News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

The CULTIVATE project recently had its first paper published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. In this paper, the authors present a novel transdisciplinary learning framework that links notions of cultural heritage, landscape, and social-ecological systems thinking to support sustainable rural development.

The CDeepSea Ultima Thule expedition on the R/V Kronprins Haakon left Longyearbyen on November 26, 2024 with the primary objective of mapping and sampling in the Lena Trough. However, the researchers and crew onboard were prepared for challenging sea ice conditions given the time of year and the northern latitudes... and that is what they encountered!

In December, the BIOSPHERE project group held a dialogue meeting about the Global Biodiversity Framework goals with stakeholders from the Nordhordland municipalities as the finally of the resilience assessment that has been taking place this autumn.

CeSAM researchers Inger Måren and Katja Malmborg present the process of, and preliminary results from, their resilience asessment at The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities' Sustainability Friday on December 13.

Jakub Both receives funding for four years to investigate convection and dissolution during CO2 storage. For this, he will combine lab experiments, image analysis and numerical modeling.

Tom Langbehn and Leonardo Muniz Pichel, both from the Faculty of Science and Technology, are this year's recipients of the TMF Starting Grant. They will receive the award as part of the Trond Mohn Foundation's anniversary celebration in the University Aula on December 6th.

HySchool welcomes three new members of the Board for 2024–2025! They represent the admitted PhD candidates of HySchool in the board and contribute to the development of the research school.

In this newly published op-ed, we argue that the Norwegian state must take more responsibility for protecting natural ecosystems by tightening regulations on land use in municipalities.