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Francesca Vulcano
Scientists explore hydrothermal vents under the Arctic ice cover (09.10.2019)
The HACON cruise may provide new insights into the biology and geochemistry of the mid-ocean ridge in ice-covered portions of the Arctic Ocean.
Dr. Achim Mall
Receives postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation (30.09.2019)
Dr. Achim Mall recently received a two year postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation. He will be working with carbon fixation in hydrothermal systems as part of the microbiology group at the K.G. Jebsen Centre. We congratulate and welcome him to our centre!
K.G. Jebsen PhD students by their stand at the Passion for Ocean festival.
Passion for Ocean 2019 (04.09.2019)
We thank everyone who visited our stand at the Passion for Ocean festival on Saturday! There was for sure a lot of interest for exploring deep sea rocks and living microorganisms.
Sampling of the mid-ocean ridge north of Jan Mayen (18.06.2019)
Scientists at the K.G. Jebsen Centre are sampling the volcanic seafloor in remote and previously unexplored areas.
Searching for manganese crusts in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea (17.06.2019)
Rolf Birger Pedersen and his research team are exploring manganese crusts in the deep ocean. Videos from the 2019 cruise provide unique glimpses of the scientific activity on board.
Solveig Lie Onstad
K.G. Jebsen PhD students at the conference "Seabed Mapping and Survey" (12.06.2019)
The annual conference "Seabed Mapping and Survey" was arranged in Geilo in early March. The conference is an international venue for technological development, exploration of sea surface and seafloor and development of techniques for assessing mineral and renewable resources in the ocean.
Black smoker vent
Happy 40th to black smoker vents (12.06.2019)
Happy 40th anniversary to black smoker vents! On April 21st,1979, deep sea explorers in the submersible HOV Alvin took the first ever photo of a "black smoker" hydrothermal vent.
Anders Bjerga og Håvard Stubseid
PhD students at the K.G. Jebsen Centre are winners of public outreach contest (07.06.2019)
Anders Bjerga and Håvard Stubseid at the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research won this year's public outreach contest at geoforskning.no with their contribution on submarine volcanic activity.
Eirik Gjerløw med komité, veileder og leder for disputas
New PhD on Jan Mayen volcanism (07.06.2019)
Monday 3. June, Eirik Gjerløw successfully defended his thesis "Holocene volcanic activity and hazards of Jan Mayen, North-Atlantic". We congratulate the freshly minted PhD!
Karin Landschulze med komité, veileder og leder for disputas
New PhD on seafloor fracturing and fluid migration (07.06.2019)
Friday 31 May, Karin Landschulze successfully defended her PhD thesis “Geophysical investigation of the Hugin Fracture, a soft-sediment seafloor fracture on the Utsira High, North Sea – Implications for subsurface fluid migration”. We congratulate the freshly minted PhD!
Henrike presenting her poster
Winter conference 2019 - NGF (10.01.2019)
Minerals and Metals for Green Technologies was the main theme for the NGF winter conference 2019, January 7th - 9th. Many of our PhD and master students presented their work during the conference and it was of great success.
The Icelandic island of Surtsey (left) was created by a four-year volcanic eruption in the 1960s.
Life Thrives Within the Earth’s Crust (17.10.2018)
From journeys into mines to explorations of volcanoes on the ocean floor, deep voyages reveal the richness of the planet’s deep biosphere.
Welcoming session at the Aula (UiB)
UNDERWATER MINING CONFERENCE (16.10.2018)
The 47th Under Water Mining conference (UMC18) was hosted in Bergen, Grieghallen, from 11th to 14th of September. The conference was organized in collaboration with the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research (UiB), Global Centres of Expertise Subsea (GCE Subsea) and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). We are pleased to announce that the conference was of great success.
Gamle bergarter på Mars kan være nøkkelen til et av de største spørsmålene i historien: finnes det liv på andre planeter?
Ny forskning kan finne tidligere liv på Mars! (16.10.2018)
Leif-Erik Rydland Pedersen i spennende og aktuelt intervju med NRK.
Vent shrimp and gastropods
A Hot and Deep Origin of Methane in Seafloor Hydrothermal Springs (23.02.2018)
Associate professor Eoghan Reeves at the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research involved in a new study featured by the Deep Carbon Observatory.
Flowmethod
Biodiscovery and Bioprospecting (20.12.2017)
Researchers at KG Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research are involved in Biotech projects to search for and utilize enzymes from the AMOR hydrothermal vent fields.
Goldschmidt
Bringing together deep ocean geobiologists (14.11.2017)
In august this year two scientists from the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research led a session called "Geobiology of the Deep Ocean and Subsurface: Contributions of the Deep Biosphere to Earth Systems" during the yearly Goldschmidt conference, giving the stage to geochemists, microbiologists and geologists working on deep-sea environments.
Drillsite at Surtsey
Looking at the deep biosphere through drill holes in a volcano (02.10.2017)
Our researcher Steffen Leth Jørgensen is one of the principle investigators of the SUSTAIN project and along with an international team of researchers he will exploit the opportunity to investigate the deep biosphere on the volcanic island Surtsey.

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