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A hillside covered with rocks and yellow grass takes up most of the photo, and at the bottom there is a dirt road where a loan biker can be seen from afar.

Njord-researcher gets photo on the cover of GeoExPro

Published Sep. 4, 2019 12:02 PM

We are happy to announce that a photograph taken by Njord's researcher Olivier Galland is featured as the cover of the most recent issue of GeoExPro.

Working with flows in large volumes, such as in the ocean and atmosphere, depends on expertise in numerical method and programming. Students at the Department of Geosciences have achieved this by taking the course Atmosphere and Oceans on Computers. The teaching has now become a textbook. Photo: Gunn Kristin Tjoflot / UiO

Atmosphere and ocean on computers – 30 years teaching became textbook

Published Aug. 28, 2019 3:21 PM

Based on over 30 years of experience in modelling and numerical calculations, Professor Lars Petter Røed at the Department of Geosciences has written the textbook 'Atmospheres and Oceans on Computers'. The textbook summarises numerical methods for calculating atmospheric and ocean currents. Computer power is increasingly used in geosciences. Numerical calculations is the key.

Bas Altena at the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2019. This one-week long summer school in June was held for the third time. Venue was Obergurgl (Austria). Photo: Katharina Anders, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Observing the cryosphere with CubeSat imagery – Keynote talk by Altena

Published Aug. 28, 2019 11:18 AM

This summer Bas Altena gave a keynote talk during the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2019, Austria, on how to use the small CubeSat satellites to observe glaciers and processes on Earth.

Driving back into camp after one of the last pickups. Photo: MAGPIE

The MAGPIE Greenland field campaign for 2019 comes to a successful close

Published June 24, 2019 4:32 PM

Members of the MAGPIE (Magnetotelluric Analysis for Greenland and Postglacial Isostatic Evolution) project at Dept. of Geosciences & CEED have spent much of June on the ice sheet of Greenland. Now nearing its completion, the campaign was a great success and has been documented day-by-day on the MAGPIE blog.

Professor Trude Storelvmo, Department of Geosciences. Photo: Private

GEO-professor contribute in a new Horizon 2020 project on how air pollution affects climate

Published May 9, 2019 2:44 PM

The FORCeS project coordinated by Stockholm University got recently a grant from EU Horizon 2020. With this project 20 research teams will contribute to more precise climate projections by reducing the uncertainty on how particles in the air affect climate. Trude Storelvmo at Department of Geosciences will lead one of the work packages in FORCeS.