4300 forest scientists have agreed to strengthen the world's forestsLast week, NMBU was part of organizing one of the world's largest congresses on forests. The Stockholm Declaration was adopted at the congress.
Kick-off for one of the world's largest forest conferencesToday, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden opens the IUFRO World Congress 2024 - one of the world's largest meeting places for researchers and professionals in forest science. NMBU is co-organizer.
New project on the impact of climate change on bat populationsNMBU’s researchers will use novel methods to examine how climate change impacts Nordic bat populations across seasons and latitudes, with the goal of informing future conservation strategies.
New methods may improve pork quality assessmentsIn his PhD thesis, Paweł Piotr Suliga has developed new methods to assess pork meat quality. His methods could potentially outperform existing monitoring tools, tackling the growing quality issues in …
Latest wolf population estimates confirm steady declineNew estimates from NMBU’s researchers show that the steady decline of the Scandinavian wolf population continues.
10 June: Paweł Piotr Suliga (MINA)Paweł Piotr Suliga (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend his PhD thesis " "Establishing new methods for PSE-like pork defects detection and diagnostics…
Adaptive forest management might mitigate future climate change impacts on Norwegian forestsIn her PhD, Joyce Machado Nunes Romeiro has investigated how climate change could double bark beetle damage in Norway and suggests adaptive forest management for economic and ecological benefits.
3 May: Joyce Machado Nunes Romeiro (MINA)Joyce Machado Nunes Romeiro will defend her PhD thesis " Climate change impacts on natural forest disturbances: bark beetle damage potential and management adaptations" Friday 3 May, 2024.
26 April: Reed April McKay (MINA)Reed April McKay (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management) will defend her PhD thesis "Drivers of bat activity and habitat use in boreal forest" Friday 26 April, 2024.
NMBU secures funding for innovative dendroclimatology projectIn a new project, researchers will use hyperspectral imaging and deep learning to detect and characterise climate proxy properties of tree-rings in selected tropical tree species.