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Ice2Ice kick-off meeting in Copenhagen
ICE2ICE Kick-Off Meeting in Copenhagen (17.10.2014)
ICE2ICE oppstartsmøte i København. Akkompagnert av musikk og en kort promoteringsvideo fikk ERC Synergi-prosjektet «Ice2ice» en fantastisk start 15. september –møtet innledet et arbeidsseminar i København 15.-17. september.
Ice2Ice kick-off meeting in Copenhagen
ICE2ICE Kick-Off Meeting in Copenhagen (07.10.2014)
ICE2ICE Kick-Off Meeting in Copenhagen Accompanied by music and a short promotional movie, the ERC Synergy project ‘ice2ice’ got off to a splendid start September 15 – heading off the Kick-off workshop in Copenhagen September 15–17.
The winner team
Won the norwegian championship in programming (07.10.2014)
Team from UiB won norwegian championship in programming.
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.
Arctic Team
Field update from a changing Arctic: Can the past tell us about the future? (07.10.2014)
Field update from a changing Arctic: Can the past tell us about the future? To try answering these questions, a UiB-led expedition set off on a lake-coring expedition to the still frozen fringes of Northwest Spitsbergen.
Logo of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
John Birks - Foreign Member of KVA (03.10.2014)
John Birks has been elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien ("KVA")) in the Geosciences section.
Group in Myanmar
GEO in Myanmar (24.09.2014)
Professor Kuvvet Atakan, Department of Earth Science, lectured at summer workshop on probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) in Myanmar.
Two men with bags of juvenile salmon to be released to a river
BBC Earth features research from EvoFish (23.09.2014)
BBC Earth is featuring an article on how growing environment shapes the cognitive abilities in fish. Research by Anne Gro Vea Salvanes from EvoFish is also highlighted, with cool videos!
Fabian, Mikko and Bea posing in front of the conference poster
EvoFish at the ICES conference (22.09.2014)
With fisheries-induced evolution in the spotlight, Bea, Fabian and Mikko from EvoFish attended the ICES Annual Science Conference
Satellite_Sahara
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
Bjarte
New paper in Nature Communications (11.09.2014)
In a new Nature Communications paper Bjarte Hannisdal and co-authors question the way we think about the fossil record.
Peter studying fish bones with a microscope
Peter starts his PhD in Evolutionary Fish Parasitology (08.09.2014)
Nestory Peter Gabagambi has started his PhD study in evolutionary fish parasitology. In his study Peter will focus on the interaction between a tapeworm and its fish host in Lake Nyasa/Malawi.
Pipeting the amplified DNA fragments onto an agarose gel
Unveiling secrets of anoxia tolerance in bearded goby (04.09.2014)
In a joint master project between the Environmental toxicology and Evolutionary Ecology research groups, Moritz Pohl is unveiling the secrets of the remarkable anoxia tolerance of bearded goby from Namibia.
New article on escaped farmed salmon highlighted in Nature (02.09.2014)
Analyses of recaptures of escaped farmed salmon reveal that much more salmon escape than is reported. This result was also noted in the Research Highlights of Nature!
Geofysisk institutt
New strategic plan for GFI (22.08.2014)
A new strategic plan for the Geophysical Institute has been published, covering the period 2014-2019.
Professor Rondenay
New Nature paper: Pathway from subducting slab to surface for melt and fluids beneath Mount Rainier. (12.08.2014)
Professor Stéphane Rondenay, Department of Earth Science, is a co-author on this Nature paper. The study aims at obtaining an image of the complete pathway of the fluid–melt phase from the subducted oceanic crust to the surface.
Camilla Jensen in laboratory with tanks with salmon and salmon lice
Camilla and the evolving salmon lice (10.07.2014)
Camilla Jensen is working hard in the lab with her Master project on life-history adaptations in salmon lice.
Marine Microbiologist participating on Ocean Sampling Day
Marine Microbiologists participate on Ocean Sampling Day (25.06.2014)
Marine Microbiologists from the University of Bergen participated on the international Ocean Sampling Day to collect environmental and biological data for analysis of microbial diversity and function in marine ecosystems around the world.

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