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Prehistoric megafloods smaller than assumed (14.05.2021)
Mighty floods have carved out deep canyons on Earth. New research suggests this may have required less power than previously thought. Collecting such data, however, may be demanding.
Eurasian Ice Sheets
A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80 000 years (01.03.2021)
Forskersamarbeid
Creating future research leaders for marine sustainability (09.02.2021)
The UN Ocean Science Decade gets off to a flying start through the University of Bergen’s new interdisciplinary SEAS Fellowship Programme. For the next 5 years, UiB will be training a new generation of marine research leaders and decision makers to ensure sustainable oceans.
Figur EPOS
Invitation to EPOS-N Final Workshop 25-27 January 2021 (20.01.2021)
Invitation to the EPOS-Norway (EPOS-N) Final Workshop sharing the outcomes and achievements of the EPOS-N project in the areas of Solid Earth data integration and e-infrastructure, and Solid Earth monitoring in the Artic.
Demise of a glacier, uncovering a fjord (20.11.2020)
When the last ice age was over, a large glacier covering the 1000 meter deep Hardangerfjord collapsed. These events at the end of the ice age in Norway, resemble what we are about to witness in today’s Greenland.
Klimakart
Climate changed abruptly as the Nordic Seas turned rapidly from a white to a blue ocean (11.11.2020)
Widespread sea ice decline happened within 250 years or less and unleashed abrupt climate change during the last glacial period, a new study shows. This documents that the cause for the rapidity and severity of abrupt changes during the last glacial resides in the ocean. Henrik Sadatzki writes about the work he has been leading.
Xingguo Huang
Public Defence: Xingguo Huang (08.09.2020)
Modeling and inversion of seismic data using multiple scattering, renormalization and homotopy methods.
Antarktis
Coupling of Southern Ocean and Antarctica during a past greenhouse (01.09.2020)
Temperature in the Southern Ocean was more tightly linked to the extent of Antarctic glaciation during past greenhouse climates than previously thought.
Magnhild Sydnes
Public Defence: Magnhild Sydnes (12.06.2020)
The effects of magmatic intrusions on temperature history and diagenesis in sedimentary basins and petroleum systems.
Participants at NNSN seminar
Seismology Seminar at Solstrand, 20-21 February 2020 (12.06.2020)
Marie Eide Lien photo
New PhD Candidate: Marie Eide Lien (04.05.2020)
The Jebsen Centre has a new PhD candidate starting today!
Havis
Abrupt warming caused ice collapse and sea level rise (22.04.2020)
Near the end of the last ice age, the global sea level rose 12–14 meters in less than 350 years. Most of the meltwater has been thought to have come from North America and Antarctica. A new study shows that the ice over coastal Norway and the Barents Sea may have contributed almost as much.
EIS ice sheet extent
New publication in Nature Geoscience (20.04.2020)
Last month Andreas Beinlich had a publication in Nature Geoscience, and this month we are happy to announce that a new publication from Jebsen Centre researchers is out in Nature Geoscience: Today Jo Brendryen, Bjarte Hannisdal, and Kristian Agasøster Haaga published “Eurasian Ice Sheet collapse was a major source of Meltwater Pulse 1A 14,600 years ago”.
Andreas Beinlich på berg i feltet
New publication in Nature Geoscience, by Andreas Beinlich. - Title: "Instantaneous rock transformations in the deep crust driven by reactive fluid flow" (18.03.2020)
Disputas bilde av Jonathan W. Rheinlænder med opponenter og leder av disputasen i Geofag
Jonathan Winfield Rheinlænder defended his thesis on Friday 7. Januaru 2020 (20.01.2020)
MSc. Jonathan Winfieldd Rheinlænder ved Institutt for geovitenskap og Bjerknessenteret for klimaforskning disputerte fredag 17. januar med avhandlingen: "The role of ocean circulation and sea ice in abrupt climate change"
Our field vessel (Arctica II), docked near the study site
Ice-free conditions on Spitsbergen during the Last Glacial Maximum (22.11.2019)
During the coldest years of the last ice-age the ice cap reached the British Isles and Polen. New research has revealed that an ice-free green spot existed further north - on a penisula close to Spitsbergen.
Doktoranden, veiledere og komité
Silje Smith-Johnsen disputerte fredag 15. november, 2019 (21.11.2019)
MSc. Silje Smith-Johnsen ved Institutt for geovitenskap og Bjerknessenteret for klimaforskning disputerte i dag med avhandlingen «Dynamics of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream: the role of geothermal heat and subglacial hydrology».
Eoghan Reeves i isen
Studying vents below the Arctic ice (13.11.2019)
An international and multidisciplinary team of 36 scientists and engineers, with the assistance of the officers and crew of the vessel, conducted a multidisciplinary investigation of deep (4000 m) hydrothermal vents under permanent ice cover in the Arctic.

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