SLU Umeå arranges a series of lunch lectures under the name of Worth knowing. The lectures are open to everyone.
Time: 12:10.
Location: SLU University Library and online. The lectures will also be live streamed on the SLU Library Facebook.
Most of the lectures in this series is only available in Swedish, see the Swedish web page (switch language in the top menu of this page).
Previous lectures have been filmed and are available on this page.
March 1 Årstidsväxlingar i ett förändrat klimat
Speaker: Ola Langvall, SLU
March 15 Hundra år av fältforskning
Speakers: Charlotta Erefur and Mats Nilsson, SLU
March 29 Sveriges skogar under de senaste 100 åren: Vad har hänt?
Speaker: Jonas Fridman, SLU
April 19 Vad är (skogs)företagens ansvar?
Speaker: Cecilia Mark-Herbert
These lectures are only available in Swedish. For more information, see the Swedish web page (switch language in the top menu of this page).
September 7 From lion hunters to lion guards
Speaker: Ingela Jansson, SLU
September 21 Friluftslivets landskap - vem är var, och varför?
Speaker: Carl Lehto, SLU
October 5 Tio år av jämställdhet på agendan: Vad har hänt?
Speakers: Elias Andersson, SLU, and Maria Johansson, Umeå University.
November 2 Skogens svampar och hur de påverkas av skogsbruk
Speaker: Anders Dahlberg
November 30 Hur många strandastrar växer det på våra havsstränder?
Speaker: Hans Gardfjell, SLU
December 14 Tall, gran, lövträd eller blandskog?
Speaker: Urban Nilsson, SLU
February 16 Hur påverkar skogsbruk skogarnas kolbalans?
Speaker: Peter Högberg
March 2 Fåglar som stiger ur askan – vad hände med fåglarna efter Salabranden?
Speaker: Grzegorz Mikusinski
March 16 Making space for biodiversity in a society focused on climate change (in English)
Speaker: Navinder Singh
March 30 Vindbruk istället för skogsbruk – vad håller på att hända i skogslandskapet?
Speaker: Johan Svensson
April 13 Hur står det till med våra fjärilar och humlor?
Speaker: Saskia Sandring
April 27
At 12.10: Är återvätning av torvmarker klimatsmart?
Speaker: Sabine Jordan
At 12.45: Skogens bidrag som kolsänka och förnybar resurs
Speaker: Mattias Lundblad
May 11 Hur påverkar skogsbruk skogarnas kolbalans?
Speaker: Peter Högberg
September 29 Combining LIDAR-data and AI methods to improve the mapping of Sweden
Speaker: Anneli Ågren, SLU
October 13 A medicated world – ecological effects of pharmaceuticals in the environment
Speaker: Tomas Brodin, SLU
CANCELLED DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES. NEW DATE DEC 8.
October 27 Forest waters and global impact
Speaker: Hjalmar Laudon, SLU
CANCELLED DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES.
November 24 A talk about the history of nature conservation (in Swedish)
Speakers: Per Simonsson, SCA and SLU. Jimmy Jönsson, SLU.
December 1 Cutting edge: How to manage stream-side forests during harvest operations?
Speaker: Lenka Kuglerová, SLU
December 8 A medicated world – ecological effects of pharmaceuticals in the environment
Speaker: Tomas Brodin, SLU
January 20 Ständigt dessa älgar
Speaker: Göran Ericsson, SLU
February 3 Tillbaka till framtiden – att göra tidsresor med hjälp av skogliga scenarier
Speaker: Eva-Maria Nordström, SLU
February 17 Kockorna – skogsbrukets glömda hjältar
Speaker: Amanda Löfdahl
March 31 Fjällnära skog – dåtid, nutid, framtid
Speaker: Johan Svensson, SLU
April 14 SLU Markfuktighetskarta – ett resultat av AI, fältdata och lasermätningar
Speaker: Anneli Ågren, SLU
October 7 Cost-effective sampling of uncommon landscape features
Speaker: Sven Adler, SLU
October 21 Transforming the tropical timber value chain
Speaker: Rosa Goodman, SLU
November 4 Multiple-use forest management - comparing apples and oranges?
Speaker: Peichen Gong, SLU
November 18 The future forestry machine - an intelligent teammate?
Speaker: Pedro La Hera, SLU
December 2 Why are animal movements important in the era of global change?
Speaker: Navinder Singh, SLU
February 26 The role of mixed forest in a changing climate Speaker: Jorge Aldea, SLU
9 October: Delicious mushrooms pre-process wood for bioethanol production. Speaker: Shaojun Xiong, SLU
23 October: M&M: Can money and management reduce tropical forest degradation? Speaker: Francisco X Aguilar Cabezas, SLU
6 November: Leftovers or a buffet – What nitrogen is plant available in forest soil? Speaker: Sandra Jämtgård, SLU
20 November: Citizen Science. Speakers: René Van Der Wal och Tim Hofmeester, SLU
4 December: Global biomass mapping through NASA's GEDI mission. Speaker: Svetlana Saarela, SLU
8 May 2019: Will Children Create Climate Change Concern among Denialists in the United States? Speaker: Nils Peterson, North Carolina State University. (in English)
3 October: Next generation forest maps provide more information for sustainable forest management Speaker: Eva Lindberg, SLU
17 October: CANCELLED
31 October: Genomic Selection: New Tool in Tree Breeding? Speaker: Harry Wu, SLU
14 November: The land-atmosphere exchange of green-house gases of boreal ecosystems under climate change Speaker: Mats Nilsson, SLU
28 November: Varför biologisk mångfald är bra för vår hälsa
Speaker: Frauke Ecke, SLU (in Swedish)
23 May 2018: A Nitrogen Story.
Speaker: Torgny Näsholm, professor and winner of the Marcus Wallenberg price.
12 April 2017: Forestry, sustainable development and everything.
Speaker: Peter Holmgren, Director-General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). (in English)
The lecture series Worth knowing Umeå is a collaboration between SLU's environmental monitoring and assessment, the Faculty of Forest Sciences and the SLU University Library.
Worth knowing is also held in SLU Alnarp and SLU Uppsala. See program for Alnarp, Umeå and Uppsala.
pernilla.christensen@slu.se, +46 90-786 85 27, +46 70-633 73 86
ulla.ahlgren@slu.se, +46 90-786 82 81, +46 70-662 31 07
olof.bergvall@slu.se, +46 90-786 82 11, +46 72-236 29 15
linn.ottosson.malmros@slu.se, +46 90-786 83 41, +46 73-662 86 56