• 2 June
  Online meeting about the work in the University Board and the Academic Council at Natural Sciences
• 10 June
  Master thesis submission
• 17 June
  Online quota 1 event
• 5 July
  Application deadline quota 1
• 6 October
  Girls day in science

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

General public health guidelines for on-campus activities

Another chapter has been written about the origin of the Egtved girl.
Read Rasmus' and Erik's answers to Robert Frei, who questions the data collected.

Link to the article "Aarhus-geologer om Egtvedpigen: At lukke øjnene for problemerne får dem ikke til forsvinde, Robert Frei" (In Danish)

The amount of mercury discovered in the Pacific Ocean trenches exceeds any value ever recorded in remote marine sediments, states Professor Hamed Sanei, who is part of the international research group from Denmark, Canada, Germany and Japan, which is behind the discovery.

Link to the article "High mercury accumulation in deep-ocean hadal sediments"

In a new podcast, you can hear Associate Professor Søren Munch Kristiansen from Geoscience talk about his work in geology. For him, people are especially exciting – and his work is centered around understanding how the Earth affects us and how we have affected it. Aarhus Studenterradio has made the podcast.

Link to the podcast (In Danish)

More than 60% of the applied water in flood irrigation can slowly return back to the riparian zones and streams with delays that can be more than a month. This 'temporary storage' of water is an important component of the water cycle. This can be seen in models that Niels Claes has made with partners from the University of Wyoming.

Link to the article: "Hydrologic modeling of reach scale fluxes from flood irrigated fields"

On board the ship Celtic Explorer, Per Trinhammer will for the next 4 weeks together with researchers and engineers from Danish, British and Irish universities map the seabed in the Atlantic Ocean under Porcupine and Rockall basins. They look at how the Earth's deep interior has affected the global climate in the geological past.

Link to the expedition's page

Former PhD student at the Department of Geoscience, Astrid Strunk, receives AUFF's PhD award.

Read about Astrid's research here (In Danish)

Due to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) course certificates must be journalized in Workzone. 

If you have any certificates please send them to the Secretariat (sekretariat@geo.au.dk).

Examples of certificates:
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The certificate must have significance to your work at the Department of Geoscience.

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Akanksha Upadhyay started as a postdoc on 15 April at HGG. She is still in India, where she is waiting for corona to release it's hold on the world, so that she can come to Denmark.

Here is a greeting from Akanksha:

Hi, my name is Akanksha Upadhyay, and I have joined Hydrogeophysics group (HGG) in Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University in April 2021 as a post-doc researcher.

I have completed my PhD degree in geo-electrical and electromagnetic methods from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India.

Apart from academics, I love to do volunteering work and I have been a part of several NGO schemes that work specially on the overall development of children, like CRY (Child Rights and You).

Currently I am working on a project titled "BIOMAP" alongside my HGG team. I am focussing on gaining new insights about the project and hopefully will learn a lot through mutual collaboration with the help of my colleagues.

Diego Domenzain started 1 May as a postdoc at HGG.

Diego likes to use mathematics and physics to help manage environmental shallow-subsurface challenges. He does so by developing multi-physics, adjoint-method, non-linear inversions involving wave propagation and potential energy data. His research spans geo-radar, DC resistivity, gravity, and seismic exploration methods. Given the strong computational burden of these optimization methods, he implements efficient inversion schemes, and numerical forward models intended for parallel high-performance computing.

He studied a Master's in Mathematics at Michigan Technological University, and a PhD in Geophysics at Boise State University. He recently completed a post-doctoral position at Colorado School of Mines in the Geophysics Department.

He is happy to join the Hydro-Geophysics Group at Aarhus University where he will help develop geophysical exploration technology for remediation purposes.

Thomas Halgaard started on 1 April as an IT employee at HGG.