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Evolutionary Applications special issue (18.02.2011)
Evolutionary Applications has newly published a special issue "In the light of evolution: interdisciplinary challenges in food, health, and the environment".
How to survive an alien invasion? (16.02.2011)
Sometimes fish can be just as scary as aliens – especially if you are a tiny Daphnia looking into the mouth of a big perch. Until 2006 daphnids in Lake Myravatn were unaware of the vertebrates living in neighbouring lakes. That year perch was illegally introduced and the daphnids had to face a novel death risk. So how do they cope with this alien invasion? PhD student Ingrid Wathne from EvoFish... Read more
Alt i ett-algen (25.01.2011)
Unraveling the Dead Sea deep biosphere secrets (17.01.2011)
The International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) has recently started a drilling campaign in the Dead Sea looking for evidence of life in an extreme hypersaline environment.
Fishing guppies (14.01.2011)
Our guppy experiment is set up to study life-history changes caused by harvesting. This involves monitoring of the populations, and harvesting at regular intervals. Now it is the time for the third harvest.
Economics meets ecology and evolution (04.01.2011)
The Norwegian Research Council interviewed Fabian Zimmermann about his work in fisheries bioeconomics.
EvoFish in "Evolution of life" (20.12.2010)
Mikko Heino from EvoFish is featuring in the video "The case of the shrinking cod", a part of the award-winning website "Evolution of life".
Life is found in deepest layer of Earth's crust (25.11.2010)
CGB Director, Rolf Birger Pedersen is interviewed in New Scientist about some of the latest discoveries on Earth's deep biosphere.
CGB publishes a Nature Communications paper (22.11.2010)
The paper presents the 2008 discovery of Loki’s Castle, the most northerly identified black smoker yet identified, and its unique vent fauna.
Life beneath the seafloor below the South Pacific Gyre (18.11.2010)
CGB researcher is an expert participant on an IODP cruise to the South Pacific.
New Ocean Documentary (20.10.2010)
Produced by the well-known French nature documentary producer Jacques Perrin, the film "Oceans" is being previewed next Tuesday at BIFF.
Tiny tubes point to ancient life (15.10.2010)
BBC Science and Environment News highlights a recent article written by Daniel Fliegel et al in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Frede Thingstad awarded research excellence prize (29.09.2010)
BIO researcher, Frede Thingstad, was awarded the Research Council of Norway's prize for research excellence.
This “breathtaking” fish helps to redress the balance in an overfished...
A Fish in Purgatory (28.09.2010)
The bearded goby seems to possess remarkable, even super-hero-like qualities.
Teaching tip (28.09.2010)
Using mobile phones to document research observations.
Congratulations to Nicola!! (17.09.2010)
Last night the Bergen Research Foundation (BFS) awarded its annual awards, which are aimed at recruiting outstanding young researchers.
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English-speakers (16.09.2010)
– watch your pronunciation!
Some members of the Bergen LIFECYCLE research team.
LIFECYCLE: an EU success story (16.09.2010)
Keys to success in EU projects: think long-term, engage in pre-call discussions, network.

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