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Research

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.

What secrets lie hidden in the Moon`s craters?

What can give us valuable insight if we one day decide to inhabit other planets? Nils Charles Prieur looked to the Moon for answers.

Massive volcanic eruptions in Antarctic linked to climate changes in end of the last ice age

A research team document a 192-year series of volcanic eruptions in Antarctica that coincided with accelerated deglaciation about 17,700 years ago.

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'ESA Living Planet Fellowship' postdoc grant to Bas Altena July 17, 2018
Anne Hope Jahren will give the Popular Lecture associated with the Kavli Prize July 6, 2018
Several vacancies as PhD and PostDocs in Geosciences, University of Oslo Mar. 15, 2018

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Events

18 Sep.

CEED Wilson Lecture: Exploring the Deep Oceans by Professor Daniel J. Fornari, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

12:30 PM, Kristine Bonnevies hus or the Science library hall

07 Dec.

Conference in the Academy of Science

10:00 AM, The Academy of Science, Drammensveien 78

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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 Hydrology

Avdeling: Institutt for geofag
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 24. juli 2018
Associate professor in Structural Geology

Avdeling: Institutt for geofag
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 31. august 2018
PhD Research Fellowship in Meteorology

Avdeling: Institutt for geofag
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 31. juli 2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Computational Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Avdeling: Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED)
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 25. august 2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Earth System Modelling

Avdeling: Institutt for geofag
Fakultet: Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Språk: Bokmål
Søknadsfrist: 15. september 2018

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Gamle fotografier gir ny innsikt i klimaendringene July 18, 2018 8:22 AM
Fossils recount a bustling ocean 100 million years ago June 22, 2018 10:01 AM