Research projects

Defining baselines for conservation from threatened cave archives and preserving biodiversity in high latitudes by applying ancient DNA, (zoo-)archaeology and palaeoecology.

The safety at sea project deals with legal issues connected with safety at sea. What opportunities have governments to influence safety of ships and oil installations? The main part of the project ended in 2010. Publications and presentations from seminars are published on the project's Norwegian pages.

The SolarALMA project was funded with a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) and ran from September 2016 to August 2021. The aim was to utilise the first observations of the Sun with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which promises significant steps towards understanding the outer layers of the solar atmosphere with possible contributions to solving the coronal heating problem.

The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) on La Palma is the world leading facility for high resolution observations of the Sun.

A cross-national study of how the use of tools is situated, experienced, and legitimated in Norwegian and American university programs.

All elements in the Universe, except for the lightest ones, are made in stars.

But the heavier elements, like gold, lead and uranium, are not. How are they made?

The project is guided by two hypotheses: The ¡®civil wars¡¯ were not particular destructive or chaotic, and they should be studied as regional conflicts and not as national ones.

Modern science usually provides both copious amounts of data and complicated models for the part of reality it is trying to describe. Often there is even so much data, and the models so complicated, that it becomes difficult to make full use of the data in deciding which models best describe the world around us, and finding their properties. The main goal of the GAMBIT project is to develop a software tool to help physicists do just that.

This research project is the second book project undertaken by the Oslo Law of the Sea Forum, OSLOS.

Risk of colorectal cancer in inflammatory bowel disease

¨C a multinational cohort study.

This project aims at investigating the molecular mechanisms involved in the development of delirium, or ¡°acute confusion¡±, and dementia, and the link between these two conditions.

Restoring and management of cod in in Skagerrak/Kattegat

MEMORY will study the topography of Nordic Protestantism with emphasis on the cultural role of specific places playing an ambiguous role for the secular/sacred divide.

The EPoS-project is addressing one of the most important challenges in the prevention of colorectal cancer; the surveillance of patients that have had colorectal polyps removed (polypectomy). The study is conducted by leading researchers within gastroenterology, epidemiology and biostatistics from Europe and the United States.

Green Growth based on Marine Resources: Ecological and Socio-Economic Constraints

Seasonal to decadal Changes Affecting Marine Productivity: an Interdisciplinary investigation (Researcher project - SANCOOP)

The ¡°Linking Instruction and Student Achievement¡± ¨C LISA study - investigates the impact of different models of classroom instruction on students¡¯ learning by comparing student achievement data with classroom data

Effects of climate change on boreal lake ecosystems: Productivity and community responses

The InterTran project is an interdisciplinary research project focusing on the expanding new, European transport policy from a legal and logistical point of view.

The Research Council of Norway has funded the project ¡° Vortex flows and magnetic tornadoes on the Sun and cool stars¡± for the period 2013 to 2017. The aim of the VORTEX project is the comprehensive study of vortex flows and magnetic tornadoes on the Sun and other stars.

NordICC is a multicentre, randomised trial in Norway, Poland, Sweden and the Netherlands. NordICC is the first randomised trial investigating the effect of colonoscopy on colorectal cancer incidence and mortality.

This project is a part of the 2014-projects initiatived by research group for Law, Society and Historical Change at the Law faculty, University of Oslo.

Nordic Centre for Research on Marine Ecosystems and Resources under Climate Change

The safety at sea project deals with legal issues connected with safety at sea. What opportunities have governments to influence safety of ships and oil installations? The main part of the project ended in 2010. Publications and presentations from seminars are published on the project's Norwegian pages.

The aim of RiNS is to develop a comprehensive understanding of practical skills in nursing and how these skills are learned.