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Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience

We gather researchers, teachers and students in the area of environment and nature. We have a wide breadth of both research and education. Program studies at EMG are conducted in the areas of biology, geoscience and environmental science, from basic to master's level. We conduct research and provide postgraduate education in ecology, environmental science and geoscience.

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Education

About our courses and programmes

Xiao-Ru Wang, professor vid Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap, Umeå universitet.
Research

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Pojke tittar i mikroskop under Forskarfredag 2018.
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News

Climate change may increase the spread of neurotoxin in the oceans
Published: 2025-10-10

Researchers: "Raises serious concerns for the future"

Abisko stay strengthens research on digital statehood
Published: 2025-10-07

Three days in Abisko brought new momentum to research – and a first encounter with the Arctic.

Researchers' card game teaches children about microorganisms
Published: 2025-10-06

Hope to spark curiosity about life beneath the water’s surface – with playful game cards.

What's up?

Matthias Siewert vid en drönare
Subtle changes in the Arctic landscape revealed from above

Matthias Siewert's drone images reveal how climate change is redrawing – centimetre by centimetre.

Alef dos Santos, postdoctor at the Department of Chemistry, studies biosignatures to prepare for future Mars missions.Alef dos Santos, postdoktor vid Kemiska institutionen, forskar på biosignaturer som kan användas för framtida Marsströvare.
Signs of life: he detects biosignatures in preparation for future Mars missions

Alef dos Santos studies microbes in extreme environments to find chemical traces of extraterrestrial life

Václava Hazuková, cellting water samples from an Arctic lake.
Peering through the ice to uncover the secrets of Arctic lakes

Václava Hazuková, KBC-Kempe postdoc, researches carbon storage in Arctic lakes.