Apply to ClimBEco research school before May 16! Interested in interdisciplinary perspectives on climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing world? The application is now open for participation in the two-year research school: ClimBEco. Opportunity for PhD students interested in interdisciplinary perspectives on climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing world:It is

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/call-applications-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2016-2018 - 2025-08-27

As demography changes, more and more people will be affected by forest fires study shows. Photo: André Bessa In many parts of the world, grass and forest fires pose a threat to animals and humans. According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, while climate change is likely to cause more and larger fires, in the future, more and more people will become directly affected as a result of de

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/demographic-changes-increase-risk-natural-fires - 2025-08-27

Photo: Pixabay Welcome to a workshop to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE, August 22-24. Sign up by June 23rd! The workshop will start just before lunch on August 22 and stop in the early afternoon on August 24.The aim of the workshops is to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE. Specifically, we want to

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sign-workshop-aerosol-climate-interactions - 2025-08-27

Skogaryd research site spruce forest on drained peat soil and drainage ditch. Photo: Åsa Kasimir Forests have long been seen as a sink for greenhouse gases. Research conducted by scientists from University of Gothenburg has shown that over a forest rotation of 80 years, forest production on drained peat soil is a large source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. MERGE/BECC researchers Hongxing H

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/forest-production-drained-peat-release-greenhouse-gases - 2025-08-27

Photo: Mattias Hallquist China currently faces challenges related to climate change and environmental degradation. Though daunting, work to combat these problems is on-going. MERGE and BECC researchers at the University of Gothenburg currently enjoys a number of research collaborations with researchers in the field at Chinese universities. “We need to take decisive action to stop the destruction o

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/project-china - 2025-08-27

A new MERGE newsletter has just been sent out. Check it out and sign up here! From the content: Sign up for workshop on aerosol-climate interactions by 23 JuneForest production on drained peat release greenhouse gasesSwedish researchers build new European infrastructure for atmospheric researchComing eventsand more...You can find the newsletter here (open online version)Would you like to sign up f

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-merge-newsletter-out - 2025-08-27

Photo: Pixabay Welcome to a workshop to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE, August 22-24 in Gothenburg. The aim of the workshops is to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE. Specifically, we want to develop efficient ways to bridge over scales and between MERGE research areas. This in order to make our det

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-aerosol-workshop-22-24-aug-gothenburg - 2025-08-27

Meet new guest researcher Professor Simon Clegg, University of East Anglia (U.K.) and University of California, Davis (U.S.A.). His main research focus is on the fundamental physical chemistry of atmospheric aerosol particles, and on the development of chemical speciation models of seawater and other natural waters. Simon is working with MERGE until the end of November. Simon will be working mainl

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-guest-researcher-focus-aerosols-water - 2025-08-27

Photo: Pixabay MERGE PhD student Thanh Le will defend his PhD thesis "Causal links of past climate change in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 climate models" on Friday the 21 October. On Thursday the 20 October a minisymposium on climate dynamics and the climate of the past millennium is held. Welcome! PhD thesis defense Friday 21 OctMERGE PhD student Thanh Le will defend his PhD thes

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/phd-defense-and-minisymposium-past-climate-change-20-21-oct - 2025-08-27

A part of the vision of MERGE is interaction with stakeholders and making our work relevant to actions of mitigation. This is the topic of this autumn meeting where guests and MERGE participants share their experiences with outreach and stakeholder contact. Welcome to the MERGE Autumn Meeting on November 21-22 in Helsingborg - last day to sign up is October 30. 21-22 November 2016Venue: Elite Mari

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sign-merge-autumn-meeting-21-22-november - 2025-08-27

Deliang Chen, photo: University of Gothenburg Deliang Chen, MERGE/BECC researcher and August Röhss Professor at the University of Gothenburg, has been recently appointed chairman of the nomination committee for the Stockholm Water Prize by the Board of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Stockholm Water Prize is the world’s most prestigious water award. A prize ceremony and Royal Banquet is

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-appointed-chairman-stockholm-water-prize - 2025-08-27

Foto: Randa Kachef Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyses. Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyses. The

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/researcher-awarded-price-society-risk-analysis - 2025-08-27

There will be a new postdoctoral position in Modelling and analysis of atmospheric organic aerosols - from canopy to globe. The position will be at Chalmers, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling, Department of Earth and Space Sciences. Read more about the job offer here.

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/post-doc-modelling-and-analysis-atmospheric-organic-aerosols-canopy-globe-chalmers - 2025-08-27

Åsa have been selected as a Lead Author for the writing of the Methodology Report entitled “2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories”. Åsa Kasimir have been selected by the Bureau of IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) as a Lead Author for the writing of the Methodology Report entitled “2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/asa-kasimir-selected-be-ipcc-lead-author - 2025-08-27

The first ever Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29-31 August 2017. The first Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29-31 August 2017. Deadline for abstracts is June 15th and for registration is August 1st 2017. Please find more information and registration here.

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/first-nordic-icos-symposium - 2025-08-27

A new article on impacts of land use on climate and ecosystem productivity over the Amazon and the South American continent has been published by Minchau Wu and a number of other MERGE researchers. The article was published in Environmental Research Letters, Volume 12, Number 5. Abstract:The Amazon basin is characterized by a strong interplay between the atmosphere and vegetation. Anthropogenic la

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/impacts-land-use-climate-and-ecosystem-productivity-over-amazon-and-south-american-continent - 2025-08-27

The scientific programmer will contribute to the further development and maintenance of a regional climate model (RCA-GUESS), a global Earth system model (EC-EARTH), a dynamic vegetation/ecosystem model (LPJ-GUESS) and other models used within MERGE. Tasks may include, for example, the development and extension of existing models to incorporate new variables and processes; testing, coupling and ev

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-recruiting-climate-modeling-programmer - 2025-08-27

MERGE Autumn Meeting 2017 was held on 22-23 November in Helsingborg. The theme was MERGE research and future strategies. During the two days the latest exciting research within the different research areas of MERGE was presented. Also, the research school ClimBEco was presented and a number of new ideas for courses were put forward during the meeting.The MERGE board has had a strategic discussion

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-autumn-meeting - 2025-08-27

Merge attended the EC-Earth meeting hosted by ECMWF. EC-Earth, a European consortium which aims to provide reliable climate information, is in the final stages of preparing for a climate model intercomparison project expected to feed into the next IPCC report.Final decisions on tuning the latest version of the consortium’s Earth system model were taken at a meeting of nearly 70 scientists at ECMWF

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/ec-earth-gets-ready-climate-model-intercomparison-project - 2025-08-27

Three Merge related doctoral dissertations are taking place at Chalmers in Gothenburg during February and March. Ågot Watne defending the thesis  Atmospheric oxidation - Formation and aging of biogenic and traffic-related emissions Xiangyu Pei defending the thesis A soot transformation study: interactions between soot, sulfuric acid and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) And Dan Gall defending the th

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/doctoral-dissertations-chalmers - 2025-08-27