Search for dissertations about: "environmental archives"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 62 swedish dissertations containing the words environmental archives.

  2. 1. Lake sediment as environmental archive : natural and anthropogenic influence on the chronology of trace elements

    Author : Evastina Grahn; Stefan Karlsson; Anders Düker; Bo Bergbäck; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; lake sediment; environmental pollution; trace elements; chronology; diagenesis; Ag; Be; Ga; In; Pb; Sb; Tl; Environmental chemistry; Miljökemi; Enviromental Science; Miljövetenskap;

    Abstract : The focus of this thesis is the historical pollution of some seldom-monitored trace elements (SMTEs; Ag, Be, Ga, In, Sb and Tl) that have been involuntarily released for several thousands of years but whose usage have increased during the industrial era. Sediment cores from four rural lakes in a south to north transect in central Sweden, and two urban lakes have been used as environmental archives for chronological studies. READ MORE

  4. 2. Lake sedimentary archives of medieval mining and smelting in Sweden : tracking environmental changes from site to landscape

    Author : Erik Myrstener; Richard Bindler; Christian Bigler; Elinor Andrén; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; environmental science; miljövetenskap;

    Abstract : While the environmental impact of the industrial age is massive, including climate change, pollution, microplastics and habitat loss, our influence reaches further back than many recognize. In Sweden, an early and important activity with large potential impact was the mining and smelting of iron, copper and silver ores over the last ~800 years. READ MORE

  5. 3. Planetary Timemaking : Paleoclimatology and the Temporalities of Environmental Knowledge, 1945-1990

    Author : Erik Isberg; Sverker Sörlin; Sabine Höhler; Adam Wickberg; Etienne Benson; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; paleoclimatology; environmental history; temporality; ice core; deep-sea core; North Atlantic; timemaking; theory of history; planetary-scale environmental knowledge; paleoklimatologi; miljöhistoria; temporalitet; iskärna; borrkärna; Nordatlanten; tidsskapande; historieteori; planetär miljökunskap; History of Science; Technology and Environment; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns the history of paleoclimatology in the postwar period. It follows the trajectory of two climate proxy records – ice cores and deep-sea cores – in the North Atlantic region, from their emergence as scientific objects in the 1940s to their incorporation into Earth System Science in the 1980s. READ MORE

  6. 4. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry of 36Cl and 129I : Analytical Aspects and Applications

    Author : Vasily Alfimov; Göran Possnert; Ala Aldahan; Hans-Arno Synal; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Environmental technology; Accelerator Mass Spectrometry; iodine-129; chlorine-36; gas-filled magnet; radioactive tracer; Arctic Ocean; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic; thermohaline circulation; Sellafield; La Hague; Miljöteknik; Environmental engineering; Miljöteknik;

    Abstract : Two long-lived halogen radionuclides (36Cl, T1/2 = 301 kyr, and 129I, T1/2 = 15.7 Myr) have been studied by means of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) at the Uppsala Tandem Laboratory. The 36Cl measurements in natural samples using a medium-sized tandem accelerator (~1 MeV/amu) have been considered. READ MORE

  7. 5. Incorporation and preservation of geochemical fingerprints in peat archives

    Author : Sophia V. Hansson; Richard Bindler; Dominik Weiss; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Peat; Beryllium; bulk density; C N-ratio; decomposition; deposition; downwash; elemental mobility; geochemistry; humification; lead; light transmission; mercury; peat accumulation; precipitation; Environmental Science; miljövetenskap;

    Abstract : The present status of the environment, including environmental problems such as heavy metal accumulation in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, is in part the consequence of long-term changes. Cores from peatlands and other natural archives provide us with the potential to study aspects of the atmospheric cycling of elements, such as metal pollutants, on timescales much longer than the decade or two available to us with atmospheric deposition monitoring programs. READ MORE