Activities

2023

Careers outside academia one-day seminar

Have you ever asked yourself what possibilities you, as a PhD, have in the labour market outside of the university? Do you want to improve your chances of finding your dream job? Then join our one-day seminar on Friday the 10^th of November 2023 hosted by all the NJ-faculty research schools, to get different perspectives on career choices, finding your “dream job”, self-employment possibilities, prospects and possibilities in the current labour market, etc.

• 10 November 2023 9.00-15.20
• More information and program: Flyer Careers outside academia 2023 (pdf)

Workshop on oral research presentation

The purpose of the workshop is to build a fundament for further development of your oral presentation skills and your ability to give constructive feedback.
This workshop welcomes PhD-students at the NJ and S faculties who want to improve their presentation skills before presenting at conferences, seminars and meetings in the research community.
Workshop design:
After reading material on presentation theories and methods, you will prepare a short presentation about your research before the workshop. At the workshop, you will give your talk, and get and give constructive feedback.
The workshop is limited to ten participants, the participants will be registered in the order they apply.

We will meet on a three hour afternoon session IRL in Ultuna.
Location: Ulls hus A 304 (Skara)
Date and Time: Wednesday, June 14, 13.00 – 16.00
Workshop leaders: Cecilia Almlöv and Peter Aspengren
Registration: Follow this link, and register under "Application" until 10th of June

Thesis summary writing workshop

The aim of the workshop is to give insights and inspiration on how to write a thesis summary. The topics covered are legal issues concerning the thesis summary writing process, writing inspiration, and discussions on “best practices” for writing a thesis summary.

The workshop is jointly organized by The NJ-faculty Research Schools Focus on Soils and Water, Ecology – basics and applications, Organism Biology, Society and Landscape, Sustainable Systems for Food, Energy and Biomaterials, and is open for all PhD students at SLU.

• October 6th 2023, 9:15-14:30
• Campus Ultuna, SLU and via Zoom
• Find the schedule here
• Register by email to philip.jacobson@slu.se. Deadline 25th of September.
  Please state your department, if you wish to attend at Ultuna or via video (Zoom), add allergies or food preferences if Ultuna (lunch and fika will be included)

2022

2022-12-05. How to become a postdoc. Welcome to the workshop: ‘How to become a post doc” that we are organizing in collaboration with several research schools at SLU. Full day, incl. presentations from funders in Sweden (VR & Formas), a session on writing applications, and opportunities to interact with and learn from other postdocs. To register, please email: Saeid Karkehabadi (saeid.karkehabadi@slu.se), deadline for registration: 26th of April

2022-12-05. FoSW Biannual meeting. Social event: Drinks, dinner and a (very) informal workshop on soil classification as ‘After-party’ to the World Soil Day event at MVM on 5 December (16.00-20.00). 

HT 2022 SLU webinar series: ”Zoom in on research data management” 
Webinar series about good research data management practices. The webinars were recorded and are now available in SLU Play here: Workshops and webinars.

• Data management as part of open science, FAIR data and good research practice – an introduction (28 September 10.00-11.30)
• The principle of public access to official documents – can anyone ask for your research material? (26 October 10.00-11.30)
• Research data and Swedish law, GDPR and immaterial rights (16 November 10.00-11.30)
• Kom igång med din datahanteringsplan (6 December 10.00-11.30)
• Get started with your data management plan (7 December 10.00-11.30)

The series is arranged by Data Management Support (DMS) together with SLU archivists and legal counsel. DMS is a unit at the SLU University library that assists SLU staff and students with managing scientific data.

2022-11-11: Workshop: PhD-Carrers outside academia.

2022-10-21: Thesis summary writing workshop.

• • Flyer (pdf)
  • Programme (pdf)

2022-04-08 14:00: Seminar: Fungal traits for multifunctional soil.

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.

• CUAHSI seminar series schedule (pdf)
• CUAHSI seminar series presenters (pdf)

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?

• with Matthias Mauder, Research Group Leader at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• 12 May.
• More information about the lunch seminar on 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.

