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unusual facts about Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen



Bård Vegar Solhjell

Solhjell holds a Masters Degree in Political Science, with emphasis on Sociology, Comparative Politics and History of Ideas at both the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen.

Cornelis Christiaan Berg

On November 11, 1985 he became a director of the Norwegian Arboretum and the same day became professor of botany at the University of Bergen.

Echelmeyer Ice Stream

The name was changed from Ice Stream F by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2002 to honor Dr. Keith A. Echelmeyer of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who studied the flow of Marie Byrd Land ice streams, 1992–93 and 1994–95, as well as the fast flow of surging glaciers in Alaska and Greenland.

Einar Berntzen

He works as an associate professor at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen.

Grieg Academy

The Music department of the University of Bergen (UiB), was founded in 1905 as the Bergen Musikkonservatorium (Bergen Music Conservatory) by T. Castberg.

Håvard Stubø

After a few years at the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen studying English language and Philosophy, he went to study music with the jazz program at the Trondheim Conservatory of Music (2000–2004), where he participated in jazz the groups Marita Røstad & Velvet Lounge Orchestra, Ping Pong and a trio with Tore Johansen and Roger Arntzen.

Henry Henne

He was a professor at the International Christian University, Tokyo from 1958 to 1963, at Cornell University from 1963 to 1965, at the International Christian University, Tokyo from 1965 to 1966, at the University of Oslo from 1966 to 1981 and the University of Bergen from 1981 to 1988.

Jørgen Holmboe

In 1925, he was appointed research assistant to Professor Vilhelm Bjerknes, who had moved from Bergen where as founding director of the Geophysical Institute he had led development of the Bergen School of Meteorology.

Kristin Jarmund

Among the buildings drawn by her are Nydalen Station, the head office of the Norwegian Metrology Service, Råholt Lower Secondary School, the Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu and the Factulty of Odontology at the University of Bergen.

Lars Gule

When Gule began at the University of Bergen, he came in contact with a small but radical group that worked on the development of Karl Marx's theory of communism as a mode of production.

Lars Svåsand

He is professor at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen and affiliated with the Chr. Michelsen Institute on a part-time basis.

Ole A. Sæther

He was scientific assistant and university lecturer at Department of Limnology, University of Oslo, from 1960 to 1966; research scientist at Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from 1966-1977; and professor of systematic zoology in the Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen from 1977 to his retirement in 2006.He specialized in aquatic Diptera, especially Chironomidae and Chaoboridae.

Peter M. Haugan

Peter Mosby Haugan (born 1958) is a Norwegian Scientist and Director of the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen.

Rowe Nunataks

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) after C.A. Rowe, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who investigated volcanic activity and seismicity at nearby Mount Erebus, 1984–85 and 1985-86.

Sonntag Nunatak

The name was proposed by Thiel and Craddock for Wayne Sonntag, Operations Director at the Geophysical Institute, University of Wisconsin, 1959–61, logistics officer for the airlifted traverse.

Studvest

It covers the three large institutions the University of Bergen, Bergen University College and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration as well as small colleges such as Bergen National Academy of the Arts and Bergen School of Architecture.

T. Neil Davis

Davis spent most of his working career at the Geophysical Institute, pioneering the use of all-sky and low-level light cameras for the study of the aurora borealis and conducting rocket studies of the aurora.

Vilhelm Bjerknes

In 1917, he founded the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen where he wrote his book On the Dynamics of the Circular Vortex with Applications to the Atmosphere and to Atmospheric Vortex and Wave Motion (1921), and laid the foundation for the Bergen School of Meteorology.

Wilhelm Matheson

The process surrounding the 2008 appointments was criticised by professor of comparative politics at the University of Bergen, Gunnar Grendstad for a "lack of transparency".


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