News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

A Night of Discovery: Highlights from the Night Walk at the Bergen Aquarium. (26.02.2024)

Researchers from the Michael Sars Centre engaged visitors with interactive exhibits and offered insights into marine life fostering scientific curiosity and education among guests of all ages.

Katja Malmborg explains the IPBES Nature Futures Framework

A year in review: CeSAMs activities in 2023 (21.02.2024)

As the days are slowly getting longer, we take a moment to reflect on our achievements from last year.

Group photo of attendees at workshop in Zaragoza

Student field trip 2024 (19.02.2024)

From 8th to 13th of January, members of CSD/PMG traveled to Oslo, Zaragoza and Barcelona to participate in joint workshops with SIMULA Oslo, University of Zaragoza and Polytechnic university of Catalonia.

View over mountainous coastal landscape with a lot of houses, buildings, roads and other infrastructure.

Natur og klima - innspill til regjeringen (13.02.2024)

Klima- og miljødepartementet leder arbeidet med to stortingsmeldinger som skal legges fra ila. 2024; en om naturmangfold for å følge opp den internasjonale naturavtalen, og en om klima fram mot 2035 på veien mot lavutslippssamfunnet i 2050. UNESCO Chair Inger Måren har bidratt med innspill til regjeringen på vegne av CeSAM, Nordhordland UNESCO biosfæreområde, og den norske MAB-komiteen.

Result of the MN-faculty board election 2024 (09.02.2024)

Here are the new faculty board representatives for Gr. B and Gr. D for the period 01.08.2024 - 31.07.2025.

Uncovering the intricate interactions of neuropeptides with their receptors (09.02.2024)

Neuropeptides and their receptors are ubiquitous in animals, but the way they interact with each other is poorly known. In a new article, researchers described the dynamic structure of a FMRFamide receptor and novel tools to predict the function of these proteins in animals.

Lihkku beivviin sámi álbmogii! (08.02.2024)

Our cheat sheet to the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework is getting widely shared, which is great news. To celebrate Sámi National day, it is now also available in Sámi.

Screenshot of an online meeting. A screen is shared, showing a digital board with colourful post-it notes scattered across it. In the top right corner three female facillitators are present in three squares on top of eachother.

Day Zero: Future Visions For Nature Workshop (08.02.2024)

February 7th the Centre for Sustainable Area Management (CeSAM) and the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management hosted a student work shop during Day Zero of the 2024 Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDG) Conference.

The Fluidflower rig and a contemplative professor

SIAM Geosciences 2023 (07.02.2024)

The conference was held in Bergen from the 19th to the 22nd of June in 2023.

Decoding Sensory Navigation: Insights into Larval Settlement Mechanisms in Marine Invertebrates (06.02.2024)

A new paper from the Chatzigeorgiou Group unravels the enigmatic sensory strategies of planktonic larvae using Ciona intestinalis as a model organism.

Landscape with a waterbody in front, surrounded by thick, dark green forest on the right. Behind the forest peaks mist-covered mountains. Half a rainbow is visible across the sky, framing the mountain tops.

Intergenerational dialogue toward the Sustainable Development Goals in Hakusan Biosphere Reserve, Japan (06.02.2024)

Summer of 2022, then UNESCO Chair MSc student Erika Scheibe went on a study trip to UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Hakusan in Japan. Here, international and Japanese students met to learn and teach each other about ecology, culture and tradition in the Biosphere Reserve.

Hydrothermal hotspots for microbial sulfate reduction in the Norwegian Sea (05.02.2024)

Are inactive hydrothermal area really inactive? Maybe not... At least not microbiologically.

Isak Hammer is joining the CSD (02.02.2024)

Isak Hammer is a new Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics and his project is part of the Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics. We met him to find out more about his background and the project.

Celebrating excellence in environmental toxicology at NSFT's 2024 winter meeting (01.02.2024)

The Environmental Toxicology group attended the annual winter meeting at Beitostølen arranged by the Norwegian Society for Pharmacology and Toxicology (NSFT) amidst the breathtaking mountain winter landscape, taking home two presentation awards.

New microbiology research shows inactive hydrothermal vents are not so ‘dead’ after all (01.02.2024)

A new microbiology study points to highly active microorganisms living on ‘dead’ chimneys long after fluid flow has ceased to supply them with traditional chemical fuels. The findings have important implications for understanding inactive hydrothermal vents of commercial interest for deep-sea mining.