News archive for Department of Earth Science

Last week, four members of the Centre for Deep Sea Research led a field excursion for the GEOV-109 Introduction to Geochemistry course at a former pyrite mine in Sunnhordland Geopark.

A lot is happening next week in Bergen, with among other the One Ocean week and the Ocean outlook events. Several members of the Centre for Deep Sea Research are involved in various events.

Are inactive hydrothermal area really inactive? Maybe not... At least not microbiologically.

Thursday 30. November 2023 Hannah Elizabeth Petrie defended her thesis: An integrated geological characterization of marine ground conditions in the North Sea

On 28 November the annual Seismology Seminar took place in Litteraturhuset.

PhD student Kui Xiang gave an interesting trial lecture on artificial learning and seismic modeling and inversion.

A recent study demonstrates how dripstones can be crucial for reconstructing past climates. The new approach can provide a detailed picture of the climate around early human occupations in South Africa.

What did the surface of Earth look like more than three billion years ago? What kinds of microbes lived there and when did they start producing oxygen? And what was the temperature and composition of the ancient oceans and atmosphere? Big questions like these is what drew a group of 41 scientists to sunny Berlin last week, including our Associate professor Desiree Roerdink.