• Tuesday, September 17
  Visit from Universitetsledelsen
• Friday, September 20
  Match-making Event
• Friday, September 27
  Late Summer Party
• Friday, November 1
  GEO Match 2019
• Friday, November 29
  Christmas Party

There is a new button on the staff portal for Geoscience, which leads directly to AU's 'Responsible conduct of research' page.

Geoscience staff portal

Responsible conduct of research

AU has started using E-commerce. In order to get access to and use the E-commerce module, you must complete a course.

The following Geoscience employees have completed the e-commerce course:

From the secretariat:
Susanne Weis Fogh

From the laboratory:
Birte Linddahl Eriksen
Marianne Lyngholm Nielsen
Rikke Brok Jensen
Trine Ravn-Jonsen

All of the above will be able to help make purchases through the e-commerce module.

Susanne Weis Fogh has also been appointed Procurement Coordinator for the department. If you need help with a tender for equipment or you have doubts about how to make a purchase, you can ask Susanne.

Course certificates, which are required by law for you to be able to carry out your job at AU, must be filed in WorkZone. This applies to the following certificates:

• Occupational health- and safety certificate
• Blood Collection Certificate
• Boat certifikat
• Drone certificate
• Animal Experiments Inspectorate course
• First Aid Certificate
• Hygiene Certificate
• Management of chemical waste
• MRSA course Proof
• Packaging Certificate
• Spray Certificate

If you have a statutory course certificate which is not listed, please contact workzonesupport.st@au.dk.

The reason behind the publication of course certificates is that the department has a comprehensive document overview of certificates for a specific employee.

Course certificates for record-keeping must be sent to the secretariat at sekretariat@geo.au.dk.

Read more about the joint journalizing practice at ST (in Danish).

The University International Club (UIC) has sent out a new catalogue with events in the autumn of 2019.

Their focus is on the relationship between the Danish and the international staff, which means the activities are not just geared towards international colleagues.

The catalogue can be found in the staff lunch room.

You can read more about the UIC and sign up for their newsletter on UIC's website.

Gülnur Dogan has participated in AU's 'Workshop on good office ergonomics – for Safety Advisors'.
The workshop focuses on optimizing the office workplace, and how to set up your chair, table and computer.

If you need advice and guidance on how to organise your office workplace, you can contact Gülnur.

You can also find information on AU's website about the physical work environment. On AU's page about indoor climate and ergonomics, you can find a quick guide for the office workplace and a guide on screen work.

The Lithospheric Organic Carbon (L.O.C.) group has acquired a new state-of-the-art equipment which will be part of the educational and research program at the Department of Geoscience: The Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) system can analyze the molecular composition of organic matter from recent to ancient sediments.
These molecular fossils or biomarkers encode information about the ecology, environment, the degree of preservation/degradation of organic matter within sediments and sedimentary rocks.
The analytical capabilities also support a wide range of research in the fields of forensics, archeology, agricultural science, and astrobiology.

Quite a lot of things are being left behind in the goods delivery area in building 1674.

This is a problem in relation to the delivery of goods, and it is also an annoyance for the employees and students who work in building 1674 and 1675.

Not least, this may be a problem in the event of a fire, as access to the exit in building 1675 is blocked.

The area may only be used for temporary storage of delivered items, or equipment which is to be removed from the building the same day.

HF Emergency Response cabinet is found on the 2nd floor in building 1674.

There is a mirror and a stool, which makes it easier and faster to put on coveralls, mask and air container if you need to help a person from a laboratory in case of a HF accident.

Always ensure that the equipment is correctly fitted and is airtight, before a rescue action starts!

The stool hangs on the wall to keep it from disappearing. Don't borrow it.

If you have any questions about Emergency Response, please contact Charlotte.

PhD students, who are going abroad, can apply for a scholarship at GSST.

Guidelines and application form can be found on the GSST website.

The Royal Danish Library is moving to a
new library system.

The change willhave the following consequences for the users:

• November 15, The old system will be closed
• October 1 is the deadline for reservations of inter-library loans (loans from other librarys)
• Between November 16 and 19 there will be no access to the library databases
  (This may affect funding applications)
• Between November 15 and 19 all systems are shut down
  (This may affect the processing of exams)
• Personal 'to do lists' will not be transferred to the new system
• All users will need to be created anew, with a new PIN code

Status updates and other information will be published on the library's webpage.

As the first research funding foundation in Denmark, Carlsberg Foundation has decided to cover the universities' extra costs when one of the foundation's researchers is on maternity leave.

Read more on the foundation's website.

Szymon Belzyt has started as a guest PhD, working for Jan Piotrowski.

Lis Allaart is a PhD student in Tromsø, Norway. She is working on a project on the climatic development in the northern part of Svalbard from Deglaciationen until today. The project connects marine and terrestrial data from an area around one of Svalbard's largest lakes, Femmilsjøen. The project is working with marine/lakustrine sediment nuclei, geophysical data from fjord and lake as well as geomorphological mapping.

Lis will be in Aarhus for six months, working primarily with Nicolaj's group, as parallels can be drawn between the climate development in Greenland and Svalbard since the Deglaciationen. She also hopes to gain insight into the work of the Marine geologists at the department.

Lis has studied and worked in Norway for almost ten years. She also hopes that the stay in Aarhus can help expand her geological network (at home) in Denmark.

Mickaël Charpentier comes from France where he graduated with a Bachelor in Geology and a Master’s Degree in Sea Sciences, more specifically Sedimentology and Paleoceanography from the University of Bordeaux. His master thesis there consisted in assessing the seismic hazard over the West Haitian margin based on a sedimentological study of paleoearthquakes. He then completed another year of a second Master’s Degree in Marseille in Marine Biogeochemistry.

The latest degree led him to join the Department of Geoscience from January to June 2019 and work with Stéphane Bodin as part of the Erasmus Program, which could explain that some of you have already seen him wandering the corridors of the building. As of today, He is not here as a student but as an Assistant Researcher, still working with Stéphane Bodin, and this until the end of December 2019.

Glen Dan Larsen, former student at AU Geoscience, is a guest of Thorsten Nagel and Rasmus Andreasen.

Yanqi Wu has started as a guest PhD, working for Esben Auken.