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Portrait of Pawel Burkhardt.
Prestigious funding awarded for decoding the origins of brain evolution. (04.04.2023)
Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Research Grant for Fred Wolf and Pawel Burkhardt.
Yellow deep sea sponge
Seabed Mining and Biodiversity Conservation in the Deep Sea: Where Science meets Policy (30.03.2023)
Deep seabed mining is coming closer to a reality, presumably motivated by the need for rare metals. In this lecture Lisa A. Levin, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will highlight the deep-sea ecosystems being targeted for seabed mining, their biodiversity and why it matters, potential threats and management challenges.
Vincent Rijmen
Vincent Rijmen wins Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography 2023 (27.03.2023)
A group photo of the participants at the PRIMA Learning Stable Isotope Workshop
"PRIMA Learning" Stable Isotope Workshop in Cape Town in February 2023 (22.03.2023)
Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt
TMS-supported volcano research published in Nature Communications (21.03.2023)
Can CT scanning be used to better determine the magnitude of past volcanic eruptions? The answer is a resounding yes, according to a new study in Nature Communications by Willem van der Bilt with colleagues.
Kronprins Haakon besøkte Bjerknessenteret.
The Crown Prince analysed his own snow samples (20.03.2023)
HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway visited the Bjerknes Centre to learn more about our research – and to check the snow he sampled himself in Greenland last summer.
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HySchool Days 2024 (17.03.2023)
This is the web page for HySchool Days 2024, the premier networking event organised by HySchool ‒ Norwegian Research School on Hydrogen and Hydrogen-Based Fuels. NTNU will host HySchool Days 2024 in Trondheim, on 23-24 April 2024. 
Brønnøy Kalk's opencast mine
Geopractice at Brønnøy Kalk in Brønnøysund (16.03.2023)
Bachelor student Andrea, is in her last semester of her bachelor's degree in geology at department of Earth Science, UiB. She says: "I'm one of the two lucky ones who got an internship at Brønnøy Kalk".
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HySchool Days 2023 in Bergen (13.03.2023)
​​​​​​​HySchool Days are the annual networking events organised by HySchool  ̶  Norwegian Research School on Hydrogen and Hydrogen-Based Fuels. Over hundred participants gathered for HySchool Days 2023, including PhD candidates and leading experts from industry, academia, research institutes and non-governmental organizations.
Group photo of the nine meeting participators in front of a light blue, wooden building with a lot of windows. Snow on the ground and on the house roof.
Partner Meeting in Hiiumaa (09.03.2023)
After dedicating most of the last six months of the project to conducting interviews, the CULTIVATE project partners finally met in person, this time on the Hiiumaa island in the West Estonian Archipelago – almost exactly a year since the first in-person meeting in Trebon in March 2022.
Collage of items representing energy, including a stylized windmill, a solar panel and more
WATCH: Energy Informatics (06.03.2023)
Did you miss professor Ahmad Hemmati's presentation on Energy Informatics? Watch it here!
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Reult of the MN-faculty board election 2023 (27.02.2023)
Here are the new faculty board representatives for Gr. B and Gr. D for the period 01.08.2023 - 31.07.2024!
Wake effects within the Horns Rev wind Farm
WATCH: Layout and yaw optimisation of an offshore wind farm (27.02.2023)
Wind energy has a very high potential for improvement, especially with regard to wake effects of the turbines within large wind farms. This work focuses the emphasis on potential of aerodynamically optimized wind park layouts and wake steering through yaw angle control.
A group picture of the workshop participants
“PRIMA Learning” jellyfish workshop in Cape Town in February 2023 (23.02.2023)
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Best article award from FEMS microbiology ecology (22.02.2023)
Francesca vulcano and her coworkers have been awarded the 2022 best article award from FEMS microbiology ecology. The article investigates the evolution and adaptation to different environments of anaerobic methane oxidizing Archaea.
A listing of HyValue's overall objectives illustrated with an image of a person by the sea.
WATCH: Introduction of FME HyValue – Norwegian Centre for Hydrogen Value Chain Research (20.02.2023)
Did you miss Jonas Solbakken and Velaug Myrseth Oltedal's presentation of HyValue? Watch it here!
Nurul Huda Razif
Four researchers receive Marie Curie grant (16.02.2023)
The University of Bergen has been awarded four EU-funded mobility grants through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). One grant goes to The Faculty of Humanities, and three will go to The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Carl on board
Carl completes his Master degree (13.02.2023)
Carl was a visiting student at the HypOnFjordFish project from the Freie University, Berlin. He has been studying the effects of hypoxia on mesopelagic crustaceans

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