Fieldwork 2011

In Summer 2011 CGB had a 3-leg research cruise, PhD student Eirik Gjerløw spent a month on Jan Mayen Island, and Steffen Jørgensen spent 2 months at sea.

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Nordic field course in Geobiology

Iceland, with its unique situation on a mid-ocean ridge, is an ideal natural laboratory for the study of the interface between the geosphere and the biosphere.

The CryoCARB team on the Taymyr Peninsula, Summer 2011.

Sampling in the Siberian tundra

Summer 2011 Antje Gittel took part in a sampling campaign on the Taymyr Peninsula in Northern Russia.

Birinder Singh with researcher colleagues aboard the GOSars

Discovering a new world beneath one’s feet

Twenty-one year old Birinder Singh comes from Shri Amritsar Sahib, a holy city in Punjab in the northern part of India.

Be a virtual traveller to Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen, Norway's active volcanic island, is a very beautiful place and has a dramatic geological history that extends into the recent past. Read his reports.

Laila Reigstad (left), Andrew Sweetman (right)

Insights into the seabed in Byfjorden - Bergen

For two weeks at the end of summer 2011, two researchers from the Centre of Geobiology were involved in the testing of NIVA’s new lander system.

Two Months at Sea

Steffen Jorgensen, a PhD student at CGB, was sea for two months in autumn 2011 on an international research cruise.

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