The Secretariat would like to thank you for your understanding of our pressured situation. We expect to be back in top form and fully staffed for the next semester.

This year, the Secretariat will be closed throughout July, so you cannot expect assistance during this period.

Nat-Tech IT has moved to Building 1525-218.

The Research and Business Committees have been dissolved in favour of a new joint "Research and Business Committee." David Lundbek Egholm is the chair of the committee with Anders Vest Christiansen as co-chair. Members of the new committee will consist of researchers from the permanent staff, representing a broad spectrum of research fields, career levels, and genders. Each potential member will be personally invited.

Søren Munch Kristiansen replaces Ole Rønø Clausen as the health and safety representative for the “VIP + Office” working environment group.

From 2024, our laboratories will be part of GLOSOLAN, the global soil laboratory network under the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The network works on sharing knowledge about standardizations, equipment, and quality control of soil analyses. Contact Charlotte or Søren Munch if you want to know more.

Student Kristine Urhøj Møller received the award for Best Student Poster at the 'Archeometallurgy in Europe 2024' conference in Falun, Sweden, held in mid-June.

Her presentation of her bachelor project, "A Novel Approach to Differentiate Icelandic Iron Production Slags from other Viking Sources Combining Sr Isotopes and Trace Elements," impressed the judges and secured her this prestigious recognition.

Kristine completed her bachelor's degree here at Geoscience but has been employed for the past year at the Department of Conservation and Natural Science, Moesgaard Museum, as a laboratory assistant on on collaborating projects between Moesgaard Museum and the Department of Geoscience

Aske Lohse Sørensen just publiced the paper "Cascading oxygen loss shoreward in the oceans: Insights from the Cambrian SPICE event."

Marine euxinia can enhance marine productivity by recycling phosphorus from sediments, leading to increased marine oxygen consumption and widespread oceanic anoxia. Our study provides empirical evidence of this self-cascading feedback mechanism operated globally during the Cambrian SPICE event, demonstrated by carbon isotope and molybdenum enrichments in sediments from the Scandinavian Alum Shale Formation. Dynamic models for the global biogeochemical cycles suggest that the benthic phosphorus flux scaled with sedimentation and that chemocline shoaling into coastal areas likely triggered the SPICE event.

Read the paper here.

Partners with office hours, room 1672-123:

• Mads Sørensen, IT-supporter | madssor@au.dk | +45 28290269
  Tuesday 12-15
• Rune Beckmann Olsen, HR-partner | rbo@au.dk | +45 9352 2396
  Tuesday 8-12 (uneven weeks)
• Nanna Duelund, HR-supporter | nadk@au.dk | +45 9350 8538
  Tuesday 8-12 (even weeks)
  Mette Møller Larsen, Business Controller, Finance | mmla@au.dk | +45 6057 1105
  Wednesday 8.30-15.30
• Jakob Steen Olesen, Project Finance Controller, Finance | jakob.steen.olesen@au.dk | +45 9352 1027
  Wednesday 8-15
• Karen Konradi, PhD partner, The PhD administration | konradi@au.dk | +45 9352 2292
  First Thursday of each month 13-15
• Gitte Bindzus Foldager, International Center | gbf@au.dk | +45 2331 6355
  Last Thursday of each month

Other partners:

• Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen (Stine), AU Research Support and External Relations - Research Support Office (FSE) | aclk@au.dk | +45 9352 2209
• Henriette Withen Hansen, AU Research Support and External Relations - Technology Transfer Office (TTO) | hwh@au.dk | +45 4189 3290
• ​Maja Kragh-Schwartz, AU Research Support and External Relations - Technology Transfer Office (TTO) | mksc@au.dk
• Astrid Marie Hvorslev Svendsen, studies/ courses & exams | ashs@au.dk
• Morten Hjorth Gad, AU Library | mhga@kb.dk
• HR-related questions should be adressed to Nat Tech HR Team 1 | HR.Nat@au.dk
• Questions regarding absence due to sickness, maternity leave or jobs on special terms should be sent to Nat Tech HR Specialist team | Nat-Tech.HR.Team.Specialist@au.dk
• IT support NT, use AU Serviceportal, write to aarhus.st.it@au.dk or call 8715 0944
  Monday - Tuesday: 8.00 - 15.30 and Friday: 8.00 - 14.30
  AV support call 8715 0944

The above information is also available at: geo.medarbejdere.au.dk/en/

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