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Geoscience newsletter

No. 7/2019 - August 2019

Coming events

  • Friday, August 23rd
    ST Summer Hangout
  • Friday, September 20th
    Matchmaking Event 2019
  • Friday, November 1st
    GEO Match 2019

Front door open between 8.00 & 17.00

It has been decided to keep the front door of the department open from Monday to Friday between 8.00 and 17.00.

News from the lab

The laboratory has the capacity to take on more tasks in 2019 and 2020. If you have large or small assignments, please contact Charlotte for further information.

No one may use the laboratories without prior agreement with Charlotte.

The Agency for Competence Development

NEWS FROM THE AGENCY FOR COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE SECTOR

From September 2019, all employees at Aarhus University can apply for funding from The Agency for Competence Development in the State Sector for individual competency development.
Applications are opened for the collective agreement funds to be used for courses, continuing education, etc. over the next two years for state employees. The support must be a supplement to other competency development in the workplace.

In contrast to earlier, you must apply for funding directly from The Agency for Competence Development in the State Sector and not via AU. The Foundation is administered by the competency secretariat in collaboration with the State collective agreement parties.Criteria, thresholds and supported activities vary depending on which collective agreement you are employed under.

Application procedure

You can apply for funding from September 4th 2019 and the next two years via a digital application form. There are no fixed application deadlines, so you can search for the foundation on an ongoing basis.
Applications must be approved by your budget manager. When an employee has applied for funding, the manager is automatically requested to approve the application. The application will not be processed until then. Once the competence development activity has been completed, as a manager, you must once again approve and confirm that the course has been completed and specify expenses in connection to the activity.

Disbursement of funding

The foundation's disbursement of the funding will always take place after the competence development activity has been held. The department pays for expenses until then.

Further information

If you have any questions about the The Agency for Competence Development in the State Sector, you can find the answers to the agency secretariat's website or contact AU HR, Henrik Philipp Vestergaard at hpv@au.dk or tel. 26 28 23 61.

Department cars

A new semester is starting, and bookings for the department cars have already been made.

As always, booking is done by contacting the secretariat. Make sure you book well in advance, as other departments are also able to use the cars.

REMEMBER to hand in receipts for fuel to the secretariat and to fill in the "Kørebog" that is found in the glove compartment of the car.

Updated rules for use of department cars can be found on the staff web page.
 

Arbejdspladsmiljøbrochure

A brochure has been made about the work environment at Geoscience.

The brochure will be part of the welcome package for new employees, and the latest version will always be available on the website:

http://geo.medarbejdere.au.dk/en/employment/work-environment/

Student/ Research Group Matchmaking Event 2019

This years Matchmaking Event will take place on 20th September.

Last year, it was a great success at Geoscience with most students from 3rd and 4th year taking part to hear about ideas for bachelor and master projects.

Link to the registration form: https://events.au.dk/Matchmaking2019/sign-up

Registration deadline: September 1st.

 

Poster printing

It is no longer possible to print posters at the Department of Gepscinece.

We refer you to AU PRINT:

Fællestrykkeriet, AU TRYK
Aarhus Universitet
Universitetsparken
Ole Worms Allé 4, Bygning 1163
8000 Aarhus C

Tlf.: 871 68287

trykkeri.au.dk

Print tasks should be sent as pdf-files to trykkeri@au.dk with a requisition.

How to fill in the requisition form.

Remember to fill in name, project & activity together with EAN-number: 5798000420014 and location code: 2402 for Geoscience.

Declaration of consent

Anyone who conducts courses or take students for excursions is encouraged to take photos that can be used to recruit new students on our various platforms.

Due to the GDPR legislation, we are now forced to ask for permission from all employees and students to use photos of them on our website, Facebook, newsletters etc.

To make sure we comply with the legislation, a declaration of consent must be filled in by all participants, who appear on photos.

Declarations to fill in can be picked up in the secretariat.

SDD module

HR IT has upgraded the SDD module and optimized it for the Chrome browser.

