News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

Scientists will look into the heart of Surtsey, an island created 50 years ago by a volcanic eruption.

This is a message to new students from our (very own) professor Fredrik Manne, who was recently appointed outstanding lecturer. Well deserved for a professor with 20 years of experience, who is passionate about his field and is loved by his students. The man who walks into the auditorium with anticipation, loves teaching and puts his students first. This is what we call excellent teaching!

On June 26th the Research Council of Norway announced its continued funding to ELIXIR Norway - and 18 other infrastructure funding proposals submitted October 2016

Friederike Fröb defends on Tuesday, 27th of June 2017 her PhD dissertation at the University of Bergen with the title: “Climate controlled mechanisms of subpolar North Atlantic carbon uptake”.

The distrution of a radioactive Thorium isotope is important in multiple aspects of oceanograpy. In his new single author publication, Yiming Luo has revisited the issue on processes influencing the distribution in the water column.

Professor Michael Hesse commitment to space physics honoured by NASA.

At the vanguard of deep sea research - leading UiB, Norway, and internationally …

Ocean heat transport links subpolar and Arctic warming, but that is not the whole story, writes Aleksi Nummelin. Read his account of how he, Camille Li and Paul Hezel worked to solve a climate riddle.