News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

Karina Dale posing with an Atlantic cod and a diploma

Award(winn)ing time at Beitostølen (31.01.2019)

The dCod project has been gathered at Beitostølen for the annual winter workshop. Following the workshop, many of us stayed on for the winter meeting of Norsk selskap for Toksikologi og Farmakologi (NSFT), where Karina Dale received award for best presentation in toxicology.

MMIV Seminar / Department Seminar UiB Informatics (22.01.2019)

Data science related talk by PD Dr. Steffen Oeltze-Jafra

Obrestad Lighthouse - measuring equipment

Measuring the wind (22.01.2019)

Floating wind turbines keep getting bigger, giving us more energy. A UiB-project will measure the wind's capabilities in an entirely new fashion, paving the way for more efficient wind energy at sea.

Research and Higher Education Minister Iselin Nybø officially opens the new center for data science.

Opening of the Center for Data Science (21.01.2019)

To research enabling technology for the data science of tomorrow, UiB opened the new Center for Data Science (CEDAS).

Southern Ocean plays key role in marine carbon distribution (18.01.2019)

Carbon composition is a combined signal of ocean circulation and local biological and chemical processes, a new study shows, drawing special attention to the Southern Ocean.

Sorting out a miss-forecast (18.01.2019)

Even though weather forecasts have become very good over the last decades, you can sometimes be waiting for snow that never falls. A new study searches for the origins of an erroneous forecast.

Causes of abrupt climate change (18.01.2019)

What caused abrupt climate swings known as the Dansgaard-Oeschger events of the last ice age?

Synne finishes her master thesis (16.01.2019)

Lanternfish stomachs can become an exciting MSc thesis, as Synne Myhre Sunde has shown in the thesis she defended in late December.

TGS International Conference 2019 Bergen

Tectonic Studies Group’s Annual General Meeting (14-16 January 2019). (16.01.2019)

Marion Claireaux and herring life history (15.01.2019)

On January 11th, Marion Claireaux successfully defended her thesis "Long-term changes in life-history traits of Norwegian spring-spawning herring"

Winter conference 2019 - NGF (10.01.2019)

Minerals and Metals for Green Technologies was the main theme for the NGF winter conference 2019, January 7th - 9th. Many of our PhD and master students presented their work during the conference and it was of great success.

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Getting a better grip of Asia’s water tower (07.01.2019)

Almost one-fifth of the world’s population depends on rivers coming from the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Yet, only one in a thousand glaciers and lakes in this region have monitoring stations and constraints on the hydrological cycle are poor, Hans Christian Steen-Larsen and colleagues writes in a comment in Nature.