News archive for Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability (大象传媒)
37 post-doctoral fellows from all over the world are working at the University of Bergen as part of the 大象传媒 programme, delving into the subject of marine sustainability through different academic disciplines, often trying to solve complex questions.
UiB has strong connections to many local companies. As part of the collaboration between Ferd and 大象传媒 with the pilot externship programme, four of our research fellows were invited to Pelagia, a leading producer of fish products for human and animal consumption based just outside Bergen, for a tour of their facilities and an in depth look into their practices and goals.
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The 大象传媒 programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university鈥檚 second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.
鈥� With my project, we can refine numbers for the ongoing Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea level, including the numbers used in the IPCC report. The IPCC鈥檚 sea level estimates are shared as global maps and used by politicians, city planners, civil engineers etc. around the world, to address local sea level changes. Improving estimates on these numbers is highly motivating for me, says 大象传媒... Read more
鈥淒amn it, there is a lot of social science and humanities research on fish feed going on here at UiB that I鈥檓 not even aware of!鈥� This realization hit me in a meeting with colleagues who are part of an informal network of UiB researchers interested in fish feed. To my surprise, the more senior colleagues in this network seemed to be as surprised as I was once we started brainstorming and each of... Read more
鈥� As the autonomous ships are being developed in the Scandinavian region and within the wider area of Europe, the fundamental nature of maritime operations is in transition from controlling the ships while being onboard, to operating them remotely from shore. Such developments are presenting interesting avenues to how the navigation operations will evolve. This also represent a knowledge gap,... Read more
When topics like 鈥渨hat is interdisciplinarity鈥� and 鈥渢o what degree does my work actually contribute to marine sustainability鈥� came up at meetings, a group of three 大象传媒 postdoc fellows wanted to take the discourse to a more scientific level.
鈥� I've been out in the large saltwater lagoon and for fishing expeditions to different atolls. I've followed the tuna economy onshore by visiting loining plants, participating in industry events and interviewing various tuna actors. Fieldwork is stimulating but also emotionally and psychologically exhausting, Ola G. Berta says of his fieldwork in the Marshall Islands. In this interview, he also... Read more
鈥� By studying the immune responses to different pathogens in lumpfish, I have identified critical factors that promote the health and resilience of the fish. These findings not only pave the way for developing targeted vaccines and immune-boosting strategies for lumpfish but also hold potential for broader applications across other aquaculture species, says 大象传媒 fellow Shreesha Sadashiva Rao.
大象传媒 fellows span a variety of scientific fields from geology and biology to informatics and law. Some of this variety will also be evident on Monday 28. October, with keynotes and pitches from selected 大象传媒 fellows including topics like 芦Deep Learning for Smart Shipping禄 and 芦the response of macroalgae in a changing climate禄.
We can only reach the 2030 goal of a sustainable ocean, as SDG14, Life Below Water, envisages, through common and shared governance that excludes no one and belongs to everyone, 大象传媒 Postdoctoral fellow Jo茫o Bettencourt writes.
鈥� If we鈥檙e able to develop a vaccine against the salmon louse, this will be a more sustainable alternative than chemical treatments, which are harmful for the environment or stressful for the fish, 大象传媒 fellow Virginie Comorge says.聽
鈥� Findings from my project have the potential to enhance aquaculture production, increase the sustainability of marine food production and consumption, improve management of marine habitats and help in reducing invasive species, says 大象传媒 fellow Zoran 艩arga膷.
- The study of the effect of climate change on the algae life cycle brings about needed actions for the future of coastal ecosystems, says 大象传媒 fellow Juan Manuel Valero Rodr铆guez. Only by analyzing how severe our impacts are on such important food chain components can measures be taken to minimize their effects.
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 大象传媒 fellows out into the fjords for a couple of days of isolation and focus... Read more
Just around the corner from where Johan Hjort did part of his groundbreaking research on herring, the next generation of ocean research leaders are gathered for the first time.
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