UCPH Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management


The UCPH Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management is a department under the Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen. The department is in its current form the result of a merger between University of Copenhagen, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and the Forest and Landscape College in Nødebo.

Organisation

The department is organized in the following departments:
The department's secretariat as well as the Sections for Landscape Architecture and Planning, Section for Forest, Nature and Biomass are based at Rolighedsvej 23 in the university's Frederiksberg Campus. The site comprises the former building of Københavns Sygehjem as well as a modern extension by Rørbæk & Møller Arkitekter from 2013.
The Section for Geography, Head of Section Lasse Møller-Jensen and the Section for Geology, Head of Section Karsten Høgh Jensen are based at Øster Voldgade.
The Forest and Landscape College is based in Nødebo at Gribskov to the north of Copenhagen. It has additional facilities at and at Eldrupgård in Auning in Djursland.

Programmes

Bachelor´s programmes

The department maintains three arboreta, two in Hørsholm and one in Greenland. Hørsholm Arboretum comprises approximately 2,000 species, making it the biggest collection of different trees and bushes in Denmark. The Urban Tree Arboretum is a collection of trees that are traditionally used or hold qualities that make them particularly well suited for use in urban environments. Pruning of different species of trees is systematically executed and their reactions thereto are registered. The Freenlandic Arboretum in Narsarsuaq has an area of 150 hectares and comprises approximately 110 species from about 600 provenances, making it one of the most extensive tree-line arboreta in the world.