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Geosciences (master's two years)

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Arctic infrastructure under risk from permafrost thaw, scientists warn

Seventy percent of the current infrastructure in the Arctic in the next 30 years has a high potential to be affected by thawing permafrost, according to a new study. This despite if the climate change targets of the Paris Agreement is meet.

A corridor in the North Atlantic forms volcanic landscape

Hotspot volcanism on Greenland

A research group launches a new theory and model of processes that gave volcanic activity simultaneously on both sides of Greenland and the North Atlantic 60 million years ago.

Old images give insight on climate changes

How can we use aerial photos of glaciers from the 1930s to obtain new and exact information about the Earth's changing climate? That is one of the main questions Luc Girod looked into in his doctoral thesis.

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News

Circulation patterns of icebergs in Greenlands icy fjords Dec. 19, 2018
INTPART-funding to Mazzini for international cooperation Dec. 14, 2018
The winners of the Else-Ragnhild Neumann prize for 2018 Dec. 8, 2018

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Events

23 Jan.

GEO Wednesday: The Scandinavian Caledonides - a 100 million years of trans-oceanic marriages and divorces

12:15 PM, The Science Library, Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus

24 Jan.

Upper crust tectonic deformation of the Southern Central Andes (~36°S) and megathrust earthquakes

1:15 PM, ZEB Auditorium 3

25 Jan.

Trial lecture: Ankit Pramanik

10:15 AM, Auditorium 1, The Geology building

25 Jan.

Oslo joint seminar in atmospheric, ocean and climate science, Jan. 25

12:00 PM, Tallhall / met.no

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In media

Surging glaciers covered in the Science journal Dec. 1, 2017 3:04 PM
Norway's decreasing glaciers Aug. 31, 2017 3:00 PM
Three Norwegian meteorologists with a new hypothesis about Munch's Scream June 29, 2017 9:02 PM

Associate Professor in Physical Geography
Avdeling: Institutt for geofag
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 17. mars 2019
PhD Research Fellowship in Geophysics: Mantle Structure and Dynamics of Greenland
Avdeling: Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED)
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 14. februar 2019