On 7th of December CEED celebrated the 80th birthday of the first female professor in Geosciences in Norway: Else-Ragnhild Neumann. She became a Full Professor in 1981, the year the world was revolutionised by the first IBM personal computer (PC). Was it the dawn of a new era?
The prestigious journal SCIENCE ADVANCES published yesterday (8th of November 2017) a recipe for turning a plate, but not just your regular table plate, but the huge Pacific plate, and its mighty volcanoes. The study is authored by six scientists from the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo, and embraces the challenge to find a novel explanation for the peculiar shape of one of the most important volcanic island chain on Earth: the Hawaiian-Emperor group of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean.
A comment on "middelmådig" (mediocre or ordinary) Research in Norway, as mentioned in a swedish report to the Norwegian Research Council.
March 3rd 2014 we celebrated one year with CEED and with this occasion Liv Furuberg from the Research Council of Norway came to be part of our festivity here at Blindern. In this blog I will give some comments one the first year with research on the earth dynamics and earth evolution, and the process of starting up a Centre of Excellence.
The Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) is hosted by the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway. A Norwegian Centre of Excellence for the period 2013 to 2023.
