News archive for Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

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.

Bergen Research Foundation ceremony in the University aula 2 December 2016, with recruiting research grant recipients from the University of Bergen.

Five young researchers funded millions (29.11.2016)

Five UiB scientists will receive over 100 million NOK from Bergen Research Foundation and the University of Bergen, who aim to lay the groundwork for world class research.

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 THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE: Håkon Otneim felt a need to learn more after finishing his Masters’s thesis. A PhD presented him with new challenges.

Problems are there to be solved (04.11.2016)

A thirst for knowledge was Håkon Otneim’s motivation to get a PhD. The mathematical statistics method he created through his PhD can solve problems within most disciplines.

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.