News archive for Department of Earth Science

An Atlas to Earth’s Oxygenation (29.01.2013)

Focusing on the wealth of information gleaned from the recent Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP), “Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation” is a veritable atlas for current knowledge of a literally life-changing period in Earth’s history.

CGB Welcomes New PhD Students (09.01.2013)

2013 has begun, and so have the studies of two CGB students in our PhD programme. We are pleased to welcome Jan Vander Roost and Sven Le Moine Bauer to Bergen and to our team.

CGB participates in Hess Deep Plutonic Crust Drilling Expedition (05.12.2012)

CGB researcher Dr. Romain Meyer joins IODP vessel JOIDES Resolution to explore evolution and formation of deep oceanic crust

CGB research featured in PNAS (08.10.2012)

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB) have published their findings about how the geochemicial stratification in seafloor sediments correlates with stratification within microbial communities also found there.

Annual Report 2011 (27.09.2012)

Year 2011 has truly been an eventful year for the Centre for Geobiology (CGB).

Cindy Van Dover – a Passionate Proponent of the Deep-Sea (29.08.2012)

Cindy Van Dover will give her honorary doctorate lecture Thursday 30 August, in Realfagbyget’s Auditorium 4, at 14:15.

New PhD degree - Nil Irvali (24.03.2012)

Nil Irvali defended her PhD thesis Thursday 29. March 2012.

CGB part of discovery reported in Nature Communications (10.01.2012)

Centre leader Rolf Birger Pedersen was part of a team of international experts aboard the RRS James Cook spring 2010.

New PhD - Ronghua Wang (16.12.2011)

Friday 25. November 2011, Ronghua Wang defended her PhD-thesis at Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen

Getting to drilling sites in Russian Arctic was not always...

Ancient rocks reveal carbon-cycling information (02.12.2011)

Two billion year old rocks are providing information about a period of extreme carbon cycle disruption and the Great Oxidation Event – both critically important to our understanding of Earth’s geological and biological history.

Jan Mayen survey points to petroleum potential (30.11.2011)

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the University of Bergen have acquired samples from steep parts of the seabed on the Jan Mayen ridge between Norway and Iceland.

Geobio paper published in Science (24.11.2011)

CGB researcher, Bjarte Hannisdal, is co-author of a paper that shows that long-term changes in the diversity of marine animals may have been linked to the earth's geological evolution over the last 500 million years.