Research at Uppsala University

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 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 ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

Vast pools of carbon (C) are stored as organic matter in the oceans and glacial melt water. Predicting changes to the reactivity of these pools is relevant to the global carbon cycle and climate patterns ...

Research project from 2019-03-01 to 2022-02-28

Cyanobacteria can quickly multiply and form blooms that release toxic secondary metabolites.  Such blooms are increasingly detected in lakes and reservoirs throughout the world due to anthropogenic emissions ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

Nitrogen holds a key role in the biosphere. As macronutrient it is often in short supply and limits biological production. Nitrogen fixation is a key process transforming the abundant, but for most biota ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Dueto methodological difficulties our knowledge about the role of phages in freshwater ecosystems is very limited. Therefore, the proposed project aims to address the following main research questions: ...

Research project from 2012-06-04 to 2012-12-31

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has for the past 5 decades been a leading professional organization for research and education in the field of aquatic sciences. The ...

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 ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 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 ...

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 ...

Research project from 2012-04-20 to 2012-12-31

Nanotechnology is one of the most important technologies in this century and it is evoking a new industrial revolution. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are important engineered nanoparticles with unique and beneficial ...

Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31

This project is innovative in that it uses a new modelling approach which overcomes some of the problems in traditional models. Distributed models traditionally divide the hillslope or catchment into compartments ...

Research project from 2020-03-01 to 2023-02-28

Shipping is the most widely used medium for transport of goods internationally and will continue to increase. Although shipping is a carbon-efficient transport medium , there is an increasing focus on ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

Bacteria in lakes hold central roles in degradation of organic matter. This process takes place both under oxic and anoxic conditions, but little is known about the identity, metabolism and environmental ...

Research project from 2012-03-01 to 2014-02-28

Elevated levels of mercury (Hg) in the environment is of concern for humans because of high toxicity even at low concentrations. Hg emitted to the environment is mainly inorganic whereas methyl mercury ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

Predicting the terrestrial inputs to surface waters requires great chemical and biological insight, but incorrect assumptions about hydrology will confound the most sophisticated biogeochemical understanding ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

Hydrological droughts can have severe consequences for nature and society. This includes impacts on agriculture, water supply, energy production, building infrastructure, and ecosystems. Climate models ...

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 ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2015-12-31

The degradation of organic matter in the sediments of boreal lakes contributes greatly to the significant emissions of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane from boreal lakes to the atmosphere ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31

This application concerns the international workshop ´Hydrogeological Aspects of Deep Drilling´ to be held September 20-22 at Earth Science Centrum, Uppsala. Deep drilling projects worldwide have often ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

A consortium of 8 partners join forces to integrate the different components of ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System). ICOS is organized along three thematic centers (atmospheric, ecosystem and ocean ...

Research project from 2017-09-01 to 2019-12-31

Climate Extreme Events (CEE), such as heat waves, droughts and floods, stress ecosystems and compromise their capacity to provide key services related to water quality and use. Such events are expected ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

Ocean surface waves are important for a number of reasons; they need to be well modelled for shipping and wave energy, coastal management, but they also influence mass flux (aerosols and gases) and are ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

This proposal outlines experimental work in the investigation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) processing in the environment. Recent attempts to investigate the flux of persistent DOM to freshwaters have ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2016-12-31

About 70% of the Earth?s surface is covered by oceans, but still knowledge about many aspects of air-sea interaction is lacking. Processes over sea is crucial in a number of application ranging from weather ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31

In this project we will develop new mathematical models and computational methods for capillary dominated flow of two immiscible, incompressible fluids in the prescence of moving contact lines. The specific ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

Estimation of world water resources under a changing climate is a key scientific issue for many environmental research areas with profound socio-economic significance. A new purely data-based scale-extrapolation ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

Estimation of world water resources under a changing climate is a key scientific issue for many environmental research areas with profound socio-economic significance. A new purely data-based scale-extrapolation ...

Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31

Polar lows, intense mesoscale cyclones over high-latitude oceans, pose considerable risk to the Arctic activities. With climate change, the increased commercial activity is expected to largely increase ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

Much of the present effort to understand and project climate change impacts on water resources is based on complex serial modeling chains, which typically involve choosing a greenhouse gas emission scenario ...

Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2014-12-31

Following the success of the First EMBO Conference on Aquatic Microbial Ecology-SAME13, organized in Stresa, Italy in 2013, and in the tradition of 20 years of biannual SAME symposia, the next conference ...