News archive for Department of Geography

For years Edwige Yekple used to walk past the area where she is now doing research. One day, however, the gated community in the middle of the village caught her attention. Asking herself “why is there a gated community inside the village?” Edwige started developing her research project. Gradually, she became both a researcher and an interlocutor of her own project.

Head of Department, Peter Andersen, summarize a special spring semester.

Over the last month, 16 students have participated in GEO316 Practical Skills in Remote Sensing.

In her master's project Amber Nordholm is looking at the social impact of the renewable energy transition through a case study in Portugal.

According to Håvard Haarstad, scientists have to commit to doing everything they can to get society moving in the right direction. His own commitment to saving the world earned him a night in prison in New York.

Fifteen students from across the University of Bergen are now working on their final assignments following ten intensive days of teaching.

In February 2018, Victoria W. Thoresen and Jakob Grandin were key participants in the inaugural SDG Conference Bergen. The first national conference in the world bringing the university sector together in critical debate to engage with the UN's 2030 Agenda.

For my master project I reconstructed the last 11,500 years worth of glacier and climate changes at a glacier complex called Sulitjelmaisen in the subarctic, focusing on the largest glacier called Salajekna.