There was a celebration when two of the researchers here at the Department of Geosciences each received their ERC Starting Grant. The two who received funding are Norbert Pirk and Paul Yves Jean Antonio. They were celebrated with an reception with cake and speeches from colleagues, on Friday 8 of September.
Five promising researchers at the University of Oslo have been awarded ERC Starting Grants from the European Research Council. The projects showcase the breadth of UiO's disciplines, ranging from sustainability and marginalization to plasma accelerators and sleep.
A research team at and affiliated to the Dept. of Geosciences has won an award from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Geosciences Union for their project collaboration on earth observation and measurement of glaciers.
Permafrost thaws and can result in unstable ground conditions. This can lead to collapsing industrial plants and environmental toxins leaking into vulnerable nature.
Professor Regine Hock får i overkant av 28 millioner kroner til sin forskning på hvordan isbreer påvirkes av klimaendringene.
Professor and glaciologist Regine Hock at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo has been appointed to honorary doctorate at Uppsala University. It is in recognition of her long and dedicated research on glaciers, among other things for having developed models for calculating and forecasting how much the world's glaciers are melting.
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Professor of hydrology, Chong-Yu Xu at the Department of Geosciences, UiO has been awarded his second medal and award for 2022 this autumn. In September he received the IWA Publishing Award from the International Water Association (IWA).
A new study titled "Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget" is recently published in Nature Communications. Among the authors is the LATICE researchers Frans-Jan Parmentier and Norbert Pirk.
ESA has selected the satellite concept they will use in their new Earth observation mission. Professor of Geomatics Andreas Kääb is in the scientific team engaged on the task for ESA's tenth Earth Explorer mission.
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