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Tjalve Svendsen
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen in Maritime Applications (21.03.2018)
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.
Reducing Cost of Energy for Tidal Stream Turbines through Co-location - David Lande-Sudall (22.02.2018)
Can placing wind turbines on top of tidal turbines help reduce the cost of energy from marine renewables?
Finn Gunnar Nielsen
Does the world really need more energy? - Professor Finn Gunnar Nielsen (GFI) (20.02.2018)
Access to clean and affordable energy is essential to eradicate poverty, end hunger and combat climate change, but do we need to change the way we think about energy?
Einar Svendsen
Global perspective on energy support and demand (and food) - Einar Svendsen (15.02.2018)
Can we really get rid of “all” fossil fuels within 2050?
European University Association (EUA)
European Universities Mobilise to Address Energy Transition (14.02.2018)
One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century lies in the sustainable generation and use of energy, and universities play an important role.
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?
GreenSight
Karoline Ullaland Hove (Greensight): An Update on Renewable Energy and Technology (07.02.2018)
On the 30th of January, Karoline Ullaland Hove from Greensight gave an update for the Bergen Energy Lab on the status of renewable energy and technology on a global and a local scale.
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.
Kjersti Fløttum
Kjersti Fløttum (UiB) - Language and climate action - expressions of responsibility and obligation (31.01.2018)
In a joint DIGSSCORE & Bergen Energy Lab lunch meeting, professor Kjersti Fløttum from the department of foreign languages spoke about "Language and climate action - conceptions and expressions of responsibility and obligation"
Vind
Statoil’s ambitions in offshore wind, industrial and research challenges (30.01.2018)
On the 29th of January, the Geophysical Institute, UiB and Statoil invited to a seminar on Statoil’s ambitions in offshore wind, industrial and research challenges
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.
Finn Gunnar Nielsen
Finn Gunnar Nielsen (GFI): The story of Hywind (31.08.2017)
Finn Gunnar Nielsen was the head of the R&D project where the first full-scale prototype of a floating wind turbine was developed. He held a talk at Bergen Energy Lab the 29th of August, telling the story of Hywind from the idea was born to the world’s first floating wind farm currently being installed in Scotland.
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.

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