If you happen to live in or around Lund, maybe we will see you 25 October on the Opening of Climate and Forests – A New Popular Science Exhibition at Naturum Skrylle: www.merge.lu.se/calendar/ope...

Actris Sweden infrastructure got funding to 2030. www.actris.se/node/28 Long live the air pollution measurements! In forests: Hyltemossa, Norunda, Svartberget. At sea: Östergarnsholm. In Arctic: Svalbard. Higher: with remote sensing + cloud radar. And intensively: with mobile station GoEPIC.

Secondary forests could be a key factor in climate management Analysing more than 100,000 field measurements & environmental data, an international research team, incl. Thomas Pugh, researcher in physical geography & MERGE, created maps showing how & when secondary forests bind most carbon:

New LU Land series: Climate & sustainable land use The 1st lecture (24/9) will give an introduction to the subject. Future lectures will delve deeper into various aspects of research on the interplay between climate change & changes in land use. More info (Swe): www.luland.lu.se/evenemang/lu...

🌾 AI + satellite data + LPJ-GUESS = better crop forecasts PhD thesis by Xueying Li (Dept. of Physical Geography & Ecosystem Science, LU; BECC & MERGE) shows how combining AI, satellite data & LPJ-GUESS can improve early yield predictions—key for food security in a changing climate.

Research for future food security. Improving crop yield prediction in Sweden using satellite remote sensing and the ecosystem model LPJ-GUESS. Thesis by Xueying Li, PhD at LU and MERGE-member: www.lu.se/artikel/ny-f...

How can AI help us better predict the future of our planet? That was the central question when researchers from across Europe met in Lund for the 2nd consortium meeting of AI4PEX—a Horizon Europe project focused on improving Earth System Models using new AI methods: www.merge.lu.se/article/lund...

Research Area meetings for RA1 and RA2 today and tomorrow. Presentations about the diverse ongoing research and intense discussions about the future research within MERGE!

Movie in the making! Yesterday, Moa Sporre and David Wårlind was shot for a film about modelling the impact of forests on climate, and vice versa. The film is part of a bigger collaboration with Naturum Skrylle in Lund and will be shown for all its visitors to see.

Earlier this spring, MERGE researchers met to develop the EC-Earth4 Climate Model ahead of 2028 IPCC Report: www.merge.lu.se/article/merg... Picture: Infographic of EC-Earth #ec-earth #cmip #ipcc

Congratulations to @icossweden.bsky.social who held a successful one-day celebration event yesterday on the topic of the science of changes in ecosystems, the oceans and atmosphere due to climate change.

Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating Zhengyao Lu, Researcher in Physical Geography & MERGE has published a popular science article in @theconversation.com. The @naturegeosci.bsky.social study was also published open-access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A while back, we co-organised the seminar "Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication" with @beccsweden.bsky.social and Sustainability Forum. Lucky for us, @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social was there and she wrote a really nice summary of the day:

Interview (Swe) with Zheng Duan, researcher in physical geography at Lund University & member of MERGE & @beccsweden.bsky.social Based on the research article: "Satellite Observations Reveal Widespread Color Variations in Global Lakes Since the 1980s" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Welcome to the workshop "Hidden Sinks: The Overlooked Side of Arctic Methane" We will explore the growing evidence of CH₄ sinks and their role in refining Arctic methane budget estimates. 🕣 Date: 13 - 14 May 🏢 Place: Gothenburg or zoom 📝 More info and registration: www.becc.lu.se/calendar/hid...

The Artic emergency and who is listening? with prof Mary Edwards #MERGEannualmeeting #Gothenburg #Artic