• 9-15 on March 5th, 2020, in Uppsala
• Room Framtiden, MVM-building, Ultuna, SLU
• Flyer for Thesis summary writing workshop
• Schedule for Thesis summary writing workshop

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

2017

• Lunch seminar Prioritizing food waste  management options from the waste hierarchy, 17th Feb
• Seminar: How to become a post doc! 2nd March
• Lunch seminar: Isotopic explorations of fungal functioning in ecosystems, 16th March
• AGFOREE meeting on the 7th to 8th of March
• Invitation to the open lectures of FoSW PhD course PNG0070, 15-18 May
  
• Lunch seminar: Understanding and improving crop growth on compacted soil using plant phenomics, 17th May
• Steering committee meeting - 14th Sept

2016

• Lunch seminar "Terrestrial bioenergetics – A new approach for evaluating microbial metabolism in soils”, 27 Jan
• Lunch seminar: Terrestrial bioenergetics –A new approach for evaluating microbial metabolism in soils, 27th Jan
• Lunch Seminar: Quantifying the Contributions of Roots and the Mycorhizosphere to Organic Matter Decomposition, 5th Feb
• Lunch Seminar: Urine and faeces as NPKS fertilizers in the bioeconomy, 28th Sept
• Career outside university for PhDs, 25th of Oct
• Lunch seminar: Impact of extreme flooding and drought on ecosystem service delivery, 21th Oct
• Lunch Seminar: A light issue: microbial impacts upon the architecture of the soil:atmosphere interface, 17 Nov
• Lunch seminar: Limiting livestock production to pasture and by products in a search for sustainable diets, 5 Dec

2015

• Lunch Seminar: Effect of liming on benthic fauna in Västernorrland county
• Open lecture: Adaptive management in turbulent times
• Open lecture: On the multiple dimensions of ecological stability
• Fika double seminar: Stabilization of organic matter in mineral soils by its incorporation into the soil structure + Understanding organic matter sequestration for sustainable management of soils
• Career outside university for PhDs
• The Swedish Environmental Quality Objectives (Miljömålen) - Relevance, achievements, conflicts and politics Workshop
• Public defence Evgheni Ermolaev
• Lunch seminar: Restoring functional soils after oil extraction in the Athabasca Oil Sands region of Canada
• Multivariate data analysis for chemists
• Watershed ecology and biogeochemistry
• Workshop on the Analysis Portal – an e-infrastructure for biodiversity data
• Lunch double seminar - Forest fire
• Steering group committee meeting
• Excursion Birds
• Barcoding workshop April 16, 2015
• Lunch seminar: Stimulating Moments of Discovery: Rhythm, Will, and Readiness in Scientific Research and Everyday Life
• PhD half-time seminar
• SciLifeLab workshop
• PhD half-time seminar
• Steering committe meeting

2014

• Fika seminar "Biogeochemical cycling of trace-metals in modern and ancient environments"
• Lunch Seminar "Molecular based ecological inventories - revisiting ecology”
• Fika Seminar "Food webs and ecosystem functioning"
• Fika Seminar "Response traits, community assembly and ecosystem functioning"
• Steering committe meeting
• Lunch Seminar "Environmental effects of stump harvesting – what have we learnt since 2011?"
• Career outside university for PhD:s
• Lunch Seminar "Discontinuities and Resilience"
• PhD-half time seminar "Impact of forestry operations on soil physical properties in regeneration areas", by Linnea Hansson
• Lunch Seminar "Biofilms facing co-occurrent stressors in river ecosystems: regularities and limitations" by Sergi Sabater
• Körskador i skogsbruket – konsekvenser för produktion och miljö
• Steering group meeting
• Innovation and Utilisation
• Workshop "How to become a post doc"
• Lunch Seminar "The role of inland waters in the carbon cycle - carbon sinks, carbon sources, or both?""
• PhD Excursion May 2014
• Lunch Seminar "Drought and soil microbes: Physical processes set limits to physiological adaptations"
• Steering group meeting

