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Year 2011 has truly been an eventful year for the Centre for Geobiology (CGB).
John Birks was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Palaeolimnology at the 12th International Paleolimnology Symposium in Glasgow.
Cindy Van Dover will give her honorary doctorate lecture Thursday 30 August, in Realfagbyget’s Auditorium 4, at 14:15.
Armine Margaryan from Armenia is the first visiting PhD student in a new Eurasia programme in geomicrobiology
PhD student Adilan Hniman from The Prince of Songkla University in Thailand is finalizing his PhD work in Norway
Although source of intense investigations, the origins of type 2 diabetes and obesity remain unclear.
Humans are daily exposed to many environmental pollutants. What are the health consequences of such exposures?
Peter Emil Kaland has been invested as a Knight, First Class of the St Olav’s Order for his efforts to promote the values of coastal landscapes in western Norway.
Centre leader Rolf Birger Pedersen was part of a team of international experts aboard the RRS James Cook spring 2010.
Are Nylund says that wild salmon in British Columbia (BC) waters have been found to carry what a federal scientist believes may be a new strain of the infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus, which has afflicted fish farms in eastern Canada, Chile and Europe.
Two billion year old rocks are providing information about a period of extreme carbon cycle disruption and the Great Oxidation Event – both critically important to our understanding of Earth’s geological and biological history.
In October this year Lise Øvreås arranged a symposium together with Associate professor Amare Gessese at Addis Ababa University.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the University of Bergen have acquired samples from steep parts of the seabed on the Jan Mayen ridge between Norway and Iceland.
CGB researcher, Bjarte Hannisdal, is co-author of a paper that shows that long-term changes in the diversity of marine animals may have been linked to the earth's geological evolution over the last 500 million years.

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