• 6 April
  Limited re-opening of AU
• 28 April
  The Festival of Research

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)

Rules for teaching and exam activities

Access to and behaviour on campus in connection with classes

Laboratory manager Charlotte Rasmussen has been appointed to FAMU for the period 2021-2024 by the dean of NAT.

Erik Thomsen and Rasmus Andreasen from the Department of Geoscience demonstrate in two new scientific articles that strontium from agricultural lime is leached from the upper soil layers and thus affects the strontium isotope values in the environment. Thus, a number of hypotheses about the origins of prehistoric humans should be revised.

Link to the news article "New studies confirm that agricultural lime influences strontium analyses"

Link to the article "Strontium Is Released Rapidly From Agricultural Lime–Implications for Provenance and Migration Studies"

Link to the article "Homogeneous Glacial Landscapes Can Have High Local Variability of Strontium Isotope Signatures: Implications for Prehistoric Migration Studies"

Professor Sanei in collaboration with an international research team have explored sediment characteristics and in-situ benthic oxygen uptake along two trenches in the Pacific Ocean. They have concluded that hadal trenches represent deep sea hotspots for early diagenesis and are more diverse and dynamic environments than previously recognized.

Link to the article "Hadal trenches are dynamic hotspots for early diagenesis in the deep sea"

Associate Professor Christoffer Karoff at the Department of Geoscience tells in the Weekendavisen why our moon has been extremely important for the formation and development of life on Earth.

Link to the article "Moon forces" (subscription required)

Professor Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz and assistant professor Christof Pearce show in the study that there was a stronger influx of Atlantic Water into the Labrador Sea region than today during the Last Glacial Maximum (23-19,000 years ago), suggesting a much more vigorous North Atlantic Ocean circulation than previously assumed.

Link to the article "Evidence for influx of Atlantic water masses to the Labrador Sea during the Last Glacial Maximum"

Geoscience has received 44 applications via quota 2 for the start of studies in August 2021. Of these, 26 applicants have Geoscience as their 1st priority.

Last year we received 28 applications and 10 of these had Geoscience as their 1st priority.

Link to the article "Almost 6.000 young people would prefer to study at Aarhus University"

All students participating in field trips must register through the system Conference Manager.

Registration pages are created by the secretariat, and links sent to the teachers. The teachers share the links with their students.

All field trips are announced with prices in newsletters to the students. On all registration pages, the deadline for registration is clearly marked.

Students cannot participate in field trips without being registered.
It is not possible to register once the trip has taken place.

After the rebuilding in 1671, we have new teaching and meeting rooms.

Thus, some calendars have been deleted and new ones created in Outlook.

The following calendars must be used for booking of rooms:

Teaching rooms:
1653-014 Mikroskopial Undervisning (30)
1653-018 Undervisning (20)
1671-137 Aud-1671 Undervisning (98)
1672-141 Undervisning (26)
1673-118 Computerrum undervisning (20)

Meeting rooms:
1671-241 Mødelokale (16)
1672-114 Mødelokale (8)
1672-238 Mødelokale (10)

Other calendars that you may have saved in the Outlook overview must be removed.
The old calendar for 1673-118 must be removed and the new one retrieved. This is important because an error occurred when changing the name, which is why the old calendar for the room shows incorrect bookings.

A number of errors are made in the credit card settlements in RejsUd at Geoscience.

Therefore, all users of RejsUd are encouraged to contact the travel group (Rejsegruppen) if they are in doubt about anything when making their settlements.

The following employees can be contacted directly:

Per Mogensen
Pia Jørgensen
Stephanie Rosenbæk Hall
Tina Lykkegård Thomsen

All 4 have access to TeamViewer and Teams and can provide online guidance and help in specific cases.

Employees who are to be stationed are encouraged to contact the Travel Group (Rejsegruppen) well in advance of departure.
The travel group can i.a. help you see through the tax rules when you travel.

Write to rejser@au.dk to book an interview.

Zhiheng Zhou will be a PhD student with Professor Hamed Sanei as supervisor. Zhiheng should have arrived in Denmark last year, but was prevented from doing so by COVID-19. Now he has finally arrived, and here is his presentation of himself:

Before I came to Aarhus University to start my exploration in the field of organic petrology & geochemistry and study for doctoral degree, I majored in sedimentology & reservoir geology and got the Master's degree of science in China University of Petroleum (Beijing) .

After many struggles, competitions and delays which caused by COVID-19, now I finally come to this beautiful and outstanding university under the funding from China Scolarship Council and study for PhD under the supervision of the professor I respect—Hamed Sanei, the Research Chair & Director of the Lithospheric Organic Carbon (LOC) Lab. Therefore I hold this opportunity a great value and willing to communicate with all my colleges in Department of Geoscience to collect ideas, inspirations and acquire wisdom and good qualities. May we become each other's strength on the journey seeking for ration and truth.

Adrián López Quirós will start as a postdoc on 1 April and will be working with Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz. Here is Adrián's presentation of himself:

Originally from Spain, Adrián López Quirós holds a BSc in Geology, MSc in Geology Applied to Mineral and Energy Resources, and PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Granada.

Dr. López-Quirós’ recent research at the Spanish National Research Council is geared towards the reconstructing of regional Antarctic paleoenvironments as far back as 40 Ma. He is focusing on the Drake Passage-Scotia Sea region (West Antarctica) to provide a better understanding of the effects of tectonics on the evolution of gateways, marine circulation, sedimentation patterns and ice-sheet evolution. He is investigating sedimentation patterns in two periods of time and locations. First, in the late Quaternary (Pleistocene; ~0.7 Ma) sediments of Ona Basin (Scotia Sea), he is decoding the presence of different water masses and the spatial variability of bottom current pathways by means of morphological and sedimentary processes analyses using high-resolution geophysical, bathymetric and oceanographic data. Second, in the late Eocene-middle Miocene (~37-15 Ma) sediments of the South Orkney Microcontinent (Weddell Sea), he conducts detailed sedimentary facies analyses to delineate the opening and deepening of the Drake-Scotia gateway and their influence on Southern Ocean and ice sheet configurations. This study is based on sediment cores from ODP Site 696 and includes sedimentary, mineralogical and organic matter investigation. The mineralogical investigation includes clay formation and past environments as recorded by clays.  

Recently, he obtained a Postdoctoral Position in shallow seismic investigations at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University. The postdoctoral project will focus on investigating the Late Quaternary geological, paleoclimate and paleoceanographic development of the NE Greenland shelf. The project will make it possible for him to learn how to make a detailed linkage between seismic studies and marine sediment cores, not the least how different proxies may be used for this purpose. He will also gain experience in Arctic sediments and glacier-ocean interaction. The possibility for him to expand his research from a focus on Antarctic to also encompass the Arctic will also provide him with a much broader understanding of sediment deposition and ice-ocean interaction in polar regions thus significantly widening his research area. He will bring detailed knowledge on polar sedimentary basins and Antarctic conditions to Aarhus University, making future studies Arctic-Antarctic linkages possible. Moreover, he will bring experience in combining oceanographic and seismic information and his expertise in using advanced mineralogy of sediment core material to identify changes in ocean circulation and link these to seismic units changes will be valuable for the Department of Geoscience.