News and "In media" articles where researchers from the Section for Geography and hydrology have contributed. The list is not exhaustive and postings are mostly Norwegian.
A new online guide, FieldEx Field Guide – Best Practices and Safety Measures for Fieldwork in Cold Environments, was launched on 29 September and is now available through Zenodo. The guide supports safer, more inclusive and better-prepared fieldwork in the geosciences.
Et varmere klima kan medføre økt klimarisiko og naturfare i fjellheimen. Permafrost kan tine, og det som før var ein enkel fjelltur, kan brått bli farlig på grunn av steinsprang. Flere forskere advarer nå i en kronikk i NRK Ytring.
FieldEx is a student exchange program and a collaboration between research communities and higher education institutions in Norway, Canada, the United States, and Japan. Its aim is to increase knowledge of fieldwork conducted in extremely cold environments in the Arctic.
Large parts of Northern Europe experienced extreme drought in 2018. Hydrologists at University of Oslo have searched the Norwegian media for drought impact reports from 2000 to 2018 in order to better understand its consequences.
Professor of remote sensing and geocryology, Sebastian Westermann at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, has been appointed honorary doctor at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
I dette prosjektet samarbeider Emilia Bergmark med forskningsgruppen SNOW og Désirée Treichler ved Institutt for geofag. Prosjektet undersøker snøens betydning og hvordan klimaendringer påvirker vinterlandskapet.
A new short movie from the outreach project FJELLVITEN takes viewers into the high mountains of Jotunheimen, home to Norway’s highest peaks and an unique arena for interdisciplinary research on permafrost and climate. Reaching out to the younger public is one of the project’s goals.
Jobber du som student med kart eller geografiske data? På en åpen forelesning 4. mai (kl. 12:15-14:15) ved UiO viser John Nelson – kartograf med nesten 39 000 følgere på YouTube – teknikker som hjelper deg å lage bedre kart og presentere geografiske data på en tydelig og inspirerende måte. Krever påmelding!
Professor Andreas Kääb and the Department of Geosciences are partners in the new international project MountAInWater. The aim is to establish a global “water accounting” system and to map how climate change threatens mountain waters and future water security in the Himalayas, the Pamirs, the Canadian Rockies and the Andes.
The talk “Rock-ice avalanches: 100 million cubic metres at the speed of a fast train” was held on 11 March 2026 by Professor Andreas Kääb, Department of Geosciences. Using remote sensing, he and other researchers monitor hazardous rock-ice avalanches in cold mountain regions.
