News archive for Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

The Arithemtic of Derived Categories (18.01.2017)

New UiB Flagship (16.01.2017)

The new K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research will open 9 February 2017.

First dCod workshop (02.01.2017)

The first workshop in the dCod 1.0 project was organized at Voss during a busy December month. 22 participants from all Norwegian partners participated in discussions, cross-disciplinary crash courses, and teambuilding.

Density-dependent growth is important for maturation dynamics (28.12.2016)

A new modelling study, published in PNAS, shows that density-dependent growth is important for understanding maturation dynamics in Northeast Arctic cod.

Nathalie Reuter receives BIOTEK2021 grant (20.12.2016)

Receives grant for commercial development of potential novel drug candidates for Chronic Obstructive Pulmanory Disease treatment

Frede with a generation of young scientists grateful for his advise.

T. Frede Thingstad becomes Professor Emeritus (19.12.2016)

In connection with T. Frede Thingstad becoming Professor Emeritus at the University of Bergen from 2017, a seminar was held at the University of Bergen and Hjort Centre for Marine Ecosystem Dynamics on December 2nd to bring Frede’s work into an international perspective and celebrate his professional and collegial achievements.

Ilker Fer is to receive the Georg Wüst Prize 2017 (12.12.2016)

The German Society for Marine Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Meeresforschung, DGM) recently announced the recipient of the Georg Wüst Prize 2017. Congratulations Ilker Fer!

Five new research projects to scientists at Geophysical Institute (09.12.2016)

In the programme FRINATEK, the research counsil distributed 251 mill. NOK on 32 new research projects. Four of these are for researchers at Geophysical Institute. We also got one of five projects in the programme Polarprog.

Win-Win: Exchange Experience Led to Research Breakthrough (07.12.2016)

Geobiology master student, Andreas Gilje Sjøberg, had an opportunity to study abroad in a lab in Brittany during his master studies. His work there yielded unexpected and important results!

John Birks standing on the right whilst giving his presentation about the pollen analyst Lennart von Post

100 years of pollen analysis celebrated! (06.12.2016)

Nine EECRG and University Museum of Bergen members were fortunate to be at the 'Centenary (1916-2016) of pollen analysis and the legacy of Lennart von Post' symposium held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on 24-25 November 2016.

Studying a Hidden, Globally Significant Biosphere (30.11.2016)

Researcher Steffen Leth Jørgensen is the Centre for Geobiology’s (CGB) 3rd successful Bergen Research Foundation’s Recruitment Programme candidate.

Trawling for fish in the Oslo fjord at sunset

Catching cod in the Oslo fjord (29.11.2016)

Several partners of the dCod 1.0 project participated in field studies in the Oslo fjord. The aim of the expedition was to study the pollution levels of cod in this popular area. For two of the four days they were joined by ecology students and teachers from the University of Oslo.

Visiting PhD student from Thailand (14.11.2016)

Ms Apinya Singkhala has a Royal Golden Jubilee PhD scholarship awarded by the Thai Research Fund for a 10 month reseach visit to BIO. She will work on thermophilic bacteria and hydrolytic enzymes from hot springs in Thailand.

A screenshot from vimeo with young man against a pond

Aurélien features as an example of our international students! (02.11.2016)

Aurélien Delaval is doing his Masters degree with the EvoFish group at the Department of Biology. Now UiB is highlighting him as an example of the highly international crowd of students that are taking their MSc degree in Bergen.

The first wave of January 2010 El Nino storms.

El Niño influences the formation of low pressure systems over the Gulf Stream (01.11.2016)

Analysis of cyclone tracks and precyclogenesis flow conditions show us that El Niño can shift the preferred cyclogenesis position over the Gulf Stream which influences the cyclone’s track across the North Atlantic. The results are published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

A group of people in a posh meeting room

WGEVO is mapping the strength of fisheries-induced selection (28.10.2016)

The ICES Working Group on Fisheries-Induced Evolution (WGEVO) met at IIASA, Austria, to continue with the project mapping the strength of fisheries-induced selection on life-history traits.

Seafloor Mineral Resources and Prospects of Deep-Sea Mining (26.10.2016)

The Centre for Geobiology (CGB) held a PhD course addressing the geological, environmental and technological challenges facing deep-sea mining and mineral extraction.

Green PARP representations in the attached figure were partially flattened in order to reveal the branching structure as-good-as-possible, while the gray representations show simple projections from 3D to 2D.

3D Visualization World interviewed Dr. Helwig Hauser: Advanced Visualization Research Explores New Paths (25.10.2016)

Advanced visualization is exploring new paths to reveal the function and structure of relevant natural phenomena or other artifacts of interest. Medicine, geoscience, and engineering are just three selected areas where new visualization research is needed. 3D Visualization World interviewed Dr. Helwig Hauser, professor in visualization at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen... Read more

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