News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

The start of the year marked the launch of WormFEST — a groundbreaking project exploring the fascinating worm forests found deep underwater near Arctic hydrothermal vents and cold seeps.

The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.

The UNESCO Chair project BECOME, is one of the initiatives mentioned in the newly published UNESCO report “The Earth Network: sharing tools for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in UNESCO-designated sites”, where they present a toolkit of practices that support both the 2030 Agenda and UNESCO-designated sites.

Professor Martino Marisaldi has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of €3.5 million for his research into how lightning initiates —one of the longest-standing unsolved mysteries in atmospheric electricity.

A brilliant idea led nanophysicist Bodil Holst to investigate why polar bear fur doesn't freeze. Now, her research on the deicing properties of polar bear fur has been published as the cover story in Science Advances.

The CULTIVATE project recently had its first paper published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. In this paper, the authors present a novel transdisciplinary learning framework that links notions of cultural heritage, landscape, and social-ecological systems thinking to support sustainable rural development.

The CDeepSea Ultima Thule expedition on the R/V Kronprins Haakon left Longyearbyen on November 26, 2024 with the primary objective of mapping and sampling in the Lena Trough. However, the researchers and crew onboard were prepared for challenging sea ice conditions given the time of year and the northern latitudes... and that is what they encountered!

In December, the BIOSPHERE project group held a dialogue meeting about the Global Biodiversity Framework goals with stakeholders from the Nordhordland municipalities as the finally of the resilience assessment that has been taking place this autumn.