The Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology (www) is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Stockholm University. The department has 120 employees and approximately 1500 students. The main research disciplines are Geomorphology, Glaciology, Climatology, Quaternary Geology, Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Geographical Data Processing, Ecological Geography and Tropical Geography. Teaching is oriented towards geography, earth sciences, geosciences and environmental protection.

The Department of Geology and Geochemistry (www) at Stockholm University is particularly strong in organic geochemistry and trace gas biogeochemistry. The department has state-of the-art facilities required for various geochemical analyses including preparatory-GCMS, mass spectrometers for stable isotope analyses, HPLC, LCMS, IRGA and elemental analysers.

Peter Kuhry, CARBO-North project coordinator, is Professor in Physical Geography at the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University. His broad interest is to assess the effects of climate change in arctic regions using an earth system science approach. His own research component focuses on carbon pools in soils and peat of permafrost-affected terrain.

Joyanto Routh is a graduate of Texas A&M University and works as an Associate Professor in biogeo-chemistry. His research program seeks new understanding of the role of biogeochemical interactions in sedimentary environments, and their impacts on the cycling of organic and inorganic components. He works on characterization of organic matter, elemental cycling, paleolimnology, and geomicrobiology.

Patrick Crill joined the Department as Professor of Biogeochemistry and he serves as the director of the geochemistry program. He brings a broad range of experience in trace gas studies from laboratory process studies to field studies from the Amazon to the Arctic. His current research foci include atmosphere/biosphere exchange particularly on impacts of climate and land use change on processes of formation and exchange of biogenic gases with soils, peats and sediments, carbon biogeochemistry of soils, peats, lacustrine and marine environments, and sources and sinks of CH4 and CO2.