Skip to main content
Home
A scenic autumn landscape with golden and orange trees behind a grassy field and a low stone fence. Centered on top of the image is a white geometric hexagon containing text that reads: “ICOS – Integrated Carbon Observation System. Science Conference 2026. 15–17 September 2026. Lund, Sweden & Online.”

Excursions

Do you plan to have a little extra time after the Science Conference? Why not visit an ICOS station or meet the team at ICOS Carbon Portal? Our conference partners at Lund University have organised some excellent excursions for Friday 18th September!

Please note that the exact times and contents of these excursions are subject to change at the discretion of ICOS ERIC.

Excursion 1: ICOS Hyltemossa atmosphere and ecosystem station

Date: Friday 18 September (full day)
Cost: 350 SEK
Capacity: 44 people
Departure: 8:30 (to be confirmed)


This one-day excursion will take you to the Hyltemossa Research station, located within a commercially used spruce forest in northern Scania, about 1.5 hours drive north of Lund. Hyltemossa is one of the major nodes of the climate-related research infrastructure in Sweden and combines an ICOS Class 1 Atmosphere and Class 2 Ecosystem station, an ACTRIS station and measurements for the SITES spectral program. You will get the opportunity to learn about the measurements at Hyltemossa, to tour the facilities, and to hear about the ongoing research including the ENVRINNOV project. Bus transfer, lunch and Swedish fika with coffee and tea are included in the price.

Preliminary programme:

8.30 Departure by bus from Lund (exact location to be confirmed)
10:00 - 14:30 Visit to Hyltemossa
14:30 Depart to Lund
16:00 Arrive back in Lund

A dramatic sunset view from the top of a tall monitoring tower, with scientific instruments and sensor equipment silhouetted against a brilliant golden sun sitting low on the horizon. Rays of sunlight radiate outward across a vast, darkened landscape of forest stretching into the distance, beneath a warm orange and grey sky with wispy clouds.
A view from the Hyltemossa tower. Photo: Tobias Biermann

Excursion 2: Perennial grain experiment in Alnarp

Date: Friday 18 September (half-day)
Cost: 250 SEK
Capacity: 45 people
Departure: 9:00 (to be confirmed)

Since humans began cultivating crops around 10,000 years ago, agriculture has been dominated by annual crops with shallow roots, frequent tilling and high input requirements, including seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides and high machinery use. Perennial grains could offer an alternative way of producing food. With their extensive and deep root systems, along with minimal tillage, they may have potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, reduce nutrient leakage, soil erosion and decrease the need for external inputs.

This half-day excursion will take you to the experimental field sites in Alnarp, where two adjacent 10-ha fields of annual and perennial grain crops, established autumn 2023, are compared in terms of climate mitigation potential. The comparison is carried out using the eddy covariance technique, among other in situ measurements. The visit will conclude with a Swedish fika with coffee and tea (included in the cost), where you will have the possibility to try freshly baked perennial grain Kernza bread.

Preliminary Programme:

9:00 Departure by bus from Lund (exact location to be confirmed)
9:30 - 11:30 Visit Alnarp
11:30 Depart to Lund
12:00 Arrival back in Lund

A vast field of bright yellow flowering rapeseed (canola) in full bloom stretches to the horizon under a wide blue sky with scattered white clouds. An eddy covariance flux tower rises from the middle of the field. Trees and farm buildings are faintly visible along the distant tree line.
Eddy covariance tower in a field of crops at one of the Alnarp sites. Photo: Veronika Widengren

Excursion 3: Meet & Greet the ICOS Carbon Portal

Date: Friday 18 September (half-day)
Cost: 175 SEK
Capacity: 30 people
Location: Sölvegatan 12, Lund

This side event will give you the possibility to meet and talk to the people working at ICOS Carbon Portal, based in Lund University only a short walk from the conference venue. This informal get together will be combined with information about the behind the scene of the ICOS Carbon Portal data repository, what services we offer and how the data can be used. Lebanese-style vegetarian lunch and a coffee break included in the price.

Preliminary Programme:
10:00  - 10:30  Who and What is the ICOS Carbon Portal
10:30 - 10:45   Short coffee and split to different parallel meetings

  • 10:45 - 11:45 How to SPARQL, and why it is useful
  • 10:45 - 11:45 Data upload: need to know, good to know
  • 10:45 - 11:45 Jupyter Notebooks VRE with Python: who, how, where, why  
  • 10:45 - 11:45  Optional topic of your suggestion 

11:45 - 12:15 Q&A, Quiz, wish list (to be confirmed)
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch 

Excursion 4: Guided Tour of the European Spallation Source (ESS)

Date: Friday 18 September (half-day)
Cost: free of charge
Capacity: 15 people
Departure: Meet at ESS at 9:15 (Address: Partikelgatan 2, 224 84 Lund, Sweden). The participants are encouraged to take the tram or find another way to get to the location, as there will be no separate group transport organised.

The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), a multi-disciplinary research facility based on the world’s most powerful neutron source. ESS is under construction on the outskirts of Lund. The facility’s unique capabilities will both greatly exceed and complement those of today’s leading neutron sources, enabling new opportunities for researchers across the spectrum of scientific discovery, including materials and life sciences, energy, environmental technology, cultural heritage and fundamental physics.

Preliminary Programme:

9:15 Meeting at the final destination of Lund’s only tram line (”Lund ESS”). The tram ride takes 15 min from Lund C.
9:30 - 11:30 Guided tour of ESS facilities
11:30 Return to Lund city center by tram

A large modern research facility with white and gray interconnected buildings arranged in a circular layout, surrounded by green fields and farmland. Wind turbines stand in the background, and a curved road borders the site.
Aerial view of the ESS. Photo: Mickael Tannus/ESS