Back in the home land
Oslo opera house A couple of months has whizzed past since I last got around to updating this blog; I apologise for the lengthy delay! Over that time, I’ve only actually spent about 2 weeks in Sweden with trips to Oslo, Leeds, Edinburgh, Buckinghamshire and the French Alps filling up the rest. Back at the beginning of January, I attended a 3-day conference at Oslo University where I presented a poster on my current work, looking at the application of geophysics to study proglacial sedimentary structures. It was a geological conference with about a thousand attendees discussing anything from landslip hazards in the Norwegian mountains to recently discovered oil and gas plays in the North Sea. Between the numerous academic talks, it was a good opportunity to catch up with a few friends from my Svalbard course last year and others in the Scandinavian geological field, over eye-wateringly expensive beer. Back in Stockholm, between revising for a mind-boggling seismic reflecti...