Department of Earth Science

Department of Earth Science (GEO)'s overall goal is to develop new knowledge of the Earth's structure, formation history and the driving forces for its dynamic behavior.

The research activities at the department of Earth Science (GEO) are concentrated in thematic groups; Geodynamics, Basin and Reservoir studies, Geochemistry & Geobiology, and Quaternary Earth Systems .

Education: Department of Earth Science offers education in several fields within Geo science and the programs varies from 2 to 8 years

K.G.Jebsen-centre for deep sea research Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research SapienCE

Research infrastructure iEarth GEOVITEN

Award for the best poster

Postdoctor Luisa Zuluaga at GEO was awarded for the best poster at an european workshop for geotermi in Strasbourg.

Awarded for the best poster

Pirs for beste poster ved ARCEx-konferanse i Longyearbyen

PhD stipendiat Isabel Edmundson was awarded the prize for the best poster at the ARCEx annual conference in Longyearbyen 9 – 11 October

SWaMMIS

Synthesis Meeting for Subduction zone Water and Metamorphism: a Modelling and Imaging Study

The 47th Underwater Mining Conference (UMC'18)

THE 47TH UNDERWATER MINING CONFERENCE (UMC'18) 10 to 14th of September

The 47th Underwater Mining Conference (UMC’18) was presented by the International Marine Minerals Society (IMMS) in partnership with the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research (KGDeepSea) at the University of Bergen and Global Centres of Expertise Subsea (GCE Subsea).

Geological travel blog from East Greenland

In the heat of the Arctic summer – geological travel blog from East Greenland

This summer a joint team of structural geologists and sedimentologists from UiB and UiT The Arctic University of Norway journeyed across the North Atlantic to visit Wollaston Forland in the northern part of East Greenland. The reason? To investigate an exhumed rift basin, and detail its basin...