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Our department conducts research and education across ecology, environmental science, and geoscience in a dynamic and collaborative environment. Our work is supported by advanced research centers and infrastructure and by close collaboration with society. We generate and share new knowledge about the environment, helping society understand and respond to a rapidly changing world.
To be at the forefront of interdisciplinary research and education in ecology, environmental science, and geoscience, advancing our understanding of the environment and helping address the challenges of global change.
We advance our understanding of global environmental change and generate the knowledge needed to address its consequences. We bring together key environmental disciplines to study marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems, from northern Scandinavia to ecosystems worldwide. Through experimental, field-based, and theoretical approaches, we address fundamental scientific questions and pressing environmental challenges.
Our location in northern Scandinavia, our expertise, and our research environment provides a distinctive foundation for globally relevant research. Through research-based education, we equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to understand and address present and future environmental challenges.
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After 30 years of data, researchers are seeing a major shift in the nutrient balance of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Sediments from a remote Svalbard lake reveal traces of ice cover, low oxygen and extreme volcanic winters.
Matthias Siewert's drone images reveal how climate change is redrawing – centimetre by centimetre.
Alef dos Santos studies microbes in extreme environments to find chemical traces of extraterrestrial life
Václava Hazuková, KBC-Kempe postdoc, researches carbon storage in Arctic lakes.