News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

Still caring about last winter's snow? (29.10.2018)

With all the rain pouring down this autumn, some may already look forward to an equally snow-rich winter as last year's in Western Norway. While the seasonal forecasts have not yet reached a consensus, at least by now some Bjerknes scientists know more about last year's snow.

Summer school in Uzbekistan (22.10.2018)

Prof. Nils-Kåre Birkeland and students Chandini Murarilal Ratnadevi (PhD) and Eliya Cholakova (MSc) from the “Extremophiles and biotechnology” group at the University of Bergen are heading towards Tashkent to meet fellow extremophiles from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, China and Germany.

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)

Sundew (Drosera sp.) is a terrestrial example for mixotrophy. Using glands it traps insects and digests them to supplement the low nutrient concentrations in the soils of wetlands where it commonly grows

Gardening of bacteria (10.10.2018)

Project MIXsTRUCT will investigate the impact of mixotrophs on the structure of the marine pelagic food web

An illustration exemplifying four phases of mountain building

Suzette Flantua in Nature Geoscience (09.10.2018)

HOPE post-doctoral fellow Suzette Flantua is one of five main authors of a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience

Zhanna Tairova posing with a picture of a cod

On ethical controversies of using fish in experimental biology (08.10.2018)

Issues concerning “animal welfare” and “animal care” constitute a significant portion of both public debate and biological studies. Whereas the first concept is dealing with the well-being of animals, “animal care” comprises the activities conducted that can affects the animal welfare, while an animal is used in research, testing, and production. In our project “dCod 1.0: decoding systems... Read more

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