Olha Nahorna (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend her PhD thesis "Assessing the importance of improved forest data for decision-making processes" Friday 26 September, 2025.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis
"Assessing the importance of improved forest data for decision-making processes"
Norwegian title of thesis
"Vurdering av viktigheten av forbedrede skogdata for beslutningsprosesser"
Prescribed subject of trial lecture
"Climate change impacts on forest planning and implications for information needs"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence
Friday 26 September 2025 at 12:15, Festsalen, Clock building
The disputation can be attended by using the following link in Zoom:
https://nmbu.zoom.us/j/62316650640
All are welcome to attend, either physically or digitally, but please read the guidelines below before you open the link. This is to make sure that the disputation can be held without interruptions and noise.
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Professor Göran Ståhl, (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)
Second opponent: Dr. Olalla Díaz-Yáñez (ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Forest Resources Management, Switzerland)
Committee coordinator: Professor Erik Næsset (MINA/NMBU)
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Kyle Eyvindson (MINA/NMBU)
Co-supervisor: Professor Terje Gobakken (MINA/NMBU)
Guidelines for digital attendance:
- Do not use the camera.
- Mute your microphone.
- In Zoom you will first be placed in the waiting room. Please introduce yourself with your name, rather than with your IP address or computer name.
- If anyone has a question and wants to oppose ‘ex auditorio’, please write in the chat window of Zoom (1) “XY (your name) has a question" and (2) the question in brief. The chair of the defense will evaluate whether your question is opportune, and you will be given the word after the two opponents have concluded.
- When you are being given the word, you switch on your microphone and camera. Ensure briefly whether you are being heard.
- We advise you to test your own equipment before attending.
- The chat is not to be used for general discussions.
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no.
NB! This offer is before the defense only. After, the thesis will be available via NMBU's library.