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Centre for Planetary Habitability (PHAB)

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Earth seen from ISS. Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center​​​​​​

 

The Centre for Planetary Habitability (PHAB) is a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway for 10 years, and forms a section at the Dept of Geosciences. Research and teaching comprise themes related to Planets and Early Earth, Modern Earth, Exo-Earths, and has the aim to the characterize and recognize (exo-)planets that are habitable. 

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Dense residual davemaoite in the lowermost mantle excludes the core and lowermost mantle as sources of the "primordial" He and Ne isotopic signal
3:00 PM, GE Auditorium II (rom 103)
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Moving beyond definitions in the search for extraterrestrial life
3:00 PM, Science library, Vilhelm Bjerknes house
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About us

Visiting address: ZEB building, Sem Sælands vei 2A, Blindern, Oslo

Postal address: P. O. Box 1028 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway

Phone: (47) 2285 4097

Head of Section

Trond Helge Torsvik

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Research themes at the Centre for Planetary Habitability

Our aim at the Centre for Planetary Habitability is to study planets' and early Earth's conditions that led to Earth as we know it today.  We aim to derive the main criteria making a planet habitable, hospitable or even inhabited. This knowledge guides us to recognize habitable planets outside the Solar System.

The research is multidisciplinary, mostly within geosciences (geophysics, geo(bio)chemistry, atmosphere sciences) but also: planetary sciences, evolutionary biology, and astronomy. We work within three research themes:

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The Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) – SFF/CeO (2013-2023)

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