• Introduction day for new employees - online
  29 September
• Day of Conferences in Aarhus
  7 October
• Information meeting on Centers of Excellence
  4 November
• Rector visits Geoscience
  18 November
• Christmas party
  27 November

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

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

Guidelines for conducting teaching during Corona

 

All employees and students are encouraged to download the Danish app smitte|stop to help contain the Covid-19 virus.

The responsibility for re-filling bottles of desinfectants and hand sanitizers, etc. in teaching and meeting rooms, group rooms and corridors is shared between the departments and NTbyg.

NTbyg provides:

Setting up and re-filling of desinfectants, hand sanitizers, paper towels in all

• entrances
• meeting rooms
• teaching rooms and larger seminar rooms
• study rooms and group rooms

Re-filling can be ordered at NTbyg

The department provides:

• gloves in all teaching and meeting rooms and laboratories
• wipes for wiping surfaces and materials in all teaching and meeting rooms, laboratories, study rooms and lunch rooms
• desinfectants, hand sanitizers and paper towels in all laboratories and lunch rooms
• hand sanitizers by all toilets

Refills can be picked up in the secretariat.

All employees can now see held and scheduled absence on the staff portal: staff.au.dk

You must log in with two-step authentication in the upper right corner of the screen.
Please note that you must log in with your UNI e-mail
(AUXXXXXX@uni.au.dk)

Once logged in, you can see held and scheduled absences under "My Profile".

If you are in doubt about how to read the overviews, you can always ask at the secretariat.

You can read more about the holiday rules on the staff portal: Accrual of holiday and special holidays

The 2020 elections have officially begun, and the election circular and schedule have been posted at the election website.

There is generally a lack of student representation in councils and boards, which is why everyone is asked to encourage students to participate.

Professor Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz has been appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Helmholz Center Potsdam, GFZ German Research Center of Geoscience.

Read what the advisory role entails

Associate Professor Thorsten Nagel has received the German Eugen Seibold Medal.

Read about Thorsten's work with the oldest continental crust on Earth

Associate Professor Anders Vest Christiansen replaces Esben Auken as representative of Geoscience in the Nat Tech Business Committee.

Professor Hamed Sanei had an article published in Nature.

Read the article: Genesis of solid bitumen

 
Hamed is also co-author of an article in Geology.

Read the article: Pleistocene organic matter modified by the Hiawatha impact, northwest Greenland

The Mini WPA showed a need to repeat how to use VPN.

VPN (Virtual Private Network) is used to create a closed connection between a computer from outside and AU's network. The connection allows your computer to behave as if it were physically at AU.

Use of VPN from a PC outside AU's network:

1. First download the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client on the computer you want to use VPN from
2. Select our faculty in the dropdown menu (still called ST)
3. In the field "username" enter your AU ID followed by "@uni.au.dk"
4. Enter your password (same as used to log on to AU's systems)
5. Download the "Microsoft Authenticator" app (pictured) to your phone and approve the login request. Two-step confirmation is then performed
6. A web browser opens automatically from which you must select the "Download" function
7. Follow the Cisco AnyConnnect Secure Mobility Client Installation Guide

Once the client is installed, you can use the VPN from the computer.

All new students who are to work in the laboratories must go through a lab briefing.
The briefing consists of a personal introduction by Charlotte and a safety course on Blackboard.

Read more information on the staff portal's page about lab briefing

Remember that students are not covered by the university's self-insurance. We encourage students to take out private accident and travel insurance, where they themselves ensure that it covers accidents involving laboratory or field work.

Entrepreneurs at The Kitchen, the entrepreneurs hub for researchers and students at Aarhus University, will now have easier access to early-stage entrepreneurial funding. This is because Aarhus University has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Denmark's largest start-up accelerator: Accelerace. Accelerace helps startups via intensive training courses and loan investments.

Read the news about Accelerate moving into The Kitchen

Remember, it is possible to have a portrait photo taken by AU's own photographer.

Efforts should be made to ensure that photos are of more recent date when they are used in e.g. PURE, catalogs and on websites with presentation of courses and events.

It is currently possible to book time for PURE photography on 6 October.

Registration for staff photography takes place here

In the spring, we chose to postpone the graduation party for this year's graduates until 23 October.

Due to the rising corona numbers and the reduction of the assembly ceiling from 100 to 50 people, it has been decided to cancel the party altogether.

The secretariat will instead make sure that each graduate receives a gift, consisting of a special mug as well as a greeting from their supervisor.

Remember to close windows and turn off the lights and projectors when leaving classrooms and meeting rooms.

In the parking lot by building 1675, 4 parking spaces are reserved for department cars.

Make sure to park the department cars in these 4 spaces after use, and ask the same of the students who drive the cars when going on field trips.

Evacuation drills are held in the fall in buildings 1120 and 1670-1675.

Read more about purpose and concept of the evacuation drill here .

