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Geoscience newsletter

No. 10/2019 - November 2019

	Calendar

		November 20. Art reception November 26. PIGA Christmas decorations and port wine tasting Wednesday, November 27. ST Diversity and equality Friday, November 29. Christmas Lunch

	Geoscience on Instagram

		Geoscience AU is on Instagram. Check out our new page: @Geoscience_au The idea of the site is to catch the young people and get more of them to apply to Geoscience. We urge all teachers and tutors to remind their students to tag teh Geoscience page when they post their own photos on Instagram. The students' own pictures from the classrooms and field trips are the best advertising the department can get.

	Indfak & rejsud - end of year

		The end of 2019 is coming - soon! Therefore, please make sure to approve invoices in IndFak and complete outstanding credit card transactions in RejsUd before January 3. 2020, preferably before you start your Christmas holidays.

	Garbage sorting


	Many people think that we do not sort the garbage at the Department of Geoscience. But we do! In the basement next to the car elevator are various containers for different types of waste: plastic, cardboard & paper, glass, earth & stone and electrical waste. There is even a container with a shredder for documents with sensitive information.

	New PHD partner

		Our PhD partner Charlotte Kahlen Steffensen has taken on new challenges at AU. Rikke J. Ljungmann is our temporary contact. Contact information: ph.: +45 6020 2605 \| e-mail: rjl@au.dk

	New partner at the Research Support Office

		We have a new partner at the Research Support Unit. Rikke Märcher Rochat will be in the partner office, 1671-134 Thursdays from 9 to 12. Contact information: ph .: +45 5137 1170 \| e-mail: rmr@au.dk

	News from the lab

		Content and information on the laboratory pages has been updated: http://geo.au.dk/en/research/faciliteter/laboratories/ Questions regarding prices, assignments and laboratory facilities should be addressed to Charlotte.

		Please note that laboratory assistants are not allowed to work with the same tasks as qualified laboratory technicians, refer to the department definition of laboratory tasks.

	An afternoon with equality

		The ST Task Force for Gender Equality and Diversity invites you to an afternoon with a presentation on equality and diversity as well as a performance of 3 remarkable women. It takes place on Wednesday, November 27. from 13.00 to 16.00. Address: Ny Munkegade 118, building 1134, room 125 (Auditorium F). Free binding registration no later than November 22.

	First aid training in english

		AU offers first aid course in English in collaboration with East Jutland Fire Department. More information

	Free courses no longer available

		AU employees and alumni can no longer participate in courses at Folkeuniversitetet free of charge. This is because the annual grant from the Aarhus University Research Fund has been stopped.

	new phd page

		On November 1, a new website for PhD students went live. The site targets recruitment of PhD students to AU and current PhD students at AU. https://phd.au.dk/

	New members of staff

		Aline Tavares is a guest PhD student from Brazil. She works with seismic, gravimetric, and magnetic data to investigate the evolution of the Brazilian Equatorial Margin during the Pangea breakup. Aline will be at Geoscience, AU for one year, working on seismic interpretation at the SeisLab.

		Berna Yavuz Pehlivanli is a guest researcher, working with Hamed Sanei. She has a PhD in Geological Engineering from Ankara University in Turkey. While visiting Geoscience, AU Berna will be working on the project: "The Organic Geochemistry, and Petrology of The Carbonaceous Mudrocks Of Turkey as Compared to Their Older Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Counterparts of Scandinavian Region and Canada." The project is supported by TUBITAK. Berna brings her husband and 2 children with her to Denmark. They will be here for 1 year.

		Last month Joanna moved to Aarhus from London, where she was working as a Sustainability Consultant at an architectural practice. Prior to this she completed her Master’s in Climate Change at UCL, where she undertook a paleolimnological investigation for a Little Ice Age signal in Antarctica. With this research project she became interested in reconstructions of polar environments, so when she saw the PhD position advertised online investigating sea ice variability around Greenland, she jumped at the chance! Joanna will be working with Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz.

		Jesper Nørgaard, graduated this summer from Aarhus Institute for geoscience with a Master's degree in geophysics and a thesis titled "Dating glacial landscapes using Monte-Carlo modelling of multiple paired cosmogenic nuclides". He is hired by Mads Faurschou Knudsen to work on a project for our Swiss partner firm NAGRA. In the project he will be further developing the P-PINI model originally invented at Aarhus University. The model involves Monte-Carlo modelling and can be used for exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides. He will be working on the project until the end of January 2020.

		Qing Yang started as guest PhD. He will be here until October 2020, working with Thomas Ulrich.

	News from the library

		New magazines: Journal of Foraminiferal Research (2019) vol. 48, nr. 3 Economic Geology (2018) Vol. 114, nr. 6 Vand & Jord (2019) Årg. 26, nr. 3 Palaeontographica Abt. B. Paläophytologie (2019) Vol. 299, nr. 1/6 Online magazine: Soil Science has announced, that the magazine will cease publication at the end of 2019. Read more

	New holiday rules


	Information about the new holiday rules and the transition period is available under AU's staff service. Please make sure to check your holiday registrations on a regular basis via mit.au.dk. Concurrent holiday days balance cannot be checked on mit.au. Please contact the Secretariat for a status.

	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 Rikke Märcher Rochat (maternity cover), Research Support Office \| rmr @au.dk Thursday 9-12 Other partners: Maiken Dazelle Nielsen, studies/ courses & exams \| maiken@au.dk Morten Hjorth Gad, AU Library \| mhga@kb.dk HR-related questions should be adressed to HR ST Team 1 \| HR.ST.team1@au.dk Questions regarding absence due to sickness, maternity leave or jobs on special terms should be sent to HR ST Specialisttem \| HR.ST.team.specialist.dk Rikke J. Ljungmann, Advisor, special consultant, ST PhD-administration \| rjl@au.dk 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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