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Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. MERGE is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in 2009. They were all conduct
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-12-19
Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate change for business. Markku
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-12-19
The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system is the name of Wenxing Zhangs thesis, which he defended on February 6 2015. On February 6th Wenxin Zhang defended his thesis The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system. Opponent was Laxmi Sushama.In the thesis Wenxin Zhang presents findings from studies
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2025-12-19
ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at Nordic Universities eng
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-12-19
DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the research data that can be
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-12-19
The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was published and we are happy to a
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2025-12-19
Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-12-19
On May 11-13 an international LUsTT/BECC/MERGE workshop was organized in Landskrona, with around 60 leading researchers within the field of dynamic vegetation modelling. Report from the LUsTT/BECC/MERGE Workshop: “Dynamic global vegetation modelling: towards a third generation”.LPJ-GUESS is a Dynamical Global Vegetation model (DGVM) maintained and further developed at the Department of Physical Ge
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2025-12-19
On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund University has an active rol
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-12-19
A recently published report is a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book. Several MERGE researchers has contributed to this work. The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book.“The current publication for the Baltic Sea area is a regional variant on
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2025-12-19
On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on MERGE's development as
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2025-12-19
A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has the goal to produce globa
One of our professional cleaning colleagues has collaborated with us to create a helpful video on how to clean your common areas (kitchen, bathroom and corridors). It's important to keep your accommodation clean, and even more so if you share with other people. In this video, Samuel Kwarteng goes through the techniques, tools and routines that best make sure that your kitchen, bathroom, shower or
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/new-cleaning-video-published - 2025-12-19
Summary of news items from 2016. Brunnsbo Brunnsbo will not be available to apply for starting from Spring 2017. Eddan Eddan is a new housing area that was finished during summer 2016. It is a housing area with 119 corridor rooms with private WC/shower and shared kitchen. Read more here! Spoletorp South and North From August 2015 all Master degree students, Bachelor degree students and internation
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2016 - 2025-12-19
2017-12-15 Greenhouse Greenhouse is no longer a housing option offered by LU Accommodation. If you are interested in living at Greenhouse then please contact the owners of the housing area directly. Information about room availability and prices can be obtained by either sending an email to newgreenhouse [at] byggin [dot] se (newgreenhouse[at]byggin[dot]se) or by calling 046 386 070 on weekdays be
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2017 - 2025-12-19
2018-08-21 The post-Arrival Day waiting list Housing applicants present at our Housing lottery on Arrival day, that did not receive a housing offer, have been placed on the post-Arrival day waiting list. This new waiting list follows the order established through the Housing lottery process. This list is now considered as the new LU Accommodation waiting list for the Autumn 2018 academic term. If
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2018 - 2025-12-19
2019-12-16 The yearly winter cleaning competition in most of LU Accommodation's corridor housing ended today. The winners this year was the following corridors: Eddan C 1101 - 1106 1st Prize Eddan D 1205-1209 1st Prize Eddan E 1501-1506 1st Prize North Spoletorp 1201-1206 1st Prize South Spoletorp 2:1410-1419 1st Prize Eddan C
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2019 - 2025-12-19
2020-11-25 CoVid-restrictions Dear tenants, Yesterday new restrictions started to apply in Sweden and Skåne in regards to the CoVid-19 pandemic. The new restrictions are not recommendations but musts, and will apply for 4 weeks from now. The following information is crucial and LU Accommodation requires all tenants to read and follow the decisions made by the Swedish Government and the Swedish H
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/news-updates-2020 - 2025-12-19
There are accommodations available for both International Students and Guest Researchers. International Students We have had our two major move-in dates so far this semester. Most international students' contract started on the 11th of January, but some had a start date on the 4th of February this semester. Following these arrivals, we still have available accommodation in Lund, Malmö and Helsingb
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/accommodation-available - 2025-12-19
Our website has been relaunched in a new format. Today (Monday 15th February) our website has launched a new version! The redesign is an ongoing process, and the website will see further changes during the coming weeks. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, trouble finding something, or suggestions for improvements. E-mail: luacc [at] service [dot] lu [dot] se (subject:
https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/new-website-launched - 2025-12-19
