2020

The two most recent Norwegian meteorites, “Oslo” and “Valle”, are now officially classified and registered in the international meteoritical database. Only now, the scientific community consider it real although it fall felt for some Oslo citizens real since quite a while.

Out this week, a new study published in Nature Communications  by Bellwald et al. (2020) and including CEED Adjunct Professor Sverre Planke.

Each summer CEEDlings submit a photo for the annual #PostcardsfromCEED which are posted on social media. Below is a compilation of the 2020 edition.

Ein ny forskingsartikkel av forskarar frå Institutt frå geofag og Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin m.fl. publisert i Nature Geoscience, kastar ljos over kva som kan ha skjedd ved den største av dei fem kjente masseutryddingane på jorda. Henrik Svensen er intervjua om denne studien i forskning.no. 

A new study led by Dr. Martin Schobben (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin), with co-authors from the Dept. for Geosciences (UiO), describes the causal chains between environmental changes and mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic boundary about 252 million years ago. From this study, scientists can get a glimpse of what might happen to biodiversity under the predicted global warming in the near future. New publication in Nature Geoscience.

Viste du at Oslo er viden kjent for sin varierte geologiske fortid? Her finn ein spor etter massive fjellkjeder, vulkanar, istid og annen dramatikk. Henrik H Svensen er aktuell med ei ny bok om den spanande forhistoria til landskapet rundt hovudstaden. 

Femten universiteter og høyskoler får penger til å opprette utdanningstilbud som er tilgjengelige også utenfor campus. Det skal gjøre det enklere for flere å få kompetansepåfyll uavhengig av arbeidssituasjon og bosted.

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.

Maaike Weerdesteijn is back from a trip to King George Island in Antarctica for a side project on atmospheric and snow impurities. Read more over on the CEED Blog!  

https://www.mn.uio.no/ceed/english/about/blog/2020/atmospheric-and-snow-impurities-research.html

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

A new international collaborative study in Scientific Reports led by CEED PhD student Alexandra Zaputlyaeva including CEED researchers Adriano Mazzini and Morgan Jones, investigates the ongoing reactions below the largest active mud eruption on Earth – Lusi.

Read more on the CEED Blog!

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!