Nyhetsarkiv for Institutt for geovitenskap

Ti geofysikk bachelor- og masterstudenter deltok på et feltkurs i Kiel (Tyskland) i august.

An international team of researchers, including Eoghan P. Reeves of the Department of Earth Science and Centre for Deep Sea Research, has this week in Nature Communications published its first findings on the geological and geochemical setting of the Aurora hydrothermal vent system, the first seafloor hot springs located ~4km under thick Arctic sea ice.

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.

– I sommer skal vi undersøke mangan-avsetninger i et dypt havområde nord for Jan Mayen, og skaffe mer kunnskap om det biologiske livet i området. Dette er viktig for å kunne vurdere miljøkonsekvenser av eventuell industriell aktivitet.

Hvordan kan havvindturbiner festes til havbunnen og hvordan kan store mengder hydrogen mellomlagres på norsk sokkel? To nye forskningsprosjekter skal gi kunnskapsbidrag til et viktig felt for Norge.

The first week in June UIB GEO has been hosting the Summer School for the Marie Curie Innovative Training Project "S2S Future: Signal Propagation from Source to Sink for the Future of Earth Resources and Energy". 13 PhD candidates have come from universities in France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland to learn and work together in western Norway.

En kort oppdatering fra våre kollegaer om bord.