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A picture of trawl catch with a mixture of fish and jellies
Climate, hypoxia, and the spatial dynamics of the bearded goby and its predators (20.02.2014)
Spatial dynamics of the bearded goby and its key fish predators off Namibia varies with climate and oxygen availability
Winter school in Algorithms 2014 (06.02.2014)
This year's winter school will be held during March 19 - 21 in Finse.
A new STOC paper from Bergen (06.02.2014)
Four researchers from the Algorithms group are co-authors of a paper recently accepted to STOC 2014.
Changes in personality and mating behaviour under size selective mortality (31.01.2014)
Joan Sala is a biology bachelor student from the University of Barcelona (UB). During the fourth year of his bachelor he has to carry out a thesis, so he decided to come to Bergen and join the EvoFish group!
Geological assistance to Tanzania (29.01.2014)
University of Oslo is assisting students and scientists in Tanzania to increase the level of knowledge within Geology.
Portrait of Fedor Baranov and his catch equation
Long live the Baranov catch equation! (24.01.2014)
Shaken, not stirred. A new paper is shaking the position of the Baranov catch equation as one of the cornerstones of fisheries science. Fortunately, this shaking turns out not be too serious.
More Atlantic heat causes less Arctic sea ice, as observed locally in the...
A fresh look at the Gulf Stream’s Arctic limb (18.12.2013)
A recent Bjerknes study shows that the Gulf Stream’s Arctic limb is constrained by its heat transfer from the south.
DynaMito 2013 poster award to MBI's Thomas Kalvik (13.12.2013)
How does the Earth’s oceanic crust form? (10.12.2013)
A team of international researchers publishes in Nature after a 2 month expedition last year to drill into ocean crust 4800m below the surface
ERC-grant to Arctic sea ice and Greenland ice sheet research (10.12.2013)
What will happen to the Greenland Ice Sheet if the Arctic sea ice covers disappears?
Bergen Research Foundation scholarship awarded to Bjarte Hannisdal (03.12.2013)
Researcher Bjarte Hannisdal at the Centre for Geobiology recently received a prestigious Bergen Research Foundation Recruitment Grant for his project “Earth System Interactions and Information Transfer”
French vessel Pourquois pas? Cruises the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (02.12.2013)
CGB scientists Cedric Hamelin and Kristian Haaga are aboard the French IFREMER’s research vessel the Pourquoi pas?, investigating the detachment fault system at 13 degrees North on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Cloud vortex streets off the Cape Verde Islands, Terra MODIS image from 5...
Computing the earth from core to clouds (26.11.2013)
Over the last half-century, high performance computing has proved itself as essential a tool for the earth sciences as the weather balloon and the rock hammer.
Building up competitive critical mass (13.11.2013)
BIO / UiB / Norway host a COST Action Management Committee meeting.
Geetha with her experimental guppies. All fish are reared in isolation, some...
Can guppies hold their breath? (11.11.2013)
Geetha Jeyakanth is working in the guppy lab for her Master’s project on the effect of ambient oxygen on life history of guppies.
Tracking UV variations through time (11.11.2013)
The amount of UV light reaching the Earth’s surface is thought to have varied in the past, and may be a largely overlooked factor in evolution. How can we quantify changes in UV over time to test these ideas?
No-analogue climate (08.11.2013)
The NoAClim project not only aims to test the scenario of novel, no-analogue climates and ecosystems in Norden, but it also aims to bridge the gap between climate and biodiversity research.
Preparing for a bio-economy (08.11.2013)
Around the world, and particularly in Europe, governments are beginning to discuss how best to undertake a transformation from energy-driven to bio-driven economies.

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