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Han gikk konstant med blikket mot bakken på turene da han var barn. Nå lever Henrik Svensen av å fortelle andre om sin fascinasjon for stein. Les intervjuet med Henrik på titan.uio.no
We think of oceans as being stable and permanent. However, they move at about the same speed as your fingernails grow. Geoscientists at CEED have found a novel way of mapping the Earth’s ancient oceans.
Professor Carmen Gaina, CEED is speaker at The Dorothy Hill Symposium in Brisbane 15-16. november.
Article in GeoExpro based on the research article Torsvik et al (2013). A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean. Nature Geoscience.
On May 29, 2006, mud started erupting from several sites on the Indonesian island of Java. Boiling mud, water, rocks and gas poured from newly-created vents in the ground, burying entire towns and compelling many Indonesians to flee. By September 2006, the largest eruption site reached a peak, and enough mud gushed on the surface to fill 72 Olympic-sized swimming pools daily.
- What are the chances of an asteroid crashing into the Earth and wiping out civilisation as we know it? Aswin Sekhar measures the prospect
CEED congratulates Jan Inge with this prestigious award!
Henrik Svensen får prisen for å være en god formidler av egen forsking. Han er også flink til å popularisere og han har vært sentral i arbeidet med å etablere forskingsformidling og kommunikasjon som ett eige studieemne ved Det matematisk-naturvitskaplege fakultetet.