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Doctoral candidate Evelien Jacoba Cornelia van Dijk at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis A Tale of Fire and Ice: How clusters of large volcanic eruptions shaped climate and societies of the mid- to late-Holocene for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

The VIKINGS project Annual Meeting and Work Shop will be helt 16.-17. of June. On the programme are presentations from researchers and discussions. The day 1 of the annual meeting is open for the public. See the programme here.

Invitation to Club Science – First Edition 2022: talks about Viking Societies & French Polar Explorations.

Welcome to the Geo-Wednesday in March! This month Kirstin Krüger, Professor at Meteorology and Oceanography, will give a talk about VIKINGS. 

Professor Kirstin Krüger will give a lecture about research in the Vikings project at the The Science Library, Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus; University of Oslo. The event will be streamed.

At the General Assemble 2021 VIKINGS researcher Manon Bajard will present research on how pre-Viking and Viking societies adapted their agricultural practices to a changing climate to fresh insights into how we can improve our future food security.

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I året 536/7 var ifølge bysantinske kilder solen sløret i 12-18 måneder og innhøstingen slo totalt feil. Hva skyldtes dette fenomenet og hva har det å gjøre med vår norrøne Fimbulvinter?

Title: Volcanoes, climate and past human impacts in Scandinavia – two case studies from before the 6^th century

Speaker: Felix Riede, University Århus.

Title: Eastern Mediterranean summer temperatures since 730 CE

from Mt. Smolikas tree-ring density data

Speaker: Jan Esper, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

The VIKINGS project Annual Meeting and Work Shop is helt 14.-15. of November. On the programme are presentations from researchers and discussions. Some lectures on Thursday are open for the public. See the programme here.