Oases of life close to enormous methane plumes on the otherwise barren Arctic Ocean seafloor
New PhD dissertation from CAGE shows that methane derived carbon is a crucial part of …
Pink rocks from Russia expose one of the greatest events in the history of Earth
The Great Oxidation Event is one of the major scientific mysteries. Oxygen appeared on the …
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Algae, impurities darken the Greenland ice sheet and increase melting
The Dark Zone of the Greenland ice sheet has major impact on the surface melt …
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Workshop: scientific drilling in the Fram Strait
CAGE is arranging a MagellanPlus workshop in June, to develop a comprehensive proposal for International …
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CAGE candidate to join IODP expedition to Antarctica
Mariana Esteves has been invited to contribute to the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) expedition …
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Listening for micro-earthquakes, hearing mega whales in the Arctic Ocean
How does the sound of a tiny tremor of the earth differ from the sound …
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Sea floor uplift after last ice age causes methane release in the Arctic today
Present-day release of methane from an area of the Arctic Ocean is an effect of …
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
We wish to thank all of our colleagues for support and fruitful collaborations in 2017. …
Substantial funding for cold loving bacteria research
Tromsø Research Foundation, has granted millions in funds to two projects important for CAGE: An …
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Exceptional score for CAGE
An international committee, assigned with mid-term evaluation of Centres of Excellence, gave CAGE an exceptional …
Dr. Ezat awarded the prestigious Newton International Fellowship
The high hanging fellowship will provide Mohamed Ezat, now postdoctoral researcher at CAGE, with an …
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New leadership at CAGE
Professor Karin Andreassen is the new director of Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and …
Exploring the canyons in Lofoten
The Lofoten islands are visited by millions of people each year. We made a different …
Stefan Bünz promoted to professor
Stefan Bünz, work package leader at CAGE, has been promoted to professor at UiT The …
Methane hydrate is not a smoking gun in the Arctic Ocean
Methane hydrate under the ocean floor was assumed to be very sensitive to increasing ocean temperatures. …
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Collapse of the European ice sheet caused chaos
Scientists have reconstructed in detail the collapse of the Eurasian ice sheet at the end …
Domes of frozen methane may be warning signs for new blow-outs
Several methane domes, some 500m wide, have been mapped on the Arctic Ocean floor. They …
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Massive craters formed by methane blow-outs from the Arctic sea floor
A new study in Science shows that hundreds of massive, kilometre –wide, craters on the …
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Ocean waters above methane seeps absorb large amounts of CO2
Surface waters above methane seeps in the Arctic Ocean act as CO2 sinks, new PNAS …
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Giuliana Panieri elected president of EGU division
Associate Professor Giuliana Panieri has been elected president of Division on Biogeosciences at European Geosciences Union …
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Battered Earth revived by mineral weathering after mass extinction
Bedrock of Earth got severely beaten up by hothouse climate conditions during one of planet’s …
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CAGE Annual Report 2016
Read about some of our achievements in 2016 in our Annual Report.
Northern oceans pumped CO2 into the atmosphere
Norwegian Sea acted as CO2 source in the past. It pumped the greenhouse gas into …
New reconstruction of an ancient ice sheet
A new model reconstruction shows in exceptional detail the evolution of the Eurasian ice sheet during …
Happy New Year!
