Forskere ved universitetet i Utrecht i samarbeid med professor Trond H. Torsvik ved CEED Universitetet i Oslo, har funnet et tapt kontinent som dukket under Sør Europa for millioner av år siden. Det skal være fra dette kontinentet at fjellkjeder som Alpene oppsto.
Forskningsnytt & I media - Side 8
The 2019 Ada Lovelace Workshop included 10 CEED members (about 10% of participants and 25% of the keynote speakers!). Some highlights of the workshop below.
Researchers from CEED are travelling with a film team around Norway to unravel the opening and closure of ocean basins (the Wilson Cycle). They will make a series of short videos where each episode is one stage of the Wilson Cycle - watch this space.
We have recently hired six new Young Scientists to CEED. The competition was strong, and we received on the average around 50 applications per advertisement. All positions ended up being offered to females. Here is the addition of bright young scientist at CEED this Autumn semester, welcome to them all!
Arrive by November 3, leave on November 10
Five days of theoretic and practical short course with a one-day of local field trip
Do you have an upcoming publication and would like to extend its reach through a press release? Maybe your university doesn’t have a media office able to help, you are short on time, and/or don’t know where to start. Don’t fret, this week Grace Shephard (Researcher at CEED, University of Oslo) shares some tips for writing your own press release and includes a handy template for download. She also spoke to experts from the EGU and AGU press offices on writing a pitch to the media.
The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages. The aim of the Academy is to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations in scientific matters, and further interdisciplinary and international research.
The expedition in the international scientific educational programme Class@Baikal / Floating University was finished successfully the 10th of July. The class got attention from the Russian Television, also with short interview with CEEDs Adriano Mazzini, leader of the Norwegian effort in the expedition and the HOTMUD project.