By anna [at] astro [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Arnadottir) - published 10 March 2023 Rebecca Forsberg and Nic Borsato continue to host our astronomy podcast 'The Meridian'.    In this third season they interview prominent researchers, such as NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk, professor at Penn State University in Kinesiology and Physiology, Ruth Pöttgen, a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, Jud

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/third-season-meridian-astronomy-podcast-released - 2025-06-21

Published 11 June 2024 Image credit: Naciódigital.cat  We were pleased to hear that one of our own, Santi Roca Faberga, has been honored by his local community for his achievements.  By popular vote in his home town he was selected for the Garrotxí de l'Any award 2023.An article about the award ceremony was published (in Catalan) in the Garroxta newspaper:Article about Stanti Roca Faberga

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/astronomer-honored-his-home-town - 2025-06-21

By anna [at] astro [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Arnadottir) - published 19 September 2024 Astronomers and astronomy students have been training and checking the telescopes in preparation for Culture night.  The forecast looks good and we hope to get lots of visitors that want to look through the telescopes and marvel at the Universe.Astronomy on Culture Night 2024: Kl 11.00 - 19.00 :  Ljusets mörkare s

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/gearing-culture-night - 2025-06-21

Published 1 October 2024 With over 1300 visitors at the telescopes and in the planetarium, it is safe to say that Culture Night 2024 was a great success. Arranging astronomy events on Culture Night is always a bit difficult since we do not know in advance if the skies are going to be clear.  We had luck with us this year.  The weather was nice and sunny during the day and once the Sun set we could

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/culture-night-2024 - 2025-06-21

Published 5 September 2024 Artist’s impression of a planetary system. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The shimmying planet, located 455 light-years from Earth, shows that planetary systems can be considerably more complex than researchers have previously thought. The newly discovered pla

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/researchers-discover-space-oddity-exoplanet-moving-mysterious-ways - 2025-06-21

Published 27 January 2025 Image Credit> ESA/ATG medialab, ESO/S. Brunier I drygt 30 år har astronomiprofessor Lennart Lindegren varit delaktig i arbetet med rymdteleskopet Gaia. Nyligen samlade instrumentet in sina sista observationer. Men teleskopets bidrag till forskningen kommer att leva kvar under lång tid. This news article is in Swedish.  It was originally published on www.naturvetenskap.lu.

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/astronom-tar-farval-av-rymdteleskop-som-under-lang-tid-kartlagt-vintergatan - 2025-06-21

Published 25 February 2025 Artist's image of an ultra-hot Jupiter. Source: ESO/M. Kornmesser Tack vare Europeiska sydobservatoriets teleskop i Chile har astronomer gjort detaljerade observationer av den mytomspunna exoplaneten WASP-121 b. Upptäckterna av grundämnet titan och jetströmmar utmanar vår förståelse för vindar och kemi på ultraheta planeter. This news article is in Swedish.  It was origi

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/titan-och-mystiska-jetstrommar-pa-extrem-exoplanet - 2025-06-21

Published 11 November 2019 A forest management method different to those practised today would contribute to greater welfare and wellbeing for society in general, compared with current methods that mainly benefit the forestry industry. This has been shown in a new study by two researchers from Lund University in Sweden. There is an intensive debate at the moment about the best way to use the fores

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/another-type-forest-management-would-provide-greater-values-society - 2025-06-21

Published 20 November 2019 The BECC annual meeting was held October 22nd-23rd in Halmstad. At the meeting keynote speakers with expertise in interdisciplinary and and transdisciplinary research presented their research, followed by participant presentations of interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research. The two days were filled with presentation and discussions to give inspiration and disseminat

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-annual-meeting-2019-interdisciplinarity-research-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-services-changing - 2025-06-21

Published 10 December 2019 Den 25 november anordnades en heldag på temat Grön infrastruktur (GI) för biologisk mångfald. Det var ett välfyllt symposium med personer från myndigheter, kommuner, privata företag, organisationer, ideella föreningar och forskare. Syftet med dagen var att utbyta information och erfarenhet mellan forskning och olika samhällsaktörer inom arbetet med implementering av GI.

