MERGE autumn meeting - presentations and summary

Published 8 October 2014

Kalmar Castle and MERGE researchers in the evening sun. Photo: Anna Kristiansson — Kalmar Castle and MERGE researchers in the evening sun.

On 6-8 October, the MERGE autumn meeting of 2014 was held in Kalmar. The three interesting days focused on the future possibilities of research within MERGE and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we have collected the presentations from the meeting here.

MERGE is now at the end of its first 5-year period. The the autumn meeting focused on what is to come and the new possibilities of research within MERGE; the collaboration for the coming years

On the first day of the meeting (6 October) the main focus was on new results and developments.

The second day of the meeting (7 October) focused on the work of PhD students and also on the future of MERGE in general. Sessions in smaller groups were included as well as thematic group discussions, which also gave time to develop the discussions and ideas which had been brought up during the MERGE spring workshop in Lund. The MERGE PhD students presented and discussed their research and put their scientific work actively in the context of MERGE together with the senior MERGE scientists.

The MERGE Board welcomed its new board member: researcher Anna Ekberg, from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) and the research centre LUCCI devoted to studies of the carbon cycle and how it interacts with the climate system, at Lund University.

The last day (8 October) was devoted to plenum sessions and lectures. We learned more about the work of Hannele Korhonen, head of the Climate and sea modeling group at the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the new member of the MERGE Scientific Advisory Board. We also got to know more about one of the Linnaeus University strategic research areas, “ECOCHANGE” and their research on the Baltic Sea.

Last but not least. a big thank you to all the MERGE researchers who joined the autumn meeting in Kalmar! We look forward what the MERGE research will bring in the coming year, and the new possibilities ahead.