In north-eastern Greenland, there are unexplored areas when it comes to research into climate change and the marine environment. Now, a research project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and led by Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, will create valuable knowledge about the region by using a new and unique data set. Read further here.

Applications for the PhD position are currently open: "Establishing a chronology of the first hominin occupation of Central Asia". Feel free to share the news with potential candidates in your network. You can read the job posting here.

In a new article on Videnskab.dk, Rasmus Andreasen and Erik Thomsen receive support from foreign researchers for their research results about Egtvedspigen's origins. The article summarizes the different views in the case. Read more here. (In Danish)

Associate Professor Emeritus Per Nørnberg from Geoscience answers that question in this article on Videnskab.dk. It is Bjørn, 5 years old, who asks the question, but the answer is not necessarily straightforward. Therefore, the article also contains both a simple and a complicated explanation.

Read the article here. (In Danish)

In prehistorical cities, metal pollution has been explained by mining activities and lead from water pipes, but a new international study of i.e. Søren Munch Kristiansen and Gry Hoffmann Barfod point out that smaller everyday activities in prehistoric cities must be included in order to understand the distribution of pollution.

On Thursday, there is a partial solar eclipse over Denmark. Therefore, you can hear Associate Professor Christoffer Karoff talk about the different kinds of solar eclipses and about the corona of the sun in the ”RumSnak” podcast. Other topics are solar storms and how the solar cycle affects our atmosphere and also climate change. (In Danish)

Although sun radiation was relatively low, the temperature on the young Earth was warm. Important clues show that high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were responsible for these high temperatures. It only got cooler with the beginning of plate tectonics, as the CO2 was gradually captured and stored on the emerging continents.

Geoscience participates in the nationwide campaign day Girls' Day in Science, which takes place on 6 October. Here the girls can meet some of our cool women who are studying or researching Geoscience. Through workshops and practical assignments, they get a taste of what it is like to be a student at the department. See today's program here.

Another chapter has been written in the serial about the origin of the Egtved girl. Rasmus Andreasen and Erik Thomsen answer Robert Frei from the University of Copenhagen, who questions the collected data. You can read the arguments in “Forskerzonen” at Videnskab.dk. (In Danish)