Research groups from A to Z
Climate and the effects of climate change present one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is a very broad research field which ignores the traditional boundaries between geoscience disciplines.
Subsurface storage of CO2 may become a strategy for reducing emissions of climate gases to the atmosphere from large point sources.
The Research Council of Norway awarded 8 research centres for environmental friendly energy research (CEER) for 8 years in 2009. We contribute to one of these centres Subsurface CO2 storage – Critical Elements and Superior Strategy (SUCCESS).
The cryosphere concerns all the frozen water on the surface of the Earth, or put another way, the zone where snow, ice and permafrost affect the landscape and the processes that operate there.
Environmental geology is closely associated with the inter-relationship of people and nature, and the consequences of natural and man-made environmental changes at local, regional and global scales.
Geohazards concerns the study of how natural processes and human activity can trigger events that represent a danger to both people and the environment.
Glacier- and permafrost-related hazards such as glacier floods, ice and rock avalanches, mass movements, or ice-clad volcanoes represent a continuous threat to human lives and infrastructure in high mountain regions. Disasters associated with the glacial and periglacial environment can cause thousands of casualties and damage in the order of millions of Euro in one event.
Hydrological knowledge is of great importance for both the protection and exploitation of our freshwater resources.
The three Norwegian impact structures; Gardnos in Hallingdal, Ritland in Rogaland and Mjølnir in the Barents Sea, has been analysed in detail by our department through many years now in numerous projects.
The research activities within the Section are varied, but a common denominator is quantitative computations with the aid of theoretical and numerical models.
The micropaleontology group studies variation in the distribution and community structure amongst microfossils from different environmental conditions and from different periods.
The group researches and teaches topics within petroleum geoscience.
The global energy requirement is increasing rapidly. Future energy supplies will have to cover the material growth which is necessary to secure an internationally fair distribution and economic growth.
In 2003 a group of scientists from the Geosciences and Physics departments was awarded status as Centre of Excellence (CoE) by the Research Council of Norway, Physics of Geological Processes (CoE - PGP).
SVALI is a Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE) appointed by the Top-level Research Initiative’s sub-programme Interaction between Climate Change and the Cryosphere in June 2010.
Water vapour exerts a controlling influence on many of the sources, sinks, transformations and transport mechanisms of trace species that together constitute biogeochemical cycles.