2021
PhD-Careers Outside Academia
November 12th. Flyer PhD-Careers Outside Academia (pdf)
Thesis summary writing workshop
19 April. Online workshop about thesis writing.
Microplastic and global change effects in terrestrial ecosystems
22 March. A Zoom seminar with Professor Matthias Rillig from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
CUAHSI Catchment Seminar Series
The CUAHSI Catchment Seminar Series are an exciting series on catchment research and management, every Wednesday from 10th of February to 31st of March.
Soils of Sweden, 1-2 days
2020
Career outside the university for PhDs (seminar)
Do you want to pursue a career outside of academia? Have you asked yourself what possibilities you, as a PhD, have in the labor market outside of the university? Do you want to improve your chances of finding your dream job?
- A one day Zoom seminar.
- Thursday 1 December 2020.
- Registration no later than 27 November.
- Programme for the seminar with info on how to register and zoom-link.
- The workshop is jointly organized by Focus on Soils and Water, Organism Biology, Ecology – basics and applications, Focus on Food and Biomaterials, Social Science Perspective on Sustainable Development, Society and Landscape, and Sustainable Biomass Systems.
Lunch seminar: How well can we quantify evapotranspiration?
Thesis summary writing workshop
Welcome to a thesis summary writing workshop for PhD students! The
workshop is organised by the research schools Focus on Soils and
Water, Ecology and Organism Biology, and is open for all PhD students
at SLU.
For further questions, please contact one of the workshop organisers, Torun Hammar (torun.hammar@slu.se) or Kajsa Henryson (kajsa.henryson@slu.se).
Lunch seminar: A general framework for predicting and understanding soil organic matter dynamics
- with Carlos A. Sierra Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology Research Group Leader Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Wednesday, February 12th from 11:30 - 13:00
- Free lunch will be served for those that register
- More info about registration for the lunch seminar
How to become a postdoc, 1 day
Interested in doing a post doc? Do you know when, where and how you can apply for funding? Do you need more information? Welcome to the seminar: How to become a post doc!
One-day seminar with invited speakers from major funding agencies (Formas& VR), union SULF, former postdocs and lectures on writing applications. Information, advice and discussion.
- Thursday 12 March 2020 from 9.15 to 16.00.
- Lecture hall L Undervisningshuset, Ultuna.
More information and program for the seminar How to become a postdoc (pdf).
Finish on Time Workshop: Academic productivity and stress management – the road to effectiveness.
Online workshop 2 half days, 2 and 9 October 9.00 – 12.00. This workshop is designed to provide you with new “coping”-strategies applicable to academic work. The content of the workshop is hands-on and applicable directly to your current (and future) working situation. More information about the workshop Finish on Time (docx).
2019
- Careers outside university, 27 November 2019. Research school cooperation, responsible RS: FoSW & Organism Biology. Half-day workshop with former PhDs working outside academia and representing authorities, companies and NGOs. Location: Tammsalen, Ecology Centre, Ultuna. More information here: Career Outside University for PhDs.
- (Meta)barcoding for research and environmental monitoring. Workshop co-organized with EDNA, the informal national barcoding network, UMBLA, the SLU Metabarcoding Laboratory and The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. November 7.
- Come hell or high water? Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculturally drained peatlands. October 3.
- Soil Respiration - A Geochemist's Perspective. September 30
- Addressing the burning (peat) issue: Bridging the gap between government, research, community, and conservation in northern Maputaland, with Dr. Lulu Pretorius from University of KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa. September 16.
- Lunchseminarium: From plants to the soil - the nature of soil organic matter. 20 May
- Lunch seminar on blue targeting - how to reduce nutrient and mercury export from forestry to streams, lakes and the Baltic Sea. 3 June.
- How to become a postdoc. 15 March 2019. Research school cooperation. More information here.
- Open lectures: Potentials and pitfalls of DNA metabarcoding
- UN Sustainable Development goals: relevance, achievements, conflicts and politics. Schedule. Presentations: Christian Zurbrügg, Timothy McLaren, Helena Looström Urban, Carl-Johan Sanglert, Johanna van Schaik Dernfalk, Sara Gräslund, Kevin Bishop. Find detailed information here.
- Lunch seminar - February 28th in MVM Biosfären (B2069). Interactive priming effect of labile C & crop residues-quality on SOM depends on residue decomposition stage: A 2–3 source partitioning approach to evaluate mechanisms by Muhammad Shahbaz, Post-doc researcher at the Department of Soil and Environment, SLU.
2018
- Lunch seminar: Slow pyrolysis of urban biowaste - Potential and Challenges. November 20th 11:30 - 13:00 in Biocentrum A502 with Christian Zurbrügg Senior Researcher/Group Leader Solid Waste Management at Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries (Sandec), Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG).
- Seminar: Careers outside university. 29 November 2018. Research school cooperation, responsible RS: FoSW & Organism Biology. Half-day workshop with former PhDs working outside academia and representing authorities, companies and NGOs. Schedule & more information can be found here.
- Seminar: "The plant as a controller of denitrification" with Dr. Tim Daniell from the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield and Research Leader in Soil Ecology at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee, 7 June. More information about the seminar here.
- Lunch seminar: Missing hot moments for Southern Amazonia – measurements and modeling of land-use specific greenhouse gas emissions from soils in two Brazilian Federal States, 22 March
- Lunch seminar: Planning and Resource Recovery in Uganda, 17 April
- Workshop: "How to become a post doc", March 14
- Mini-Symposium: Soil Science and Entomology Research in Finland and Sweden, 13 February
- Lunch Seminar: More Long-term effects of a bivalve invasion on the Hudson River ecosystem, January 18
- Workshop: Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture – Challenges in Soil Science Confronting Global Food Security, 30-31 January
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