Monthly Archives: februar 2018

I’m a Sonoran Desert native. Madrean sky islands have inspired an awe for nature since I was just a child. Today, I look into the hearts of giant conifer trees for memories of prerecorded climate—poetic and rigorous. By using these tree rings as proxies of past climate I am able […]

Kai_L_Pre-Course Blog Post

28/02/2018 in Kai L (USA) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by kail

Hola! My name is Jon and I’m a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. I focus on using plant functional traits to help understand or predict how plant communities might change under future conditions. These future conditions that interest me include the spread of invasive species, warming […]

Jon Henn Peru Introduction!

28/02/2018 in Joh H (USA) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by jonh

Who am I? My name is Ruben Roos and I am originally from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During my master’s I discovered that the Netherlands is very crowded and that alpine and arctic biomes are much cooler (pun intended) than maritime and flatland ones. I therefore spent a summer and autumn […]

Born below sea level, now going to the Andes!

28/02/2018 in Peru2018 / Ruben R (Norway) tagged TraitTrain by rubenr

What is your background? Where are you from? What do you study? What are you most interested in, scientifically? My name is Miguel, I am from Madrid, Spain. Currently I am a PhD student at NMBU in Norway. With my project I try to understand how competition and disturbance […]

Miguel_M_Pre-Course Blog Post

27/02/2018 in Miguel M (Norway) / Peru2018 by miguelm

Hi! I’ m Paul, a plant ecologist, and data enthusiast. This post is the first step in my own adventure at the Plant Functional Traits Course 3. I graduated in Biology at the University of San Antonio Abad at Cusco, Peru. During the last years, I have collaborated with the […]

The adventure started, hello Plant Functional Trait Course 3 _ ...

26/02/2018 in Paul A (Peru) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Who am I? I am Siri from Norway. I did my master, and am now doing my PhD, at the University of Bergen. Thanks to being involved in some amazing projects, I have during the last years visited and worked with great scientist around in Europe, including Poland, Denmark and […]

Introduction to Siri H

26/02/2018 in Peru2018 / Siri H (Norway) tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Hello everybody!! My name is Verónica Zepeda and I´m from Mexico City. I am a biologist. I did my bachelor´s degree at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). At that time my thesis was about demography and nurse-protégé association of an endemic cactus. Then, for my master´s degree I studied […]

TraitTrain+Peru=Improving learning and fun!!!

26/02/2018 in Peru2018 / Veronica M (Mexico) by veronicam

About Me Hello all! My name is Trace and I am currently a PhD candidate studying plant community ecology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. I grew up in North Carolina, USA, and I got my undergraduate degree in Wildlife Biology and Fisheries at Colorado State University. Then, […]

print(“Hello, PTFC3!”) – Erudition and adventure await!

24/02/2018 in Peru2018 / Trace M (Australia) tagged TraitTrain by tracem

First I heard that I was eligible to apply to the Plant Functional Trait Course 3 (PFTC3) in Peru, I thought it’d be a neat thing to apply for. Reading up on it left me stunned by the opportunity this teaching program presented me with. Elated to have been accepted […]

Making the Connections: «Climate Change and Culture Part 1»

23/02/2018 in Erik K (Norway) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Hallo bloggen! Mitt navn er Joakim, jeg er 22 år gammel og kommer fra Manger på Radøy. Jeg holder på med det 6. semesteret mitt på bachelorgrad i biologi ved Universitetet i Bergen, og trives godt med det. Jeg har alltid vert glad i naturfag, og liker å forstå naturen […]

Praksis hos Havforskningsinstituttet

21/02/2018 in Joakim - HI / Vår 2018 by joakimh

Hei! Mitt navn er Kamilla og jeg holder nå på med mitt siste semester av bachelorgrad i Biologi ved UiB. Interessen for dyr og natur har alltid vært der, men jeg har aldri visst hva jeg ville jobbe med. Etter jeg begynte å studere biologi har interessen bare vokst og […]