Norway draws attention to Swedish research on thiamine deficiency
At the end of September, the Norwegian public service channel NRK reported that the population of common eider in Norway has decreased by 30 percent over a ten-year period. ACES research about the connection between thiamine deficiency and mass death of seabirds is presented as a possible cause of the decline in stocks. “Scientists in Sweden have linked the mass …
How transparent is REACH?
Concerns that previous European legislations were not providing adequate protection from chemical risks resulted in the new chemicals legislation REACH in 2007. In a recently defended doctoral thesis, Ellen Ingre-Khans at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), shows that the legislation is not transparent enough in part due to the protection of confidential business information. Chemicals can …
Cloudcatcher – atmospheric research on Svalbard
Cloudcatcher. That’s the name of a new film that describes the atmospheric research done by scientists from the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES) in Svalbard. The film is made by Melissa Gomis and Dämien Bolinius, former PhD students. “I wanted to raise awareness about climate change by showing a location where the impacts are clearly visible; the …
