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Luiza Angheluta receives the Fridtjof Nansen Award for young researchers

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!

The NUFU project have published a fact sheet for 2011 here.

The Norwegian Research Council has carried out a nationwide evaluation of earth sciences research. The evaluation gives top grades to research groups at the University of Oslo.

A course in reservoir simulation using the Eclipse software is arranged at the department in the week of July 18 to 22.

- "Higher temperatures combined with reduced precipitation in southern and eastern Europe drives towards a drier climate. Even places which are seeing increased annual precipitation may experience a trend towards a drier spring and summer because of the reduction in seasonal rainfall combined with higher temperatures,” explained Professor Lena Tallaksen in an article at Lloyd’s earlier this month.

On March 24 the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the nine departments belonging to the Faculty launched new home pages. This is a total makeover, not only new wrapping.

Master student Media Sehatzadeh at UiO won the prize for best poster at hydrogeology and environmental geochemistry seminar at NGU February 15th.

Klimaendringene kan i framtiden legge stein til byrden for landbrukere i sørlige Afrika som må håndtere vannmangel og utarmet jordsmonn.