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Sampling of the mid-ocean ridge north of Jan Mayen (18.06.2019)
Scientists at the K.G. Jebsen Centre are sampling the volcanic seafloor in remote and previously unexplored areas.
Searching for manganese crusts in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea (17.06.2019)
Rolf Birger Pedersen and his research team are exploring manganese crusts in the deep ocean. Videos from the 2019 cruise provide unique glimpses of the scientific activity on board.
Solveig Lie Onstad
K.G. Jebsen PhD students at the conference "Seabed Mapping and Survey" (12.06.2019)
The annual conference "Seabed Mapping and Survey" was arranged in Geilo in early March. The conference is an international venue for technological development, exploration of sea surface and seafloor and development of techniques for assessing mineral and renewable resources in the ocean.
Black smoker vent
Happy 40th to black smoker vents (12.06.2019)
Happy 40th anniversary to black smoker vents! On April 21st,1979, deep sea explorers in the submersible HOV Alvin took the first ever photo of a "black smoker" hydrothermal vent.
Anders Bjerga og Håvard Stubseid
PhD students at the K.G. Jebsen Centre are winners of public outreach contest (07.06.2019)
Anders Bjerga and Håvard Stubseid at the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research won this year's public outreach contest at geoforskning.no with their contribution on submarine volcanic activity.
Eirik Gjerløw med komité, veileder og leder for disputas
New PhD on Jan Mayen volcanism (07.06.2019)
Monday 3. June, Eirik Gjerløw successfully defended his thesis "Holocene volcanic activity and hazards of Jan Mayen, North-Atlantic". We congratulate the freshly minted PhD!
Karin Landschulze med komité, veileder og leder for disputas
New PhD on seafloor fracturing and fluid migration (07.06.2019)
Friday 31 May, Karin Landschulze successfully defended her PhD thesis “Geophysical investigation of the Hugin Fracture, a soft-sediment seafloor fracture on the Utsira High, North Sea – Implications for subsurface fluid migration”. We congratulate the freshly minted PhD!