Thomas Friborg

Thomas Friborg

Ph.D.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5633-6097

  • Øster Voldgade 10

    1350 København K

  • Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 København K, 06 Område VI, 06-1-649

19952019

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Place of work

Department of Geosciences and Natural ressource management

University of Copenhagen

Øster Voldgade 10

DK 1350 København K
Phone: +45 35322574 (direct), 3532 2500 (switch board)
E-mail tfj(snabel a)ign.ku.dk

Personal data and education
1995 Ph.D. Physical Geography, Climatology and CO2 exchange. (Univ. of Copenhagen).
1992 M.Sc Physical Geography, Water balance and remote sensing. (Univ. of Copenhagen).

Positions
2004  Associate professor at Institute of Geography and Geology, Univ. of Copenhagen
2001-2004 Associate research professor at Institute of Geography. SNF Financed project entitled: Greenhouse gas inventory for a terrestrial ecosystem.
1999-2001 Associate research professor at Institute of Geography. EU financed research project CONGAS.
1998 Visiting researcher at Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, responsible for methane exchange measurements over a thermokarst area in Bonanza Creek, Fairbanks.
1997 Climate consultant to Land Use Planning Project in Bhutan (Denconsult).
1996-99 Post-Doc researcher Institute of Geography. EU-financed Topic: Climatology, Greenhouse gases in arctic areas.

Awards
Professional activities
Climatology, Greenhouse gas budgets and processes behind exchange of CO2 and CH4 in ecosystems, water balance

Field work
Participant in 25 expeditions/field campaigns in Sweden, Greenland, Russia, Alaska and West Africa

Funding

Ongoing:

ICOS Denmark, UAS Ability research infrastructures and HOBE Center for Hydrology (Villum Kann Rasmussen fonden) http://www.hobecenter.dk/

Previous projects: CarboNorth projekt (EU) http://www.carbonorth.net/ , DeFrost ( NordForsk). EcoClim (Strategic Research council), Page 21 (EU FP-7). CarboMont (EU), CONGAS (EU), LAPP(EU), HAPEX-Sahel(EU)

Publikationer: Please see: orcid.org/0000-0001-5633-6097 or ResearcherID: E-5433-2015

 


Supervision
>10 M. Sc.,5 Ph.D. 2 PostDocs

Short presentation

I teach and research in physical geography with a preference for climatology and hydrology.
In several years, I have worked with carbon in the form of CO2 and methane and the processes that control the exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere. As such I have focused on climatic feedback mechanisms in, Denmark, Arctic and West Africa, in natural and cultivated ecosystems. In recent years, I have used drones in this research, in an effort to introduce new methods in the research on ecosystem climate and water balance.

Currently I am also Deputy Head of Department for Research

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • Climate
  • Greenhouse Gasses
  • Ecosystems
  • hydrology
  • water balance
  • Climate Change
  • evapotranspiration

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