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PMG is participating at the conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources 2024 (CMWR).
Starting October 1, the new name will be the Faculty of Science and Technology. We will certainly celebrate this!
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.
We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. This is the free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts.
There was great interest in the first UiB Innovation Festival on September 20th. Vice-Rector Gottfried Greve hopes the event will create a new momentum for the innovation culture at The University of Bergen (UiB).
The GoNorth 2024 expedition concluded last week after a three-week scientific voyage, from August 29 to September 19, exceeding expectations with a wealth of new data, thanks to favourable ice and weather conditions.
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.
Early in the morning on the 26th of December 1999, the people of France were shocked by two fatal storms. How did these massive cyclones take the meteorologists by surprise? And can machine learning aid weather forecasts of the future?
Our colleague at the Centre, deep-sea biologist Pedro Ribeiro, is onboard the RV Maria S. Merian participating in a research cruise led by the German Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) to explore and investigate the Jøtul hydrothermal vent field.
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.
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.
How do you get a group of social scientists, biologists, oceanographers, mathematics and informatics scientists to find common ground? How do they overcome their differences in background, methodology and language to unite to address questions and issues that span their different disciplines? Maybe by sending a group of SEAS fellows out into the fjords for a couple of days of isolation and focus... Read more
Yan Li receives prestigious research support for the quest to understand how extreme ocean surface waves affect us. Such waves pose a threat to ships and infrastructure, becoming increasingly frequent and extreme due to climate changes.