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New PhD - Ronghua Wang (16.12.2011)
Friday 25. November 2011, Ronghua Wang defended her PhD-thesis at Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen
Getting to drilling sites in Russian Arctic was not always...
Ancient rocks reveal carbon-cycling information (02.12.2011)
Two billion year old rocks are providing information about a period of extreme carbon cycle disruption and the Great Oxidation Event – both critically important to our understanding of Earth’s geological and biological history.
Jan Mayen survey points to petroleum potential (30.11.2011)
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the University of Bergen have acquired samples from steep parts of the seabed on the Jan Mayen ridge between Norway and Iceland.
Geobio paper published in Science (24.11.2011)
CGB researcher, Bjarte Hannisdal, is co-author of a paper that shows that long-term changes in the diversity of marine animals may have been linked to the earth's geological evolution over the last 500 million years.
Finding out more about life beneath the sea floor (16.11.2011)
The International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) aims to discover vital information about our Earth System.
New PhD - Maria Blinova (14.11.2011)
Maria Blinova defended her thesis for the PhD-degree Friday 18. November 2011.
New PhD - Audun Libak (07.11.2011)
Audun Libak defended his thesis for the PhD degree Thursday 17. November 2011.
Magnitude 7.2 earthquake Eastern Turkey (24.10.2011)
23 October 2011
New PhD - Herbjørn Presthus Heggen (19.10.2011)
Friday 28. October 2011 Herbjørn Presthus Heggen defended his PhD-thesis at Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen
New PhD - Kristian Vasskog (19.10.2011)
Friday 21. October 2011 Kristian Vasskog defended his PhD-thesis at Department of Earth Science
Adventure on the high seas (06.10.2011)
Our scientist-at-sea, PhD student Steffen Jorgensen, aboard the JOIDES Resolution has sent his fourth report.
At sea for two months (26.09.2011)
Steffen Jorgensen, a PhD at CGB, will be literally at sea for two months this autumn aboard an international research cruise.
New PhD - Alexander Minakov (21.09.2011)
Alexander Minakov defended his PhD-thesis on Thursday 29. September 2011.
Testing a new state-of-the-art lander (16.09.2011)
For two weeks at the end of summer 2011, three researchers from the Centre of Geobiology were involved in the testing of NIVA’s new lander system.
The CryoCARB team on the Taymyr Peninsula, Summer 2011
A Siberian field experience (14.09.2011)
It was quite different from "everyday life" says researcher Antje Gittel.
Volcanism and Astrobiology: Life on Earth and Beyond (09.09.2011)
CGB researcher Nicola McLoughlin was a co-author of the introduction to the latest issue of Astrobiology.
Visualizing marine microorganisms - new CGB Master's project (07.09.2011)
Identifying environmental microbes with microscopic techniques is an impossible task: they all seem to look the same, and their shape does not tell anything about their phylogeny or physiology.
Fifth and last field report from Jan Mayen (10.07.2011)
CGB PhD student Eirik Gjerløw is stationed on Jan Mayen Island. His month there is drawing to a close. We have now uploaded his fifth and last field journal post.

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