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Speaker: Lars Lundin
Lars.Lundin<at>ma.slu.se
Department of Environmental Assessment and Department of Forest Soils, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, P.O. Box 7050,
SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Title of the talk:
Data for assessing the conditions of European forests in a changing environment (pdf: 1,5MB)
Biosketch
Dr. Lars Lundin started the university studies at Uppsala University in 1969 and concluded his Bachelor of Science in 1974 continuing in similar field of expertise of the hydrology of forested till soils up to the doctoral degree reached in 1982. In 1986 he was appointed Associate Professor and in 2003 Professor in Soil Science, especially soil hydrology, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Employment positions have been at Uppsala University until 1984 and thereafter as Senior Research Officer until 2003 followed currently as Professor at SLU.
During the last 15 years Lars Lundin has been involved in a number of international activities such as: the EU project on Correlation of European Forest Site Classifications, an education programme on Reformation of Agroecological Education at the Moscow Agricultural Academy as a TEMPUS-TACIS EC project, a bilateral (Estonia-Sweden) education course in Mire ecology and restoration of wetlands from damaged peatlands and terminated peat cuttings, the EU project Guidelines for wetland restoration of terminated peat cutting areas and presently the EC Network of Excellence ALTER-Net, A Long-Term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research Network, an ecosystems and biodiversity project. Other important tasks include work in the Convention of Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (within the UN ECE 〈United Nations Economic Commission for Europe〉 region) where he is chairman of the International Co-operative Programme (ICP) on Integrated Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Ecosystems mainly directed on forest ecosystems and as such having also strong links to the ICP Forests carrying out important monitoring in European forests. Other tasks are acting chairman in the International Peat Society, Commission I on stratigraphy, inventory and conservation of peatlands. In the years 1998-2002 (deputy until 2004) he was chairman of the Nordic Association for Hydrology.
National work includes being project leader of the Swedish Forest Soil Inventory carrying out continuous and annual investigations in forest and mire land and project leader and coordinator for the Swedish Integrated Monitoring Programme and further being responsible for the meteorological measurements on Swedish ICP Forests Level II plots. Currently he is also involved in the EC regulation Forest Focus demonstration project BioSoil.
Research activities concern: soil science, especially hydrology, of forest soils and wetlands; effects of forestry measures with long-term involvement; mire ecology and wetland restoration; air pollution effects on ecosystems, such as impacts of acidification, eutrophication and heavy metals. The latter have been highlighted and in recent years connected to climate change.
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