TSP NORWAY activity calendar

TSP Norway presentations at the European Geosciences Union Conference. 

Geoscientists from all over Europe get together for the General Assembly in Vienna , in Austria each year in April. This is a week long, large conference with around 6000 scientists participating, and this year with special focus on presenting some of the first results of the IPY projects. Five TSP Norway scientists participated in the Conference with 4 abstracts representing different parts of the research.

Project leader Hanne H. Christiansen, UNIS, gave an overview of the present state of the TSP project internationally with focus on the preliminary TSP Norway project results both from Northern Norway and Svalbard including the education and outreach part of the project. The first online permafrost borehole data from Gruvefjellet, Svalbard was presented. Herman Farbrot, working as researcher in the project at University of Oslo , presented the first steps towards a TTOP (Temperature of the Top of the Permafrost) model for Northern Norway . TSP post.doc. Håvard Juliussen, UNIS, presented a poster on active layer monitoring using geoelectrical resistivity tomography, showing results from almost one years of field measurements in Svalbard . Ketil Isaksen, met.no, presented a poster with initial results from the nine new boreholes in Northern Norway .