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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.
Jostein Bakke
Climate scientists take sediment cores on Svalbard lakes (23.11.2017)
“We have been trying to do this trip for five years and we have had a lot of issues with ice,” says expedition leader Jostein Bakke, head of the Quaternary Earth Systems group at Department of Earth Science
Climate scientists take ice cores on Svalbard lakes (23.11.2017)
“We have been trying to do this trip for five years and we have had a lot of issues with ice,” says expedition leader Jostein Bakke, head of the Quaternary Earth Systems group at department of Earth Science
Workshop people
EPOS-Norway SESF Workshop (21.11.2017)
Within the framework of the EPOS-Norway project, a dedicated web-portal is being developed. As part of this development, on 1-3 November 2017, EPOS-Norway project arranged a workshop in Bergen, where 25 students and scientists attended.
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.
Anya Helene Bagge
Anya Helene Bagge is Lecturer of the Year (19.10.2017)
She’s both a groundbreaking computer scientist and an excellent teacher; and now she’s awarded the Teaching Prize at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
K.G.Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea research
K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research leads a new InterRidge working group (02.10.2017)
Thibaut Barreyre at the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea research has been appointed to lead a new InterRidge working group focusing on Integrating Multidisciplinary Observations in Vent Environments (IMOVE).
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The LoCH NESs project has been initiated! (02.10.2017)
The summer of 2017 a long-term temperature sensors, current meters, pressure gauge and ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) was deployed to look at how natural physical processes (e.g. ocean tides, micro-earthquakes) to constrain subsurface permeability structure beneath Loki’s Castle hydrothermal site.
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A successful Magellan Workshop (26.09.2017)
September 6th to 8th we arranged the MagellanPlus Workshop Series Programme in Bergen, at the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research. The goal was to discuss to plan and draft up an IODP proposal for JR-style drilling of a series of holes on and off axis of the SKR to assess the cycling of carbon and consequences for life in sediments and shallow basement.
Going Deep - Nature
Iceland drilling project aims to unearth how islands form (24.07.2017)
Scientists will look into the heart of Surtsey, an island created 50 years ago by a volcanic eruption.
Rolf Birger Pedersen
Being a Flagship! (30.05.2017)
At the vanguard of deep sea research - leading UiB, Norway, and internationally …
Goldschmidt session
Submit to our Goldschmidt session! (08.03.2017)
Please remember our session when considering attending the Goldschmidt conference in Paris this year (August 13-18)!
Torgeir Røthe collecting sediments from Lake Sandvinsvatnet, Odda
New insight on floods risk from the bottom of the lake (08.02.2017)
The Department of Earth Sciences (GEO) is part of HordaFlom, an innovative project which will analyze lake sediments to reconstruct flooding events during the last 2000 years and which will provide more robust projections of future floods
Intaros written on top of snow
GEO in a prestigious Arctic EU project (18.01.2017)
Mathilde B. Sørensen, Kuvvet Atakan and Rolf Birger Pedersen are together with colleagues from GFI one of the 49 partners of the Integrated Arctic Observing system (INTAROS) funded by H2020 and coordinated by the Nansen center.
Norwegian Sea
New UiB Flagship (16.01.2017)
The new K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research will open 9 February 2017.
Growing bacteria under pressure
Win-Win: Exchange Experience Led to Research Breakthrough (07.12.2016)
Geobiology master student, Andreas Gilje Sjøberg, had an opportunity to study abroad in a lab in Brittany during his master studies. His work there yielded unexpected and important results!
Steffen Leth Jørgensen
Studying a Hidden, Globally Significant Biosphere (30.11.2016)
Researcher Steffen Leth Jørgensen is the Centre for Geobiology’s (CGB) 3rd successful Bergen Research Foundation’s Recruitment Programme candidate.
NordMin PhD course
Seafloor Mineral Resources and Prospects of Deep-Sea Mining (26.10.2016)
The Centre for Geobiology (CGB) held a PhD course addressing the geological, environmental and technological challenges facing deep-sea mining and mineral extraction.

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