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Organize an event at Day Zero 2025! (25.09.2024)
We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. This is the free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts.
Peter Haugan, Francoise Gaill and Lise Øvreås in conversation at the Ocean Futures 2030 event at the House of Literature in Bergen on 17 September with audience member shooting photo on mobile.
Raising public ocean literacy awareness (21.09.2024)
The fifth event in the Ocean Futures 2030 series was co-organised by UiB and France’s embassy in Norway to discuss global ocean awareness across sectors. Watch the recording.
Elin Darelius and pinguins
Eleven tents, three holes, and one bathtub - How to observe the ocean below a 400 m thick, floating ice shelf in Antarctica (09.09.2024)
The Antarctic ice shelves – the floating glaciers surrounding most of the continent – are melting from below as oceanic currents bring warm water into the cavity. But how and how fast is the ice melting? In this Ocean Science Bar, you will learn why Antarctic ice shelves matter, about what happens below them, and about what it’s like to do fieldwork ”down south”.
Yan Li at the tip of Nordnes, Bergen.
Wave Researcher Awarded ERC Starting Grant (04.09.2024)
Yan Li receives prestigious research support for the quest to understand how extreme ocean surface waves affect us. Such waves pose a threat to ships and infrastructure, becoming increasingly frequent and extreme due to climate changes.