2016

Juha Matti Ahokas at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Paralic Sandstone Bodies of the Neill Klinter Group: Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization (Early Jurassic, Jameson Land Basin, East Greenland) with reference to the Mid-Norwegian Continental Shelf

Benedikt Lerch at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Petroleum Systems of the Barents Sea – A geochemical study for improved petroleum system understanding

Javad Naseryan-Moghadam at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Investigation of petrophysical and rock physical aspects of CO2 storage in Sandstone reservoirs - An experimental study

Johannes Jakob at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Geodynamic Significance of Regional Mélange Units at Divergent and Convergent Plate Margins — Case Studies from the Scandinavian Caledonides and the North American Cordillera

Linda Aune-Lundberg at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Estimation methods and uncertainty in area frame surveys of land cover

Thomas Schellenberger at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Analysis of glacier surface velocity using repeat Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images

Mohammad Koochak Zadeh at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Compaction and rock properties of siliciclastic sediments- Implications for reservoir characterization, velocity anisotropy and buildup of abnormal pore pressure

Johanne Hope Rydsaa at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: On biosphere-atmosphere interactions in a changing climate

Habiba Ismail Mtongori at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Climate change and the impacts on crop-agriculture in Tanzania

Torbjørn Ims Østby at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Climatic mass balance of glaciers in Svalbard from observations and modelling

Borgar Aamaas at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Developing, evaluating, and applying emission metrics for the assessment of the climate impact of transportation

Kjetil Schanke Aas at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Representing Atmosphere – Cryosphere Interactions in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models

Alba Ordoñez Adellach at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Subsurface Imaging Using Multiples from Amplitude-Normalized Separated Wavefields: Application to Marine Towed-Streamer Data

Lars Riber at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Petrographical and mineralogical changes in altered basement rocks on the Utsira High, North Sea – processes of regolith formation and comparison with analogous weathering sections

Kjersti Gisnås at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Permafrost modelling over different scales in arctic and high-mountain environments