News archive for Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Announcing the MN-faculty board election 2023 (27.02.2023)

We need new representatives for Group B and Group De to the MN-faculty board. If you want to run for election, or if you know someone who would make a good candidate on the board - we would like to hear from you. In this election we need “temporary staff in teaching and research positions” and “student representatives” for the board.

Wake effects within the Horns Rev wind Farm

WATCH: Layout and yaw optimisation of an offshore wind farm (27.02.2023)

Wind energy has a very high potential for improvement, especially with regard to wake effects of the turbines within large wind farms. This work focuses the emphasis on potential of aerodynamically optimized wind park layouts and wake steering through yaw angle control.

A group picture of the workshop participants

“PRIMA Learning” jellyfish workshop in Cape Town in February 2023 (23.02.2023)

Best article award from FEMS microbiology ecology (22.02.2023)

Francesca vulcano and her coworkers have been awarded the 2022 best article award from FEMS microbiology ecology. The article investigates the evolution and adaptation to different environments of anaerobic methane oxidizing Archaea.

A listing of HyValue's overall objectives illustrated with an image of a person by the sea.

WATCH: Introduction of FME HyValue – Norwegian Centre for Hydrogen Value Chain Research (20.02.2023)

Did you miss Jonas Solbakken and Velaug Myrseth Oltedal's presentation of HyValue? Watch it here!

Four researchers receive Marie Curie grant (16.02.2023)

The University of Bergen has been awarded four EU-funded mobility grants through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). One grant goes to The Faculty of Humanities, and three will go to The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Carl completes his Master degree (13.02.2023)

Carl was a visiting student at the HypOnFjordFish project from the Freie University, Berlin. He has been studying the effects of hypoxia on mesopelagic crustaceans

Karen with her supervisors and online examiner

Karen completes her Master degree (09.02.2023)

Karen has been studying the distribution and diet of two small sharks, the velvet belly and blackmouth catshark, in west Norwegian fjords.

Day Zero: Pathways to participatory research and knowledge co-production: notes from the ‘field’ (07.02.2023)

Join members of the UNESCO Chair Group and the Centre for Sustainable Area Management (CeSAM) for a workshop on participatory research during Day Zero, February 8th 2023.

New UoB-drones available for research (07.02.2023)

The Department of Earth Science has in recent months acquired several state of the art drones for performing high-resolution mapping in 2D and 3D.

Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon (03.02.2023)

A new review in Science reveals the quick and accumulating impacts of humans in the Amazon – and nature will likely not be able to keep up. This new paper developed by CESAM member Suzette Flantua reveals the magnitude of the drivers of deforestation and degradation in the Amazon and lists the transformative policy actions needed to safeguard the region and consequently global climate.

Øivind completes his Master degree (01.02.2023)

Øivind has been studying the effect of the parasitic copepod Sarcotretes scopeli on its mesopelagic fish host.