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Kristina Dunkel receives the "Teacher of the Year"-award
Oct. 14, 2020
The students at the department of Geosciences every year give the "Teacher of the year"-award to the lecturer they find worthy of it. This year the award was given to Njord's postdoc Kristina Dunkel, only two years after our center leader Bjørn Jamtveit got the same award.
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"Hot planet, cool minds" - an overview of what we actually need to do for climate change
Oct. 5, 2020
Climate change is a hot topic, for obvious and good reasons, and there is much discussion about what we need to do. To reach the goals for climate change we need to reduce the world's greenhouse gas emission drasticly, in fact so much that the emissions are less than zero within a couple of decades. Is that even possible?
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The Art of Porous Media
Sep. 29, 2020
Beauty can be found in the most ordinary of things. Some of the greatest scientists that ever lived endorse this viewpoint. Richard Feynman, in one of his many strokes of pure genius boldly spoke about the several layers of beauty that he - a curious observer of reality - could see in a flower. His “Ode to a Flower” is filled to the brim with the scientific and aesthetic joy.
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The possible origin of the cosmic dust bunny
Sep. 21, 2020
Jane X. Luu, Eirik G. Flekkøy and Renaud Toussaint tell the story about cosmic dust-bunnies and how they are created in the last issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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Jessica McBeck recognized as an outstanding reviewer by AGU
June 30, 2020
In appreciation of AGU’s Outstanding Reviewers of 2019 AGU editors recognize the contributions of reviewers, whose valuable expertise continues to raise our journals’ high standards.
