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Group photo of the MMC workshop
Another success of the BFA workshop (21.08.2018)
The 3rd international workshop on Boolean Functions and their Applications (BFA) was successfully held during June 17 - 22, 2018, Loen, Norway
Group photo of the MMC workshop
Prof. Tor Helleseth's 70th anniversary (21.08.2018)
Prof. Tor Helleseth had his 70th birthday celebrated at the international workshop MMC during Sept. 3 - 8 and at the Vilvite center on his birthday, Nov. 22.
Mathematicians working on a white board with complex algorithms
Modeling the uncertain (17.08.2018)
When starting my work in the dCod project I had very limited biological knowledge. My background was mostly in applied mathematics, where applied usually refers to something related to physics. Physics, the field of conservation laws, well-studied phenomena and exact equations. And then I now found myself in the situation where I was supposed to do modeling in biology. Biology, a field I had... Read more
Stillehavet_temp
Pacific impact on the Arctic larger than expected (10.08.2018)
Lea Svendsen was at first surprised to see how the Pacific impacted winter temperatures in the Arctic. Now, her results have been published in Nature Climate Change, while the Pacific transitions into a warm phase again.
Sigrid Lind
Dramatic shift to Atlantic climate in Arctic warming hotspot (02.07.2018)
The Arctic is about to shrink, shows a new study, as an important part of the Arctic Ocean shifts over to an Atlantic climate regime. The rapid climate shift occurs in the northern Barents Sea—the Arctic warming hotspot where the surface warming and loss of winter sea ice is largest in the entire Arctic.
Landscape of vineyard fields and blue sky.
Breaking the interdisciplinary ice (08.06.2018)
I remember reading the following sentence in the announcement of my current post-doc position as part of the dCod project: “The work will involve close collaboration with research groups both from biology and from mathematics”. I thought it was an interesting ambition, but I wasn’t sure how close would this collaboration be and how would it be organized. I guess the scheduled biweekly dCod... Read more
Rope team_foto: Petra, Margit and Sunniva on the top of the Folgefonna glacier
Team Bergen is getting ready for Greenland (07.06.2018)
Over the course of three days (9-11 May), seven BCCR and Ice2Ice researchers participated in a glacier safety course on the Folgefonna glacier.
Picture of the awardwinner poster at AAPG our Danielle Howlett
GEO Students Awards at AAPG Annual Convention in Salt Lake City (06.06.2018)
GEO had a strong showing at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Annual Convention and Exhibition held in Salt Lake City, 20-23 May.
Gruppebilde fra Utah med fjellene i bakgrunnen
Travel letter from the GEO course in Utah (04.06.2018)
Some notes from the Utah course GEOV352
Norwegian Marine University Consortium
Speaking with one voice from Norway (25.05.2018)
In their very first meeting, the board of The Norwegian Marine University Consortium (NMUC) had talks with the executives from the European Marine Board.  The next step is to shape the consortium into a vital bridgehead for cooperation with the EU.
The mesocosm raft and our target organism E. huxleyi
Unlocking Emiliania huxleyi secrets (25.05.2018)
The first AQUACOSM group has arrived at UiB's Marine Biological Station. The international team of scientists are here to study the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi.
Oikopleura dioica
Viruses on the menu? (16.05.2018)
An international research team led by Uni Research Environment and the University of Bergen will explore how filter-feeding zooplankton can trap, ingest, disperse and potentially preserve virus particles in the marine environment.
Three different datasets
Introducing - Topological data analysis (10.05.2018)
Understanding the structure and relationships of biomolecules is important for discovering new medicines and materials. Three-dimensional bimolecular structures are often geometrically complex making it difficult to predict functional properties of molecules based on their structures. Recently, the new field of topological data analysis has shown some promise in improving the prediction of... Read more
Jeppe Kolding (UiB), Shakuntala Thilsted (WorldFish) og Ragnhild Overå (UiB).
Supporting small fish to fight food insecurity (04.05.2018)
Small fish have huge potential to alleviate malnutrition and safeguard food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and across the globe. An interdisciplinary project headed by the University of Bergen has been awarded 1 million Euros.
Sara Daniels, Jarl Giske, Alice B. Aiken, Dalhousie University
Canada draws inspiration from Bergen supercluster (23.04.2018)
When Halifax, Canada aims to establish its own marine supercluster, it is Bergen they look to for inspiration.
A grey stone with Chinese signs
Knowledge Sharing in Science (13.04.2018)
Every Chinese child knows the story of “Kong Rong giving up pears”. In this story, the four-year-old Kong Rong gave up the larger pears to his older and younger brothers. This narrative is used in elementary education to teach the children to be aware of the value of sharing. As scientists, we know the art of sharing even better, and we’re sharing something more important than pears: we share... Read more
Kjetil Våge tokt
Reduced sea ice cover off Greenland may have surprising effect on ocean currents (09.04.2018)
With global warming, ocean circulation in the Atlantic Ocean is generally thought to weaken. New research shows that less sea ice off the coast of Greenland may work against this.
El Nino_NOAA
Pacific influences European weather (23.03.2018)
Sea surface temperature in the distant tropical Pacific can influence November weather in Europe.

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