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Upside-down erosion by mantle plumes Jan. 15, 2020 7:53 AM

CEED Director Prof. Carmen Gaina has worked with colleagues to reveal how Africa is being carved from below with a new paper in Nature Communications.

Read more about this exciting study over on the CEED Blog!
Verdens verste år? Jan. 3, 2020 3:06 PM

Historiske kilder beskriver kulde og tåke over Europa, Midt-Østen, deler av Asia. De norrøne sagaene forteller om Fimbulvinteren (den mektige vinteren) og at Fenrisulven hadde slukt sola. Hva skjedde året 536? Det tverrfaglige UiO-forskerteamet i VIKINGS vil finne ut om det kjølige klimaet gav uro, folkevandring og vikingtokt. Les mer i A-magasinet.
Sara Callegaro brings a new Young Research Talent project to CEED Dec. 23, 2019 9:57 AM

Sara Callegaro is granted a "Young Research Talents" project from NFR (the Research Council of Norway). The research project title is MAPLES: Magma Plays with Sedimentary Rocks - Element exchange between magma, sedimentary host-rocks and environment.
Siberian Traps eruptions - even bigger than thought Dec. 13, 2019 1:51 AM
CEED participates in the SENECA expedition to Antarctica's Dry Valleys Dec. 6, 2019 11:03 AM

Leaving today, 6th of December, Adriano Mazzini a researcher from GEO/CEED/UIO will be part of the 35th Italian expedition to the Dry Valleys of Antartica. Permafrost in the Dry Valleys store huge amounts of greenhouse gasses.

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The winner of the Else-Ragnhild Neumann award for Women in Geosciences for 2019 Nov. 25, 2019 2:19 PM

Friday 22. Nov. was the Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences awarded for the second time. The award goes to a woman who through her Ph.D. or postdoctoral work has made a significant contribution to geoscientific research. The award is presented by CEED and the Dept. of Geosciences, UiO, and it was Andreia Plaza-Faverola, UiT, who became the award winner for 2019.
The winners of the Else-Ragnhild Neumann prize for 2018 Dec. 8, 2018 11:30 AM