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-symposium-gron-infrastruktur-och-biologisk-mangfald - 2025-06-21

Published 9 January 2020 Please spread the word! Ecological-Economic Framework to Investigate and Promote the Effectiveness of Biodiversity OffsetsTowards better assessments of nutrient constraints on soil carbon sequestration: including soil microbial and mineral mechanisms into terrestrial biosphere modelsExploring synergies between wild pollinators and climate-smart protein production – a mixed

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/6-becc-postdoc-positions-lund-university-0 - 2025-06-21

Published 14 January 2020 On the 5th of December 2019, BECC organized a full day of science-to-policy discussions in cooperation with the thematic collaboration initiative LU Land, on the topic of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which is currently undergoing a reform. The CAP is a strong shaping force of European land use practices, and therefore also strongly influences biodiversity and

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-symposium-working-together-environmentally-ambitious-evidence-based-agricultural-policy - 2025-06-21

Published 15 January 2020 BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate) welcomes proposals for research funding within the vision and aims of BECC for the years 2020-21. BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate) welcomes proposals for research funding within the vision and aims of BECC for the years 2020-21. This is a joint call between Lund university (LU

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/call-proposals-research-funding-becc - 2025-06-21

Published 20 March 2020 Different aspects of forest governance were presented as well as landscape approaches to achieve multiple goals were discussed and exemplified. Different aspects of forest governance were presented in the morning by three invited speakers, Erik Sollander from the Swedish Forest Agency, Carina Keskitalo from Umeå University and Marie Appelstrand from Lund University. In the

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/forest-governance-meet-global-challenges - 2025-06-21

Published 27 April 2020 During a one-day symposium in Gothenburg peatland was the theme, now you may follow the work organized and carried out by BECC researchers in several Swedish media. Peatland is a major questionmark in the combat of climate change. Skogaryd is an infrastructure of BECC and at the research station researcher within the BECC community have research going on that has been highl

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/focus-peatland - 2025-06-21

Published 6 May 2020 We appreciate your participation in the online conference, which was a very successful joining of about 100 participants. April 23 and 24 were two very rewarding days, filled with interesting sessions, poster presentations, office yoga, group discussions, as well as fruitful conversations and sharing of expertise. The event allowed for interesting discussions among researchers

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/thank-you-participating-becc-merge-spring-meeting-online-science-says-conference - 2025-06-21

Published 25 May 2020 “Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, depends on its forests and trees that protect soil fertility, preserve biodiversity, help to cope with climate change and provide fuel for cooking. But the forests used to be much vaster.” Eric Mirindi Dusenge, BECC researcher at University of Gothenburg, is part of a project to find out how native tree species can contribute to tackling

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-forests-warming-world - 2025-06-21

Published 14 September 2020 ClimBEco summermeeting in Lund. Photo: Ylva van Meeningen ClimBEco’s annual summer meeting was held this August over two consecutive days, with both online and in-person meetings in Lund, Malmö and Gothenburg. The summer meeting is one of the highlights of our graduate school, where current PhD students can meet, network and learn more about an interdisciplinary topic.

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting - 2025-06-21

Published 29 January 2021 The different disciplines represented at the ClimBEco winter meeting 2021. The theme of the ClimBEco annual meeting was “Multidisciplinary learning environments – seizing their opportunities and avoiding their pitfalls”. After an icebreaker that included seeing some sweet ‘corona-pets’ in the screens, we brought ourselves onto the level of metaphysics and the multiple way

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-winter-meeting-2021 - 2025-06-21

Published 11 June 2014 Photochemical smog, including tropospheric ozone and fine particles, is an important environmental concern over large parts of the world with strong connections to climate change climate policies. Especially in densely populated regions of the world with fast growing economies, such as China and India, there is a great risk for rising levels of air pollutants such as ozone w

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/smog-ozone-and-particles-beijing-becc-focus - 2025-06-21