deformation (strain) resulting from this compression is partitioned in both space and ...
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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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Anmälan om utnyttjande av återvändarbidrag för beviljade postdoktorsstipendier inom medicin eller natur- och teknikvetenskap
Research project from 2013-03-01 to 2014-02-28
Anmälan om utnyttjande av återvändarbidrag för beviljade postdoktorsstipendier inom medicin eller natur- och teknikvetenskap ...
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Full crustal seismic imaging across a major boundary between two microcontinents in the Fennoscandian Shield
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
This research project aims to acquire combined, partly collocated near-vertical upper crustal high-resolution and mid- to lower crustal wide-angle reflection and refraction seismic data across the northern ...
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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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Origin of REE-Nb ores associated with alkaline intrusions
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Geologically, the world’s largest reservoirs of Rare Earth Elements and Nb are associated with different types of alkaline intrusions. These elements have been designated as being critical (i.e. with a ...
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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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Brachiopod biomineralization and the Cambrian radiation
Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2017-11-03
Brachiopods are amongthe first mineralized metazoans to appear in the fossil record, yet agreement about the phylogenetic relationships among these early forms is remarkably poor. While the brachiopod ...
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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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Constructing a palaeo-proxy for coastal radiocarbon reservoir age and hard-water effect.
Research project from 2014-07-01 to 2017-06-30
Coastal marine environments are regions particularly sensitive to future climate change and anthropogenic impacts, and it is therefore important to understand of how these environments reacted to past ...
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Scandinavia’s Arctic Age of Dinosaurs as a research and geoheritage resource
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
This project partners two of Scandinavia’s leading natural history museums to investigate ancient polar ecosystems and pioneer fossil geoheritage in the Arctic. The beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs was ...
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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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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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Electromagnetic investigation of the Pärvie endglacial fault system
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Fennoscandian endglacial faults are by far the largest encountered worldwide and are thus of great international interest. They control almost all seismicity in northern Sweden. The Pärvie fault is the ...
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Moving beyond the age-depth paradigm in palaeoceanography
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 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 ...
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Phylogeny and diversification of Cambrian linguliform brachiopods and their use in biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The proposed project will investigate the diversity, distribution and phylogeny of organophosphatic brachiopods (subphylum Linguliformea) during the Cambrian. It will focus on: 1) the study and comparison ...
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Using Rock Physics to link geological deformation and geophysical observation in the Central Scandinavian Caledonides
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
In this project we aim to develop a better understanding of the mid and lower crustal deformation mechanisms that acts during continental collision. To address this research topic we will integrate laboratory ...
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GEOMAGNETIC SIGNALS IN ARCTIC OCEAN SEDIMENTS: CRACKING A QUATERNARY CONUNDRUM
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 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 ...
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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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Geomagnetic field fluctuations in northern Europe during the late Holocene: synchronisation to the tree-ring derived radiocarbon calibration timescale
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Palaeomagnetic data of the highest quality will be produced by this project and used to track changes in the direction and intensity of the geomagnetic field over the Earth´s surface in the northern hemisphere ...
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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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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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Investigating the origin and nature of the Precambrian seismic reflectivity at the deep COSC-2 borehole
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Funding (c. 11 MSEK) from international sources has been secured for drilling the fully cored COSC-2 borehole in central Jämtland to 2 km. The borehole will penetrate the overlying Silurian, Ordovician ...
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Lophophorate phylogeny in the Cambrian - a Gondwanan perspective
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
One of the great unsolved evolutionary events concerns the origin and phylogeny of the major animal phyla that appeared in the fossil record more than 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian Explosion ...
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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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Towards a new paradigm in palaeomagnetism: Testing the hypothesis of ubiquitous biogeochemical remanent magnetization (BRM)
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
How widespread is biogeochemical remanent magnetization (BRM)? The palaeomagnetic community has, despite cautions, generally ignored the significance of BRM because there is insufficient knowledge about ...
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Multicomponent-seismic and electromagnetic methods: Urban underground infrastructure
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2016-12-31
We propose to develop two unique geophysical data acquisition systems specifically designed to meet existing challenges in urban areas. A nine-component (9C) land steamer seismic system compromised of ...
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Resurrecting a lost world in Skåne: new light on the end-Triassic mass extinction and the origin of the dinosaur dominated ecosystem
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
This project aims to utilize the richly fossiliferous Triassic-Jurassic terrestrial sediments of southern Sweden, in conjunction with similar in age deposits in Poland and East Greenland, to illuminate ...
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Surface and borehole seismic imaging in Jämtland for the COSC project
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
ICDP and VR infrastructure funds have been granted that allow the drilling of the COSC-1 borehole to 2.5 km depth with site preparation in 2013 and a drilling start in April 2014. Furthermore, the DFG ...
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