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Rolf Birger Pedersen med 2016 prisen foran seg som han vant under nordisk vinterkonferansen i Finland
Nordic Geoscientist Award is granted to Rolf Birger Pedersen (18.01.2016)
The Nordic Geoscientist Award 2016 is granted to Professor Rolf Birger Pedersen
Deep sea sponge
Ground-breaking deep sea habitat project funded (12.11.2015)
Professor Hans Tore Rapp, a theme leader at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB), wil lead the interdisciplinary Horison 2020 (H202) project.
Transatlantic Science Week
Promoting enhanced cooperation in research, innovation and higher education (10.11.2015)
Representatives from the Centre for Geobiology (CGB) were part of the University of Bergen team participating in Transatlantic Science Week 2015 in Boston, Nov 4-6.
Steffen Leth Jørgensen
Norwegian CoEs behind major scientific breakthroughs (23.10.2015)
This year Norwegian Centres of Excellence (CoEs) have made many scientific breakthroughs. In 2015 CoE scientists have published eight articles in Nature since January, equaling the number of CoE Nature publications during 2014.
Group picture Bornholm
Picture report from Nordic Seismology Seminar 2015 (22.10.2015)
The 46’th Nordic Seismology Seminar was this fall arranged at Rønne, Bornholm. Partisipants from all the Nordic countries and also from UK, Czech Republic and Estonia attended.
Ægir 6000
Providing Leadership in Deep Sea Mining (22.10.2015)
The Centre for Geobiology (CGB) at the University of Bergen (UiB) is assuming an important leadership role in deep sea research, both in Norway and Internationally.
Anne Ingeborg Finsaas Reiestad, MOOC-student.
Massive response for first online course from UiB (22.09.2015)
6,000 learners signed up for the first open online course at the University of Bergen (UiB).
Yngve
FRAM-2014/15 - Mission completed! (24.08.2015)
After one year drifting across in the Artic Ocean, professor Yngve Kristoffersen, arrived in Longyearbyen, 22 August, 2015.
deep sea mining workshop
International experts gather to discuss deep sea resources (26.06.2015)
Over 70 international experts gathered May 11-13, 2015, at a workshop hosted by the Centre for Geobiology (CGB). Coming from 14 different countries, they represented a cross-section of different lines of intervention, including geology, environment, biology and policy. The workshop was entitled, "From Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems to the Sustainable Exploitation of Massive Sulfide Deposits: Myths... Read more
Nele
Maria Heim-Vögtlin Prize to Nele Meckler (09.06.2015)
The prize is aimed at making it possible for outstanding women scientists to resume their careers after an interruption for family reasons.
Field trip to Holsnøy
SWaMMIS field trip to Holsnøy (01.06.2015)
Melting icebergs in the Arctic.
The Arctic is getting wetter (13.05.2015)
In the last few winters, the airport in Longyearbyen in Svalbard was often closed because of rain. One of the major issues climate researchers deal with is how precipitation changes as the temperatures are rising all over the Arctic.
Logo Epos
A new and coordinated research infrastructure for solid-Earth sciences is being established in Europe (08.05.2015)
preparing the gravity corer
Excellent Results from a Centre of Excellence (06.05.2015)
In 2007 the Centre for Geobiology (CGB) was established through the Research Council of Norway’s Centre of Excellence Scheme. This week Centre post-doc, Steffen Leth Jørgensen, is one of the first author’s on a ground-breaking paper that is published in Nature.
Picture of opening of a seismic station in Bangladesh, 2105
Seismology in Asia (18.03.2015)
Myths Realities Deep sea
Workshop: Myths and Realities of the Deep Sea (23.02.2015)
This workshop aims to thoroughly discuss state-of-the-art research on deep-sea hydrothermal systems on a global and regional perspective. Four thematic lines of intervention are being considered: geology, environment, biology, and policy.
A foraminafera shell, used by geologist Nele Meckler in her climate research.
Climate researcher gets ERC Starting Grant (28.11.2014)
Geologist Nele Meckler works on reconstruction of past climate conditions. She has now received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council to build her own research group at the University of Bergen.
Teaching climate dynamics in Greenland (29.10.2014)
In August 2014, students and researchers from Europe and North America moved the lecture hall to Greenland to learn more about climate dynamics.

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