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Geoscience newsletter

No. 5/2020 - May 2020

	Calendar

		GEO Match 6 November Rector visits Geoscience 18 November Christmas party 27 November

	Corona/covid-19

		AU is now open to emplyees, not to students or visitors. The guide lines for staying in our buildings changes constantly, so keep informed: 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

	A healthy work environment


	The entire department has been reviewed. Hand sanitizers are present at the entrance doors and distance marking tape has been added to the floors. If you feel exposed, or need even tighter guidelines than the common ones, you can contact Charlotte, our Daily Occupational Health and Safety Manager or a member of the occupational health and safety committee. We all need to help each other create a healthy and safe work environment under these special circumstances.

	ELSE MARIE FRIIS, FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY

		Professor Emerita at Department of Geoscience, Else Marie Friis, has been elected as Foreign Member of the Royal Society Read more

	Research grants for Geoscience


	Independent Research Fund Denmark awards more than DKK 97 million to Natural Sciences. A large portion goes to researchers at Department of Geoscinece: Christian Tegner: Testing the volcanic vs. impact hypotheses for mass extinctions Marit-Solveig L.S. Seidenkrantz: The NE Greenland shelf – a blank spot on the map (GreenShelf) Rasmus Andreasen: Making strontium isotopes a reliable tracer of human migration Nicolaj Krog Larsen: Dating the Hiawatha impact crater in NW Greenland See the complete list of grant recepients on the faculty's page.

	Visit from rector

		AU Rector, Brian Bech Nielsen, will visit the department on November 18. More information will follow.

	New page for AU staff

		The page mit.au.dk will be closed and the information transferred to staff.au.dk. In the future you can correct your profile information, change your password and see your holiday and absence overview here on your employee profile at staff.au.dk.

	Recruiting students

		We go all in on recruiting new students and use paid advertising on social media. Here you can see a couple of our commercials: https://www.facebook.com/GeoAarhus/videos/275360916972238/ https://www.facebook.com/GeoAarhus/videos/2599792466976109/ Please help get the message out by liking and sharing.

	New book release

		Laboratory manager Charlotte Rasmussen has published an e-book: "Particle Sizing in Geosciences: Explanation of Various Techniques and Pre-treatments" Read more about the book and find a link for download.

	Geo Match 2020

		GEO Match 2020 is scheduled for November 6. Planning has started and will continue when we are back in the Geoscience buildings.

	Video conference equipment

		The department's videoconferencing equipment is found in meeting room 1672-114. It can be booked in Outlook. The calendar is called "Videokonference Aarhus GEO". The equipment may be taken to other rooms, just be careful when re-connecting the wires.

	Information from the lab

		Remember that new students in the labs must take the security intro: It consists of personal introduction by Charlotte and a Blackboard security course. Read more about Lab Intro Remember that students are not covered by the university's self-insurance. We encourage students to take out private full time accident and travel insurance and make sure it covers accidents involving laboratory or field work.

	New AU webshop

		AU has a new webshop, which will be filled with all the different products sold throughout AU. At Geoscience, the webshop will initially be used for the sale of compendiums and notes as well as key deposits for the MSc reading room. The webshop can be found here: https://auwebshop.au.dk/ If you need to sell a product on the webshop, contact Susanne in the secretariat. Registration for events and field trips is still done in the system Conference Manager.

	Super users take over the support of WorkZone

		The central support of WorkZone has been shut down and the support function has been left to the super users. At the Department of Geoscience, Susanne and Krishna in the Secretariat are super users.

	Using the metal workshop at Physics


	The metal workshop is only accessible by agreement with Per Trinhammer. Instead, we refer you to the metal workshop at the Department of Physics and Astronomy. To use the workshop you need to contact Anders Strøbech Damgaard.

	New on arrival guide from IAS

		IAS updated their guide to new international employees. In the guide you can read about life in Denmark and find answers to some of the many questions that come with moving to another country. Please refer new colleagues to the site: https://ias.au.dk/onarrival/

	New holiday rules


	Information about the new holiday rules and the transition period is available under AU's staff service. Please make sure to check your holiday registrations on a regular basis via staff.au.dk Concurrent holiday days balance cannot be checked on mit.au. Please contact the Secretariat for a status.

	Office hours / ST and AU partners

	Partners with office hours, room 1671-134: Dan Guldborg, IT support \| aarhus.st.it@au.dk Monday 9-12 Mette Møller Larsen, controller, ST finance \| mmla@au.dk Wednesday 8.30-15.30 Jakob Steen Olesen, Project Finance Administrator, ST finance \| jakob.steen.olesen@au.dk Wednesday 8-15 and Friday 8-14 Rikke Märcher Rochat, Research Support Office \| rmr @au.dk Thursday 9-12 Other partners: Maiken Dazelle Nielsen, studies/ courses & exams \| maiken@au.dk Morten Hjorth Gad, AU Library \| mhga@kb.dk HR-related questions should be adressed to HR ST Team 1 \| HR.ST.team1@au.dk Questions regarding absence due to sickness, maternity leave or jobs on special terms should be sent to HR ST Specialisttem \| HR.ST.team.specialist.dk Rikke J. Ljungmann, Advisor, special consultant, ST PhD-administration \| rjl@au.dk Claus Palle, AU Research Support and External Relations - Technology Transfer Office \| cpa@au.dk Bo Holm Jacobsen's office hours for students: Tuesday 10-12 and Thursday 16.15-17 The above information is also available at: geo.medarbejdere.au.dk/en/

	Newsletters


	Newsletters on the web This and all previous newsletters are available on the Geoscience staff web pages. - There is a direct link from the entry page. Newsletters for students http://studerende.au.dk/en/studies/subject-portals/geoscience/practical-infomation/news-for-students/ Other newsletters ST: http://scitech.medarbejdere.au.dk/en/currently/newsletters/newsletter-for-staff-at-science-and-technology AU: https://medarbejdere.au.dk/en/info-and-news/newsletters-at-au/

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