Geochemistry and Hydrology Division

The studied spatial scales vary from ephemeral headwaters to river mouths and the temporal scales that range from runoff episodes to the 60 years covered of national surface water data and even the millennia revealed by palaeoecological archives. This research supports the Department’s mission to assess how aquatic life as well as aquatic ecosystem services such as drinking water quality/amount are influenced by human activities including agriculture, forestry, climate warming and the deposition of atmospheric pollutants. Since aquatic carbon is critical for water quality, this is also a research specialty.

The division’s research often concerns measures (e.g. land-use planning, wetland and lake restoration) to help society achieve its water-related goals. This involves development of process level knowledge through dedicated field measurements, lab experiments and modelling.

The department’s role in environmental monitoring and assessment is an inspiration and resource for the group’s research.  Responsibility for national water quality monitoring programs involves extensive stakeholder interaction and engages group members in advancing the science of monitoring and assessment. This includes pioneering new measurement technologies and assessment methodologies.

Focus areas within the group

Research in the division is often interdisciplinary and carried out in flexible constellations. Some current focus areas are listed below in alphabetical order 

• Aquaculture
• Aquatic Carbon
• Aquatic Nutrients and Eutrophication
• Biogeochemical Cycles
• Catchment Science
• Climate change
• Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• Hydrology
• In situ measurement
• Mercury cycling and pollution
• Surface water acidification
• Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES)
• Water quality modelling
• Wetlands and Peatlands

Personnel

Links to each person's profile page or their mail address can be found in the staff list to the right (computer screen) or on the top (mobile version).

Professors, researchers, environmental assessment specialists and postdoctors

• Andreas Rudh, environmental assessment specialist
• Betty Ehnvall, postdoctor
• Blaize Denfeld, deputy director
• Brian Huser, researcher
• Chuxian Li, researcher
• Dennis Collentine, researcher
• Elin Widén Nilsson, environmental assessment specialist
• Emma Elmi Lannergård, researcher
• Faruk Djodjic, researcher
• Hampus Markensten, environmental assessment specialist
• Jens Fölster, research group leader, head of division
• Kevin Bishop, professor
• Karin Eklöf, researcher
• Marcus Wallin, researcher, director
• Martyn Futter, researcher
• Matilda Andersson, environmental assessment specialist
• Michael Peacock, researcher
• Oskar Agstam-Norlin, researcher
• Pernilla Rönnback, environmental assessment specialist
• Pia Geranmayeh, researcher
• Simone Moras, environmental assessment specialist

Environmental assessment analysts and technical staff

• Emil Back, environmental assessment analysts
• Holger Villwock, coordinator
• Maria Carlson, research assistant
• Roger Valdén, research engineer

Doctoral students

• Anna Lackner
• Khadija Aziz
• Tracy Wang

External resources

• Anders Wilander
• Lars Lundin
• Stefan Löfgren