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Geosciences (master's two years)

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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.

Preparing spruce for climate changes

Geobiologist and bestselling author Anne Hope Jahren has no doubts. Her “best lab ever” is the one she recently started at the University of Oslo.

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LATICE at AGU 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, 10-14 December Nov. 16, 2018
EGUs Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists to Mathew Domeier Oct. 17, 2018
Louis Agassiz Medal from EGU to Professor Andreas Max Kääb Oct. 17, 2018

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Events

19 Nov.

The importance of subduction history and mineral grain size evolution to mantle dynamics

1:15 PM, Geology building Auditorium 1

20 Nov.

ASPECT workshop

The conference room, CEED

21 Nov.

The development of rifting and magmatism in Ethiopia: implications for the development of continent-ocean transition

11:15 AM, ZEB Auditorium 3

22 Nov.

Oslo joint seminar in atmospheric, ocean and climate science, Piers Forster

12:00 PM, Cicero, Rio

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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

PhD Research Fellowship in Geomechanical Characterization of fault zones
Avdeling: Institutt for geofag
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 1. desember 2018

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