From April thirteenth to nineteenth 2024, the Ocean Metropolis of Bergen celebrated the ocean much more than common(!) in a taking place referred to as One Ocean Week (OOW).
One Ocean Week held conferences, conferences, workshops and actions – aiming to pioneer a sustainable use of the ocean.
The marine group on the College Museum was a prolific participant in the course of the occasion, listed here are a few of our contributions!
Anne Helene was invited to provide the opening speak on the reception within the Aula, inserting the Museum and Bergen into the guts of the Norwegian ocean exploration starting with “The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876–78”.
Anne Helene giving the opening speak in the course of the festivitas within the Aula on the College Museum. Photograph: Jenny Smedmark
Screenshot from the documentary. Do comply with the hyperlink -> to observe if you happen to haven’t already! Photograph: OceanX
Aino additionally made a visitor apperance within the aula because the documentary about “Seeing jellyfish as they need to be seen” made by the OceanX media workforce was proven.
Saturday introduced a presentation at Skolten concerning the UiB/OceanX-expedition final August, the place Joan and Anne Helene offered a few of their thrilling new findings along with Henrik and Øyvind from BIO – and even Mattie of OceanX participated, calling in from the OceanXplorer in Singapore!
Shows of what we discovered in the course of the OceanX/UiB cruise final summer season, the place we explored outdated locatlities within the Norwegian Sea, and visited a few of our fjords utilizing the world’s most superior analysis vessel. Pictured are Anne Helene, Joan and Henrik – with their animals! Pictures: Katrine Kongshavn
On Sunday the 14th most of us had been at Festningskaien with a plethora of actions in the course of the “Household Day”.
Our tent on the Household Day. Photograph: Joan J- Soto-Angel
For our “Meet marine biologists from the College Museum” we introduced with us 5 actions specializing in totally different areas of analysis that we do.
We had:
- Sharks (see SharkReferences.com for extra), with a shark tooth quiz, information about sharks in Norway, and the possibility to see shark pores and skin up shut.
- Bipolar animals (challenge Pole2Pole) the place individuals might discover the distribution of animals that happen in one- or both- of the poles, and be taught extra about why that could be the case
- Polychaetes (challenge MAnDAriN) with a quiz of making an attempt to match pictures of vibrant bristle worms to their frequent names
- A process on Jellyfish parasites(!) (challenge ParaZoo) the place you had been to diagnose which parasite our unlucky jellyfish suffered from, and at last
- Moss animals (challenge NorDigBryo) the place you would be taught extra about these animals, see them up shut, and choose up a booklet with enjoyable info and a few riddles to resolve.
Our actions. From prime left: Jellyfish physician, bipolar animals, guess the worm, sharks, and moss animals. Photos: Joan J. Soto-Angel
Two of the museum pedagogues used our tent as the bottom for his or her theatre-based exercise “The ice is melting! It’s for actual!” – so we had penguins too!
The penguins Piia and Pling in motion. Photograph: Odette Tetlie
On the Pure Historical past Museum, our researchers supplied free talks on subjects of their alternative; one speak daily (Tues-Fri). The subjects lined right here had been:Who eats whom? Marine worms with jaws – scrumptious and harmful! (Nataliya)
Jellyfish in Norway – largely innocent or murderous monsters? (Aino)
Sharks of Norway (Nico)
Elusive biodiversity: a journey via the much less recognized however most beautiful teams of marine animals (Manuel)
Manuel throughout his presentation on the Pure Historical past Museum. Photograph: Cessa Rauch
Nico additionally gave a chat on the scientific convention Ocean Outlook: the North Atlantic Ocean local weather, deep sea and atmosphere, on the subject “Bioluminescence in deep-sea sharks: evolution and features.”
It was a busy, however enjoyable week!
-Katrine on behalf of the marine group