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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

On June 4, a new AUV was christened «Unn 6000» by the UiB rector. The name Unn has its roots in «wave» or «sea.» It is equipped with synthetic aperture sonar and multibeam echo sounder systems for high-resolution seafloor imaging and is already at work in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea! 📷 SK Robinson

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

@mariheilertsen.bsky.social has received grant funding from the Norwegian Research Council for a children’s book. 🙌 The story is inspired by her WormFEST research project and looks to expand the usual audience for deep-sea research. The book will be published in 2027.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Havforståelse 🧠🌊 Hva slags hav vil vi ha i fremtiden? 🌊 FNs havforskningstiår skal styrke kunnskapen om havet. Her er forslag til nasjonal satsing fra Forskningsrådet. @unoceandecade.bsky.social

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The NORMAR team has been testing the brand new Hugin AUV prior to its delivery to the University of Bergen facilities in April. Exciting times for deep ocean research in the North Atlantic! (Photos: Maja Jæger/NORMAR)

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Centre director Steffen Jørgensen presenting what we do for a group from Arbeiderpartiet (a political party here in Norway) last week. The map is from an ARC GIS database that has collected data from more than 1000 ROV dives in the northern Atlantic Ocean. A link can be found on our website. 🧑‍💻

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Outreach is a lot of fun when the lights go out 👀. We took part in Night at Aquarium on February 20 here in Bergen sharing all we know about Arctic deep sea worm forests and chemosynthesis to curious kids and families 🐟🪱

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Two prominent politicians from Miljøpartiet De Grønne (MDG) visited CDeepSea here at the University of Bergen earlier this week and got a tour of our deep-sea sample collection: Frøya Skjold Sjursæther (stortingsrepresentant) and Thor Haakon Bakke (Gruppeleder MDG i Bergen).

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

What an amazing conclusion to this year's guest seminar series! Mari H. Eilertsen @mariheilertsen.bsky.social from @cdeepsea.bsky.social delighted us with a talk on deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, and continued the discussion over a festive coffee break 🌊✨ Thank you for your visit!

Mari Heggernes Eilertsen presents her work to an audience seated in an auditorium. On a screen, a slide shows deep-sea ecosystems and reads "Chemosynthetic micoorganisms are found free living or as symbionts".

A group of people sitting at a table, drinking coffee and chatting.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Onboard the Kronprins Haakon icebreaker this week, up near the Malloy Deep in the Arctic. 🚢 📷 Daniel Albert, GoNorth/SINTEF

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

During a dive on the GoNorth25 cruise, bones were spotted on the seafloor and scooped up with nearby sediments, shown here being sifted for macrofauna by Tom Alvestad (UiB, at the microscope). David Rees takes out the bone samples from the ROV's sample drawer. 📷 Daniel Albert, GoNorth/SINTEF

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Mari and Christian from the CBE Arctic group were onboard the Extreme25 research cruise to the Arctic last week. (Photos: Extremes_UArctic Project)

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The Bergen Bathysphere Symposium took place this week. We had a strong crew from CDeepSea including Hassan, Petra, Renee, and Morgane who helped make it all happen. 🙌 Big shoutout to Christian, Maja, Mari, David and Morgane for leading inspiring workshops and discussions! 💬 (📸Bergen Bathysphere)

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Images from the Aurora vent field on the Gakkel Ridge from the new paper by Profs E Reeves, J Jamieson and collaborators. The vent field was sampled during the 2021 NFR HACON project and represents a significant scientific and technological achievement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🌊 A new paper on the Gakkel Ridge highlights the increasing accessibility of ice-covered Arctic seafloor for geological investigations. The study presents the first detailed, ROV-based geochemical survey of hydrothermal vents beneath permanent, drifting Arctic sea ice. 👍 The paper is open access.

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Deep-Sea Biology Society @dsbsoc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Read more about the work of the CBE Arctic team here: research here: cbearctic.com, and about Brenda on the image alt-text (or on our instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DE2sbtGs1n...)

"Thanks to the DSBS conference travel award, I am attending the 17th DSBS with the poster ""Rissoid snails (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) from #Arctic CBEs"". Here I discuss their phylogenetic position within the family and highlight their distinct geographical distributions and species-habitat preferences."

(Image: Brenda smiling with three other collaborators on the deck of a ship, all decked out with hard-hats.)

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Petra Hribovšek @micrbsgonamicrbe.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Thank you to anyone involved! Co-authors Runar Stokke @deepseastokke.bsky.social Ida Helene Steen Emily Olesin Denny Håkon Dahle Achim Mall Associated with @cdeepsea.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social @asm.org Norges forskningsråd Trond Mohn Research Foundation @mohnfoundation.bsky.social

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Also celebrating our researchers and post-docs who continue to push the boundaries of science.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Celebrating our PhDs today - hailing from 10 different countries and all calling Bergen, Norway home for now.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

6 pallets of equipment was delivered to Helsingborg last week where the icebreaker “Oden” is preparing for its expedition to the Polar Basin. The Centre for Deep Sea Research has teamed up with Swedish collegues to set up a seafloor observatory close to the Ultima Thule vent field.

