Environmental monitoring and assessment

The Grants Office (GO) is a unit within the Vice-Chancellor´s Office. Our work is focused on supporting researchers and other SLU staff in applying for external grants and in administrating EU-funded

The Swedish national environmental monitoring program for pesticides started in 2002 with the aim to track long-term trends in agricultural influences on surface- and groundwater quality from

Ny forskning visar att hälsan hos skrubbskäddan i Östersjön påverkas av toxiska substanser. Men samtidigt syns inte förhöjda halter av de klassiska miljögifterna i området som man kunde förvänta sig.

Worth knowing - Delicious mushrooms pre-process wood for bioethanol production Our research, focused on using edible white-rot funghi to pre-process wood lignocellulose for a production of advanced

We link variation in body size and community composition to ecological and evolutionary dynamics in changing environments. In our research we combine dynamic models, experiments and analysis of

Worth knowing - Global biomass mapping through NASA’s GEDI mission During the last decade, airborne laser scanning has become a widely applied method for accurate estimation and mapping of biomass

Worth Knowing - Citizen Science Environmental Citizen Science: its origins, technologies, possibilities and limitations René van der Wal, Department of Ecology: Where does citizen science come from

Worth knowing - Leftovers or a buffet - What Nitrogen is plant available In Forest Soil? Microdialysis – sampling the nitrogen that the root sees in the soil. An overview of the in situ nitrogen

Worth knowing - M&M: Can money and management reduce tropical forest degradation? Initiatives around the world have been implemented to compensate tropical forest owners for not engaging in

Results from the sampling of ground water and sediments, within the National Environmental Monitoring Program of Pesticides, are found here. Ground water is collected at two depths, four times a year

SLU´s project calculator is to be used for budgeting in all applications and contracts for external funding. The calculator provides quality assured conditions for calculating the full cost of the

The European Commission recently approved funding for two major development projects to the European field research network LTER Europe (Long Term Ecosystem Research). SLU will be involved with