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Yellow deep sea sponge
Seabed Mining and Biodiversity Conservation in the Deep Sea: Where Science meets Policy (30.03.2023)
Deep seabed mining is coming closer to a reality, presumably motivated by the need for rare metals. In this lecture Lisa A. Levin, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will highlight the deep-sea ecosystems being targeted for seabed mining, their biodiversity and why it matters, potential threats and management challenges.
Vincent Rijmen
Vincent Rijmen wins Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography 2023 (27.03.2023)
A group photo of the participants at the PRIMA Learning Stable Isotope Workshop
"PRIMA Learning" Stable Isotope Workshop in Cape Town in February 2023 (22.03.2023)
Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt
TMS-supported volcano research published in Nature Communications (21.03.2023)
Can CT scanning be used to better determine the magnitude of past volcanic eruptions? The answer is a resounding yes, according to a new study in Nature Communications by Willem van der Bilt with colleagues.
Kronprins Haakon besøkte Bjerknessenteret.
The Crown Prince analysed his own snow samples (20.03.2023)
HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway visited the Bjerknes Centre to learn more about our research – and to check the snow he sampled himself in Greenland last summer.
Brønnøy Kalk's opencast mine
Geopractice at Brønnøy Kalk in Brønnøysund (16.03.2023)
Bachelor student Andrea, is in her last semester of her bachelor's degree in geology at department of Earth Science, UiB. She says: "I'm one of the two lucky ones who got an internship at Brønnøy Kalk".
Group photo of the nine meeting participators in front of a light blue, wooden building with a lot of windows. Snow on the ground and on the house roof.
Partner Meeting in Hiiumaa (09.03.2023)
After dedicating most of the last six months of the project to conducting interviews, the CULTIVATE project partners finally met in person, this time on the Hiiumaa island in the West Estonian Archipelago – almost exactly a year since the first in-person meeting in Trebon in March 2022.
Collage of items representing energy, including a stylized windmill, a solar panel and more
WATCH: Energy Informatics (06.03.2023)
Did you miss professor Ahmad Hemmati's presentation on Energy Informatics? Watch it here!