Europe & North America

Norway

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Norway is involved in many earth sciences projects.

The Gea Norvegica Geopark is the first geopark in Scandinavia. It is very active in awareness raising through educational tourism activities.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

Freshwater

- Northern European Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (FRIEND) More
- Hindu Kush HimalayanFlow Regimes from the International Experimental and Network Data (HKH FRIEND)

Earth Sciences

- National Geoparks

- Triassic Time and Trans-Panthalassan Correlations (IGCP, Project 467)

- GIS metallogeny of Central Asia (IGCP, Project 473)

- Au-Ag-telluride-selenide deposits (IGCP, Project 486)

- The role of Holocene environmental catastrophes in human history (IGCP, Project 490)

- Ordovician palaeogeography and palaeoclimate (IGCP, Project 503) 

- Global correlation of A-type granites and related rocks, their mineralization, and significance in lithospheric evolution  (IGCP, Project 510)

- Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences (IGCP, Project 511)

- Neoproterozoic Ice Ages (IGCP, Project 512)

- Quaternary Land-Ocean Interactions (IGCP, Project 495)

Sciences Policy and Sustainable Development

- Establishing Science and Technology Parks More