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Side view of the ROV Ægir 6000
NORMAR-II grant awarded! (01.10.2024)
At the end of September it was announced that the NORMAR-II grant for upgrades to the Ægir 6000 ROV system has been approved! This funding ensures the Centre’s continued access to this essential deep-sea infrastructure and will allow us to keep the ROV system state-of-the-art. We’re looking forward to many more dives with upgraded equipment, pushing the boundaries of deep-sea exploration.
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PMG at CMWR2024 (28.09.2024)
PMG is participating at the conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources 2024 (CMWR).
Logoen til Fakultet for naturvitenskap og teknologi omgitt av bilde fra kjemilab, dronebilde fra Grønland, studenter ved semesteråpningen i gaten, studenter utenfor Realfagbygget, Ægir6000 og dronebilde over Realfagbygget, fysikkbygget og Geofysen.
New Name for MatNat (27.09.2024)
Starting October 1, the new name will be the Faculty of Science and Technology. We will certainly celebrate this!
UiB Innovasjonsfestival 2024
Success for the first innovation festival at UiB (24.09.2024)
There was great interest in the first UiB Innovation Festival on September 20th. Vice-Rector Gottfried Greve hopes the event will create a new momentum for the innovation culture at The University of Bergen (UiB).
Two people wash and scrub a core sampler on a ships deck
The GoNorth 2024 Expedition Is a Wrap (24.09.2024)
The GoNorth 2024 expedition concluded last week after a three-week scientific voyage, from August 29 to September 19, exceeding expectations with a wealth of new data, thanks to favourable ice and weather conditions.
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In the Build-Up of COP16 (24.09.2024)
The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (COP16) is taking place in Colombia at the end of October, and CeSAM leaders have been making their opinions heard ahead of the meeting.
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How can chaos be predicted? (18.09.2024)
Early in the morning on the 26th of December 1999, the people of France were shocked by two fatal storms. How did these massive cyclones take the meteorologists by surprise? And can machine learning aid weather forecasts of the future?
Photograph of the Gyme black smoker on the ocean floor in the Jøtul vent field.
Scientific exploration of the Jøtul vent field (17.09.2024)
Our colleague at the Centre, deep-sea biologist Pedro Ribeiro, is onboard the RV Maria S. Merian participating in a research cruise led by the German Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) to explore and investigate the Jøtul hydrothermal vent field.
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Old tools reused for a new design: the making of the <i>Oikopleura</i> House (17.09.2024)
A recent Developmental Biology article reveals new insights into the unique "house" of Oikopleura dioica. A team of researchers led by David Lagman uncovers how Oikopleura repurposed ancient cellular machinery to build its complex, food-filtering "house," shedding light on its evolutionary origins.
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Postdoc in terrestrial ecosystem modelling (16.09.2024)
Exciting fully funded postdoctoral position available in the DURIN project – understanding climate impacts on and feedback from dwarf-shrubs, a dominant plant functional group of boreal, arctic, and alpine ecosystems.
SEAS fellows atending workshop
SEAS fellows exploring interdisciplinary approaches (05.09.2024)
How do you get a group of social scientists, biologists, oceanographers, mathematics and informatics scientists to find common ground? How do they overcome their differences in background, methodology and language to unite to address questions and issues that span their different disciplines? Maybe by sending a group of SEAS fellows out into the fjords for a couple of days of isolation and focus... Read more
Yan Li at the tip of Nordnes, Bergen.
Wave Researcher Awarded ERC Starting Grant (04.09.2024)
Yan Li receives prestigious research support for the quest to understand how extreme ocean surface waves affect us. Such waves pose a threat to ships and infrastructure, becoming increasingly frequent and extreme due to climate changes.
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Hanna Sannes wins NOR-FISHING Student Camp 2024 (26.08.2024)
Hanna Sannes, master’s student in biodiversity, ecology and evolution, recently triumphed with her team at NOR-FISHING Student Camp competition, pitching an idea for the digitalization of fish spawning data.
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An ancient protein mediates tube formation during early chordate development (22.08.2024)
Biological tubes are ubiquitous in animals, and their morphogenesis is a very complex process. In a new article, researchers in the Chatzigeorgiou group demonstrated the key role and function of the protein Anoctamine 10 in notochord formation in the tunicate Ciona.
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Stakeholder participation in European BRs (20.08.2024)
In 2021, Marie Curtet investigated the evolution of stakeholder participation in European UNECO Biosphere Reserves, and what challenges and opportunities rose from the COVID pandemic and the digital shift as part of her MSc thesis. Curtet was supervised by UNESCO Chair Inger Måren and Alícia Barraclough, and her findings was recently published in The Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning...
Rock with perioglyphs painted red. Fjord and mountain in the background.
Not Everything Can Be Repaired (19.08.2024)
Are irreplaceable natural and cultural values ​​in Western Norway in danger of being destroyed by industrial development? For some time, there has been debates about future industrial development in the western Norwegian municipality of Bremanger. UNESCO Chair for sustainable heritage and environmental management, Inger Måren, is engaged in this debate.
Jessica Menzies in the injection room
Guest researchers from KAUST visit the Michael Sars Centre to learn new techniques (15.08.2024)
PhD candidates Mascha Dix and Jessica Menzies visited the Centre from Saudi Arabia to develop their microinjection skills in the Steinmetz group.
Nil Irvali examining sediment cores taken from the sea floor in the North Atlantic Ocean
Better prediction of climate change (13.08.2024)
By reconstructing past changes in ocean circulation and climate, paleoceanographer, Nil Irvali, aims to better understand the ongoing changes and improve predictions of our future climate.

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