News archive for Department of Geography

ECOPOTENTIAL: improving future ecosystem benefits through earth observations (23.01.2018)

ECOPOTENTIAL is a large European-funded H2020 project that focuses its activities on a targeted set of internationally recognised Protected Areas, blending Earth Observations from remote sensing and field measurements, data analysis and modelling of current and future ecosystem conditions and services.

Remote Sensing and GIS monthly workshop (09.01.2018)

GIS and Remote Sensing are currently some of the most sort after skills for graduates within Geoscience and Geography, both within academia and industry. The Department of Geography will be running a monthly practical workshop throughout the spring semester covering a variety of GIS and Remote Sensing skills.

Turning the spotlight on students (05.01.2018)

Johan and Ragnhild are the first-ever conference coordinators at the UiB Collaboratory. This spring, they are up to something big …

Research administrator Kårstein Måseide, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen, Norway.

Science for a better planet (29.11.2017)

A glowing interest in the climate challenges and the need for a transformation of society to minimize these changes made Kårstein Måseide apply for the job as research coordinator at CET. He wants to encourage broad, interdisciplinary climate research.

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System dynamic models in education (14.11.2017)

The C-ROADS model is used in a roleplaying activity to motivate actions to prevent climate change.

Benjamin Aubrey Robson is our new Postdoctoral fellow (10.11.2017)

Benjamin Aubrey Robson started working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography in October. He will continue to research glaciers using remote sensing analyses, but will also focus on rock glaciers, degradation of permafrost, and how changes in the cryosphere are influencing water resources.

Henry A. Bartelet received honor for his conference paper (16.10.2017)

Henry Bartelet, a graduate from the European Master Program in System Dynamics, received an Honorable Mention, by the Dana Meadows Award committee at the 2017 International System Dynamics Conference.

BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)

More Ukrainian students studying system dynamics at UiB (07.07.2017)

Twenty-one students plus five instructors from the National University of Kyiv-Mohlya Academy and Ivan Franco National University of Lviv studied system dynamics in Bergen during the 2016-17 academic year.

Climate Change and the Future of Himalayan Farming (20.06.2017)

This new book, edited by professor Tor Halfdan Aase and published at Oxford University Press, asks to what extent Himalayan farmers and their institutions are prepared to face a future when external production conditions change.

New PostDoc at SpaceLab (06.04.2017)

Siddharth Sareen started his position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow this week. He will work on energy sector governance, with a focus on solar energy transitions in Southern Europe.

EU funding for climate dynamics project (26.01.2017)

Birgit Kopainsky is partner in a project about sustainability and resilience in European agriculture. The project recently received more than 4.8 million Euros from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.

Utilising small fish for global food security (06.12.2016)

Consumption of fish and its contribution to the diets, especially of low income populations and vulnerable groups, offers important means for improving nutrition. Despite this, fish is strikingly missing from strategies for reduction of nutrient deficiency, for example among pregnant and lactating women, children and poor people.