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Peter Haugan, Francoise Gaill and Lise Øvreås in conversation at the Ocean Futures 2030 event at the House of Literature in Bergen on 17 September with audience member shooting photo on mobile.
Raising public ocean literacy awareness (21.09.2024)
The fifth event in the Ocean Futures 2030 series was co-organised by UiB and France’s embassy in Norway to discuss global ocean awareness across sectors. Watch the recording.
Yan Li at the tip of Nordnes, Bergen.
Wave Researcher Awarded ERC Starting Grant (04.09.2024)
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.
Illustrasjonsbilde av ung mann på badet som ser seg i speilet
Boys with higher levels of environmental pollutants enter puberty later (04.09.2024)
Researchers at the University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health have studied the relationship between levels of environmental pollutants in the blood and pubertal development in 300 boys in Bergen, Norway. The results showed that those with higher levels of pollutants entered puberty later.