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 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 2020-12-01 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 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 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 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 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 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Oil is an essential part of modern society and concerns have been raised about future conventional oil supply, turning hope towards unconventional oil. Predictions of future oil production tend to diverge ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-04-05 till 2016-04-09

Den internationella konferensen ‘Human-Environment Dynamics in the Peloponnese and Beyond: Ideas, Methods and Results’ kommer att äga rum i Aten, Grekland, 6-8 april, 2017. Konferensen är ett samarbete ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Lakes are integral parts of the Earth surface, being hydrologically connected and responsible for transporting and transforming carbon along the land to ocean aquatic continuum. While it is widely accepted ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 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 ...

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

Following billions of years of microbial life, the transition to a world of complex animals between 580 and 541 Ma marks a fundamental milestone of evolution. Despite its significance, how this transition ...

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

Atmospheric mineral dust not only drives climate change, but also responds to climate itself, forming a complex feedback for which the triggers of change are poorly known. Here we test whether the initial ...

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

Ekosystemets funktioner och tjänster är föremål för en stark variabilitet, påverkade av klimatvariabler som temperatur och nederbörd via deras effekter på kolcykeln. Variabilitet i dessa variabler är i ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Lake ecosystems are globally recognized for their role in storing, processing and emitting carbon as CO2. The rate that bacteria degrade dissolved organic matter (DOM) is highly variable and difficult ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 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 ...