December 2025
New Interreg Project: RECOVER
How can we improve the environmental health of the Baltic Sea? The new German-Danish Interreg project RECOVER is developing a digital twin of the western Baltic Sea to monitor its health in real time and support restoration efforts. The project combines advanced sensor technology, AI, and public participation to protect one of Europe’s most vulnerable marine ecosystems. Read the full announcement in the attached files:

December 2025
Sharing Knowledge and Strengthening Connections
Our December tradition combined professional insights, team spirit, and a taste of global cuisine in the beautiful setting of Svanninge Bjerge. Read more here.

August 2025
Biology students at SDU are investigating heavy metal contamination in seaweed from the Baltic Sea - one of the most polluted marine areas in the world. Click here to watch the interview from TV2Bornholm - EKKO.

June 2025
As tradition has it, we set off on our annual summer trip - to SDU's scenic research station in Svanninge Bjerge. Read more about it here.

August 2024
Don Canfield will receive the Victor M. Goldschmidt Award which is the highest honor presented annually for major achievements in geochemistry over a career. Read more about it here

February 2024
Don Canfield was invited to give the Plenary talk, at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, February 20:
The Evolution of Eukaryote Ecosystems.
Ronnie Glud has been selected to give the AGU Harald Sverdrup Lecture at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, February 21:
Life and Element Cycling in the Hadal Realm.

May 2022
Ronnie Glud has been appointed a member of the Danish Royal Academy of Science and Letters. Congratulations! Read more about it here.
Don Canfield was elected as a foreign member of the British Royal Academy of Science. Congratulations! Read more about it here.
Alexander Treusch became Head of Teaching at the Department of Biology, SDU.

March 2022
Amelia Rotaru received an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. Congratulations! Read more about it here.

February 2022
Christian Furbo Reder successfully defended his Ph.D. "Nitrogen fixation in the modern and changing ocean". Congratulations Christian!
Paul Rousteau successfully defended his Ph.D. "Environmental and Microbial Drivers of Anaerobic Methane Oxidation in Lacustrine Sediments". Congratulations Paul!

January 2022
Bo Thamdrup received a grant from the Danish Research Council. Read more about it here.

November 2021
Herdís Steinsdóttir successfully defended her Ph.D. "Anaerobic methane oxidation in coastal oxygen-depleted waters". Congratulations Herdís!

May 2021
Carolin Loescher and Amelia-Elena Rotaru received grants from the Danish Research Council - read more about their projects here.
Amelia also received an Ascending Investigator grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation - read more about her project here.

21 May 2021

Belén Franco has defended her Ph.D. “Importance and function of sinking particles for marine carbon and nitrogen cycling with particular focus on zooplankton carcasses.” Congratulations Belén!

Supervisors Ronnie N. Glud & Peter Stief

8 Jan. 2021

Don Canfield has been appointed by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.

(Ridder af Dannebrogordenen).

10 Dec. 2020

Nicola Camillini has defended his Ph.D. “Carbon and nitrogen cycling in seagrass ecosystems.” Congratulations Nicola!

Nicola did a joint Ph.D. between SDU (supervisor R. Glud) & Southern Cross University in Australia (supervisor B. Eyre).

23 Nov. 2020

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