The Department of Earth Sciences
Learn about our planet, the development of life, natural resources, energy resources, environment and climate, natural disasters and sustainable development.
News
- 1st in Sweden and among top 75 in the world in the academic subject Water Resources 2022-05-05
- 7 of our researchers in the top 50 Earth Scientists in Sweden 2022-05-05
- Uppsala University a major partner of a geological energy storage mapping project in Denmark 2022-03-29
- Now you can sign up for our Climate Change Day 20 May 2022-03-22
- Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and eleven years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster 2022-03-10
- Go behind the scenes to hear about new research into Jersey's history during the Ice Age 2022-02-15
Calendar
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Baltic University Programme´s Student conference 2022
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Master Thesis presentations in Sustainable Development
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Welcome to Master Thesis presentations in Sustainable Development
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Disputation: Computational fluid dynamics for dispersion calculation in urban surroundings
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Welcome to Master Thesis presentations in Sustainable Development
Weather picture contest

About us
The Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University has over 280 employees and teaches aound 3700 students every year. Our focus is on research which means that 75% of what we do is research and 25% is education. Around 30 nationalities are represented at the department.
Read more about the Department.
Sustainable Developement
Research and education in sustainable development at the Department of Earth Sciences rests on an interdisciplinary approach to UN´s 17 sustainability goals regarding Earth science, natural resources and society.
Read more about how we work with sustainable development.