News archive for Department of Biological Sciences (BIO)

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New Name for MatNat (27.09.2024)

Starting October 1, the new name will be the Faculty of Science and Technology. We will certainly celebrate this!

Resilience Assessment in Alver (27.09.2024)

This autumn, the UNESCO Chair project BIOSPHERE are researching how Norwegian municipalities can work with the Global Biodiversity Framework, and use Alve – the biggest municipality of Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere – as an example. They held their first of three meetings about this in September.

In the Build-Up of COP16 (24.09.2024)

The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (COP16) is taking place in Colombia at the end of October, and CeSAM leaders have been making their opinions heard ahead of the meeting.

Old tools reused for a new design: the making of the <i>Oikopleura</i> House (17.09.2024)

A recent Developmental Biology article reveals new insights into the unique "house" of Oikopleura dioica. A team of researchers led by David Lagman uncovers how Oikopleura repurposed ancient cellular machinery to build its complex, food-filtering "house," shedding light on its evolutionary origins.

Postdoc in terrestrial ecosystem modelling (16.09.2024)

Exciting fully funded postdoctoral position available in the DURIN project – understanding climate impacts on and feedback from dwarf-shrubs, a dominant plant functional group of boreal, arctic, and alpine ecosystems.

Eleven tents, three holes, and one bathtub - How to observe the ocean below a 400 m thick, floating ice shelf in Antarctica (09.09.2024)

The Antarctic ice shelves – the floating glaciers surrounding most of the continent – are melting from below as oceanic currents bring warm water into the cavity. But how and how fast is the ice melting? In this Ocean Science Bar, you will learn why Antarctic ice shelves matter, about what happens below them, and about what it’s like to do fieldwork ”down south”.