News archive for Department of Earth Science

The Icelandic island of Surtsey (left) was created by a four-year volcanic eruption in the 1960s.

Life Thrives Within the Earth’s Crust (17.10.2018)

From journeys into mines to explorations of volcanoes on the ocean floor, deep voyages reveal the richness of the planet’s deep biosphere.

UNDERWATER MINING CONFERENCE (16.10.2018)

The 47th Under Water Mining conference (UMC18) was hosted in Bergen, Grieghallen, from 11th to 14th of September. The conference was organized in collaboration with the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research (UiB), Global Centres of Expertise Subsea (GCE Subsea) and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). We are pleased to announce that the conference was of great success.

Gamle bergarter på Mars kan være nøkkelen til et av de største spørsmålene i historien: finnes det liv på andre planeter?

Ny forskning kan finne tidligere liv på Mars! (16.10.2018)

Leif-Erik Rydland Pedersen i spennende og aktuelt intervju med NRK.

Postdoctor Luisa Zuluaga at GEO was awarded for the best poster at an european workshop for geotermi in Strasbourg. (16.10.2018)

Pirs for beste poster ved ARCEx-konferanse i Longyearbyen

PhD stipendiat Isabel Edmundson was awarded the prize for the best poster at the ARCEx annual conference in Longyearbyen 9 – 11 October (16.10.2018)

Synthesis Meeting for Subduction zone Water and Metamorphism: a Modelling and Imaging Study (01.10.2018)