2013

• Lunch seminar "Denitrifying communities are key players regulating nitrous oxide emissions from soils"
• Steering group meeting
• Fika Seminar "Predicting tipping points and system changes: examples of current research" by Timothy Lenton "
• Stakeholder day
• Steering group meeting
• Lunch Seminar "Soil mineralogy – why should we care? Some challenges and approaches to quantitative soil mineralogical analysis"
• Lunch Seminar "Linking nitrogen saturation to carbon limitation of soil microbial processes in spruce forest soils"
• Lunch Seminar "Evidence that plant functional traits and fungal phylogeny drive partner selection in plant-AM fungal communities"
• Lunch Seminar "Pathogens and Poisons—A Water Crisis for 1 Billion People"
• Lunch Seminar "Chiral Pesticides as Tracers of Sources and Environmental Fate Processes"
• Licentiate Seminar "Towards Aquatic Assessment of Lake Tumba, DR Congo" by Norbert Zanga
• Licentiate Seminar "Aquatic Assessment in the Lake Tumba Landscape. Fish Diversity and Conservation" by Adele Mputu
• Half Time Seminar "Phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) accumulation and leaching potential from horse paddocks" by Masud Parvage
• Lunchseminarium "Den framgångsrika forskaren – en person utan barn, partner och husdjur?”
• Seminarium
• Seminar at the Department of Ecology “Tell a good story and the whole world will listen”
• Steering group meeting
• Lunch Seminar "Roots and associated fungi drive long-term carbon sequestration in boreal forest"
• Lunch Seminar "Allochthonous subsidies to aquatic food webs, points of agreement, points of disagreement, and areas for future research"
• Lunch Seminar "Relationships between farming and nitrate concentrations in groundwater in the Netherlands"
• Workshop on environmental pollution in surface and drinking water, UU (in Swedish)
• Lunch Seminar "Forest Restoration and Biomass Utilization as a Partnership in the Pacific Northwest"
• Workshop: How to become a post doc
• Lunch Seminar: Relationship between spatial and temporal drivers of DOC trends
• Lunch Seminar: Opposite DOC trends in soil and surface waters – is recovery from acidification the most plausible explanation?
• FoSW kickoff meeting; Steering & reference groupmeeting

2012

• Career Day
• Extended Steering group discussion
• Lunch Seminar "Mercury in Canadian Far Northern Rivers: Exploring the connections between water, land, and traditional foods"
• Lunch Seminar "The application of diffusion models of Fick’s Law and Fokker Planck Law, SWAT Model and Hydrological models in understanding non point source pollution in the Lake Victoria Basin"
• Steering group meeting
• Lunch Seminar "Virtue and Vulnerability: Women, Gender and Climate Change"
• Lunch Seminar "Environmental Services of Urban and Rural Soils: Retention, Release and Reactive Soil Pools of DOC and DON"
• Associate Professorship Lecture Mats Fröberg Kol-14 och nedbrytning av organiskt material i marken
• Lunch Seminar "The Biogeochemistry of Drought"
• Lunch Seminar "Stream- and river-bound transport of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from land to sea"
• Professor Installation Lectures Jan Lagerlöf
• Professor Installation Lectures Sara Hallin
• Professor Installation Lectures Mikael Pell
• Steering group meeting
• Steering group meeting
• Water as the mirror of landscapes: How useful a hypothesis for resource management is?
• Lunch Seminar "Teaching and Research in Integrated Watershed Management for the Ethiopian Highlands"
• Half-time PhD seminar "The importance of subsoil properties for phosphorus leaching" by Helena Andersson
• Half Time Seminar "Tillage effects on carbon and nitrogen turnover in mineral soils" by Veera Kainiemir
• Contact Day Private and Public Sectors
• Consultancy at Biometry

