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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)
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.
Jan
Jan Košler - an appreciation (24.10.2014)
Editorial in "GEOSTANDARDS and GEOANALYTICAL RESEARCH" marking the passing away of professor Jan Košler
Ice2Ice kick-off meeting in Copenhagen
ICE2ICE Kick-Off Meeting in Copenhagen (17.10.2014)
ICE2ICE oppstartsmøte i København. Akkompagnert av musikk og en kort promoteringsvideo fikk ERC Synergi-prosjektet «Ice2ice» en fantastisk start 15. september –møtet innledet et arbeidsseminar i København 15.-17. september.
Geophysics
Promising courses in geophysics programming (16.10.2014)
The content of these interesting courses at the Department of Earth Science, has recently been published in EOS.
Ice2Ice kick-off meeting in Copenhagen
ICE2ICE Kick-Off Meeting in Copenhagen (07.10.2014)
ICE2ICE Kick-Off Meeting in Copenhagen Accompanied by music and a short promotional movie, the ERC Synergy project ‘ice2ice’ got off to a splendid start September 15 – heading off the Kick-off workshop in Copenhagen September 15–17.
Pic of Group outside Fjordslottet at Osterøy
Swedish-Norwegian Re-Unification (07.10.2014)
The first joint PhD conference between ResClim and the Climate Research School at the Bolin Centre in Stockholm was held 28–30 September in and around Bergen.
Arctic Team
Field update from a changing Arctic: Can the past tell us about the future? (07.10.2014)
Field update from a changing Arctic: Can the past tell us about the future? To try answering these questions, a UiB-led expedition set off on a lake-coring expedition to the still frozen fringes of Northwest Spitsbergen.
Group in Myanmar
GEO in Myanmar (24.09.2014)
Professor Kuvvet Atakan, Department of Earth Science, lectured at summer workshop on probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) in Myanmar.
Bjarte
New paper in Nature Communications (11.09.2014)
In a new Nature Communications paper Bjarte Hannisdal and co-authors question the way we think about the fossil record.
Professor Rondenay
New Nature paper: Pathway from subducting slab to surface for melt and fluids beneath Mount Rainier. (12.08.2014)
Professor Stéphane Rondenay, Department of Earth Science, is a co-author on this Nature paper. The study aims at obtaining an image of the complete pathway of the fluid–melt phase from the subducted oceanic crust to the surface.
pillow lava
Seeking life on the early Earth and Mars: Earth’s oldest trace fossil reinvestigated (28.05.2014)
New data published by CGB scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) call into question the biogenicity of microtextures in Archean rocks
biosignatures astrobiology
Successful Biosignatures Conference with 100 Astrobiologists gathering in Bergen (27.05.2014)
The Centre for Geobiology together with the Nordic Network of Astrobiology hosted an international conference “Biosignatures across Space and Time” between May 20 and 22nd. Over 100 conference delegates from more than 19 countries attended the 3 day meeting, with 50 oral presentations and 36 poster presentations on different aspects of biosignatures in extreme environments, in the early rock... Read more
In memory of Jan Kosler
In memory of Jan Kosler (12.05.2014)
This week we received the very sad and unexpected news that Professor Jan Košler had passed away, only 49 years old.

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