What we do
Research activities
Current research activities within the Environmental Risk Strategic Research Initiative generally fall into one or more of the following themes:
Water and the Environment
Eutrophication, contaminants, reestablishment of aquatic ecosystems, water planning and regulation, implementation of Water Framework Directive (WFD) or similar regulations, climate change adaptation.
Chemicals and the Environment
Chemical regulation, risk assessment of chemicals, fate and effects, cocktail effects, extrapolation from lab- to ecosystem scale, chemical management.
Natural Hazards and the Environment
Volcanoes and society, environmental and societal impacts of natural hazards, climate history – insights into environmental risk.
Research projects
Current research projects within the initiative are:
ModNanoTox
Modelling nanoparticle toxicity: principles, methods, novel approaches
Participating from RU: Annette Palmqvist
CREAM
A European project on mechanistic effect models for ecological risk assessment of chemicals.
ECOCLIM
Ecosystems Surface Exchange of Greenhouse Gases in an Environment of Changing Anthropogenic and Climatic Forcing.
Participating from RU: Eva Bøgh
HighArcs
Highland aquatic resources conservation and sustainable development.
Participating from RU: Søren Lund
Fate and effects of personal care products in subtropical and tropical sediments
The importance of sediment-dwelling invertebrates for degradation.
In collaboration with RIFM.
Participating from RU: Henriette Selck
Quaternary Argon Dating Laboratory (QUAD-LAB)
Participating from RU: Michael Storey
Risk Assessment and Regulation of Mixture toxicity
Parcitipating from RU: Kristian Syberg, Henriette Selck og Katrine Banke Nørgaard
Towards the next generation of the geological time scale for the last 100 million years the European contribution to EARTHTIME
Participating from RU: Michael Storey
Intelligent forecasting and regulation of extreme rain
Participating from RU: Tyge Kjær / Bjarke Kaspersen
The agriculture as a producer of energy
Participating from RU: Tyge Kjær