2017 - Side 2

The gender ratio of women in editor-in-chief roles of major mainstream journals in astronomy and astrophysics is typically about 5-10 % these days. In the last 50 years of academic records, it is not difficult to find no women in such roles at any given time. The same ratio is just about 10-15 % when it comes to the number of keynote speakers, chairpersons of important conference sessions and distinguished award recipients in major conferences and meetings in astronomy/astrophysics.

I spalten 'Forskningsfronten' i Morgenbladet i dag; Henrik H. Svensen,  CEED og Institutt for geofag, Universitetet i Oslo om lynnedslag, brann forårsaket av lyn, og årsaksforløp for slike hendelser. Omtale av en internajonal forskningsartikkel publisert tidligere i Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Arthur Holmes' medalje, UiOs forskningspris, Nansen-heder. Prestisjetunge priser hagler over Trond Torsvik, en av verdens ypperste forskere innen geofag. Men tilfeldigheter gjorde at han ble interessert i geofysikk. Les mer i dybdeintervjuet på titan.uio.no.

Forsker Aswin Sekhar forteller: Norges kongefamilie, politikere og Vitenskapsakademi er unike i sin støtte til utviklingen og blomstringen av de ypperste nivåer av matematikk i verden. Les på forskning.no

CEED Adjunct Professor Juan Carlos Afonso, Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Australia, has won the 2017 Anton Hales Medal / Australian Academy of Science.

Planlagt vitenskapelig boring i regi av CEED forskere på den danske øya Fur som ligger i Limfjorden. Geologiske undersøkelser kan fortelle de norske forskerne mer om klimaforandringer for mange millioner år siden.

CEEDs researchers will have presentations at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017, 23-28. April 2017, in Vienna.

Morgan Jones received the CEED 2016 Young Scientist Prize.

Fridtjof Nansens belønning for fremragende forskning for 2017 er tildelt Trond Helge Torsvik ved Institutt for geofag ved Universitetet i Oslo. Torsvik får prisen for sin forskning innen geofysikk.

Researcher at CEED Anne Hope Jahren's LAB GIRL won the 2016 NBCC Award for Autobiography!

Professor Trond H. Torsvik at CEED is participating in the open-source TV series "The Mind of the Universe".

CEED Professor Carmen Gaina is newly elected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA).

In February 2017 thirty members of the research school DEEP gathered at Dr. Holms Hotel, Geilo for the first General Assembly in the research school network. Networking, lectures and a workshop were on the agenda, and some skiing of course.

New book; "Volcanoes of Europe" is out, authors Dougal Jerram,  Alwyn Scarth and Jean-Claude Tanguy.

Stephanie in an interview in ScienceNews about shergottites.

The new article from Trond H. Torsvik et al about Mauritia - the lost continent in the Indean Ocean gets a lot of attention from the press worldwide. Latest is an article in the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, one of Europe's largest publications of its kind. Very latest in the CNN.

– For several decades I have been passionate about understanding the restless movements of the continents, making maps of the distribution of tectonic plates and to show where the lands and seas were situated in the geological past