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Ingrid Kristine Jacobsen is joining the CSD (30.09.2022)
Ingrid Kristine Jacobsen is a new Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics and her project is part of the Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics. We met her to find out more about her background and the project.
Yuri Zabegaev
Yuri Zabegaev is joining the CSD (29.09.2022)
Yuri Zabegaev is a new Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics and his project is part of the Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics. We met him to find out more about his background and the project.
Overview photo of Kristianstad vattenrike. Partly flooded wetlands. Water with water lilly leaves in the front, surorunded by wetlands with overgrown with sedges and willow. City of Kristianstad in the background.
Visiting Vattenriket BR in Southern Sweden (28.09.2022)
The BIOSPHERE project aims to strengthen social-ecological resilience in peri-urban and rural Norway, and in this project members of the UNESCO Chair group at UiB work together with partners from Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve and Alver municipality. The partners recently visited Kristianstad Vattenrike, Sweden's oldest biosphere reserve, to learn from their experiences of collaboration between... Read more
Jhabriel Varela
Jhabriel Varela is joining the CSD as a Postdoc (26.09.2022)
Jhabriel Varela is now having a Post-doctoral position at the Department of Mathematics and his project is part of the Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics. We met him to find out more about his background and the project.
Hildegunn Opdal, Katja Malmborg, Kari E. Natland og Alicia Barraclogh
EuroMAB 2022 in Nockberge Biosphere park, Austria (26.09.2022)
Members of the UNESCO Chair team and representatives from Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve recently participated in the EuroMAB 2022 conference - "Tying cultures. Crossboarder cooperation between societies and generations."
Cell research
Data science reveals universal rules shaping cells’ power stations (16.09.2022)
A UiB-led study published in Cell Systems reveals that all cellular power plants - our mitochondria, plant chloroplasts, and more - have evolved according to a universal set of rules.
Sars-senteret på Marineholmen
The Sars Centre will become part of The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (15.09.2022)
The Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology at the University of Bergen will be placed in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, effective January 1st, 2023.
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Jokhongir Khayrullaev is joining the CSD (14.09.2022)
Jokhongir Khayrullaev is a new Ph.D. student at the Department of Earth Science and his project is part of the Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics. We met him to find out more about his background and the project.
HySchool Kick-off meeting August 2022
HySchool has started and Ph.D.-students from all over Norway are attending (23.08.2022)
HySchool, a Norwegian research school with focus on hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels, had its kick-off meeting at Solstrand outside Bergen this week and we are off to a good start.
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Fieldwork on an ancient seafloor (21.08.2022)
While the majority of the Centre for Deep Sea researchers have gone out to the Norwegian Sea this summer to study seafloor processes and hydrothermal vents, Desiree Roerdink flew to the other side of the world to do exactly the same thing – in rocks that are more than three billion years old.
Boat on the ocean near Svalbard
UiB and UiT researchers travel further back in time on northern Svalbard (17.08.2022)
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HySchool Call for Applications is open (16.08.2022)
You can now submit your application for HySchool - Norwegian Research School on Hydrogen and Hydrogen-based Fuels. HySchool has a rolling enrollment.
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CeSAM represents at Arendalsuka 2022 (16.08.2022)
Arendalsuka 2022 has started, and our centre leaders are part of the program on multiple occasions. The yearly political festival covers a wide range of topics and activities, but Inger Måren and Vigdis Vandvik will appear on stage to discuss the nature crisis, how to bring a sustainability mindset to science education, and ways in which nature can be given a voice in our economic system.
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Marine Geological Cruise Report from The North Sea: Utsira Nord and Sørlige Nordsjø III (27.07.2022)
In June 2022, geologists from the Department of Earth sciences, associated with the Bergen Offshore Wind Centre, sailed on a scientific cruise to Utsira Nord and Sørlige North Sea II to collect data that will be used to map the sea bottom conditions in the areas opened for offshore energy production. You can read the cruise report here.
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Wild species are key to sustainable development (07.07.2022)
“Sustainable use of wild species is key to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,” says Professor Jeppe Kolding at the University of Bergen. He is one of 87 international experts co-writing a new report out Friday 8 July 2022.
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Guest visitors from Ecuador and Colombia (07.07.2022)
Through the NORHED II-project CO2-EOR for CCUS in Colombia and Ecuador: Norwegian energy initiative, the Department of Physics and Technology will be receiving guest visitors from Ecuador and Colombia onward.
Dr. Alicia Donellan Barraclough
ACTIONABLE - Adaptive Co-management to enhance biocultural diversity and sustainable development in coastal communities (06.07.2022)
PostDoc Alicia Donellan Barraclough received funding for her project ACTIONABLE from The Norwegian Research Council, under the theme "Areas under pressure". The project started in summer 2023. Read more about the project in Alicia's own words below.
Black and brown cows walking in a line through a gate on a field.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the small farm sector (05.07.2022)
One might think that the similarities between farmers in Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and small-scale farmers in China and USA start and end with their occupation, but a new study finds striking similarities in their adaptive responses to the COVID pandemic - some of which should be considered implemented permenantly for more resilient food-production.

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