Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Department of Soil and Environment

 
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Soil and Environment

Independent project/degree project

At the Department of Soil and Environment the course Independent project/degree project is offered in the following subjects: Soil Science, Environmental Science and Biology.

 

Working procedure

  • Please read the quick guide carefully!
  • Fill out the registration form and work plan in consultation with your supervisor and submit to the department's course secretariat.
  • Participate in the compulsory parts of the course.
  • Present your independent project/degree project at a seminar.
  • Plagiarism review your report via "Urkund".
  • When your report is approved it will be published in Epsilon by the department.

General information about doing independent project at master level is found HERE


Oral presentations
There will be organised sessions for presentations at the following dates:
March 28, June 4, September 12, December 12, 2012 and January 23, 2013.

You may  either present your work at any of these occasions or arrange with a presentation yourself together with your supervisor and examiner.

Available projects

2012-05-08
Inoculation of legumes-innovation development
Contact: Anna Mårtensson
018-671222

2012-03-12
Environmental and climatic effects on soil respiration
Contact: Lorenzo Menichetti 
076-8549268

2012-02-08
Can ginseng be a future crop in Sweden?
Contact: anna.martensson@slu.se
018-671222

2011-12-08
Allanblackia – a tree crop under current domestication: What are the soil requirements and important symbionts?
Contact: Sigrun.Dahlin@slu.se
070-6712299

2011-10-03
Swedish soybean - matching of current varieties with the right bacteria
Contact: Anna Mårtensson
018-671222

2011-10-03
Cultivated organic soils and the greenhouse effect
Contact:
kerstin.berglund@slu.se
018‐671185
orjan.berglund@slu.se
018-671246 

2011-03-07
Improving productivity and sustainability of smallholder farmers in Kenya and Uganda through evaluation of soil fertility in Integrated Soil Fertility Management systems
Contact: Kristina.Roing.de.Nowina@slu.se
018-671245

2011-01-12
Benchmarking a prediction scheme for preferential flow in soils
Contact: John.Koestel@slu.se
018-67 2410

2010-12-30
An agronomic evaluation and farmer adaptation of ISFM technologies in cassava- and legume-based systems in Bas-Congo (DRC)
Contact: p.pypers@cgiar.org or b.vanlauwe@cgiar.org

2010-05-20
Different soil tillage methods and their effect on soil respiration
Contact: Veera.Kainiemi@slu.se  
018-671253
 
2010-03-22
MFS: Indigenous tree species in Ethiopia, and their role for soil properties 
Contact: Mats.Olsson@slu.se
018-672213  

 

Se also available projects at Department of water and environment. 
 

 


Presentations

2012-05-04
Maria Sandin
Title: Effects of simulated rainfall intensity on water flow through a soil profile
Examinater: Ingmar Messing
Supervisor: Abraham Joel

2012-03-16 
Manuela Ravina da Silva
Title: Impact of Eucalyptus plantations on pasture land on soil properties and carbon sequestration in Brazil.
Examiner: Erik Karltun
Supervisors: Mats Olsson & Jan-Erik Nylund
Opponent: Christina Berger

2012-01-18 
Miriam Larsson
Title: Soil fertility status and Striga hermonthica infestation relationship due to soil management history in Western Kenya
Examiner: Erik Karltun
Supervisors: Håkan Marstorp & Anneli Lundkvist
Opponent: Arvid Lindgren

2011-12-12
Ida Åslund
Title: Effects of applying biochar to soils from Embu, Kenya. - Effects on crop residue decomposition and soil fertility under varying soil moisture levels
Examiner: Holger Kirchmann
Supervisors: Thomas Kätterer och Kristina Röing De Nowina
Opponent: Arvid Landgren

2011-12-12
Ana María Mingot Soriano
Title: Internal soil erosion: Pinhole methodology
Supervisor:: Abraham Joel
Examiner: Ingrid Wesström
Opponent: Anatoli Poultouchidou

2011-12-02
Arvid Landgren 
Title:
Markpåverkan i långliggande försök med reducerad bearbetning i södra Sverige
Supervisor: Johan Arvidsson
Examiner: Tomas Rydberg

2011-12-02
Josief Tesfatsion
Title: Dose assessment of natural and artificial radioactivity through the analysis of migration of radionuclides in soils and study of transfer factors from soil to plant and from plant to milk
Supervisor: Jose Luis Gutierrez Villanueva
Examiner: Klas Rosén

2011-11-23
Anatoli Poutouchidous
Title: Effects of forest plantations on soil carbon sequestration and farmers’ livelihoods - a case study in Ethiopia
Supervisor: Erik Karltun
Assistant supervisor: Cristián Alarcón Ferrari
Examiner: Ingvar Nilsson

2011-11-18
Nargish Parvin
Title: Influence of mouldboard ploughing and shallow tillage on soil physical properties and crop performance
Supervisor: Ararso Etana
Examiner: Kerstin Berglund