We wish you all a happy and successful 2017, and we are looking forward to …
New study describes 200 million years of geological evolution
200 million years of geological evolution of a fault in the Earth’s crust has recently been …
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Gender equality in Arctic STEM fields
CAGE has achieved gender equality among its scientist on all levels. How did this Arctic Centre …
Into the thinning ice of the Arctic Ocean
Research vessel Polarstern reached new and barely explored areas of the High Arctic Ocean this …
Record high greenhouse gas releases in 2015
Global observations of greenhouse gases show that CO2 and methane releases have broken all records in 2015. Cathrine …
Around the world in four days
CAGE hosted 13th international conference on gas in marine sediments (GIMS) in Tromsø this week. Text: …
New steering committee member: Kristina Helland-Hansen
Kristina Helland-Hansen, head of Exploration Technology department at Statoil, has accepted a position as a …
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Methane sensor retrieved by RV Polarstern
German research vessel Polarstern has retrieved a CAGE methane sensor from 2600-meter water depth in the Fram …
Sediments control methane release to the ocean
Whether greenhouse gas methane escapes from the ocean floor depends on the characteristic of the …
Arctic clues on worst mass extinction of life
Extreme global warming caused a severe mass extinction of life on Earth 252 million years …
Sea ice strongly linked to climate change in past 90 000 years
Expansion and retreat of sea ice varied consistently in pace with rapid climate changes through …
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Specialized life forms abound at Arctic methane seeps
Methane seeps have strong effects on the community structure at the bottom of the Arctic …
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What does Arctic Ocean have to do with Indian monsoons?
The sea ice cover in the Arctic is important to more than polar bears and …
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Successful ROV expedition to methane seeps in High Arctic
The expedition was a collaboration between two Norwegian centres of excellence – NTNU AMOS and …
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Observatories, long-term greenhouse gas data retrieved from the Arctic Ocean
CAGE scientists have recently retrieved two long-term observatories that have been sitting on the ocean …
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CAGE Annual Report 2015
Read about some of our achievements in 2015 in our Annual Report.
CAGE PhD candidate receives Cushman Award
PhD candidate Katarzyna Melaniuk was recently rewarded Loeblich and Tappan Student Research Award by Cushman …
Methane not escaping into the atmosphere from Arctic Ocean
Methane gas released from the Arctic seabed during the summer months leads to an increased …
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Retreat of the ice followed by millennia of methane release
Methane was seeping from the seafloor for thousands of years following the retreat of the Barents Sea …
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Drilling for gas hydrates in the Arctic
We don’t know enough about the amounts of methane stored under the sea floor. CAGE is going …
Giant craters and fauna thriving on methane
Two early career scientists from CAGE, Malin Waage and Emelie Åström, held a press conference …
Ice streams can be slowed down by gas hydrates
A sticky spot the size of a small island once slowed down a large ice stream. It was comprised …
Craters in Barents Sea not connected to Bermuda Triangle
Multiple giant craters have been discovered on the ocean floor in the Barents Sea. Contrary to …
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How safe is CO2 storage under the sea floor?
Capture and storage of CO2 beneath the sea floor is an important strategy in the …
“Ice age blob” of warm ocean water discovered south of Greenland
Greenland experienced several abrupt and severe climate changes during the last ice age. But even during …
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Clams help date duration of ancient methane seeps in the Arctic
A bed of fossilized, methane dependent clams has for the first time been observed in …
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Welcome to the GIMS13 conference in Tromsø
CAGE is proud to host the 13th conference on Gas in Marine Sediments in Tromsø, …
Arctic Ocean preparations in the hunt for the oldest ice in Antarctica
Scientists are getting ready to drill for an ice core holding the oldest ice on …
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Ice sheets may be hiding vast reservoirs of powerful greenhouse gas
A new study in Nature Communications shows that ice sheets may be keeping vast reservoirs of …
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New steering committee member: Ingrid Schjølberg
Ingrid Schjølberg, the director of NTNU Ocean science and technology in Trondheim Norway, has accepted …
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Eythor Gudlaugsson defends PhD in glaciology
Congratulations to Dr. Gudlaugsson who recently defended his thesis “Modelling subglacial hydrology of the former Barents …
AMAP: Arctic Ocean as future source of methane
CAGE-scientists Anna Silyakova and Giuliana Panieri have contributed to the latest AMAP assessment on methane as …
Methane feeds subsea ice mounds off Siberia
Huge mounds, pingos, are discovered on the seabed offshore Siberia. They are forming because of the …
New methane sensor installed in the Arctic Ocean
German research vessel Polarstern went to the Fram Strait on an expedition this year. On …
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CAGE contributes to Gordon Conference
Gordon Research Conferences are a group of prestigious international scientific conferences covering frontier research in …