• 5 July
  Application deadline quota 1
• 20 August
  NAT Welcome Back Get-together
• 30 September
  Hybrid conference on sustainability
  Together for green experience
• 6 October
  Girls' day in science
• September/ October - date to come
  Geoscience Summer party

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

Anders Vest Christiansen has become a professor at the Department of Geoscience.

Congratulations to Anders with the new title.

Associate Professor Emeritus Erik Thomsen and academic staff member Rasmus Andresen receive support from foreign researchers for their results regarding the origin of the Egtved girl.

Link to article: "Professorer: Derfor kan man ikke konkludere, at Egtvedpigen er født i udlandet" (In Danish)

Link to article: "Udenlandske professorer: Ingen ved, hvor Egtvedpigen stammer fra" (In Danish)

Associate Professor Christoffer Karoff is once again on the podcast Rumsnak (Space talk). This time it is about solar eclipses.

Link to podcast: "Når Solen forsvinder og mørket bryder frem" (In Danish)

Associate Professor Thorsten Nagel is a co-author of an article on how CO2 warmed the young Earth.

Link to article: "A CO2 greenhouse efficiently warmed the early Earth and decreased seawater 18O/16O before the onset of plate tectonics"

Academic staff member Gry Hoffmann Barfod and associate professor Søren Munch Kristiansen are part of a new international study on metal pollution in prehistoric cities.

Link to article: "UrbNet discovers unexpected hot spot for heavy-metal contamination in ancient city"

Link to press release

Associate Professor Emeritus Per Nørnberg answers in an article in Videnskab.dk the question: "Why is the planet Mars red?"

Link to article: "Hvorfor er Mars rød?" (In Danish)

Remember to sign up for this year's faculty summer party:

NAT Welcome Back Get-together

Link to sign up page

AU has received Golden Open Access at Elsevier.

For more information about the conditions for access, contact Morten Hjort Gad at the library.

As a researcher, it is important that you have a safe and professional approach to the media when communicating to the public.
Therefore, the Faculty of Natural Sciences has prepared a guide for press contact.

Link to "Guide til pressekontakt for forskere på Natural Sciences" (In Danish)

From Monday 9 August, there will again be physical Danish lessons at GEO.

The teaching will in August be in room 1671-241.

All staff and students must use access cards when entering buildings 1670-1675 outside normal opening hours (8-17).

Access to the buildings goes through the front door in 1670 and the back door (goods delivery) in 1675.

All other exit doors have had the cylinders blinded off on the outside, and it is no longer possible to open these doors using keys.

The HGG group moves to the 1670 buildings on 26-28 July.

The group's new offices are located in resp. 1671 - 2nd floor and 1672 - 3rd floor.
The workshop from building 1120 moves in next to the electrical workshop in 1674 - 1st floor.

Juan Carlos has started his PhD in the HGG group.

Here is a presentation from Juan Carlos:

My name is Juan Carlos and I come from Mexico. I studied my bachelors and masters in Mexico, focusing in the study of karst aquifers using standard geophysics techniques.

However, it is important to apply new and better tecniques in the study of shallow aquifers, it was clear to me that a PhD project in the Hydrogeophysics Group (HGG) would give me that kind of expertise.  I was lucky to be accepted as a PhD student within the group and I look forward to gaining a better undertanding of my choosen field.

After many struggles and  delays caused by COVID-19, now I finally come to this Aarhus University under the funding from The Mexican National Council of Science and Technology under the supervision of professor Anders Vest Christiansen, head of the HHG group.

Rikke is a guest PhD student from the University of Copenhagen in the period 14 June 2021 to 30 November 2022.

Here is a presentation from Rikke:

Greetings,
My name is Rikke Vestergaard and I am a PhD student at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN) at University of Copenhagen, and I am now joining you here at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University as a guest PhD student for a prolonged visit, since I moved back to Aarhus.
My project focusses on elucidating the geological evolution and significance of South Greenland by combining spatial, chemical and chronological studies, including U-Pb-Hf-O zircon work, on a suite of samples. My supervisor Tod Waight and I travelled to South Greenland during the summer 2020, where we had hired a boat to sail from place to place in a N-S traverse through the Julianehåb Batholith and Southern Domain of South Greenland to smash and grab mainly granitoids.
The photo was taken during our fieldtrip to South Greenland during the summer 2020.