News and events

Speaker: Erlend M. Jarsve

Title: Triassic seismic successions in the Central North Sea, Norwegian sector

Speaker: Sergio Courtade, Schlumberger

Title: Progress and Challenges on Oil and Gas E&P Workflows and Software

Speaker: Per Audun Hole, GeoKnowledge

Title: Exploration challenges - How to predict success?

Sebastian Westermann who is now Postdoc at our Department working with permafrost, has received the "Umweltpreis der Viktor und Sigrid Dulger-Stiftung" for the best PhD thesis from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. His work was carried out at the Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI) located in Potsdam, Germany. In addition he will receive €10000,- following the prize. The prize will be awarded 11. May this year in the old Aula of the University in Heidelberg. We congratulate Sebastian!

Luiza Angheluta receives the Fridtjof Nansen Award for young researchers

Lecturer: Dr. Philip Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Title: Exploring Geo-engineering Using Climate and Detailed Modelling Strategies

Speaker: Wolfram Kürschner

Title: Solving geological problems with fossil plant remains

Binyam Lema Alemu ved Institutt for geofag vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: Subsurface storage of CO2: Two-phase flow, rock physics and geochemical interactions - An experimental study

Kirsten Elyse Fristad ved Institutt for geofag vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: The Oktyabr'sk Volcanic Crater Sediments: Petrography, Geochemistry, and Environmental Implications of Siberian Trap Diatreme Eruption Products  

Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie ved Institutt for geofag vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: Constraining climate sensitivity by observations and models

Speaker: Adrien Oth (European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology, Luxembourg)

Title: Ground motions and earthquake source parameters: what we can learn from the vast strong motion databases in Japan?

Speaker: George Craig (Ludwig-Maximilans Universitat i Munchen)

Title: Large scale control of cumulus convection