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Male and female sea lice
"Immune modulation by the salmon louse - time to shift targets" (04.05.2021)
A most remarkable feature of the Atlantic salmon louse is its ability to neutralize practically all immune responses by its host, the Atlantic salmon. Except for some very limited local reaction, the louse is barely visible to the immune system. What may be the result of millions of years of co-evolution and a molecular arms-race between parasite and host has resulted in some sort of armistice in... Read more
Workshop participants
Young people are important stewards in conservation and development (22.04.2021)
Global social and environmental issues have recently seen a surge of youth involvement; a development that could be explained by the fact that the youth of today will grow old in the world we are creating now. This new study, published in Global Environmental Change led by Alicia Donnellan Barraclough (UiB, CeSAM), shows that young people have an in-depth understanding of the social-ecological... Read more
Photo of UNESCO chair UiB - Inger Måren
Conservation and restoration of nature will aid in achieving all other SDGs (25.03.2021)
In an article for Spire, Inger Måren and Vigdis Vandvik explain why we need nature like never before to achieve the UN's sustainable development goals.
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dCod 1.0 in DLN cross-project collaborations (16.03.2021)
In order to promote cross-disciplinarity and cross-project activities within the centre, Centre for digital life Norway offers financial support for method collaborations and workshops. dCod 1.0 has received funding for several activities. Read about our experiences in the linked blog posts.
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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.
We are recruiting in the FUNDER project (01.02.2021)
We are excited to start our new research project FUNDER, and to explore the Direct and indirect climate impacts on the biodiversity and Functioning of the UNDERground ecosystem this spring. To that end, we are now recruiting a PhD and a Postdoctoral research fellow.
marinbiologi
The regional impact of our research and innovation (12.01.2021)
From sea lice to deep ocean minerals, from basic research to industrial innovation: The University of Bergen (UiB) is vibrant key player.
A brown fluffy-edged moth
New moth species named after Perpetra Akite (04.01.2021)
A new moth species has been named after former EECRG PhD student Perpetra Akite.
Participants on zoom and in person
CeSAM's first annual meeting (22.12.2020)
CeSAM is a UiB initiative to gather and coordinate research and education of relevance to the management of our land and marine areas. Many of the big challenges of our time - climate crisis, biodiversity crisis, health, food, societal planning - meet in the decision-making around spatial planning, and we are really seeing these issues high on the agenda in both science and society today.
Eric Grimm giving a presentation at a symposium
Eric Grimm, HOPE collaborator (18.12.2020)
Eric Grimm (born 20 August 1951), a very active collaborator and key-player within our HOPE project, died suddenly on 15 November 2020. Eric devoted his career to doing superb palaeoecological science and to providing a generous service to the scientific community through his development of TILIA software, giving numerous workshops internationally, and managing and enlarging Neotoma, a global... Read more
Traditional and modern land use - here from the 1970s in south-western Norway
This spring, Norway will finally receive a national action plan for the sustainability goals (04.12.2020)
The Norwegian government has received strong criticism from the office of the Auditor General for the fact that Norway still lacks a comprehensive and cross-sectoral approach, has not prepared national indicators, and lacks ambition almost five years after the sustainability goals were adopted by the UN. Minister of Local Government and Modernisation Nikolai Astrup asked for input on the action... Read more
Arctic field work
Exciting Arctic field work going on (29.10.2020)
Several people from the Marine Microbiology group are currently involved in national and international field work campaigns in the Arctic. Working conditions can be hard in this cold environment, but researchers who got to participate in Arctic cruises or field work say it is a life-time experience! Read more about the Nansen Legacy and HAVOC (part of Mosaic) projects as well as CLIMAGAS below.
Perpetra Akite standing in her graduation gown at the ceremnony of her PhD graduation
Perpetra's story (20.10.2020)
Dr Perpetra Akite, a former EECRG member, has a blogpost about her journey to become an ecologist on the Relational Thinking blog of the British Ecological Society
Bergen seen from Floien
BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)
Digital summer research school.
Cocoa agroforestry systems (Cabrucas) in Bahia, Brazil
Changes in farming urgent to rescue biodiversity (23.07.2020)
Over 360 scientists from 42 countries (including Inger Måren from CeSAM at the University of Bergen) - led by the University of Göttingen and Westlake University China - call for transition of food production systems to agroecological principles.
Younger generation...
Say hello to our PhDs and post-docs (01.07.2020)
The young generation in our group works on a range of different topics withing terrestrial and marine microbial ecology. Methodologies include polar field work, genomics and modeling, to name a few.
Cycles of forcings and responses inferred from proxy records covering the last 1.74 million years
Secrets from a very long interglacial sequence (22.05.2020)
As part of an international consortium led by Yan Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing), Vivian Felde and John Birks were involved in the publication of a detailed record of past vegetation and climate over the last 1.74 million years from the Tibetan Plateau.
Kom deg unna hoppekrepsen! (30.04.2020)
Planteplankton og dyreplankton danner et av de viktigste grunnlag for livet på jorda.

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