Greenland has an urgent need for business development, and many countries in the tropics desperately need to increase their agricultural production.
Can mud benefit the Greenlandic economy and simultaneously solve global problems?
In a cross disciplinary research project, we wish to test if Greenlandic mud - glacial rock flour - can be used to revitalize depleted and exhausted soils as well as identify any potential negative effects of the exhumation, transportation or general use of the mud.
The project is a collaboration between The Natural History Museum of Denmark, The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, The University of Greenland, The National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and the logistics company Usisaat in Nuuk.
In order to examine the practical use of the mud in the tropics we are working with The Agricultural Research Institute of Soil Sciences at the University of São Paulo.
Around the Greenlandic and Antarctic coastlines, sediment plumes associated with glaciers are sig ...
- Forfatter: Jana Krause ; Mark J. Hopwood ; Juan Höfer ; Stephan Krisch ; Eric P. Achterberg ; Emilio Alarcón ; Dustin Carroll ; Humberto E. González ; Thomas Juul-Pedersen ; Te Liu ; Pablo Lodeiro ; Lorenz Meire ; Minik Rosing
- Type: Article | Artikel
- Årstal: 2021
- Emner: Iron; Copper; Nickel; Cobalt; Glacier; Fjord; Arctic; Antarctic
- Titel på tidsskrift: Frontiers in Earth Science
- DOI nummer: 10.3389/feart.2021.725279
One potential climate mitigation solution could be to spread the fine (< 46 μm) glacial rock flou ...
- Forfatter: Josefine Lysdal Wulffeld
- Type: Report | Rapport
- Årstal: 2021
- Emner: Climate; Mitigation; Food; Rock flour
- Udgivelsessted: Copenhagen
- Udgivelsesland: Denmark
It is widely accepted that the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gasses leads to global climat ...
- Forfatter: Tue Steffensen
- Type: Report | Rapport
- Årstal: 2020
- Emner: Gock Flour; Mineralogy
- Udgivelsessted: Copenhagen
- Udgivelsesland: Denmark
Ice flow dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet control the production of sediment. Future accelerat ...
- Forfatter: Mette Bendixen ; Irina Overeem ; Minik Rosing ; Anders Anker Bjørk ; Kurt H. Kjær ; Aart Kroon ; Gavin Zeitz ; Lars Lønsmann Iversen
- Type: Article | Artikel
- Årstal: 2019
- Emner: Sand exploitation; Greenland
- Titel på tidsskrift: Nature
- Volume på tidsskrift: 2
- Udgiver: Nature
In a global world where climate change and a growing population increase the requirements for foo ...
- Forfatter: Lea Maria Frederiksen
- Type: Report | Rapport
- Årstal: 2018
- Emner: Rock flour; Remineralisation
- Udgivelsessted: Copenhagen
- Udgivelsesland: Denmark
Microorganisms have been acknowledged for centuries as key influencers on their surrounding envir ...
- Forfatter: Luisa dos Santos Bay Nielsen
- Type: Report | Rapport
- Årstal: 2018
- Emner: Microbial analysis; Glacial rock flour
- Udgivelsessted: København
- Udgivelsesland: Danmark