CEC Fellows newsletter January 2019

CEC Fellows seminar on concepts, Feb 14th

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Newsletter from CEC Fellows | January 2019

CEC Fellows January 2019 newsletter

Dear colleagues,

Hope your holidays were good and restful, so that you are starting the year of 2019 full of energy.

At the 14th of February, the new seminar series on concepts will start and CEC Fellows welcomes all members to participate. Åsa Knaggård and colleagues from political science will on this occasion straightening out the concept of Governance as a research perspective for us. We are planning three more seminars during 2019, and if you have suggestions for concepts to discuss please let us know!

Don’t miss out on the Sustainability Week – Transforming our world, April 8-13. In anticipation of Sustainability Week, we are looking for exceptional examples of science communication of sustainability topics. The best will be exhibited at Eden throughout the week. If you want to submit your own or a collegue’s work please contact Ludwig Bengtsson.

Best wishes,

Cerina, Yann and Lina

Upcoming events

Seminar Remote Sensing Techniques for Monitoring Surface Water Quality by Enass Al-Kharusi. Jan 31 at 13.15 Pangea, INES, more info.
The new series of CEC Fellows seminars on concepts: What are the political scientists talking about? Governance as research concept, by Åsa Knaggård and colleagues from political science. Feb 14 2019. Register here before 8 Feb.
VICTIM: A workshop on violent climate imaginaries, 14-15 Feb 2019.
Spring start of 'Reading Climate Fiction' seminar series, starting with 'Blue' by Maja Lunde Feb 21.
Seminar: Dispersal of microalgae and interaction with the environment during transportation by Sylvie Tesson. Feb 28 at 12.15 Baltica, Geology, more info
Joint research calls meeting within Food Science. Aim: To present relevant research calls from FORMAS on food and from VR (interdisciplinary research), and to initiate writing groups. March 12 at 15.15-17, lecture hall H+I in Kemicentrum, Lund. Sign up latest March 6 here.

And even more things going on – check the CEC calendar

Information – Opportunities, conferences, news from our community

Successful application: Congratulations Tommy Cedervall (Biochemistry and Structural Biology) who received funding from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management for the research project “Environmental impact from nanonparticles and microplastics” (Swedish)

Successful application: Congratulations Daniel Conley (Quaternary Sciences) who received funding from the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management for the research project “Understanding the effect of internal load processes caused by oxygen deficiency in the Swedish coastal waters” (Swedish)

Opportunities

Öresundsbron are reaching out for collaboration regarding new techniques to clean the area of Öresund from e.g. plastics and garbage. Are you interested? Contact Patrik Tuvesson
ClimBEco graduate research school is about to open a call for applications to the program 2019-2021. Last day to apply will be 30 April.
New postdoctoral position at LINXS. Deadline: 28 Feb, 2019.
The STINT awards in collaboration with the JSPS scholarships for research stays in Japan. The JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and JSPS Summer Program is open for research in all fields of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Deadline 31 Jan and 7 Feb, respectively.
Request for Master thesis projects in Biology. Do you have a project that would fit as a 30, 45 or 60 hp Master project, write an outline of the project and send it to Lotta Persmark

Conferences and popular science event

Workshop within FRAS - Digital tools for forestry, 6 Feb, Alnarp. Register here before 30 Jan 2019.
Conference - Swecos hållbarhetsvecka i Malmö, 11-15 Feb, 2019.
Conference - Spring Campus Conference on sustainability, 1-5 April 2019, Berlin, on the topic: Re:search. Re:act. Re:design. 'The Future is Now: Driving Sustainable Development'. Registration deadline: March 11th, 2019.
Conference - Ekotransport Verktyg för omställning, 7 May 2019, Stockholm. (only in Swedish)
Pre-announcement: Sea- & water forum 2019, 4-5 June, Gothenburg. (only in Swedish)

Open positions at the CEC
please spread the word, https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/om-cec/jobba-hos-oss

Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Science, last day for application Feb 14.

News from stakeholders and funders

Swedish Research Council:
- Information on announcements 2019 (Swedish only)
- By 2019, all who receive grants must have a data management plan. Link here
- New directive relating to gender equality and research quality. Link here
- Unesco's recommendations for research (Swedish only)
- Research overviews 2019.
LU pre-announcement: The central LU call for infrastructure will be announced in the end of January 2019. Deadline for application will be sometime during March.
FORMAS pre-announcement:
- Annual open call to be announced 26 Feb. Last day of application 4 April 2019.
- Turning research into practice – methods and tools, to be announced 7 Feb. Last day of application 2 April, 2019.
- Calls on research and innovation in the area of animal health and welfare, to be announced during spring. Last day of application 25 April, 2019.
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: One year with the wetland initiative. Read about the results from the initiative (Swedish only)
Prior to the application: Information meeting on Marie Sklodowska Curie - Innovative Training Networks and Individual Fellowships. 19 March 2019, Lund. Register before 1 March.

Presentations
what can you contribute with to CEC fellows, and what is on top of your research agenda at the moment?

Henni Ylänne - post-doc
Keywords: Arctic tundra, soil carbon storage, net ecosystem exchange, plant traits

1.I’m very open to discussing several topics and finding common grounds for collaboration e.g. through workshops

2. At the moment I’m processing samples gathered last summer, these will answer how a reindeer-induced suppression of tree-line reflects on the soil environment. Read more about the project here.

Know more? -click here

Johannes Stripple - senior lecturer
Keywords: Climate change, forests, governance, imagination

1. Facilitate and convene new and innovative forms of multi-disciplinary collaboration

2. We are working on an exhibition called ’Carbon Ruins: A museum of the fossil age’, which will premiere on April 8 and then be shown at the Medborgarcenter Kristallen. More information on the exhibition and project you will find here

Know more? – click here

Upcoming calls

Under this heading we are collecting calls with short deadlines, larger/collaboration calls, and nominations for prizes etc. Please check Plandisc below for a collection of all calls we have found for the upcoming year.

Forte: Annual open call for proposals 2019 – step 1. Deadline 5 Feb 2019.
Formas: Joint call for proposals on microplastics in the marine environment. Deadline 28 Feb.
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SFF) announces Future Research Leaders 7. Deadline 24 April 2019.
The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences: RJ Sabbatical 2019. Deadline 7 Feb 2019.
Swedish Research Council: International postdoc, Distinguished professor grant, Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship, Olof Palme visiting professorship, and Conference grant deadline 26 Feb 2019.

Calls – A common calender

Some hints:

• Just click in the wheel on a call, and there is a box coming up with more information.
• The plan is continuously updated, and you can instantly see the updates.
• If you find a good call that you would like to add, just send me the link.

Calls 2018-2019-Sweden/Nordic: https://create.plandisc.com/zjHh42l

Calls 2018-2019 -travel and workshop: https://create.plandisc.com/rVsXXdZ

Calls EU Horizon, incl. ERC, ERA-NET, JPI etc:
https://create.plandisc.com/afPuqph

Calls post-doc and young research grants:
https://create.plandisc.com/mZ1Bzwf

Calls Awards
https://create.plandisc.com/mHtz2VT

About CEC Fellows

Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, invites all scientists, working at Lund University and active in the centre’s fields of research, to be part of the CEC Fellows. With the aim of promoting new interdisciplinary research endeavors and encouraging bottom-up influence and leadership, the network is created as a meeting place for collective expertise and as a forum for exchange of ideas amongst researchers. If you are not already a member and would like to join, if you have suggestions for the development of the fellowship, or any news to add to the Newsletter, please contact Cerina Wittbom.