News archive for Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Cold winters natural despite warming climate (26.02.2017)

When Svetlana Sorokina’s mother calls from Siberia and complains about the cold, Svetlana knows one thing: It has probably been unusually warm in the Arctic

Finding an ancient forefather (21.02.2017)

UiB scientists have found the lampshell’s ancient forefather, and discovered that the shells and bristles of the lampshells have a much older origin than priveously thought. The results are published in the scientific journal PNAS.

Meet our new marine director (15.02.2017)

Amund Måge has been appointed new marine director at the University of Bergen. One of his first tasks will be to include the entire university in its strategic marine research initiative.

Kevin Johnsen (Nordic Energy Research): Challenges related to carbon neutral Nordic countries in 2050 (13.02.2017)

Pushing bioinformatics further (10.02.2017)

Computational Biology Unit, a leading hub of bioinformatics research in Bergen, Norway, aims to boost computational biology research and education in the country. Now, they are seeking the best young researchers.

Increase in the number of extremely strong fronts over Europe? (09.02.2017)

A new research finds an increase of strong and extremely strong fronts in summertime and autumn over Europe. If this is a trend or caused by climate change remains to be seen, according to lead author Sebastian Schemm.

Torgeir Røthe collecting sediments from Lake Sandvinsvatnet, Odda

New insight on floods risk from the bottom of the lake (08.02.2017)

The Department of Earth Sciences (GEO) is part of HordaFlom, an innovative project which will analyze lake sediments to reconstruct flooding events during the last 2000 years and which will provide more robust projections of future floods

Image showing an open book flowing in mid-air

Upcoming courses (01.02.2017)

The following courses are scheduled for 2018