There are many glaciers in the Norwegian landscape. They are at risk of decline drastically and perhaps disappearing due to a warmer climate. Especially exposed are the glaciers in Northern Norway and the smallest glaciers. Interview with Solveig Havstad Winsvold in the newspaper Morgenbladet in the column 'The doctor answers' in June.
FNs klimapanel har nylig offenliggjort forfatterpanelene for arbeidet med den kommende Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. Fra UiO vil professor i geomatikk Andreas Max Kääb være med i forfatterpanelet for et av kapitlene i rapporten.
Aerial photos taken by drones are of great help for documenting changes at the ground for researchers at Department of Geosciences. Photos of the thawing of permafrost get attention, and in the May edition of the journal Nature Climate Change is one of their photos of decreasing permafrost in North of Norway chosen as a cover photo.
Professor em. Nils Roar Sælthun har en lang akademisk karriere bak seg, i instituttsektoren og i akademia, var instituttleder for Institutt for geofag fra 2005 til 2013, og rundet for litt siden de 70. Han underviser og forsker fortsatt i det han brenner for - hydrologi! Den 20. april ble han hedret med et fagseminar.
The EGU General Assembly 2017 bring together geoscientists from all over the world to a conference covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. Also this year several researchers from LATICE will present their work at this conference.
Nå i april er dagene lengre på Svalbard, og det er tid for en ny feltsesong for glasiologer. Norsk Polarinstitutt startet å måle massebalansen på utvalgte isbreer i Ny-Ålesund i 1967, det blir 50 år med målinger! En viktig motivasjon for å måle breenes massebalanse er å beregne hvor mye Svalbards isbreer bidrar til havnivåstigning. Les artikkel i Svalbardposten av prof. Jon Ove Hagen m.fl.
The LATICE project and the newly installed FLUX tower at Norwegian hight mountain area FINSE, will be presented at the Circum-Polar Flux Workshop held in Hyytiälä, Finland on 6-9 February 2017.
American Geophysical Union had recently its big annual fall meeting in San Francisco. Here participated PhD fellow Solveig Havstad Winsvold, Department of Geosciences. She presented a new way to measure glaciers, now mentioned in an article by NASA SCIENCE.
Presentations from the LATICE network seminar at The Natural History Museum (UiO) in Oslo 9/10 November 2016.
