Date: 07 April
Time: 10.00-14.00 CET
Location: Festningskaien 1, Bergen
Organiser:  Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen

If we could be like a fish - equipped with instruments! If so, we could measure temperature, salt, oxygen, currents and whatever it may be, day and night, year after year, throughout the World's oceans. But since it is hard to attach multiple instruments to a fish, we will rather make a suitable fish ourselves. Our fish is made of metal, it is equipped with varius measuring instruments, and then we send it off. Our fish can dive, it can rest at a depth of 2000 m, and then rise to the surface. While at surface, it will send all measurements to a satellite, before it continues its journey in the ocean abyss. In this way the fish can continue for months. After that, a fresh battery is installed, the instruments are checked, before it continues its journey between Bergen, Greenland, Svalbard and back, or wherever it's journey brings it.

Come to us to see and learn more about how we measure the ocean! And how we use the measurements to understand the health of the ocean. We will also do some experiments to show that the ocean is more than water. Become an oceanographer -welcome!

Practical Information

• Queries about the event: Helge Drange (helge.drange@uib.no)
• Open for drop in
• Language: Norwegian and English
• Here you will find Festningskaien 1