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New map of the seabed reveal more deposits than expected

There are 30 % more sediments on the seabed than previously expected, reveal an update of the map GlobSed. This equates to up to two km of extra land mass over today’s land area.

Exhaust gas is to blame: Ground-level ozone is damaging crops

Exhaust gas emissions have doubled the amount of ground-level ozone. Vegetation is being destroyed. Food production is decreasing. Researchers now fear that the damage is greatest in the Arctic regions.

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Melting glaciers are causing sea levels to rise at ever greater rates

New: Land-based glaciers outside of the main ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland have lost more than 9,000 billion tons of ice since 1961, raising sea levels by 27 millimeters.

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The landscape after a severe meteorite strike Nov. 12, 2019
The LASI6 Conference – The physical geology of subvolcanic systems: laccoliths, sills and dykes Nov. 4, 2019
PhD-Day 2019: Best poster prize to GEO-PhD Fellow Oct. 24, 2019

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Events

18 Nov.

New ages for the biological, geochemical and climatic upheavals of the Neoproterozoic

1:15 PM, ZEB Auditorium 3

21 Nov.

Oslo joint seminar in atmospheric, ocean and climate science, Nov. 21

12:00 PM, Tallhall / met.no

21 Nov.

Drilling the monsoon: from mountain building to the fate of civilizations

1:15 PM, ZEB Auditorium 3

22 Nov.

The Christmas party arranged by the Geoscience department

Toppsenteret, Forskningsparken

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In media

Seawater drains slowly into the Earth May 31, 2019 2:41 PM
Extratropical volcanoes influence climate more than assumed Jan. 29, 2019 11:14 AM
Surging glaciers covered in the Science journal Dec. 1, 2017 3:04 PM

Associate Professor in Meteorology
Avdeling: Institutt for geofag
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 15. desember 2019
Associate Professor in Sedimentology
Avdeling: Institutt for geofag
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 15. desember 2019
PhD Research Fellowship on Tectonic evolution of the Pacific‐Panthalassic Oceans
Avdeling: Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED)
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 1. desember 2019