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Researchers from the Department of Earth Science of the University of Bergen explain in a paper published in Nature Communications how exhumed mantle domes form at magma-poor continental margins and at ultra-slow mid-oceanic spreading systems controlled b
New article in Nature Communications (31.03.2022)
Researchers from the Department of Earth Science of the University of Bergen explain in a paper published in Nature Communications how exhumed mantle domes form at magma-poor continental margins and at ultra-slow mid-oceanic spreading systems controlled by frictional shear zones.
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Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funding 2022 (29.03.2022)
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions for 2022-2023. Deadline 15 June, 2022.
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Podcast episode on SCIPOD (28.03.2022)
A recent article from Tor Einar Møller on exploring how microbes can shed light on ancient climate conditions has been featured on a SCIPOD episode.
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Following the flight of water (24.03.2022)
In a large scale airplane campaign researchers will – for the first time – follow water molecules from they take off from the ocean until they have landed as rain or snow in Norway.
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Why evolution favours symmetry (14.03.2022)
From sunflowers to starfish, symmetry appears everywhere in biology. This isn’t just true for body plans – the molecular machines keeping our cells alive are also strikingly symmetric. But why? Does evolution have a built-in preference for symmetry?
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Congratulation Dr Møller! (14.03.2022)
Tor Einar Møller successfully defended his PhD on Friday.
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Daniel Førland Holmen is joining the CSD (07.03.2022)
Daniel Holmen 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.
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New article in Nature Communications Earth and Environment (28.02.2022)
Raman spectroscopy of zircon allows distinction between truly inherited zircon and those that may be introduced through sample processing.
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New article in Nature Geosciences (25.02.2022)
When did Earth change from a water world into a planet with continents rising above sea level? Together with researchers from The Netherlands and Germany, associate professor Desiree Roerdink from the Department of Earth Science and Centre for Deep Sea Research has found that land appeared very early in Earth’s history – up to one billion years earlier than we previously thought.
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PhD position at the Faculty of Humanities (24.02.2022)
We are excited to announce a new PhD position based at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion. The succesful candidate will be part of CeSAM and follow up on the enthological research that has been done during the Lindås project in the 1970s.
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Abel Prize 2022 (23.02.2022)
The next Abel Prize Laureate will be announced Wednesday March 23 at 12:00 CET (UTC/GMT+1).
Landscape photo over Fonnes, showing pine forrest to the left, a stream to the right and snowy mountains in the background
In the Footsteps of the Lindås Project (23.02.2022)
February 21-22 the original model areas of the Lindås project were revisited after 50 years, in preparation for an upcoming re-sampling to assess the rate and direction of land-use change, nature’s benefit to people and landscape multifunctionality.
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Studying the fjords (17.02.2022)
Our post-doc Natalya Gallo, and Master`s students Carl Bukowski and Sigrid Kjeldstad were out in the fjords on board RV Kristine Bonnevie last week.
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Plastics researcher Amy Lusher makes it to the highly cited researchers list (15.02.2022)
Publishing data and articles is one of the most important things a researcher does. It is then very important that your publications get noticed and used in further science – and that often means cited.
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Extra-pair paternity facilitates cooperation in pied flycatchers (10.02.2022)
New study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that infidelity can promote cooperation among male pied flycatchers.
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Espen Barth Eide, the Norwegian Minister of Climate and environment listened to BOW’s offshore wind initiatives (09.02.2022)
Finn Gunnar Nielsen and Sigrid E Schütz from BOW presented challenges and opportunities within offshore wind to Espen Barth Eide, the minister of climate and environment
Florian Muthreich presents one of the funded projects
CeSAM's Fast Track Initiatives awarded (08.02.2022)
In 2021, we announced our first ‘CeSAM’s Fast-Track Initiative’ grants. We had many strong applications, of which four received funding.
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People matter – Understanding what and where communities value nature in a UNESCO biosphere reserve (24.01.2022)
How and where does nature add value to our lives? In this new study, PhD candidate Jarrod Cusens engaged local communities to understand the spatial distribution of people's values for nature in The Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve; Norway’s first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve established in 2019.

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