2021.05.17 | Staff, Department of Geoscience
At the Matchpoint Conference on 27-29 May, Christoffer Karoff from Geoscience is the host at a talk about digitalization and climate change. One challenge is that the green transition is impossible without digital technologies, but at the same time, the IT sector is also one of the greatest contributors to global CO2 emissions. Sign up by May 20th.
2021.05.05 | Department of Geoscience
On board the ship Celtic Explorer, Per Trinhammer will for the next 4 weeks together with researchers and engineers from Danish, British and Irish universities map the seabed in the Atlantic Ocean under Porcupine and Rockall basins. They look at how the Earth's deep interior has affected the global climate in the geological past. Follow them here.
2021.05.04 | Department of Geoscience
More than 60% of the applied water in flood irrigation can slowly return back to the riparian zones and streams with delays that can be more than a month. This 'temporary storage' of water is an important component of the water cycle. This can be seen in models that Niels Claes has made with partners from the University of Wyoming.
2021.04.26 | Department of Geoscience
For the first time, a research project has explored the metal crafts of the Viking Age by following the entire production chain with geochemical analysis methods. The analyses were done by Vana Orfanou during her postdoc here at Geoscience and are the results of an interdisciplinary collaboration between Geoscience, Sydvestjyske Museer and UrbNet.
2021.04.21 | Department of Geoscience
Walter L. Friedrich, J. Richard Wilson, Annette Højen Sørensen and Samson Katsipis discuss and reinterpret the stratigraphy of the caldera. Via geological and archaeological finds under the ash layer of the caldera wall from the Minoan eruption, they conclude that terraces existed on the inside of the caldera, which was inhabited in the Bronze Age.
2021.04.20 | Department of Geoscience, Staff
Katrine Juul Andresen takes you under the sea to ”Doggerland – et forhistorisk landskab g(l)emt under Nordsøens bølger” and Rasmus Andreasen and Erik Thomsen take you back in time to ”Danmarkshistorien skrives om: Skrydstrup- og Egtvedpigen var nok ikke kosmopolitter”. See the entire program here. (In Danish)
2021.04.15 | Department of Geoscience, Staff
The long-term perspective of the project is to achieve an equal gender distribution and thus prevent a massive loss of talent and create an attractive workplace. The project collects gender-based data, which must be discussed in relation to foreign studies and experiences regarding gender-based initiatives in research environments.
2021.04.14 | Department of Geoscience
Professor Emeritus Bent Odgaard and Associate Professor Søren Munch Kristiansen have contributed to a podcast on Radio4 Kraniebrud, about whether Neanderthals have lived in Denmark. You can hear the entire broadcast here. (In Danish)
2021.04.12 | Department of Geoscience
'Alexandrian' glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes' is the title of the popular article, which has been downloaded more than 13,000 times. Gry Hoffmann Barfod is co-author of the popular article. If you have not yet read the article, you can find it here.
2021.03.24 | Department of Geoscience
Professor Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz and assistant professor Christof Pearce show in the study that there was a stronger influx of Atlantic Water into the Labrador Sea region than today during the Last Glacial Maximum (23-19,000 years ago), suggesting a much more vigorous North Atlantic Ocean circulation than previously assumed.
2021.03.23 | Department of Geoscience
On Sunday 14 March 2021, the student satellite Delphini-1 from Aarhus University burned up in the atmosphere after a long period of faithful service. The satellite stayed up for quite a bit longer than expected. The project has been a great success with many involved from various Departments at Aarhus University, including Geoscience. Read more.
![[Translate to English:] Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz](typo3temp/_processed_/csm_Marit-Solveig_04_bb75fe4cd3.jpg "Professor Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz")
2021.03.19 | Department of Geoscience
On the youth channel Tjek, they ask the question whether we are heading into a new ice age? To investigate this further, they have asked Professor Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz from the Department of Geoscience for advice. Watch the video here. (In Danish)
2021.03.17 | Department of Geoscience
The application deadline for quota 2 applications has just expired. Almost 6,000 applicants have chosen Aarhus University as their first priority. This is an increase of 3% compared to 2020. Natural Sciences has received 400 first-priority applications, which is the same as last year. At Geoscience, there is an increase in the number of applicants.
2021.03.12 | Department of Geoscience
The satellite will be launched on a Falcon-9 rocket in the Summer of 2022. The satellite will include a number of smaller student experiments as well as serve as a communications station for radio amateurs around the world. Christoffer Karoff from the Department of Geoscience is part of the project.
![[Translate to English:] Traktor, der spreder kalk. Foto: Mark Robinson. Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en](typo3temp/_processed_/csm_Foto-Mark-Robinson-creativecommons-via-wikimedia-commons_01_e683a99448.jpg "Tractor spreading agricultural lime - photo by Mark Robinson")
2021.03.10 | Department of Geoscience, Staff
Erik Thomsen and Rasmus Andreasen from the Department of Geoscience demonstrate in two new scientific articles that strontium from agricultural lime is leached from the upper soil layers and thus affects the strontium isotope values in the environment. Thus, a number of hypotheses about the origins of prehistoric humans should be revised.
