News archive for Department of Earth Science

Raman spectroscopy of zircon allows distinction between truly inherited zircon and those that may be introduced through sample processing.

Albina Gilmullina (PhD UiB Geo 2021 with Christian Haug Eide as main supervisor leader) was yesterday awarded the "Harold Reading Medal" from the British Sedimentological Research Group. It is awarded to the person who has submitted " best publication arising directly from a PhD project in the field of sedimentology and stratigraphy during the previous year". Out of ten nominees mostly from the... Read more

A competence building project led by Pedro Ribeiro, a researcher at the Centre for Deep-Sea Research of the University of Bergen, will investigate if deep-sea mining on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge can take place responsibly, avoiding serious harm to the environment.

An interdisciplinary team from the University of Bergen, has taken a major step forward in deep sea exploration and sampling of Earth’s last truly remote and inaccessible seafloor environment – the extreme depths of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean. 

The geomicrobiology laboratory starts the "My green lab" certification.

Geophysical characterization of a shallow hydrothermal system by an international team of researchers.

When we look at the sky and think "Are we alone?", there is no need to look only for planets receiving sun light.

A new study from researchers from the Center for Deep Sea Research tells about a 80 000 year long powernap on the seafloor.