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A new strategic plan for the Geophysical Institute has been published, covering the period 2014-2019.

Since the beginning of March, the German artist Katrin von Lehmann has found her place in Asgeirs old office in the GFI building. She will visit the GFI and the BCCR until the end of April. She has earlier visited the Max Planck Institute and the Observatory Lindenberg near Berlin.

The Director-General og UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has confirmed that she will speak at the conference on the UNESCO 1972, 2003 and 2005 CONVENTIONS: SYNERGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT in Bergen.

Over the last half-century, high performance computing has proved itself as essential a tool for the earth sciences as the weather balloon and the rock hammer.

Jacob Bjerknes, the father of modern weather forecasting, suggested a connection between European weather and temperatures in the North Atlantic. Fifty years later, the Bjerknes Centre in Bergen helps to prove that Bjerknes was right in his prediction.

Researchers now know that the Gulf Stream is not only driven from the south, but also drawn northward by Arctic winds.

For the first time, an obligatory student seminar for the course Mesoscale Dynamics was held in one of the ÐÒÔË·Éͧ¼Æ»® cabins in Ustaoset on the Hardangervidda.

Professor Ilker Fer is leading a new project who is granted more than 10 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway for research on the Gulf Stream.