We are happy to announce that next week we are launching a new external CEC newsletter. Behind the newsletter are CEC, LU Land, BECC, MERGE, the profile area Nature-based future solutions and ICOS. The purpose is to increase the impact of our research and to strengthen collaboration between research and the surrounding society and mutual learning. Everyone at CEC will receive the first issue of the newsletter - if you do not want to continue to subscribe, just unsubscribe (but we hope you don't 🙂). All our fantastic research and collaboration cannot be included in the first edition, but we hope to receive lots of suggestions for future issues! Contact persons are Sara sara.hakansson@cec.lu.se, Therese therese.ek@cec.lu.se and Anna Maria anna_maria.erling@cec.lu.se. The new external newsletter will be published in Swedish under the name CEC:s nyhetsbrev. The newsletter you are reading now will change its name to Staff News to avoid confusion.
Other news Ylva van Meeningen started in her new position as research coordinator at Sustainability Forum on 1 September. Camilla King will now work 50% as a research administrator for the PhD education. The other 50% will contain other administrative duties such as travel claims and website updates, until further notice. Cerina Wittbom will take over the responsibility of carrying out administrative support for the CEC Board. All CEC employees are now able to book meeting rooms at Geocentrum II without cost. The bookings are made in TimEdit. Your LU access card should also give you access to the Geocentrum II building.
We are happy to welcome the following people to CEC: Edward Sandels is our new programme administrator for undergraduate education. Erik Clarkson is a new PhD student working with Tobias Ambjörnsson. The following postdocs have also joined us in the last few weeks: Carla Coelho working with Henrik Smith and Pål Börjesson, William Sidemo Holm working with Henrik Smith and Johanna Alkan Olsson, Carolina Rodriguez working with Henrik Smith and Cecilia Akselsson, Martin Eriksson working with Mikael Pontarp (Biology), Rasa Platakyte working with Milda Pucetaite (Biology) and Alison O’Reilly working with Jessica Knapp.
LUCRIS Tagging of Global Goals in LUCRIS Lund University generates scientific knowledge that increases our understanding of problems related to sustainable development and examines potential solutions and the undesirable effects the solutions may cause. Now, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are visible internally in LUCRIS. As a researcher, check if your profile or your research has been assigned any SDGs and make sure they are accurate. You can also tag your profiles, projects and research output based on the SDGs. This will help to highlight the research that relates to the UN’s Global Goals. On 3 October, the SDGs will also be launched externally, making them visible in the Research Portal. Hanna Voog, Assistant system manager for LUCRIS will visit CEC on Friday, 13 October at 10:15 to explain more. For more information about how to check SDG-taggings on your research outputs, personal profile, and projects, please see https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/research-support/lucris/self-help-and-support You can also contact the Lucris support E-mail: servicedesk@lu.se Phone: 046-222 90 00 Web form: support.lu.se As always, you are very welcome to contact the Biology Library. https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/research-support/sustainable-development-research
Dates
Friday fika with CEC Management information, Friday 8 September starting at 9:45 in the kitchen on level 3. Save this event to your calendar
Friday 15 Septemberat 9:30 at Blå Hallen - Public defence of doctoral dissertation in Environmental Science: Johan Kjellberg Jensen - 'Understanding the urban ecosystem - interactions between plants, animals, and people'. Save this event to your calendar
Nailing of doctorial thesis - Johan Kjellberg Jensen Today, Thursday 7 September 2023 at 15:00, Johan Kjellberg Jensen will be nailing his thesis to the CEC birch. Save this event to your calendar
