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Hans Christian Steen-Larsen
New ERC-project aims to change climate research (03.04.2018)
Climate researcher Hans Christian Steen-Larsen has for many years explored some of the most extreme environments on Earth, in his search to improve our climate models. If he succeeds with his new ERC-project, it will have great impact on todays climate research.
El Nino_NOAA
Pacific influences European weather (23.03.2018)
Sea surface temperature in the distant tropical Pacific can influence November weather in Europe.
Fumiaki Ogawa_Fig
The Arctic sea-ice loss and winter temperatures in Eurasia (21.03.2018)
A long debate of the role of the sea ice and the winter temperatures in Eurasia has got a new contribution. Probably no connection, a new study says.
Front og høner
Deciphering ancestry in the cyclones' hencoop (08.02.2018)
On TV weather maps we see low pressure centers as circles resembling tree-rings, with long tails of red warm fronts and blue cold fronts. But what came first – the low or the fronts?
Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands
Mare Nullius: Professor Edvard Hviding awarded Toppforsk grant (05.02.2018)
Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding is one of three University of Bergen researchers to receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway, for his project Mare Nullius.
Erna
Bergen in front as part of Norway's international leadership role in ocean management (26.01.2018)
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has established an international high-level panel for a sustainable ocean economy. The University of Bergen looks forward to being part of this marine effort and contribute with scientific advice.
Deltakarar på symposiumsmiddagen på Fløyen
Scientific Symposium for the Geophysical Institute (27.10.2017)
The Geophysical Institute is a hundred years in 2017. In October, the centenary was celebrated with a scientific symposium on climate, energy and geophysics.
Anya Helene Bagge
Anya Helene Bagge is Lecturer of the Year (19.10.2017)
She’s both a groundbreaking computer scientist and an excellent teacher; and now she’s awarded the Teaching Prize at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Elin Darelius,Framkomiteens pris
Award to Elin Darelius on polar sciences (16.10.2017)
On Fridtjof Nansen's birthday, Elin Darelius was awarded by the Fram committee for her polar science, shared with Jan Inge Faleide at UiO.
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GEOF328 Mountain Meteorology Seminar in Ustaoset (15.09.2017)
When the sad April weather became unbearable, six students went to Ustaoset at the far end of Hardangervidda one week after Easter, together with Professor Thomas Spengler and Course Assistant Sunil Kumar Pariyar, to hold a seminar in Mesoscale Dynamics with special focus on mountain meteorology.
Both weather and the circulation in the ocean affect how much CO2 the ocean can absorb from the atmosphere
Ocean currents determine CO2 uptake (28.06.2017)
That the ocean slows down global warming by absorbing CO2 from the air, is pure chemistry. But to find out how much, you have to know how the ocean moves. Friederike Fröb's PhD shows that both weather and ocean currents play a role.
Friederike Fröb
The ocean breathes (22.06.2017)
Friederike Fröb defends on Tuesday, 27th of June 2017 her PhD dissertation at the University of Bergen with the title: “Climate controlled mechanisms of subpolar North Atlantic carbon uptake”.
Midnattsol på forskningstokt i Norskehavet
The ocean predicts future Arctic climate (21.06.2017)
The ocean predicts future northwestern European and Arctic climate, finds a new study in Nature Communications.
Professor Peter M. Haugan from the University of Bergen at the UN Ocean Conference in New York in June 2017.
Between research and diplomacy (20.06.2017)
Professor Peter M. Haugan has long participated in high level work in the United Nations, building partnerships between science and diplomacy.
Yiming Luo
Isotopes with ocean circulation information (15.06.2017)
The distrution of a radioactive Thorium isotope is important in multiple aspects of oceanograpy. In his new single author publication, Yiming Luo has revisited the issue on processes influencing the distribution in the water column.
The Japanese-Norwegian meeting attracted scientists from all over Norway and Japan.
Seeing the Arctic from two sides of the world (07.06.2017)
Climate change in the Arctic and the Antarctic was the topic when around sixty scientists from Japan and Norway gathered in Bergen this week.
Polar Express
Polar Express 2017 (10.05.2017) (15.05.2017)
An Express overview over 20 recent Polar Science articles from Bergen was presented on May 10.
With global warming some regions heat up more than others.
Different places warm at different paces (10.05.2017)
Ocean heat transport links subpolar and Arctic warming, but that is not the whole story, writes Aleksi Nummelin. Read his account of how he, Camille Li and Paul Hezel worked to solve a climate riddle.

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