Previous events
Title: Volcanic eruptions and climate, a 100.000-year history
Speaker: Alice Paine, University of Basel
Title: How spatial and temporal wet–dry variability shapes the carbon cycle in a thawing boreal peatland at the southern edge of permafrost
Speaker: Oliver Sonnentag, Université de Montreal
UiO:Energy and Environment invites UiO master students, PhDs, and summer project students working on energy, climate and sustainability, to present their research at the Energy and Environment Forum on September 25, 2025!
Title: In-situ measurement of mixed-phase cloud microphysics: Using stable water isotopes to identify ice growth pathways in Cold Air Outbreak clouds
Speaker: Elise Rosky, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
The Energy and Environment Forum 2025 took place September 25. This was an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the green transition seen from different perspectives presented by a mix of UiO researchers, students and external contributions.
Title: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service evaluation of smoke and dust in 2025
Speaker: Mark Parrington, ECMWF
Title: Emulating global carbon cycle dynamics with CARMEN, a new simple carbon cycle model
Speaker: Alejandro Romero Prieto, University of Leeds
Title: Plans and outlines for the coming IPCC AR7 reports
Speaker: Jan Fuglestvedt, CICERO
The 2025 Eco-Emotions conference (September 3rd-5th) will thematize water. Access the participants' abstracts at the program page.
Title: The role of climate variability and climate change for net-zero energy systems
Speaker: Jan Wohland, Section for Energy Systems (UiO)
Talk 1: Exploring the future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the ice-sheet models PISM and ISSM (Lena Nicola, PIK)
Talk 2: Revisiting AMOC impacts: from temperature extremes to carbon uptake and the economy (Eduardo Alastrué de Asenjo, MPI)
Title: The impact of resolving mesoscale motions on the large-scale atmospheric response to midlatitude SST anomalies
Speaker: David Battisti, University of Washington
Title: Introducing the IMPACTS field campaign: Investigation of Microphysis and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms
Speaker: Lynn McMurdie, University of Washington
In the travelogue Petromania, Simen S?tre investigates what it means to live in a petrostate. Scholars affiliated with the Translatability of Oil project have invited the journalist, writer, and globetrotter to Blindern to discuss the advantages and pitfalls of making cross-cultural comparisons.
Title: Physics, meteorology and impacts of extreme humid heat
Speaker: Steven Sherwood, University of New South Wales
Join us for this year's Hal Wilhite Memorial Lecture held by Professor Alan Warde on how food habits and preferences change.
In collaboration with Energy Valley and SINTEF, we welcome you to an afternoon where leading researchers from the University of Oslo and SINTEF meet forward-looking companies from the energy and technology sectors to explore collaboration, share insights, and engage in industrial discussion.
What happened the last time we encountered rapid climate change? How did natural and social environments interact during this Little Ice Age (ca. 1300-1850)?
Title: Towards data-driven regional weather forecasting
Speaker: Ivar Ambj?rn Seierstad, MET Norway
Title: Volcanic radiative forcing of climate: past and future
Speaker: Anja Schmidt, German Aerospace Center
How does finance and oil mix? This is the topic of the next gathering of the Oil & Society research network.
Title: Simulation of atmospheric chemistry with NorESM
Speaker: Dirk Olivie, MET Norway
Talk 1: High resolution lake sediment archives in studying microplastic pollution (Saija Saarni, University of Turku)
Talk 2: Using Dual-Energy CT to discriminate sediment facies in varved sequences (Pierre Francus, INRS)
Title: Updated IPCC emissions scenarios no longer limit warming to 1.5°C
Speaker: Chris Smith, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
How can Norway and the EU achieve sustainable competitiveness in a geopolitically transforming world?