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The first #MSS2025 afternoon session was all about enzyme evolution 👏 @paolalaurino.bsky.social - live from @oistedu.bsky.social, Ida Helene Steen @cdeepsea.bsky.social and Ioannis Riziotis @ebi.embl.org shared their latest work, using very different approaches to this fascinating topic 🤩

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Pint of Science was awesome tonight! Highly recommend you make a note for (mid)May 2026 to check out your local chapter! 💯

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Last week we held a symposium on Loki’s Castle hydrothermal vent field at the University of Bergen together with SVF. The first part of the day was for students in grade 9/10 and we had some interesting questions including «Would you spend the rest of your life in an underwater submersible?» 🫧🐙🐟🌊

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A time lapse of the remotely operated vehicle Ægir 6000 being deployed through the «moon pool» on the deck of the icrebreaker Kronprins Haakon. CDeepSea is leading a research cruise up in the Arctic this month and this ROV is how we explore the deep ocean.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Some beautiful atacamite - a copper mineral sampled during a research dive along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Scientists from the Centre for Deep Sea Research are on a research cruise in the Arctic at the moment, seen here prepping some equipment for an upcoming ROV dive. 💪

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Some of the little outreach extras that make all the difference to budding scientists - stickers and colouring pages were a big hit last night. Perennial favourites.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Outreach - such an important part of communicating science and also a really fun part (once you are all set up and ready to go!). This was yesterday at Night at the Aquarium here in Bergen.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is Ægir 6000 with its tether management system (right), that enables it to descend safely under sea-ice while still connected to an ice-breaker 🚢, and the control centre container (left). This all shipped out yesterday from Bergen en route to Svalbard for an upcoming Arctic research cruise.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Always super interesting to hear about the research and latest findings of colleagues- today post-doc Irina Zhulay shared her work on the biota of the Boyd seamount along the Arctic mid-ocean ridge.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A coral restoration project at the Hoi Ha Wan designated Marine Park in Hong Kong. (Taken on a field trip this week as part of the Deep-Sea Biology Symposium.)

Bright blue cells showing coral restoration in Hong Kong

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We are very excited to announce that the next Deep-Sea Biology Symposium will be held in Bergen 🇳🇴 in 2028!! 🥳 The conference will be a collaboration between the Centre for Deep Sea Research, the UiB Dept of Biological Sciences, the University Museum, Institute of Marine Research and NORCE. 🌊🪸🌋🫧🐟

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A group from the Centre for Deep Sea Research have made the 8,830-km trip to Hong Kong! Brenda presented her poster on rissoid gastropods in Arctic CBEs today.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s the Geological Society of Norway’s Winter Conference here in Bergen.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Starting the new year with a joke we got in a Christmas cracker… appropriate given the fact that many CDeepSea researchers were on the RV Kronprins Haakon icebreaker until the week before Christmas.

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Åshild Nylund @aaashild.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Lær om protestene mot mineralutvinning i dyphavet og se hva roboten Ægir og Senter for dyphavsforskning @cdeepsea.bsky.social gjør på havbunnen ➡️ www.nrk.no/vestland/xl/...

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Saken som løste statsbudsjettet

En sak som har møtt internasjonale protester mot Norge ble satt satt på pause for å få flertall for neste års statsbudsjett.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Staurozoa — spotted during an Ægir6000 dive west of Svalbard on the recent research cruise.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The Rampenissen (aka Elf on the Shelf) was up to no good last night at the Centre for Deep Sea Research. 🤣🎄#ElfOnTheShelf #DeepSeaMischief #ChristmasChaos

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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We welcome you to this event showcasing deep-sea research in Bergen and beyond, both from veteran researchers and Early Career Ocean Professionals. The event will be hybrid and will be split in two pa...

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Here are a few books on our wish list for this festive season. (We've got more over on LinkedIn). What others should we add to the list?

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Bringing rock samples from Ægir’s sampling skid into the lab so we can learn more about the geology of the Lena Trough. 🪨 💪 #scienceatsea #arcticresearch #rocksamples #ægir6000 #rvkronprinshaakon

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Deep-sea loving Grimpoteuthis showed up a couple of times recently during dives with Ægir 6000 in Arctic waters. 🐙

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The view from the RV Kronprins Haakon this week!

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

From the bridge of the RV Kronprins Haakon currently up in the Arctic.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ægir is ready for the next dive! There are many challenges inherent in deep-sea exploration, especially in the Arctic, but the crew are adaptable and resilient! 💪 Plans onboard RV Kronprins Haakon may change but the research continues…

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Mari H. Eilertsen @mariheilertsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

We are currently breaking ice with the RV Kronprins Haakon in the polar darkness, trying to get to our sampling station 🌌🧊❄️ Turns out that the route through the ice is rarely a straight line! @cdeepsea.bsky.social @rimskaya.bsky.social

The bridge of the research vessel seen from the front deck, darkness only broken by the lights of the ship. The ship is covered by ice.

Scientist looking out over the ice from the front of the ship.

The side of the ship breaking through a solid slab of ice.

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Centre for Deep Sea Research @cdeepsea.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Scenes from the RV Kronprins Haakon research vessel which has just reached sea ice at 80° N.

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