At Geoscience, we also have a set of green vests which are used by observers from the working environment committee (LAMU) who will stand around the corridors during the drill.

All staff and students have received an e-mail with instructions on how to behave in connection with the exercise.

As of September 1, our security company is Securitas. They can be contacted by telephone, 70 26 36 50 between 16.00 - 06.00.

NTbyg is working on putting new stickers with the correct telephone number on all windows with alarms.

On the staff portal's page about Emergencies, you can read in which cases the security company must be contacted.

We sort waste at Geoscience.

Be sure to put the waste in the right containers.
For example, flamingo should NOT be left in the basement by the car lift (building 1674), it should be put in the large container in the parking lot.

If a container is full, notify Willy from NTbyg to have it emptied.

Willy, +45 2118 6202, willy.christensen@au.dk

The shelves in the basement corridor in building 1672 are for ongoing tests.

Unfortunately, there is a tendency to forget your material and/ or forget to put your name/ date/ contact information on the samples.

Please be sure to notify students that they must remove their samples when they finish a project and before they leave us.

We need the shelf space for new projects so everything without a name will be removed in October.

In addition, the freezer capacity is limited, especially there is a lack of space in the chest freezer (by the cold room in building 1671) for larger objects.

Christoffer Karoff was employed on 1 September 2020 as an associate professor specializing in environmental remote sensing.

Christoffer received his PhD in 2008 and has since worked to understand how the Sun affects us here on Earth. This has partly taken place through direct observations of the Sun, through studies of sun-like stars, through analysis of cosmogenic isotopes and through the running of climate models. Christoffer joined the Department of Geoscience in 2013 and has since worked on how to combine earth observations with big data techniques and machine learning tools to increase understanding of our planet. It is also this work that will form the foundation for his work in the future, where he i.a. leads a major national partnership for the use of remote sensing to accelerate the green transition.

Christoffer will also teach the courses: 'Earth's renewable energy sources', 'Geomodeling and machine learning', 'Applied physics', 'Stars and planets' and the new course 'Geoscience of sustainability'.

iClimate and the Department of Physics and Astronomy contribute to cover the costs associated with this position until 31.12.2024.

Muhammad Rizwan Asif has been employed as a postdoc, starting 1 September 2020.

Muhammad received his B.S. degree in electrical (telecommunication) engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) in 2013, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in information and communication engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2016 and 2019 respectively. After that, he has been working as a postdoc with the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University in close collaboration with the HydroGeophysics Group (HGG) at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University. As of September 1 this year, Muhammad Rizwan Asif formally joined the Department of Geoscience to support research projects at HGG employing electrical and electromagnetic methods. His current research interests include machine learning applications for geophysical data. He is also interested in image processing and computer vision for intelligent automated systems.

"Working at HGG is exciting due to the cutting-edge research being conducted in the group and its impact on geophysical applications in groundwater across the world with immense benefits to the developed and developing countries. It is a true pleasure to be a part of something that is extremely beneficial for the society".

Mathias Busk Dahl has been employed as a PhD student, starting 30 September 2020.

Mathias finished his Masters degree in Geophysics this summer here in Aarhus concerning remote sensing observations from space.

He will be working on the project HYDROism: Fast hydrological simulation for efficient groundwater management.

The project aims to develop a fast method for computing the effects of changes in groundwater systems. This could be from wells, pollution, heavy precipitation etc.. This fast method should be developed by a combination of geostatistics, hydrological simulations and machine learning. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop an applicable, very fast, and highly accurate computation method for administrative groundwater work concerning well placement, pollution and future climate challenges.

Besides his interest in Geophysics and computer science he spends a lot of time watching the English premier league, especially Liverpool, and formula 1 on Sundays.

Frederik Ersted Christensen has been employed as a research assistant, starting on 10 August 2020.

Frederik is 28 years old and finished his master's degree in geophysics here at the Department of Geoscience this summer. In his thesis, he worked with the new FloaTEM system in order to be able to use it on fjords and other places close to the coast, where the water depth is low.

Now he is employed as a research assistant at HGG, where he is currently doing a lot of fieldwork, mostly tTEM, but also DCIP and WalkTEM. He also contributes to the preparation of an article on the FloaTEM system.

In private he has a sweet girlfriend named Anne and they have a daughter together. Her name is Lærke and she is 2 years old.

Mathias Østbjerg Vang has been employed as a PhD student, starting on 1 August 2020.

Niels Claes has been emploed as a postdoc, starting on 1 June 2020.

Hafsa Mahmood has been employed as a PhD student, starting on 1 August 2020.

Frederik Flensted Madsen has been employed as an AC-TAP, starting on 10 August 2020.

Anne Sofie Søndergaard has been employed as a postdoc from 1 September 2020 to 31 December 2020.

Daria Semikolennykh is a guest PhD student, visiting from 23 September 2020 to 15 April 2021.