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Lionel Christiaen presents at the conference
The Centre celebrates the oceans during One Ocean Week (25.04.2024)
Amidst the festivities of One Ocean Week, researchers from the Michael Sars Centre embraced the opportunity to engage with the public on Family Day and participate in the Ocean Outlook conference.
Inge Althuizen measuring carbon fluxes in northern Norway
Tundra might turn from carbon sink into carbon source due to global warming (24.04.2024)
Tundra ecosystems hold vast amounts of carbon, which is projected to be released into the atmosphere under climate warming. Researchers from the department of Biological Sciences contributed to this important and alarming new paper in Nature, led by researchers from Umeå University in Sweden.
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Cross-phyla insights into iGluR function: From rat NMDA receptors to placozoan leak channels (18.04.2024)
Researchers from the Lynagh Group reveal how minor amino acid variations in ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) can lead to major functional changes across animal phyla.
Seamount fauna
In deep water (12.04.2024)
Deep sea research is a gateway to unlocking mysteries both within our planet and beyond, offering insights that can have profound implications for science, industry, and our understanding of life in the universe.
Unlocking larval settlement in marine invertebrates (12.04.2024)
A new video abstract for Current Biology explores how specific chemical cues control the settlement and metamorphosis of Ciona larvae. Watch the film to hear researchers from the Chatzigeorgiou Group discuss their findings.
Scientists in the laboratory
Setting up the DeuteroNoise project for success (25.03.2024)
Professor Giovanni Zambon and researcher Dr. Valentina Zaffaroni Caorsi from the University of Milan-Bicocca recently visited the Centre to conduct preliminary experiments as part of the pan-European project DeuteroNoise.
Ten people standing on a height in front of a cairn. The background shows a fjord landscape, with distant mountains on the horizon
Partner meeting in Nordhordland (08.03.2024)
As the CULTIVATE project has entered its final year, it was time for the project's third in-person meeting. After visiting the biosphere reserves Trebon Basin and West-Estonian Archipelago previous years, members of the UNESCO Chair Group and the biosphere coordinators from Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve were happy to finally greet our colleagues in Western Norway.
Hikers on top of mountain
A transformative experience at the Michael Sars Centre (01.03.2024)
After six months at the Centre, research interns Catharina Kolner and Célestine Allombert-Blaise are off to the next steps of their path as young scientists. With their dedication and enthusiasm, they have made invaluable contributions to their respective research projects.
Bergen Aquarium Night Walk
A Night of Discovery: Highlights from the Night Walk at the Bergen Aquarium. (26.02.2024)
Researchers from the Michael Sars Centre engaged visitors with interactive exhibits and offered insights into marine life fostering scientific curiosity and education among guests of all ages.
Katja Malmborg explains the IPBES Nature Futures Framework
A year in review: CeSAMs activities in 2023 (21.02.2024)
As the days are slowly getting longer, we take a moment to reflect on our achievements from last year.
View over mountainous coastal landscape with a lot of houses, buildings, roads and other infrastructure.
Natur og klima - innspill til regjeringen (13.02.2024)
Klima- og miljødepartementet leder arbeidet med to stortingsmeldinger som skal legges fra ila. 2024; en om naturmangfold for å følge opp den internasjonale naturavtalen, og en om klima fram mot 2035 på veien mot lavutslippssamfunnet i 2050. UNESCO Chair Inger Måren har bidratt med innspill til regjeringen på vegne av CeSAM, Nordhordland UNESCO biosfæreområde, og den norske MAB-komiteen.
Cheatsheet in Sami
Lihkku beivviin sámi álbmogii! (08.02.2024)
Our cheat sheet to the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework is getting widely shared, which is great news. To celebrate Sámi National day, it is now also available in Sámi.
Screenshot of an online meeting. A screen is shared, showing a digital board with colourful post-it notes scattered across it. In the top right corner three female facillitators are present in three squares on top of eachother.
Day Zero: Future Visions For Nature Workshop (08.02.2024)
February 7th the Centre for Sustainable Area Management (CeSAM) and the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management hosted a student work shop during Day Zero of the 2024 Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDG) Conference.
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Decoding Sensory Navigation: Insights into Larval Settlement Mechanisms in Marine Invertebrates (06.02.2024)
A new paper from the Chatzigeorgiou Group unravels the enigmatic sensory strategies of planktonic larvae using Ciona intestinalis as a model organism.
Landscape with a waterbody in front, surrounded by thick, dark green forest on the right. Behind the forest peaks mist-covered mountains. Half a rainbow is visible across the sky, framing the mountain tops.
Intergenerational dialogue toward the Sustainable Development Goals in Hakusan Biosphere Reserve, Japan (06.02.2024)
Summer of 2022, then UNESCO Chair MSc student Erika Scheibe went on a study trip to UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Hakusan in Japan. Here, international and Japanese students met to learn and teach each other about ecology, culture and tradition in the Biosphere Reserve.
Beitostølen
Celebrating excellence in environmental toxicology at NSFT's 2024 winter meeting (01.02.2024)
The Environmental Toxicology group attended the annual winter meeting at Beitostølen arranged by the Norwegian Society for Pharmacology and Toxicology (NSFT) amidst the breathtaking mountain winter landscape, taking home two presentation awards.
GABA activate delta-type glutamate receptor in starfish
The surprising activity of GABA at excitatory invertebrate neurotransmitter receptors (30.01.2024)
A recent study provides insights into how iGluRs function and reveals an unexpected role of GABA in excitatory signaling in invertebrates.
Insircled yellow post-it note with the year 2034 underlined. Other yellow and pink post-it notes and differently coloured markers surround the main note.
Positive future visions for Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere (29.01.2024)
January 25, the CULTIVATE project held a Seeds of Good Anthropocenes workshop in Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The goal was to envision positive, more sustainable futures for cultural heritage and cultural landscapes in the Nordhordland region.

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