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Carey Sweeney
Traveling from Oregon to Bergen to study <i>Oikopleura</i> in culture (13.11.2023)
The Appendicularian Facility at the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen is one of only four in the world. This month, guest researchers traveled from the U.S. to conduct experiments in this unique laboratory.
Professor Iain George Johnston i Muséhagen
New findings on plants' ingenious defense against mutational damage (09.11.2023)
Professor Iain George Johnston and the research team at the University of Bergen (UiB) have been instrumental in a recent study that reveals how plants protect themselves from mutational damage. The groundbreaking findings are now presented in a research article in the highly-ranked journal New Phytologist.
Eirik Finserås
Offshore wind farms can "steal" wind from each other (31.10.2023)
Offshore wind farms can “steal” the capacity of other farms by up to 20 percent up to 50 kilometres away, due to wake loss. The regulation is ambiguous and needs to be developed to accommodate large-scale offshore wind development in the North Sea and other ocean areas, according to PhD Candidate Eirik Finseraas at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen.
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Kick off meeting for RCN project ACTIONABLE (30.10.2023)
October 16-17, 2023, partners of the new NFR funded project ACTIONABLE all met in person in Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere. The project is led by Dr. Alicia D. Barraclough, researcher under the UiB UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management.
Primary regions of diversity of major agricultural crops worldwide
Unlocking human history through pollen (30.10.2023)
A new paper in Nature Scientific Data offer a comprehensive exploration of food plants and human indicators found in fossil pollen records. This new paper developed by Suzette Flantua (researcher and CESAM member at Dept. of Biological Sciences) creates an invaluable resource for interdisciplinary research aiming to reconstruct human history over long time scales.
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Summer School (20.10.2023)
School/GEOV336 in the Lyngen Alps in Northern Norway
WATCH: Webinar on European energy policy @ Bergen Energy Lab” by Rosita Zilli, EERA Senior Policy Officer (20.10.2023)
WATCH: European Electricity Market Design for the Future (17.10.2023)
Did you miss our half-day seminar on European Electricity Market Design for the Future, co-organized by Bergen Energy Lab / NHH Norwegian School of Economics? Watch the presentations here!
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Nordic Developmental Biology Societies & Michael Sars Symposium Joint Meeting (13.10.2023)
We cordially invite you to join us in Bergen, Norway from Tuesday 28th until Friday 31st May 2024!
WATCH: Hydrogen production from electrolysis and natural gas pyrolysis (11.10.2023)
In this presentation, Jonathan Økland Torstensen, associate professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, present ongoing work on optimization of hydrogen production through hydrolysis of water and pyrolysis of natural gas respectively, and discusses aspects of the two methods and their potential utillity in large scale hydrogen production.
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Big Dye available for sale (11.10.2023)
We have a residual stock of Big Dye which can be purchased upon request
WATCH: Korleis kan fleksibilitet handtere utfordringar i distribusjonsnettet (How can flexibility handle challenges in the distribution network) - Norwegian language (10.10.2023)
In this presentation, Per-Oddvar Osland discusses how customer flexibility can contribute to solving challenges related to the increased pressure on the power grid, such as power peaks. The presentation will be held in Norwegian language.
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New Student Representatives of HySchool 2023 - 2024 (10.10.2023)
HySchool welcomes four new student representatives to the Board for 2023 - 2024! They represent the students in HySchool and will contribute to the development of the research school.
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Organise an event at Day Zero 2024 (28.09.2023)
We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 7 February 2024.
Forskningsdagene 2023
Sharing our research and the beauty of our marine organisms at Forskningsdagene (26.09.2023)
The annual science festival creates enthusiasm and understanding for research through local educational and research institutions. Held every year since 1995, it is one of Europe's largest, nationwide research festivals.
Rein Hardangerfjord
Top effort for a Clean Hardangerfjord (25.09.2023)
On 15 September, the plastic waste clean-up action Rein Hardangerfjord (Clean Hardangerfjord) took place. The Plastics Network at UiB filled a bus with students and staff who wanted to make an effort for the environment.
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Hau Trung Dang successfully defended his thesis (22.09.2023)
On Friday 01/09, CSD team member Hau Trung Dang successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Simulation of fracture slip and propagation in hydraulic stimulation of geothermal reservoirs".
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Archean beaches in Berlin: a report from the ICDP BASE sampling party (21.09.2023)
What did the surface of Earth look like more than three billion years ago? What kinds of microbes lived there and when did they start producing oxygen? And what was the temperature and composition of the ancient oceans and atmosphere? Big questions like these is what drew a group of 41 scientists to sunny Berlin last week, including our Associate professor Desiree Roerdink.

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