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Group picture during visit at ECMWF
Dynamic Meteorology Group retreat to England (12.12.2015)
The Dynamic Meteorology group of the Geophysical Institute has been on a trip to the United Kingdom this autumn.
BFS 2015, utdeling i Aulaen
Millions in funding for young researchers (02.12.2015)
Four UiB scientists recently received over 80 million NOK from Bergen Research Foundation and the University of Bergen, making world class research possible.
Kerim being filmed on Greenland
Record-breaking online course at UiB (20.11.2015)
Around 8,000 students from around the world registered for the online course Causes of climate change. More online courses are in the works at the University of Bergen.
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UiB/CROP side events at COP21 (19.11.2015)
Quest for Global Sustainability: Climate Change, Science and the Oslo Principles
Tore Furevik, director of the Bjerknes Centre for climate research, is talking about seasonal predications for temperature and rainfall in South and East Africa on a climate conference in Uganda.
UiB participates at Uganda climate conference (12.11.2015)
The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research attends the climate conference at Makerere University in Uganda. The output from the climate conference will be presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
Anne Ingeborg Finsaas Reiestad, MOOC-student.
Massive response for first online course from UiB (22.09.2015)
6,000 learners signed up for the first open online course at the University of Bergen (UiB).
In summer 2014, some of the filming for the material for the new online course took place on Greenland. Here one of the project leaders, Professor Kerim Nisancioglu, is being interviewed for the MOOC.
The first Norwegian MOOC on climate (18.06.2015)
Would you like to learn about the drivers of the climate system? Take a look at this open online course, provided by the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and the University of Bergen.
Seminar group of GEOF328 course
Mountain seminar in Mesoscale Dynamics (GEOF328) (22.05.2015)
Nine students attended a seminar at Ottesheimen in Ustaoset 12-15 April together with lecturer Thomas Spengler and teaching assistant Line Båserud to learn more about mountain meteorology.
PhD candidates from the ResClim research school at Finse in Norway.
New climate research school at UiB (26.03.2015)
A new research school in the geosciences will assemble scholars from several Norwegian educational institutions. The Research Council of Norway supports the school with funding of close to 20 million Norwegian kroner.
Climate researchers at Sieben Hengste in Switzerland.
Dripstones tell of storm track changes (27.02.2015)
A new study in Nature Communications shows that storm tracks were located further to the south of Europe during the last ice age, 25,000 years ago.
Participants at the OBLO course at GFI
One step closer towards the operation of the OBLO infrastructure (30.01.2015)
Many people at GFI have realized the busy activity of a bunch of people around three big white boxes in front of the institute on January 20 and 21.
The Ilulissat ice fjord in west Greenland, used to accompany article on the announcement of the ERC Consolidator Grant to Professor Noel Keenlyside.
More ERC award glory for UiB climate researchers (27.01.2015)
Professor Noel Keenlyside has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He is the first University of Bergen researcher to be awarded this prestigious grant.
Dancers in a scene in "Moana: The Rising of the Sea".
Pacific Studies at the Bergen International Festival (04.12.2014)
The ECOPAS project of the university’s Department of Social Anthropology brings the climate challenges faced by the Pacific Islands to Bergen, through a new collaboration between the University of Bergen and the Bergen International Festival.
Pic of Group outside Fjordslottet at Osterøy
Swedish-Norwegian Re-Unification (07.10.2014)
The first joint PhD conference between ResClim and the Climate Research School at the Bolin Centre in Stockholm was held 28–30 September in and around Bergen.
Image of satellite dishes in Svalbard, as part of the research conducted at the University Centre in Svalbard, with which the University of Bergen collaborates.
UiB creates polar network (24.09.2014)
The University of Bergen gathered its polar researchers for the Polar Day in September 2014. The goal of the meeting is to create a centre for polar research in Bergen.
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Nature paper on creation of the Sahara desert (18.09.2014)
Camille Li of the Geophysical Institute is co-author on this Nature paper that revises the age of the Sahara Desert
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New strategic plan for GFI (22.08.2014)
A new strategic plan for the Geophysical Institute has been published, covering the period 2014-2019.
Map of Japan, illustration
Marine research collaborations with Japan (02.06.2014)
Both Japan and Norway are maritime nations with many shared interests. In early June 2014, marine researchers from Norway and Japan meet in Tokyo.

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