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Snow, sun and shovels (04.05.2022)
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New Chair of the Board of AI Consortium (03.05.2022)
The University of Bergen's Inge Jonassen has been chosen as Chair of the Board of NORA - Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium.
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A very important topic in the debate on offshore wind energy (02.05.2022)
Coexistence was the topic of a high-profile conference in Oslo on 25 April. BOW's director Finn Gunnar Nielsen participated with a presentation and in a panel debate on the topic.
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Predicting Arctic sea ice (28.04.2022)
When a fishing vessel sets course for Bear Island, the captain knows only which areas are ice-covered now, not where the ice will be tomorrow. In a few years, sea ice predictions will make routing easier and safer.
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OPPLEV Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve at Marineholmen (25.04.2022)
On Saturday the 23rd of April we showcased Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve at the knowledge festival "OPPLEV på Marineholmen", arranged by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
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Mapping the environmental impact on Hywind Tampen (05.04.2022)
Bergen Offshore Wind Center (BOW) is involved in two research projects on environmental impact from offshore wind development and coexistence with the fishing industry
DLN research school courses spring 2022 (04.04.2022)
Have a look at our course portfolio for spring 2022!
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VISTA CSD Annual meeting 29-30 March 2022 (01.04.2022)
On the 29th and 30th of March 2022, VISTA CSD team members at UiB assembled in Solstrand to discuss research plans and progress of research activities under CSD. Volker Oye from NORSAR joined us as a collaborating partner. As a guest speaker, Assoc. Prof. Bjarte Hannisdal from the Department of Earth Science gave a talk on earth systems and challenges they face.
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A world of porous materials (01.04.2022)
Researchers demonstrate how we can make use of pores to solve some of the greatest challenges before us – such as the global climate crisis.
Researchers from the Department of Earth Science of the University of Bergen explain in a paper published in Nature Communications how exhumed mantle domes form at magma-poor continental margins and at ultra-slow mid-oceanic spreading systems controlled b
New article in Nature Communications (31.03.2022)
Researchers from the Department of Earth Science of the University of Bergen explain in a paper published in Nature Communications how exhumed mantle domes form at magma-poor continental margins and at ultra-slow mid-oceanic spreading systems controlled by frictional shear zones.
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Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funding 2022 (29.03.2022)
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions for 2022-2023. Deadline 15 June, 2022.
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Podcast episode on SCIPOD (28.03.2022)
A recent article from Tor Einar Møller on exploring how microbes can shed light on ancient climate conditions has been featured on a SCIPOD episode.
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Following the flight of water (24.03.2022)
In a large scale airplane campaign researchers will – for the first time – follow water molecules from they take off from the ocean until they have landed as rain or snow in Norway.
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Why evolution favours symmetry (14.03.2022)
From sunflowers to starfish, symmetry appears everywhere in biology. This isn’t just true for body plans – the molecular machines keeping our cells alive are also strikingly symmetric. But why? Does evolution have a built-in preference for symmetry?
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Congratulation Dr Møller! (14.03.2022)
Tor Einar Møller successfully defended his PhD on Friday.
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Daniel Førland Holmen is joining the CSD (07.03.2022)
Daniel Holmen is a new Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics and his project is part of the Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics. We met him to find out more about his background and the project.
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New article in Nature Communications Earth and Environment (28.02.2022)
Raman spectroscopy of zircon allows distinction between truly inherited zircon and those that may be introduced through sample processing.
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New article in Nature Geosciences (25.02.2022)
When did Earth change from a water world into a planet with continents rising above sea level? Together with researchers from The Netherlands and Germany, associate professor Desiree Roerdink from the Department of Earth Science and Centre for Deep Sea Research has found that land appeared very early in Earth’s history – up to one billion years earlier than we previously thought.

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