CAGE

Today is officially our final day as a Centre of Excellence funded by The Norwegian Research Council. The Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) was active between 2013-2023 and was hosted by the Department of Geosciences at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

It has been a very exciting decade with a lot of excellent science and discoveries as we investigated the role of gas hydrates for the Arctic environment and climate. We would therefore like to say a big thank you to all our staff, collaborators, and friends, for all of your hard work and dedication that has truly contributed to the success of CAGE.

Even though all good (and excellent) things must eventually come to an end and give room to new opportunities, we are very excited that CAGE scientists will continue to lead and collaborate with the newly funded Centre of Excellence, the Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate (iC3), which will start in the summer at the Department of Geosciences, UiT.

CAGE social media accounts will remain active but will not be regularly updated and maintained.

Thank you and goodbye for now! 😊

CAGE wishes you happy holidays and a happy new year! 🎄✨

We had our last CAGE Christmas seminar on 30th November. It was a nice day full of joy and cool science which was followed by a very nice Christmas concert by Anne Nymo Trulsen ( ). Thank you everyone who participated in person and online!

Can you imagine a volume of rock and sediment more than 500 times the size of Mount Everest? 🏔
It’s not just a lot(!) but it is also the equivalent volume of sediments that were eroded by the Eurasian Ice Sheet during the last ice age. This extreme erosion over Europe profoundly sculpted the landscape, influencing the carbon stores and geohazards observed today in coastal and marine regions. Find out more👇

The incredible power of the ice that sculpted Europe’s landscape New research from CAGE/UiT in Nature Communications show that the immense ice sheet that covered Europe during the last ice age excavated the bedrock equivalent of more than 500 Mt Everests. This extreme glacial erosion profoundly sculpted the landscape we live, work and play in, with incredible imp

Hva finnes i fryseren? - Geoforskning.no For første gang har vår kunnskap om den globale utbredelsen av gasshydrater – fryst gass – i undergrunnen blitt samlet i ett verk med solide bidrag fra norske forskere.

📢 On Friday 25th November, Ph.D. candidate Muhammed Fatih Sert will defend his PhD thesis entitled, “Biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter in Arctic Ocean waters charged with methane”. 🤩
Prior to the defense, Muhammed Fatih Sert will present the trial lecture topic, “The fate of anthropogenic CO2 in the ocean”.
For more information, follow the link below 👇

Muhammed Fatih Sert will defend thesis on "Biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter in Arctic Ocean waters charged with methane" Muhammed Fatih Sert will publicly defend his PhD thesis entitled, "Biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter in Arctic Ocean waters charged with methane" on November 25th 2022 at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. This work was funded by the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment, and Cl...

Is, karbon og klima - Geoforskning.no Det kommende forskningssenteret iC3 – Centre for Ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate skal rette søkelyset mot de store ismassene og deres rolle i det globale karbonregnskapet.

📣 Hot off the press: ‘Metanlekkasjer I Arktis – hvordan påvirker de klima og miljø?’
We are pleased to announce that the Autumn edition of popular science magazine, ‘Ottar’, will be focused on results and highlights from CAGE, including contributions from the director, our scientists, and the communication and database coordinators. This magazine is now available online (Norwegian only).
Read more about Ottar and the CAGE contributions through the link below.
Happy reading! 😊

Methane leaks in the Arctic – How do they affect climate and the environment? As CAGE approaches the end of its tenure, we would like to share some highlights of our success and inform about where you can access the data and reports from our research. As part of this initiative to ensure a CAGE legacy, the CAGE director, our scientists, and the communication and database coor

Methane gas from cold seeps – a complementary food source for organisms living in the Arctic? 🐟
New study finds that methane emissions in the shallow Arctic shelves actually diversifies the diets of marine organisms living here. 🤩
Click the link below to read more ⬇️

Methane emissions in the Arctic diversify the diets of marine ecosystems living in productive shallow-marine areas It is well established that deep-sea ecosystems living in natural cold seep sites around the world thrive in areas where their only food source is limited to the uptake of carbon through chemosynthesis. However, it wasn’t until now that we discovered how these natural methane seep sites influenced...

Congratulations to CAGE scientists Professor Jemma Wadham and Associate Professor Monica Winsborrow, will lead the newly funded Norwegian Centre of Excellence for Outstanding Research at UiT: Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate (iC3).
iC3 will build upon parts of CAGE expertise, bringing together world-leading researchers and transdisciplinary collaborations to examine the impact of ice sheets on the Earth’s Carbon Cycle.

To read more about iC3:
https://cage.uit.no/ic3/

Photo: Tomas Rolland/UiT

Norsk Polarinstitutt NORCE UiT Norges arktiske universitet

CAGE scientists will lead the newly funded Norwegian Centre of Excellence for Outstanding Research at UiT: Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate (iC3) Global climate is rapidly warming, impacting Polar Regions, and causing ice sheets to melt and thin at unprecedented rates. Massive stores of carbon are held beneath these ice sheets, alongside vulnerable ecosystems and large carbon sinks associated with the aligned polar oceans. The impact of ice s

UiT får nytt senter for fremragende forskning! Senteret iC3 samler verdens beste forskere på issmelting og karbonutslipp.❄ Det har nå fått finansiering over en ti-års periode fra Norges forskningsråd.
Les mer her: https://bit.ly/3SwwaC5

Senteret skal ledes av professor Jemma Wadham og førsteamanuensis Monica Winsborrow fra UiT, og de skal ha med seg forskere fra blant annet Norsk Polarinstitutt, NORCE og en rekke institusjoner over hele verden.

– At denne søknaden vant frem og fikk forskningsrådets mest høythengende støtte, vitner om fremragende forskere og et sterkt forskningsmiljø bygd opp gjennom år ved Institutt for geovitenskap, sier Camilla Brekke, prorektor for forskning og utvikling.

📷: Trude Haugseth Moe

CAGE UiT - Institutt for geovitenskap/Department of Geosciences Matthias Forwick Camilla Brekke