Project SponGES featured at FishForum 2018 with a side event organised on December 11th 2018. Held at FAO’s headquarters in Rome from December 10th to December 14th 2018, FishForum2018 brought together the wider community of scientists and experts working on … Read More
PhD position in biodiversity and community ecology of deep-sea sponge grounds There is a vacancy for a PhD position at the Department of Biology within biodiversity and community ecology of deep-sea sponge grounds. The position is for a fixed-term period … Read More
The 2017 SponGES cruise onboard the research vessel G.O. Sars just successfully concluded. For three weeks, an international and well mixed team of SponGES researchers has worked 24/7 to study very different deep-water sponge grounds, ranging from the 1300 m … Read More
The digital version of the Photographic guide of the species of the Gorringe Bank, a publication about the marine species of the Gettysburg and Ormonde seamounts in the Gorringe Bank, has been released today. The SponGES project collaborated with this … Read More
A seminar dedicated to “Communicating EU funded research” and organised by UiB (SponGES coordinating institution) will be held in Bergen (Norway) on March 28th 2017, also featuring insights and tips from SponGES’ dissemination and communication team. Communicating science is crucial … Read More
The Biology Department of the University of Bergen (UiB) is currently looking to hire a postdoctoral fellow in bioinformatics (4 years), and a PhD student in phylogenomics and population genomics of deep-sea sponges (3 years) to join their Marine Biodiversity Group. The research … Read More
It has been an intense period for the SponGES’ team. Besides a summer of research cruises, the EU project has been actively engaged in many events, conferences and international meetings. Some examples? Andrew Davies (Bangor University) has introduced the project in … Read More
SponGES teams get together again for field work operations, as researchers from the Natural History Museum in London and from Uppsala University join staff at Bergen University. This deep-sea sponge sampling campaign, in the Norwegian fjords, is on September 8-9 … Read More
The CCGS Hudson left port in Halifax (Canada) on the 18th July for its 19th cruise of 2016. This cruise, a collaborative effort between the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), NEKTON and project SponGES will take us on a 4-week-long … Read More
The first deep-sea SponGES cruise has just started onboard the Norwegian research vessel G.O. Sars, departing from Tromsø. The cruise aims at filling in the gaps and deepening our understanding regarding the diversity, distribution, function as well as the goods … Read More