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Professor Clint Conrad of the Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo and CEED has been awarded the Evguene Burov Medal by the International Lithosphere Program. 

With the shift to an online EGU (Sharing Geoscience Online 4-8th May 2020), CEED members are still keen to present their research and fruit of their collaborations. Below, organized by day are the abstracts/sessions that we are involved in either as authors or convenors.

Article on the blog of the Geodynamics (GD) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), 25 March 2020.

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!

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.

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. 

Forskere ved universitetet i Utrecht i samarbeid med professor Trond H. Torsvik ved CEED Universitetet i Oslo, har funnet et tapt kontinent som dukket under Sør Europa for millioner av år siden. Det skal være fra dette kontinentet at fjellkjeder som Alpene oppsto.

The 2019 Ada Lovelace Workshop included 10 CEED members (about 10% of participants and 25% of the keynote speakers!). Some highlights of the workshop below.

Researchers from CEED are travelling with a film team around Norway to unravel the opening and closure of ocean basins (the Wilson Cycle). They will make a series of short videos where each episode is one stage of the Wilson Cycle - watch this space.