Through experiments and play, researchers from the University of Oslo brought geoscience closer to visitors of all ages. The event took place at the Climate House, with several stations offering interactive activities and workshops. Many happy 3–6-year-olds enjoyed Trust the Rocks! that day!
Artificial intelligence cannot yet predict exactly when an earthquake, landslide or glacier collapse will happen. But it can help researchers understand what happens as rocks and ice move towards failure, the point where accumulated stress causes them to fracture, slip or collapse.
We are excited to present the lineup of speakers and their engaging topics for the Seminar Series this spring. Check out the program below!
Now they are working on scaling up the process.
The research team behind the SFF proposal “Element Transport in Earth’s Crust” – ELEMENTS at the Department of Geosciences and Njord has good reason to be pleased. They have been invited to the final round in the competition for Centres of Excellence (SFF) – but the competition will be tough.
In a paper recently published in Advances in Water Resources, Yao Xu, along with Marcel Moura, Eirik Grude Flekkøy, and Knut Jørgen Måløy, found a way to map pH and carbon dissolution (in space and time) during CO₂-driven convection in porous media.
The consequences of volcanic eruptions can be severe. Now researchers at the University of Oslo have made a surprising discovery: magma pressure can fold solid rock in less than a single day. They found the evidence on a mountainside.
International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control newly published a paper about fractures in basaltic lavaflows. In the paper, Rakul Johannesen, Olivier Galland, Hans Jørgen Kjøll, Jana Ólavsdóttir, Óluva Eidesgaard, and Sverre Planke investigate how fractures at the field scale influence the properties of basaltic reservoirs.
Flowlab reached a record number of visitors during the Njord Lab tour in January 2026!
We are excited to present the lineup of speakers and their engaging topics for the Seminar Series this spring. Check out the program below!
We are excited to present the lineup of internal and external speakers and their engaging topics for the Seminar Series this fall. Check out the program below!
The Norwegian government has allocated over a billion for AI research. The competition was tough; from over 50 applications, six were selected. TRUST from UiO is one of the six new centers. Many researchers from NJORD and GEO are affiliated with the center and will contribute to TRUST.
Nature got there first: When CO2 reacts with volcanic rock, it transforms from a greenhouse gas into solid minerals.
The Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award 2024 was presented by Trond Helge Torsvik, PHAB to the award winner Joanna Dziadkowiec, at a seminar the 15 of May in the Science Libary at University of Oslo.
In a new article in JGR: Earth Surface, A research team has used the fantastic dataset from the landslide in Åknes, which is the most monitored mountain area in Norway.
While we arrange the Njord Seminar Series Autumn 25, feel free to look at our prevoius line-up for Spring 25!
We are excited to present our lineup of expert speakers and their engaging topics this spring. We are also pleased to announce that the majority of the seminars will take place in-person this semester. Check out the program below!
The new VISTA Centre – VICCO, was opened at the Department of Geosciences, early in December 2024. The centre will explore the potential for large-scale permanent CO2 storage in rocks.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences students have chosen Associate Professor Kristina Dunkel as this year's lecturer.
Njord researcher John M. Aiken organized the conference at the UiO Science Library Monday September 30th and Tuesday 1st of October 2024.
It was a great pleasure hosting Andrea Billarent Cedillo from the University of Utrecht in our lab!
It is a pleasure to have our work featured on the front cover of the Crystal Growth & Design journal!
Euromech Colloquium: A multidisciplinary discussion on binder cohesion took place in May 2024 in Vienna.
REACT project funded by the Research Council of Norway started in January 2024!
