PhD projects at the Department of Earth Sciences
Here you find information about current PhD projects at the Department of Earth Sciences and contact information to our doctoral students.
Salar Karam
Starting year: 2019
Project: Why is the deep Arctic Ocean Warming? (WAOW)
Research questions: The overall aim of this project is to determine to complete dynamics of heat transport into the deep Arctic Ocean in order to accurately project changes in essential climate variables that depend on this heat, e.g. sea level rise and sea ice extent.
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Carina Liebl
Starting year: 2021
Project: Tracing carvers on the rocks
![Portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/33_10_x_small_1x/public/2021-08/Carina-Liebl.jpg?itok=t1xP68uw)
Petter Stridbeck
Start year: 2021
Project: Are droughts part of the new normal for Sweden - integrating proxy data and model simulations for insight into past and future hydroclimate
Contact information Petter Stridbeck
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Ulrika Ervander
Starting year: 2022
Project: Exploring climate and ecological benefits of continuous cover forestry
![Ulrika Ervander](/sites/default/files/styles/33_10_x_small_1x/public/2022-02/Ulrika-Ervander_0.jpg?itok=BIyvEIS8)
Elena Tamarit-Castro
Starting year: 2022
Project: Climate and environmental change impacts on Swedish coastal fisheries
![Elena Tamarit Castro](/sites/default/files/styles/33_10_x_small_1x/public/2022-02/ElenaTamarit.jpg?itok=xyI5i4fX)
Jessika Lönn
Starting year: 2022
![Porträttbild på doktorand Jessika Lönn](/sites/default/files/styles/33_10_x_small_1x/public/2022-08/JessikaLo%CC%88nn_DSC_0238%20%28kopia%29.jpg?itok=hKmni5Xq)
Cas Renette
Starting year: 2022
Project: Threatened sub-arctic palsas: An interdisciplinary approach
![Cas Renatte](/sites/default/files/styles/33_10_x_small_1x/public/2022-08/Cas%20Renette.jpg?itok=5Bcyggar)
![Cheng Shen](/sites/default/files/styles/33_10_x_small_1x/public/2022-09/Chen%20Shen.jpg?itok=1yUz82fS)
![A woman sitting outdoors with a view of mountains and clouds](/sites/default/files/styles/33_10_x_small_1x/public/2023-09/Carmen.jpg?itok=i0ppxgem)