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Going Deep - Nature
Iceland drilling project aims to unearth how islands form (24.07.2017)
Scientists will look into the heart of Surtsey, an island created 50 years ago by a volcanic eruption.
Rolf Birger Pedersen
Being a Flagship! (30.05.2017)
At the vanguard of deep sea research - leading UiB, Norway, and internationally …
Goldschmidt session
Submit to our Goldschmidt session! (08.03.2017)
Please remember our session when considering attending the Goldschmidt conference in Paris this year (August 13-18)!
Torgeir Røthe collecting sediments from Lake Sandvinsvatnet, Odda
New insight on floods risk from the bottom of the lake (08.02.2017)
The Department of Earth Sciences (GEO) is part of HordaFlom, an innovative project which will analyze lake sediments to reconstruct flooding events during the last 2000 years and which will provide more robust projections of future floods
Intaros written on top of snow
GEO in a prestigious Arctic EU project (18.01.2017)
Mathilde B. Sørensen, Kuvvet Atakan and Rolf Birger Pedersen are together with colleagues from GFI one of the 49 partners of the Integrated Arctic Observing system (INTAROS) funded by H2020 and coordinated by the Nansen center.
Norwegian Sea
New UiB Flagship (16.01.2017)
The new K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research will open 9 February 2017.
Growing bacteria under pressure
Win-Win: Exchange Experience Led to Research Breakthrough (07.12.2016)
Geobiology master student, Andreas Gilje Sjøberg, had an opportunity to study abroad in a lab in Brittany during his master studies. His work there yielded unexpected and important results!
Steffen Leth Jørgensen
Studying a Hidden, Globally Significant Biosphere (30.11.2016)
Researcher Steffen Leth Jørgensen is the Centre for Geobiology’s (CGB) 3rd successful Bergen Research Foundation’s Recruitment Programme candidate.
NordMin PhD course
Seafloor Mineral Resources and Prospects of Deep-Sea Mining (26.10.2016)
The Centre for Geobiology (CGB) held a PhD course addressing the geological, environmental and technological challenges facing deep-sea mining and mineral extraction.
Fieldwork
Turspor at Upsete (10.10.2016)
Turspor at Upsete
Nele Meckler på lab
Ocean fossils reveal future climate change (22.09.2016)
Researcher Nele Meckler wants to understand climate changes by studying fossil shells.
CGB researchers, UiB rector, Per Sandberg
Norway's Fisheries Minister Visits (15.09.2016)
Fishery Minister, Per Sandberg, visited the Norwegian Ocean Laboratory today. Researchers from the Centre for Geobiology (CGB) were on hand to welcome him, and to share highlights from their deep sea research activity.
Igneous intrusions (dark brown) intruded into Jurassic sedimentary rocks (beige to black) just after the opening of the Norwegian-Grenland Sea.
New open access publication about sub-volcanic plumbing systems (10.08.2016)
Ribbon cutting
Expanding our senses using technology (06.06.2016)
Much is unknown about Norway’s marine potential. Rolf Birger Pedersen, Professor at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB) says that much awaits to be discovered.
Picture showing Gijs investigation an outcrop section consisting of stacked turbidite beds
New publication: deep-marine rift basin deposits in east Greenland (and video) (06.06.2016)
EPOS-IP IT Workshop 2016 - group picture
EPOS-IP IT Workshop 2016 (02.06.2016)
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Tiny little deep sea helpers may help Norwegian industry to be greener! (25.05.2016)
Juliane Wissuwa defended her PhD at the University of Bergen (UiB), 25.5.2016. It is entitled: "The Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge Vent Fields - A valuable Resource for Marine Bioprospecting?”.
Nature Communications
Evidence for the Oldest Eukaryotic Life Found (21.05.2016)
Yuangao Qu, a post-doc at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB), was a member of a team who discovered macroscopic fossils from the 1 560 Myr old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in the Yanshan area of North China. The results have been published in Nature Communications.

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