• RejsUd - finish credit card transactions
  18 December
• IndFak - Approve invoices
  18 December

Department of Geoscience's guide lines for staying in the buildings

AU's information site about corona

Latest news from Aarhus University to the staff

COVID-19 response at Nat and Tech

Guide to handling people infected with COVID-19 (for managers, in Danish)

Guidelines for conducting teaching during Corona

Guidelines for behaviour in connection with on-site teaching and access to campus

Thursday 26 November a new online service protal went live. A portal where students and staff can receive quick and efficient help with solving IT problems and getting support for AU’s financial, studies administration and HR IT systems.

From this date, both support cases and questions for these systems must be registered on the support portal:

support.au.dk

Inquiries to NT-IT must also go through the portal.

At the same time, this means that you can no longer write to the e-mail addresses you have previously used for support.

Instructions for using the portal can be found at au.dk/itsm.

In connection with the closing of annual accounts, there are some important deadlines that must be met.

Finish credit card transactions in RejsUd: 18 December
Approve invoices in IndFak: 18 December

If there are questions about posting income and expenses as well as re-posting, you must contact your project controller.

Associate Professor Christoffer Karoff is the leader of a new project on student satellites.

Christoffer Karoff has previously participated in the satellite program Delphini-1, which aimed to train students in conducting satellite missions. The Danish Industry Foundation has now allocated DKK 4.25 million for a new project to ensure the launch of the first three cubesat satellites.

Read more: Aarhus to become part of the national student satellite programme

Assistant Professor Denys James Grombacher receives a grant from the Danish Independent Research Foundation.

Every year, the Danish Independent Research Foundation (DFF) awards a number of grants to some of the country's most promising research leader talents in the program Sapere Aude: DFF Research Leader. This year, assistant professor Denys James Grombacher receives DKK 6.1 million for the project "Finding drinking water in data-poor regions".

Read the news: Three new Sapere Aude research leaders at NAT

Ye Zhou started as Guest PhD student 1 November and will be here until 31 October 2021.

Project title:
Sr-Nd isotope composition in eolian dust from the Taklamakan Desert: Implications for the provenance and the transport mechanism of Asian dust

Project description:
Aeolian deposits are significant components of the Earth’s landscapes, aeolian dust plays a vital role in the Earth system through participating in the energy and material budget of the planet. Dust deposits in glaciers, soils, and ocean or lake sediments constitute an important archive of past environmental changes. The arid and semi-arid regions of northern China are the second largest dust source in the world. Determining sediment provenance is indispensable for providing better understanding on the responses of different surface processes to tectonic movement and climatic changes.

This guest Ph.D project aims to investigate the provenance of sediments (desert sediments and marine sediments). The research work involves the isotopic characteristics of dust in the Taklamakan Desert and Arctic Ocean sediments, and explore the transport way of dust between oceans and deserts.

Supervisor:
Christof Pearce

Ekaterina Kulakova started as Guest PhD student 1 November and will be here until 14 May 2021.

Katia is a PhD student at Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia). She has background in geology, but her narrower specialty is paleomagnetism and rock-magnetism.

Katia came to Aarhus for a 6 month long internship at the Laboratory of Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating of Aarhus University. We are conducting a joint multidisciplinary study between Denmark and Russia of the loess-paleosol sections of Tajikistan (Central Asia). The main goals of her internship is to establish the geochronology of the sections and, possibly, obtain some paleoclimatic information using cosmogenic nuclides.
These goals are especially important in connection with the discovery of Paleolithic tools in these loess-paleosol sections, which may be associated with the appearance of the first Homo in Central Asia. In addition, the first laboratory in Russia for the chemical preparation of samples for cosmogenic dating is in development, so the experience Katia gains here is very valuable.

Goumeng Li started as Guest PhD student 1 November and will be here until 15 December 2021.

His supervisor during the visit is Thomas Ulrich.