Some information in the Danish version of this newsletter refers to pages on AU or Geoscience staff website which are unfortunately not yet available in English

NOTICE

• All external doors will be locked all days between Christmas and New Year
• All mail, external as well as internal, will during the above period be collected by AU internal mail and delivered to Geoscience on Monday 4 January 2016.

See also the calendar on the Geoscience staff webpages

18 December, 11.30
GEOSCIENCE CHRISTMAS PARTY

18 December, 13.00
Final Examination for Master's Degree - Ole Skursch

Presentation of new employees/guests

Illness – future procedure http://sekretariat@geo.au.dk

• On the first day of absence, notify the secretariat sekretariat@geo.au.dk that you are ill/absent from work
• Back on work: Send an email to sekretariat@geo.au.dk informing how many days you've been absent.

The previously used absence statements (“fraværserklæring) should no longer be filled and will be removed from the homapage and the post room.

Holidays

• If you want to change holidays / report new.holidays, please also send an email to sekretariat@geo.au.dk

New AU purchasing policy
The university management has adopted a new purchasing policy which applies to all purchases of goods and services at AU - whether the purchase is financed by ordinary or external means.

Since AU must comply with existing government rules and also focus on the potential for cost savings, all purchase must be made according to the AU purchasing agreements. If there is no agreement, you have to contact the AU purchasing administration. Send an e-mail to udbud@au.dk.
You may find more information on the website http://medarbejdere.au.dk/en/administration/finance/procurement/, however some of it is not yet translated into English.

If you are in doubt, ask Grethe, who is our local purchasing coordinator.

Contact Librarian
At the Monday morning briefing this week, our new contact librarian Morten Hjorth Gad was introduced and welcomed to the department.
Morten's contact information: email mhg@au.dk and tel. 28992201
His office hours at the Geoscience partners office will be Monday, 08:30 - 15:30.
If you will be sure to get a quick answer to your inquery, you'd better use the library's common mail nymunkegade.library@au.dk.
Morten will deal with PURE guidance and validation, search information and procure material for you.

On the staff website > committees and meetings
the following minutes of meetings are now avilable:

• LAMU, meeting 26 November (Danish)
• Institutforum, meeting 20 November (Danish)
• Research Committee
  - meeting 19 October
  - meeting 18 November

ST and AU partners/Office hours:
- Monday 8-16: AU Library, Morten Hjorth Gad, mhg@au.dk
- Tuesday 9-11: ST studies, Tina Veirup, tina.veirup@science.au.dk 
- Wednesday 9-11.30: ST finance, Thomas Lund Hansen, thomaslhansen@au.dk
- Wednesday 9-13: ST finance, Rana Elahmad, rana@au.dk
- Thursday 9-11: ST HR, Steen Nielsen, steen@au.dk
- Thursday 9-12: ST IT, Dan Guldberg, dangu@au.dk / 93508294

Bo Holm Jacobsen office hours for students
- Tuesday 10-12
- Thursday 16.15-18
Above information is available also on geo.medarbejdere.au.dk, entry page.

Newsletters on the web.
This and all previous newsletters are available also on the Geoscience staff webpages http://geo.medarbejdere.au.dk/en/ - There is a direct link from the entry page.

Other newsletters

Also check newsletters from

• ST: http://scitech.medarbejdere.au.dk/en/currently/newsletters/newsletter-for-staff-at-science-and-technology/
• AU: http://medarbejdere.au.dk/en/newsletters/