The Department of Geosciences is the widest ranging earth sciences department in Norway.
CIENS-building in Oslo Innovation Centre (Photo: N.R. Sælthun, UiO).
The Department of Geosciences was formed in 2003 as a merger between the three earth sciences departments at the University of Oslo: the Geology Department, the Department of Physical Geography and the Department of Geophysics. The merger resulted in the widest ranging earth sciences department in Norway, covering a wide range of disciplines from deep mantle processes to atmospheric sciences.
The Department is located in two sites at the campus of Blindern. A greater part of the Department is in the Geology Building whereas the Meteorology and Oceanography Section represents the University in CIENS - Oslo Centre for Intergrated Environmental and Social Reserch located at Forskningsparken (Oslo Innovation Centre).
Collaboration
The Department has an extensive collaboration with public and private companies, and we contribute to various centres. Among these are:
- Subsurface CO2 Storage, SUCCESS - Centre for Environmental-Friendly Energy Research
- Stability and Variations of Arctic Land Ice, SVALI - Nordic Centre of Excellence
- Physics of Geological Processes, PGP - Norwegian Centre of Excellence
- CIENS - Oslo Centre for Interdisciplinary Environmental and Social Research
- International Centre for Geohazards, ICG - Norwegian Centre of Excellence