Professor Andreas Max Kääb was in January 2022 appointed to "Academic Chair" in the "Knowledge hub of Climate" in the network Circle-U. This interdisciplinary network brings together nine universities in as many European countries for collaboration on research and education. The network is now led by Rector Svein Stølen at the University of Oslo.
Professor Joseph Henry LaCasce, Department of Geosciences, UiO, was admitted as a member of the The Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research (NVP) in December 2021. This academy has 173 individual members in addition to the five institutional members. The academy is based in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 78° north, and aims to promote research and education about and in polar regions.
Read the article on the website of the Department of Geosciences.