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Articles from 2007-2008

  • Senior research engineer Stig Monsen begins to unload the 2-5 tonnes of rock.

    02.12.2008 - The core has arrived!

    This week CGB researchers took delivery of 90 boxes or 800 meters of drill core collected during the Barberton Scientific Drilling Project in South Africa earlier this year.

  • ingressbilde

    01.12.2008 - Meeting the polar challenge

    Building on discussions that began in 2005, the European Science Foundation established a consortium of 16 national institutions, funding agencies and companies from 10 European countries in 2006 as part of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).

  • Growth on a "high temperature" incubator

    06.10.2008 - Success at Sea

    According to Centre leader, Rolf-Briger Pedersen, frontier research such as that in the areas of deep sea, deep bio-sphere, zero-time (deep time) is risky business, but this year the field activities have paid off!

  • Rocks

    16.09.2008 - Why drill?

    It can be difficult to infer detailed geological information from surface rocks because these are often badly preserved and greatly changed by the effects of weathering at the earth’s surface. Drilling into rocks allows you to get beneath the surface to collect pristine material in a continuous temporal sequence that is a physical record of geological history.

  • Drilling in progress: foreground rock core being packed into boxes, background drill rig in action.

    26.08.2008 - Drilling into 3.5 Billion Year Old Rocks Completed!

    A dedicated team from Drillers in Training cc. enabled us to collect some of the earliest and best preserved rocks in Africa. The drill cores hold clues to the nature of microbial life and environments on the ancient earth.

  • Pedersen

    14.05.2008 - Using research to define boundaries

    Researchers from the Department of Earth Science at the University of Bergen, a number of whom are now associated with CGB, have been working marine geology and geophysical questions in the Norwegian and Polar seas for years.

  • Life in the deep

    13.03.2008 - Life in the deep

    It is becoming increasingly critical to address the need to learn more about the deep sea ecosystems because fishery technology is also developing and the need for new fisheries is driving expansion into the deep sea. This means that we need to find out what lives there before it is lost forever.

  • Whale

    29.01.2008 - New whale fall!

    Authorities involved with the most recent beaching contacted researchers before dealing with the carcass. Schander was able to provide them with information about effective sinking protocols for the establishment of a “natural laboratory” around the carcass in the deeper fjord waters.

  • ingressbilde

    19.11.2007 - The “whale” story continues!

    In Hordaland it is the fire department that is generally called upon to take care of the occasional whale carcass find. Biologists are becoming increasingly aware that such carcasses are evolutionary treasure troves - macro-nutrient “oases”.

  • Presentation

    20.09.2007 - Secrets of the Deep Sea

    Sunday 16 September, Rolf-Birger Pedersen, the leader of the Centre for Geobiology, gave a popular science lecture at the new Science Centre in Bergen, VILVITE. (www.vilvite.no). The lecture was part of a series of popular science lectures being given at the Centre on Sundays.

  • Whale-fall

    20.08.2007 - BIO gets its own Whale-Fall!

    The Mesocosm Laboratory at Espeland Marine Biological Station has been a centre for much fascinating research. Christoffer Schander is a professor at the Department of Biology at the University of Bergen and a group leader in the Centre for GEOBIOLOGY. He explains that now it will be possible for researchers working at the Laboratory to have access to a new, unique, natural laboratory; a whale-fall.