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Rektor Dag Rune Olsen
Technology meets medicine at the MMIV-conference (12.12.2019)
- Making people from the tech fields and the clinical fields merge efforts, is vital to improve patient treatment
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When environmental toxicology meets design (05.12.2019)
During the last months I have been thinking about how to communicate my PhD project to the general public. As a scientist, I explain my work with graphs and figures. But a figure which is easy to understand to my colleagues or peer reviewers, will find it hard to attract the attention of someone outside science.
Iain Johnston
A new tool uncovers how a disease develops in individual patients (05.12.2019)
UiB and Imperial College researchers have developed a tool which predicts how progressive diseases like cancer and malaria develop in individual patients. In addition, the tool uncovers how bacteria develop resistance to certain drugs.
Mashzhan Akzhigit
Eurasian students from Kazakhistan (15.11.2019)
Mashzhan Akzhigit , PhD student and Musabekov Zhorabek, master student at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University make their first research visit to University of Bergen under the Eurasian Framework. Welcome!
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Researchers discover cause of rapid sea level change 100.000 years ago (07.11.2019)
The world’s sea level was at one time ten meters higher than today. Researchers have now discovered where the water came from. 
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Elin Darelius held The Nansen Memorial Lecture (04.11.2019)
The yearly lecture at the Norwegian Academy of Letters and Sciences.
Edoardo Mandolini
Breakdown of keratin-laden biomass waste by the thermophilic bacteria Fervidobacterium pennivorans strain Ker (02.11.2019)
Edoardo Mandolini, will work on his master thesis focussing on the anaerobic thermophilic bacterium Fervidobacterium pennivorans, named strain Ker, isolated from a terrestrial hot-spring in Tajikistan.
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What is the dominant wind direction for air-sea heat exchange? (30.10.2019)
In the mid-latitudes the weather changes quickly. Changing winds influence the heat exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean. A new study by Fumiaki Ogawa and Thomas Spengler shows how important it is to consider short-term phenomena like extratropical cyclones and cold air outbreaks when calculating air-sea fluxes. Read their account below.
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Data interoperability a key for disaster risk reduction in Europe (30.10.2019)
In a number of European countries, there is a clear imbalance between long-term disaster risk reduction and short-term preparation, according to a new study. With increasing amounts of data, there is a potential for investments in long-term reduction measures, but data availability is not enough. Jenny Sjåstad Hagen, co-author of the study, writes about the importance of data interoperability.
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Climate adaptation co-production course – because climate problems can't be solved alone (18.10.2019)
Erik Kolstad and Scott Bremer organise training in transdisciplinary climate adaptation research for early career researchers.
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BSRS 2020: Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges (16.10.2019)
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school. 
Christoph Heinze (UiB og Bjerknessenteret) og Thorsten Blenckner (Stockholm Resilience Centre) ønsket over 80 forskere velkommen til Bergen i dag, når COMFORT prosjektet setter I gang. Heinze (til venstre) og Blenckner leder et forskerteam som skal under
Our safe operating spaces for our common future ocean in the Earth system (09.10.2019)
What are our safe operating spaces for the ocean? This is the starting question for the new EU Horizon 2020 project COMFORT.
Anne Canteaut
An honorary doctor at UiB (08.10.2019)
Prof. Anne Canteaut is the scientific leader of the project-team SECRET at INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), and the chair of the Inria Evaluation Committee. She becomes one of the ten honorary doctors at the University of Bergen in 2019.
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A technological revolution at atomic size  (08.10.2019)
More effective as well as cheaper technology will be the outcome of a new innovation project, led by the University of Bergen.
Deep down in the Arctic - OBS Expedition 2019 (03.10.2019)
Geophysical research expedition in Arctic environments!
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The tropical Pacific influences the North Atlantic jet stream (01.10.2019)
The location of the jet stream influences European weather at all times. A new study links its position both to local weather systems and to the far-away Pacific Ocean. Lead author Erica Madonna explains.
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Ocean report: Offshore wind can provide significant contribution to CO2 mitigation (23.09.2019)
Offshore wind energy has the largest CO2 mitigation potential of all ocean based renewable energy sources a new study from the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy finds
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UiB researcher attending UN summit (20.09.2019)
For many years, Dr Alicia Donnellan Barraclough has been working for sustainability, both in her personal time and through her career in ecology. In august, she received an e-mail from the UN.

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