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Prof. Chong-Yu Xu, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, has been named a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS in three subject fields, including his main research field, hydrology.

The Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo (UiO) hosted the annual meeting for the research project "Climate change and ecosystems management in Malawi and Tanzania", a NORHED II project. The participants from universities of Oslo, Malawi, Mzuzu, and Dar es Salaam respectively had five rich and productive days in a summery Oslo.

One of the largest European Geosciences conferences, EAGE was hosted by Norway after a long hiatus of 20 years. Geoscientists from Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo were strongly represented at the conference.

Professor of hydrology, Lena Merete Tallaksen, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo, has been awarded the International Hydrology Prize – the Doodge Medal by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. She is the first in Norway to receive this award.

At a ceremony at the Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Prof. Trond Helge Torsvik received the Wollaston Medal 2024, June 12th 2024 in London. 

Researcher Mohammad Nooraiepour, Department of Geosciences University of Oslo has been awarded the InterPore Rosette medal for 2024 by InterPore. This is awarded to individuals who have contributed significantly to the science of porous media through voluntary and significant efforts.

Senior engineer Kristian Backer-Owe has served the geochemistry community at the Department of Geosciences for a long time. There was a celebration of his 35 years at GEO and a farewell gathering for Kristian on one of his last days in the office.

The recently Oslo Hydrogen Seminar shed light on hydrogen as a clean energy source with focus on geological hydrogen storage. The seminar was organised by the Dept. of Geosciences' Section for Environmental Geosciences in collaboration with the HySTORM-project and the Uni. of Edinburgh.

In a new study a research team suggests, based on new Earth System Model simulations, that the temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere in the past 8000 years were highly variable on interannual to centennial timescales. The study reveals that this period was not a unique period of climate stability as it is currently often portrayed, and it pinpoints clusters of large volcanic eruptions as a key driver for past climate variations.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including PHAB’s Justin Tonti-Filippini and CEED’s Boris Robert, conducted a large paleomagnetic and geochronologic study of 800-million-year-old red beds from South China. In contrast to previous studies in the region, their results suggest that Earth’s geomagnetic field and rotation axis were stable at that time. Their paper was just selected as an Editors’ Highlight in JGR Solid Earth.

Professor Stephanie Werner is elected as a member of the Academia Europaea (AE) from 2024. Membership of the AE is for individuals that have demonstrated "sustained academic excellence".

Employees at the University of Oslo (UiO) are satisfied with the support from colleagues, management, and the work climate, while participation and flow of information score somewhat lower. Here are the results from the first joint work environment survey (ARK) at UiO.

Fabian Barras is a researcher at the interdisciplinary Njord Center at the University of Oslo, where physicists, mathematicians, and geologists collaborate to understand the Earth's physics, conducted this research. He was recently interviewed in Titan the University of Oslo news publication for natural sciences and technology at the University of Oslo.

Centre director and Professor Trond Helge Torsvik, University of Oslo is awarded the Wollaston Medal for 2024 for his ground-breaking scientific contributions to geosciences. The medal is the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.

The internationally recognised Norwegian geochemist, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt ("Father of modern geochemistry", 1888-1947), was based at the Geological Institute and the Mineralogical-Geological Museum (merged into NHM in 2000) at the University of Oslo. 

The prize 'Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences' is awarded awarded to women who have made significant contributions to the field of geosciences. This year it goes to Sofia Kjellman from University of Tromsø.

The third Arctic Ocean Dynamics workshop gathered oceanographers from around the world on November 9-10 at Oslo Science Park. The event was devoted to research on understanding the changes in the Artic Ocean, and was hosted by the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo.

The second seminar on CO2 storage in basalt took place at UiO 29th of November 2023.

The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award from the European Geosciences Union is awarded to Herman Fæhn Fuglestvedt for the poster/PICO entitled: Arctic Polar Vortex Controls Aerosol Evolution After High-Latitude Volcanic Eruptions.

The lecture: "No Seal, no Deal – Evaluating seal quality of CO2 storage sites, offshore Norway", was helt by Md Nazmul Haque Mondol, Professor at Dept of Geosciences, on the 18. October 2023. The recorded GeoWednesday lecture is now available and can be seen on YouTube. 

Join the EMERALD Open Science Day on 17 October! On this full day seminar we will gather Norwegian communities working within the field of ‘ecological climatology’. Welcome to Klimahuset at Tøyen for a programme full of EMERALD science!

– It's a great day to be Rector, said Svein Stølen when the new research centre, the Centre for Planetary Habitability was officially opened 20th of September. At the event the centre directors,Trond H. Torsvik and Stephanie C. Werner, received the plaque stating that the centre is a Norwegian Centre of Excellence.

There was a celebration when two of the researchers here at the Department of Geosciences each received their ERC Starting Grant. The two who received funding are Norbert Pirk and Paul Yves Jean Antonio. They were celebrated with an reception with cake and speeches from colleagues, on Friday 8 of September.

Five promising researchers at the University of Oslo have been awarded ERC Starting Grants from the European Research Council. The projects showcase the breadth of UiO's disciplines, ranging from sustainability and marginalization to plasma accelerators and sleep.

The MC2 project at University of Oslo is hightlighted with a "Results in Brief" news article at the Cordis (EU research results) website. Project leader Professor Trude Storelvmo is interviewed in the article and gives a short overview over research and results in the project.