NRB2025
50 years Anniversary Workshop and Symposia

The 24th NRB meeting will be held in Norway from 18th to 22nd of August 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 within June. 

For those interested there will most likely be a special issue with papers from the meeting in Hydrology Research. The arrangement comitee is in dialoge with the editors about this and more information will come.

Preliminary program:

The Travel Route

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

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 is 10.000 NOK 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. 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 - 4000 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.