People have experienced various problems using Internet Explorer.
From now on, the SDD module will work best using Chrome.

NoMad

Due to challenges with synchronization of passwords between Mac computers and domians, AU IT installed NoMAD on Mac computers at ST.
NoMAD is a utility which will ensure that the password on your AU-issued Mac is synchronous with the overall AU password.
The purpose of the project is to remember only one password for AU.

Some users will see that they have to renew their password. You can read more at: https://serviceinfo.au.dk/da/home/message/770.

Remember you can read about emergency events, planned and resolved events and changes at https://serviceinfo.au.dk/.

New members of staff

In August, Gustav Pallisgaard-Olesen started as a new PhD student on the 4 + 4 model with Vivi-Kathrine Pedersen and Nicolaj Krog Larsen as supervisors.

He graduated with a BSc in physics from the AU Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2018, and was then admitted to AU Geoscience as a geophysics Master's degree student.

During the next four years as a PhD at AU Geoscience, he will be working on Vivi Kathrine Pedersen's Project EROSIVE, which, among other things, will relate to glacial modelling, surface processes and sea level modelling in connection with the Scandinavian ice-Shield following the LGM.

Amir Safi started as post doc at HGG on July 1st.

Léa Lévy started on August 12th as post doc at HGG.

Léa completed her master degree (“Master of Sciences and Engienering”) in 2014 at Mines ParisTech (School of Mines of Paris, France). She did her master project in collaboration with the French mining company “Areva Mines” on modelling the environmental impact of uranium mining by in-situ leaching (hydrogeochemistry).

She has been living between France and Iceland since 2015 (mostly in Iceland).

She had a temporary position at ÍSOR (Iceland GeoSurvey) and then started her PhD in Geophysics, which she defended in February 2019. It was a joint degree between Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France) and University of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland), in collaboration with ÍSOR. The purpose was to constrain the interpretation of electromagnetic soundings for geothermal exploration.

In Aarhus Léa will be working with DCIP (resistivity and induced polarization) measurements and interpretations, on two types of projects: (i) projects in Denmark related to decontamination of polluted aquifers and (ii) a project in Iceland, that she is coordinating between several partners – including HGG and ÍSOR. The aim of the Icelandic project is to monitor the sequestration of H2S (gas) back to geothermal reservoirs (under the form of pyrite) with different types of geo-electrical and electromagnetic soundings.

New magazines from the library

- Past Global Changes (2019) Vol. 27, nr. 1
- Economic Geology (2019) Vol. 114, nr. 3
- Economic Geology (2019) Vol. 114, nr. 4
- Palaeontographica Abt. B. Paläophytologie (2018) Vol. 298, nr. 4/6
- Petrophysics (2019) Vol. 60, nr. 3
- Newsletters on Stratigraphy (2019) Vol. 52, nr. 3
- Skoven (2019) Årg. 51, nr. 6/7
- Cainozoic Research (2019) Vol. 19, nr. 1
- Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (2019)                Bd. 170, H. 1

The magazines can be found in the staff lunch room

New holiday rules

Information about the new holiday rules and the transition period is available under AU's staff service.

Office hours / ST and AU partners

Partners with office hours, room 1671-134:

  • Dan Guldborg, IT support | aarhus.st.it@au.dk 
    Monday 9-12 
  • Mette Møller Larsen, controller, ST finance | mmla@au.dk
    Wednesday 8.30-15.30 
  • Jakob Steen Olesen, Project Finance Administrator, ST finance | jakob.steen.olesen@au.dk 
    Wednesday 8-15 and Friday 8-14
  • Louise Godt (maternity leave), Research Support Office | logo@au.dk
    Thursday 9-12
  • Pernille Grøne (maternity cover), Research Support Office | pg@au.dk
    Thursday 9-12
     

Other partners:

 
Bo Holm Jacobsen
's office hours for students:
Tuesday 10-12 and Thursday 16.15-17


The above information is also available at: geo.medarbejdere.au.dk/en/

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