2011

• Symposium: Ecosystem Services in soil and water research, 7-10 June
• Steering group meeting
• Lunch Seminar "Modelling accumulation of radionuclides in terrestrial ecosystems originating from an eventual long-term groundwater contamination"
• Lunch Seminar "Plant nutrients as a resource – nitrogen vs. phosphorus, taking sulphur and potassium into account"
• Lunch seminar "The quest for organic resources in the context of integrated soil fertility management"
• Half-time PhD seminar "Predictors of littoral diatom communities"
• Half-time PhD seminar "Wet deposition of radiocaesium and radiostrontium on Brassica napus L., Triticum aestivum L. and pasture" by Stefan Bengtsson
• Half Time Seminar "Mitigation of phosphorus leaching from agricultural soils: with focus on manure applications and catch crops" by Jian Liu
• Lunch Seminar "Amazonian Dark Earths: Man-made black carbon soils"
• Seminar "Knitting together 30 years of forest soils experiments"
• Lunch seminar ”To the root of the matter – Do fine roots contribute to soil organic matter?”
• Workshop "Synergies and Conflicts of European Environmental Directives"
• Lunch seminar 'The Swedish Forest Soil Inventory and reporting under the Climate Convention (UNFCCC)' by Mattias Lundblad
• Brainstorming meeting
• Steering group meeting
• Steering group meeting
• Lunch Seminar "Mercury in Canadian Far Northern Rivers: Exploring the connections between water, land, and traditional foods"
• Seminar "Durban - sustainable city in practice - water supply, sanitation and small scale food production"
• Lunch seminar "Climate Warming and the Lakes of the Yukon River Basin, Interior Alaska" by Robert Striegl
• Lunch seminar "Soils and Civilizations" by Iain Young
• Steering group meeting
• Symposium 'Ecosystem services in soil and water research'

2010

• Half Day Workshop 'Questionable research Practices and the Role of Mentors'
• Lunch seminar 'How to interact with the media'
• Lunch seminar 'Toward understanding status and trends of water quality in forested watersheds of Pennsylvania and the north-eastern USA'
• Extended Steering committee meeting
• Lunch seminar 'Catchment-scale nutrient loads revealing biogeochemical stationarity under hydro-climatic variability'
• Steering committee meeting
• Lunch seminar 'Chemical characterization of natural organic matter'
• Lunch seminar "The ethics of publication - peer-review, authorship, and salami science"
• Life after your PhD?
• Lunch seminar 'Non-metal contaminants in human and animal waste
• Dubble Lunch seminar
• Half Time seminar
• Steering committee meeting
• Lunch seminar "Fungal communities and their functioning in the Arctic-Boreal transition"
• Lunch Seminar "Is forest fuel harvesting sustainable – the role of base cation and phosphorous weathering"

2009

• Double lunch seminar: "So many dimensions: biological state space as a concept for assessing soil quality" + “Ecological restoration: concepts and challenges”
• Workshop "Biogeochemical cycles at different scales"
• Media Workshop
• Lunch seminar "Processes behind soil carbon sequestration and release in a warmer world"
• Lunch seminar "Soil microbial ecology and its relevance for soil health"
• Steering committee meeting
• Steering committee meeting
• Steering committee meeting
• Steering committee meeting
• Contact day with private and public sectors
• Workshop "Interdisciplinary Fair" - Programme
• Workshop "Climate impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosytems"
• Lunch seminar "The isotopic signature of soil respiration determined <i>in situ</i> by a novel portable spectroscopic instrument"
• Workshop "Interdisciplinarity Fair"
• Lunch seminar "Hot spots and hot moments in the riparian zone"

2008

• Steering committee meeting
• Steering committee meeting
• Joint meeting graduate schools FoS & FoSW
• Lunch seminar "Effects of Forest Fire on Soil Fauna"
• Lunch seminar "Micro-scale based biogeochemistry studies: Are they needed to advance our understanding of nitrogen cycling in soils?"
• Lunch seminar "Climate impacts on water quality a major threat?"
• Steering committee meeting
• Steering committee meeting
• Steering committee meeting
• NL-Faculty day