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NRB2025
The 24th NRB meeting will be held in Norway from 2nd to 4th of September 2025.
NRB 2025 will be a 50 year anniversary workshop for the Northern Research Basins Workshops and Symposia. The first one was in Edfors in Sweden in 1975.
We encourage those who have the history of the NRB in their weins and photo albums to share the history, their images and their experiences. This can be added to this web pages to carry it forward to future generations of NRB's
The main topic of the symposia will be:
"Natural Hazards in Cold Climate Regions"
Flash floods, landslides, snow avalanches, slush flows, glacial outburst etc are expected to become more frequent as a result of a climate change and water plays a crucial role in the processe leading up to these devastating events. The strong seasonality, freezing and thawing and snow and ice influences these processes in the cold climate regions. What are the impacts and our experiences, what do we expect and how do we adresse these challenges are the background for the topic.
But as always before you are more than welcome and encouraged to present your research also on other topics relevant to the hydrology in the cold climate regions and to the Cryosphere.
The presentations in the symposia will be grouped into sessions based on the received abstracts. We encourage you to deliver abstracts before 4th of July.
The 25th Northern Research Basin conference (NRB) is pleased to be collaborating with IWA Publishing journal, Hydrology Research.
For authors interested in submitting to the journal, please review the Information for Authors and submit by 30 September 2025. For more information about Hydrology Research, please see: https://iwaponline.com/hr.
Articles in Hydrology Research are published Open Access, ensuring global accessibility. Institutional, regional, and discretionary waivers are available and a 25% discount on the APC is available for corresponding authors who are members of the International Water Association. For more details, please visit iwaponline.com/open_access/pages/publication_fees.
Preliminary program:
Due to few participants for the originally planned NRB meeting the program below is cancelled. Instead the meeting will be held in cooperation with the modelling conference at Lillehammer 2nd to 4th of September where NRB will have the option of a separate session if there are sufficient interest and NRB registrations for this.
Monday 18 August:
Train Oslo-Finse 14:25 – 18:42
Own carriage on the train
Dinner and accommodation Finse Arctic research station
Tuesday 19 August:
Session 1 at- Finsehytta
Lunch Finsehytta
Session 2 - Finsehytta
Local excursion Finse – Finse Arctic research station
Dinner and accommodation Finse Arctic research station
Wednesday 20 August:
Session 3 - Finsehytta
Lunch Finsehytta
Session 4 - Finsehytta
Trip in the surrounding area
Dinner and accommodation Finse Arctic research station
Thursday 21 August
Session 5 - Finsehytta
lunch Finsehytta
Train Finse-Voss 12:37 – 13:48
Excursion; Flood protection at Voss
Dinner at Ivar Løne's at Skulestadmo
Accommodation Voss
Friday 22.August
Session 6 - Voss
Lunch Voss
Return to Oslo or Bergen by train
Oslo 13:03 – 19:05
Bergen 13:51 – 14:59
The Travel Route
Due to few registrations for the originally planned NRB meeting the below travel route is not valid any more. Instead the meeting will be held at Lillehammer which a very nice town in central inland Norway joint with the modelling conference.
We will meet in Oslo, the capital of Norway, and go from the central train station at what Lonely planet told to be one of the 10 best railway journeys in the world. We hope to get our own carriage and will use the time to get better known with each other.
Finse is at the mountain platou Hardangervidda just below one of the largest glaciers in Norway, Hardangerjøkulen. Finse is only reachable by train, bike or by feet, nevertheless it has been a famous destinations for hiking and recreation for Norwegians since mountainering became popular in the 19th century. Since 1972, when Finse Alpin Research Center was established, the location has also attracted biologists, geologists, geophysicists and other researchers from a wide range of Norwegian and international institutions to do high alpin field research.
Our stay from Monday to Thursday will be at the research station. The accomodation has a good but basic standard mostly with two bed shared rooms. If some participants prefer a higher standard it is possible to book a room at Finse Hotel 1.5 km away from the research station.
At Finse we will have field excursions to visit and get information about the research sites and facilities. From Finse there are possibilities for spectacular hikes and bike rides and there might be arranged after noon excursions to interesting place
At Thursday we will go to Voss, again by train. Voss is one of the most flood exposed cities in Norway and they have a high focus on protection and warning. We will get information about the work they do from local people. In the evening we will visit on of the most famous dining places in Norway and eat traditional food. A very interesting experience for most people.
Registration
Registration
To get an overview of number of participants from the various countries we need you to do a preliminary registration. This can be done by filling out the form below. The estimated cost including travel from Oslo-Finse-Voss, Accomodation at Finse Research Station including breakfast, lunsj, dinner and local excursions will be about 5 500 NOK with the contribution from the Norwegian Research Council but before any sponsoring is included. We will work on getting sponsors to the program to reduce the cost, but how much this can amount to can not be promised at the moment.
We need your preliminary registration within end of April to make necessary reservation and ordering and to set up a final program. There is a limited space at the research station and the first registered will be prioritized.
Before end of May we will know the final cost and you will confirm your registration. If some of you prefer to stay at Finse Hotel (1.5 km from the station) that is possible, but you will have to book an cover these expenses your self, the estimated cost of a room there is about 3000 - 5000 Nok/night incl breakfast.
We hope you find this interesting and that you will come to Norway in August to meet Northern Research Basin friends.
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