3rd Knowledge for Sustainable Development Research Conference - Deadline for submitting your abstract for this year’s conference is tomorrow (8 September). This year’s conference will highlight sustainability research at Lund University and different ways to go from research to impact. The conference will take place on 7 November at Stadshallen in Lund. To learn more about the conference and how to submit your abstract, visit: Knowledge for Sustainable Development 2023 | Sustainability Forum (lu.se) Joint PhD seminar on Environmental Challenges. September 29 13:30-14:50 Invitation to PhD students to register, deadline 14 September. Topic: Elusive Carbon; The uncertainty of carbon fluxes and carbon management in climate change research. As a session in the PhD conference on Sustainable Development. Joint PhD seminars on environmental challenges | Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) (lu.se) PhD Conference on Sustainable Development, 29 September 2023 - Acceleration of progress | Sustainability Forum (lu.se) ClimBEco annual summer meeting from 13 to 15 September. Theme: Double up and double down: linking the global climate and biodiversity crises to bring about fast, fair and transformative change. Invited speakers are Kimberly Nicholas, Jenny Klingberg and Thomas Sterner ClimBEco Summer Meeting 2023 (cec.lu.se) HållBAR - AI and sustainable development - 14 September at 17:00 to 20:00 Stadshallen Lund HållBAR is an after-work event for those of us interested in sustainability issues, organised by the Sustainability Forum and the City of Lund. It’s an oasis in the sustainability jungle, a meeting place and a forum, where we have the opportunity to learn new things, share knowledge and create new networks. Professor Kalle Åström from Lund University and Anders Mildner from Altitude Meetings will discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and sustainable development. Which factors in AI will contribute to sustainable development - and which risk contributing to reduced sustainability, environmentally, socially and economically? HållBAR – AI och hållbar utveckling | Lunds universitet LU Land lecture series on functional landscapes, start 27 September, 8:30 – 9:30 LU Lands collaboration with the County Council in Scania continues, with a new lecture series on functional landscapes for biodiversity conservation – now co-arranged together with BECC. During the first lecture, Ola Olsson (Department of Biology) will give an overview about the theories and ecological processes behind this concept and how they can be implemented in practice. The event is held in Swedish. More information and registration link: LU Land lecture: Functional landscapes for biodiversity conservation - what is it and why do we need to talk about it? | Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) Teaching for Sustainability - Climate Anxiety & Eco-Emotions Tuesday 27 September 9:30–12:00 (including coffee and cake), Kemicentrum. Join us at this seminar where we will learn more about how to approach climate anxiety and eco-emotions in the educational setting. During the seminar, we will discuss practices, available resources, needs, and wishes. We will hear from two experts on eco-emotions - Panu P. Pihkala (University of Helsinki) and Marlis Wullenkord (Lund University) – as well as the Student Health Centre, the Occupational Health Service, and Medvetenskapens hus at Lund University. Read more and register for the seminar: https://www.cec.lu.se/calendar/teaching-sustainability-climate-anxiety-and-eco-emotions
Brainstorming meeting for teachers, 28 September at 15:00-16:30 CEC, in partnership with the profile area Nature-based future solutions welcomes teachers (PhD students to senior) to a brainstorming meeting on 28 September from 15:00-16:30 to discuss, develop, and formulate themes for project ideas or projects for bachelor and master thesis within environmental science or your own field/department. The meeting will be chaired by Johanna Alkan Olsson, lector in environmental science and the moderated discussion is intended to produce either individual or joint ideas that will be offered to students at events in October and/or November. The meeting will be held at Campus, TBA upon registration. Before the meeting, we ask you to prepare/think about what subjects you would like to supervise: 1. Individual subjects: How can your subject be included in a thesis theme/topic in the broader perspective of the profile area? 2. Common subjects: What is the best way to cross-fertilize disciplines, e.g., with respect to subjects, methods, etc.? Please register for the meeting before 21 September by sending an email to Cerina Wittbom (cerina.wittbom@cec.lu.se), so there will be enough fika for everyone.
LU Land breakfast seminar: “How to follow up forest biodiversity so that forest owners can live up to formal requirements", 4 October, 8:30 – 9:30 Welcome to listen to Erik Kretz (Swedish Forest Agency) and Ola Olsson (Department of Biology)! More information and a registration link will be posted shortly on our webpage. LU Land breakfast seminar #23 | Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
The CEC newsletter is sent to employees and those that are associated with CEC. The newsletter is sent on Thursdays every second week. If you have anything you would like to add to the newsletter, please send your information to Camilla King camilla.king@cec.lu.se no later than Monday of the same week.
