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Matthew Hatton presents insights from StrathE2EPolar

FutureArcticLives monthly seminars revived with a presentation by Matthew Hatton on the insights from StrathE2EPolar - a strategic modelling tool for ecosystem-based fisheries management – focusing on West Greenland.

9 papers accepted to STOC'24 by BARC members and affiliates

The 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing will boast 9 BARC related presentations.

Small towns in Tanzania matter to villagers’ ability to cope with climate change!

Recent studies show that improved links between Tanzanian towns and villages improve rural life. Small town growth by 300% in 20 years aids rural communities in weathering climate changes.

Visit from Professor Steven Allison

On Tuesday April 16th, VOLT had the pleasure of a visit from our collaborator Steven D. Allison, Professor of Ecology, University of California Irvine. He held a seminar on “Scaling microbial traits from populations to…

Internet can achieve quantum speed with light saved as sound

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with…

Internet can achieve quantum speed with light saved as sound

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with…

Iconic savanna mammals face genetic problems due to fences and roads

Wildebeest migrations have become a rarer sight in Africa as humans continue to interrupt their historic migratory routes with roads, fences, cities, livestock and farmland. This has led to genetic decay in those herds…

Irene Livia Kruse

Chasing the Storms - A Simulation and Observation-Based Exploration of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Cold Pools, from the Midlatitudes to the Tropics Supervisor: Jan O. Härter

Weria Pezeshkian publishes in Nature Communications

Together they have developed a software package designed to model and study biological membranes at the so-called mesoscale of living organisms. The software package is made publicly available and is likely to spark…

A new family tree revises our understanding of bird evolution

A team of researchers from the Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) consortium has reported a new bird family tree that promises to reshape our understanding of avian evolution. Published in Nature on April 1st, 2024, the study…

Economist: Tens of billions of dollars in forest products are being overlooked

Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests – including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in official trade statistics, their economic valu…

Michele Betsill receives ISA award for her pioneering environmental policy research

For her contributions as a scholar, teacher and mentor in the field of environmental politics, professor Michele Betsill was named a Distinguished Scholar at this year's International Studies Association conference in…

Technologies of Ecological Mediation

Associate Professor Birgit Bräuchler has published the article 'Technologies of Ecological Mediation: Ethical Conflicts over Environment and Imagined Future in Bali'. The article will be published in the journal Science…

Jannik Höller

Development of a Deep Learning Approach for the Segmentation of Convective Cold Pools in Satellite-Observable Data Supervisor: Jan O. Härter

Sarah Pearson receives an ERC starting grant

NBI Assistant Professor has been awarded an ERC starting Grant from the European Commission.

Vadim Rusakov

Star formation in galaxies across cosmic time - Stellar Populations in Multiwavelength Photometric Observations Supervisor: Charles L Steinhardt

Zhen Li

The phenomenological study on alternative black holes and dark matter distribution Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Developing the hybrid cheese of the future

A new research project led by the Department of Food Science at University of Copenhagen is setting out to create hybrid cheeses that combine dairy and local plant proteins to significantly reduce the carbon footprint –…

Do key informants agree with representative households on climate exposure and resilience?

Ethiopia is facing increasing climate-induced hazards, such as droughts, especially in rural and agriculture-dependent areas. This poses significant development challenges that necessitate households to adapt and improv…

Mediterranean marine worm has developed eyes “as big as millstones"

Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses. The researchers from University of Copenhagen and Lund University suspect…

Visit from Chris Kenseth

Dr. Chris Kenseth, University of Washington, Seattle, visited our group April 8, and gave a presentation to the atmospheric chemistry group. There was also time for a bit of sightseeing and a visit to Dragør old town. …

Major study reports that people and environment both benefit from diversified farming, while bottom lines also thrive

Mixing livestock and crops, integrating flower strips and trees, water and soil conservation and much more: Massive new global study led by the University of Copenhagen and University of Hohenheim, has examined the…

PhD-student wins poster price at the SVEPM 2024 Conference

At the annual European conference in Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, SVEPM, PhD-student Helene Ane Jensen won the poster price.

“It’s ultimately about predicting everything” – theory could be a map to hunted quantum materials

A breakthrough in theoretical physics is an important step towards predicting the behavior of the fundamental matter of which our world is built. It can be used to calculate systems of enormous quantities of quantum…