2011-10-13
Katrin Eitrem Holmgren, Anna Bergqvist & Pehr Rylander
Title: Konsekvenser av saltvatten-inflöden i Mekongflodens delta i södra Vietnam
Supervisors: Chau Minh Khoi, Vo Thi Guong University of Can Tho, Vietnam and Ingvar Nilsson, SLU
Examiner: Ingmar Messing, SLU

2011-09-01
Petros Georgiadis
Title: Accumulation of carbon and nitrogen in Swedish forest soils over stand age
Supervisor: Erik Karltun
Examiner: Bengt Olsson
Opponent: Nicola Pallavicini

2011-08-08
Nicola Pallavicini
Title: Activity concentrations and transfer factors of natural and artificial radionuclides in the Swedish provinces of Uppsala and Jämtland
Supervisor: José Luis Gutiérrez Villanueva
Examiner: Klas Rosén

2011-04-06
Kajsa Alvum-Toll, Tellie Karlsson och Helena Ström
Title: Biochar as soil amendment – a comparison between plant materials for biochar production from three regions in Kenya (presentation in Swedish)
Opponent: Daniel Segerlind/Linnea Björklund
Supervisor: Olof Andrén
Examiner: Thomas Kätterer

2011-03-18
Robert Weimer
Title: Resultat av tjugofem års mätningar av 137Cs i älg (Alces alces) från norra Uppland
Opponent: Lo Grönkvist Wichmann
Supervisor: Synnöve Bergman-Sundell
Examiner:  Klas Rosén

2011-03-02
Roi Estevez-Perez
Title: Safe/organic tea under Indigofera teysmanni shadow trees. An agroforestry model for biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement in Tam Dao National Park, northern Viet Nam
Opponent: Mats Olsson
Supervisor: Ingvar Nilsson
Examiner: Mats Olsson
Note: via a video link from Spain

2011-01-19
Sofi Sundin
Fosforgödslingseffekt av avloppsslam
Opponent: Rikard Larsson
Supervisor: Sofia Delin
Examiner: Bo Stenberg

2011-01-19
Martina Wall
Koldioxidavgång vid ekolologisk odling på organogen jord
Opponent: Per Knutsson
Supervisor: Kerstin Berglund
Examiner: Thomas Kätterer

2011-01-19
Per Knutsson
Spårelement i Sveriges jordbruksmark - flöden, trender och fältbalanser
Opponent:Martina Wall
Supervisor: Jan Eriksson
Examiner: Sigrun Dahlin

2011-01-20
Rikard Larsson
Title: Grödreflektans och bildanalys för bestämning av biomassa i fältförsök
Supervisor: Johan Arvidsson
Examiner: Tomas Rydberg

2011-01-20
Elisabeth Löfstrand
Title:
Hur påverkas transporten av bekämpningsmedel av inblandning av svart kol i matjorden?
Supervisor: Mats Larsbo, David van Alphen de Veer
Examiner: Barbro Ulén

2010-12-15
Ida Lindell
Title: Tools for analyzing and quantifying Fusarium toxins in wheat and oats and their correlation to field grading and effect from time of sampling / Analysverktyg för kvantifiering av fusariumtoxiner i vete och havre och deras korrelation med gradering i fält samt effekt från provtagningstillfället
Level: D
Opponent: Miriam Larsson
Supervisor: Annika Djurle, SLU and Richard Davidsson, Tina Henriksson och Ingrid Happstadius, Lantmännen SWseed
Examiner: Dan Jensen
 
2010-12-15
Anders Larsson
Title: Metodutveckling för att kunna identifiera områden med risk för fosforförluster genom ytavrinning
Level:: D
Opponent:  Ida Lindell
Supervisor:  Ingrid Wesström
Examiner: Ingemar Messing

2010-10-07
Hanna Almqvist
Arvet efter bruket - en metallförorenad skogsjord i Gusum

2010-09-15

Ida Lindell och Gustaf Magnusson Kroon
Sugarcane vs. agroforestry farming in western Kenya, A comparative study of different farming systems in the Muhoroni district

2010-09-15
Maria Sandin
Bevattning med näringsrikt ytvatten

 

2010-06-23
Olof Olofsson
Title: Utlakning av tungmetaller från Skörby deponi
Supervisor: Monica Östman
Examiner: Anna Mårtensson

2010-06-11
Olof Haraldsson
Title: A Tophographic Wetness Index in a Swedish Agricultural Catchment
Opponent: Martin Rappe George
Examiner: Lars Bergström

2010-06-10
Martin Rappe George
Title: Influence of climatic drivers and long-term N fertilization on the production and leaching of DOC and DON in a Norway spruce (Picea Abies) forest stand
Opponent: Olof Haraldsson
Examiner: Erik Karltun

 


Reports

Department of Soil and Environment
2009-2012

Former Department of Soil Sciences
2002-2008

Former Department of Forest Soils
2001-2009


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