CBA members Frans-Jan Parmentier and Sebastian Westermann collaborated on a review paper which was highlighted by Eos, the science news magazine published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The paper reviews permafrost's role in the carbon cycle and climate change.
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How do you map something that is both invisible and odorless? Researchers at the University of Oslo have trained drones to find the best places to measure greenhouse gases on their own.
CBA professor Helge Hellevang and colleagues proposed a new explanation for the creation of craters in Siberia. Their conceptual model links thinning permafrost and other local conditions with the formation of gas emission craters in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas. Their work is now highlighted on Titan (in Norwegian).
CBA researcher Norbert Pirk was awarded the prestigious Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).
The Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene launches its annual report for 2022.
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CBA associate professor Sebastian Westermann and colleagues published a new study in Nature Communications on the risk of environmental pollution following permafrost thawing with climate change around industrial and contaminated sites. Their study is now highlighted on Titan (in Norwegian).
CBA-leader Dag Hessen receives the 2022 Titan Prize due to his long-term commitment for science communication.
CBA researcher Sebastian Westermann contributed to publishing a permafrost fact sheet with the Norwegian Environment Agency
Norbert Pirk and Frans-Jan Parmentier, who are CBA researchers, contributed with data from Norway in a research study led by researchers at the University of Zurich.
A very nice piece written by CBA researcher Frans-Jan Parmentier in a Norwegian newspaper : På vippepunktet (At the tipping point)
Centre of Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene's annual meeting was held in Hurdal on 26-27 September 2022 with many interesting research studies, new ideas, helpful feedbacks from different disciplines, and new collaborations.
Recently published two scientific articles by CBA researchers are highlighted in Dagens Næringsliv Magasinet.
The UNESCO-report on the role of universities and higher education institutions for promoting the agenda 2030 and the UN sustainability goals was officially presented by CBA-leader Dag O. Hessen.
Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene launches our annual report for 2021.
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As of March 2022, Yeliz Yilmaz started as the new CBA coordinator taking over from Lene Liebe Delsett. We are very thankful to Lene for all her work at CBA.
CBA researcher Professor Trude Storelvmo was awarded the prestigious Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).
At the Sustainable Development Goal conference in Bergen yesterday, a CBA-led UNESCO report was launched, on the role of higher education institutions in reaching global sustainability.
Finally, CBA can start planning the actual research in the RCN-funded project BioGov, where we will uncover the biogeochemical processes governing boreal carbon cycling.
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A study by an international research team recently published in Science describes a new species of a giant ichthyosaur from the early Middle Triassic. They also show that body size evolution in ichthyosaurs was faster than in whales. CBA coordinator Lene Liebe Delsett has co-authored a Perspective article about the study.
Rapid changes in the atmosphere and biosphere characterizes the Anthropocene, and cross disciplinary science is important. A new course and a series of lectures at UiO seeks to contribute, including several CBA researchers.
CBA researcher receives the Fægri award for his popular science essay about permafrost.
CBA researchers working to understand the possible consequences of permafrost thawing were recently featured in a newspaper story in Dagens Næringsliv Magasinet.
In an issue of the Norwegian journal Naturen published today, researchers from CBA present their work to the general public. Topics include climate modelling, browning of the Arctic and freshwater resources, thawing of permafrost, bacterial communities in lakes and pollution effects on green plants and much more.
In a paper published last year, Ying Cui, Brian Schubert and Anne Hope Jahren showed that the current CO2 concentration is higher than in the previous 23 million years, which is further back in time than previously recorded.
Nicolas Valiente Parra, postdoctoral fellow at CBA, has published a new study in the journal Science of the Total Environment about nitrate removal pathways in a highly saline lake.