Biologipraksis UiB

Blogger av biologistudenter i praksis

Monthly Archives: juli 2018

PFTC-4 is over and here is a round-up of all I’ve experienced and learnt over these two wonderful weeks! What were your goals for the course in Svalbard? To what extent did you realize these goals? Please give specific examples if possible. The highlight of my experience in Svalbard has […]

What a phenomenal two weeks

31/07/2018 tagged Eleanor T (UK) / Svalbard2018 / TraitTrain by eleanort

Hi! My name is Eleanor Thomson. I’m a PhD student at the University of Oxford. My PhD is on ecological remote sensing – specifically attempting to map leaf traits using drones and satellites. So far, I’ve only worked in tropical environments, so Svalbard will be an exciting change! What are […]

Excited for experience in the Arctic!

18/07/2018 tagged Eleanor T (UK) by lorip

What is your background? Where are you from? What do you study? What are you most interested in, scientifically? Hey! My name is Shuli Chen. I am a Ph. D student in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at University of Arizona. A year ago, I just finished my master degree in […]

Shuli’s PFTC4 first blog post

17/07/2018 in Shuli C (China/USA) by lorip

Hi all, my name’s Adam. My background is in computer science, converted to the plant sciences and ecology through an interest in the history of our planet. I’m more or less bred from Arizona but born in Texas. America. I got into computers from a love of graphics and interactive […]

#PFTC4 blog post 1

17/07/2018 in Adam C (USA) by lorip

I’m an ecologist with a background in forest ecology, watershed management, and arid-land botany. I was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona completing a BS in ecology and evolutionary biology and just finishing an MS in watershed management and ecohydrology at the University of Arizona. My master studies have focused […]

Plant Function Traits Couse IV Svalbard Blog Post I

17/07/2018 in Kai L (USA) by lorip

My background My name is Pekka Niittynen. I’m a biogeographer and a PhD candidate from University of Helsinki. Arctic-alpine flora (broadly speaking, including mosses and lichens too) is my passion and has been the research subject for my early scientific career. To be more specific, I study how the cold-adapted […]

Training my traits in Svalbard

15/07/2018 in Pekka N (Finland) tagged Svalbard2018 / TraitTrain by pekkan

Background & interests As an arctic plant enthusiast by heart and a physical geographer by training, my focus is on soil moisture and vegetation relationships. Soil moisture is one of the key environmental variables for all terrestrial vegetation, which makes it a hot topic due to the on-going changes in […]

Found myself in Svalbard

15/07/2018 in Julia K (Finland) by juliak

My name is Håvard Kristiansen. I am a PhD-student at the University of Oslo, and I am from Oslo. Three years ago, I got a master’s degree in nuclear chemistry from the University of Oslo. After that, I worked for a year for the city public waste management, dealing with […]

Heading to Svalbard

15/07/2018 in Håvard K (Norway) by havardk

My name is Silje, and I just recently graduated from the University of Bergen with a MSc in Biology. I was born and partially raised in Sweden, but lived most of my life in Bergen, Norway. I did my BSc at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and for both […]

They talk about global warming

15/07/2018 in Silje Ö (Norway) by siljeo

Having grown up in a Portuguese-Canadian-Irish household, and living in a few countries along the way has instilled in me a deep concern for the global impacts of climate change on our ecosystems. Through my academic work I am determined to better understand their severity and scope. During the last […]

Nordgående

15/07/2018 in Barbara N-B (Canada) tagged Svalbard2018 / TraitTrain by barbaranb

There are few professions where workers interact with “skeptics” or “deniers.” Singers do not hear from “song-skeptics” and bakers do not interact with “donut-deniers,” yet the same is not true for unfortunate climate scientists. Climate scientists overwhelmingly believe that global climate change is caused by human activity1, yet many American […]

The Highs and Lows of American Climate Change Perception

14/07/2018 in Mary L (USA) by lorip

Hello everyone! I am Alexander Sæle Vågenes from a tiny town outside Bergen, Norway. I am currently doing my master’s at the university of Bergen where I will be looking at CO2 flux in heathlands. My academic life or student life if you will, started with a year of […]

PFTC Svalbard 2018

14/07/2018 in Alexander SV (Norway) tagged Svalbard2018 / TraitTrain by Alexander

Hola, My name is Lucely Vilca Bustamante, I’m from Peru, specifically from Cusco (very close to Machu Picchu). I studied Biology at Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, I am still a bachelor. I am studying the first months of a Master’s degree called Ecology and Environmental Management in […]

Hola from Peru

14/07/2018 in Lucely LVB (Peru) by lorip

I am Matiss Castorena. I am doing my PhD at the University of Arizona in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. I was born in Mexico City, and I did my undergrad and master’s in Mexico’s National University (UNAM). My background is plant functional ecology, mainly around plant allometry, biomechanics, hydraulics, and […]

The privilege to visit the High Artic as a plant ...

13/07/2018 in Matiss S (USA) by matisss

My background is both from the natural sciences and the humanities. When I studied the humanities several years ago, I felt the environmental issues were absent (it has become better now, but a bit too late for me). In these times, it felt wrong to continue studying a discipline that […]

No roads lead to Svalbard

12/07/2018 in Kathleen RH (Norway) by kathleenh

Hi, my name is Siri, and I’m currently a PhD student at the University of Bergen, Norway. My PhD project tries to answer how the cultural landscape – and more precisely the Atlantic heathlands – are coping with a more unstable weather regime. These heathlands are found along the European […]

Nice weather is in fact extreme weather in Norway!

12/07/2018 in Siri VH (Norway) by sirihaugum

Hei, I’m Molly. I’m currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department studying palaeobotany under Dr. Selena Smith. I worked in plant science research labs at both University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Berkeley, after receiving a B.S. in Ecology and […]

Will work for access to drones

11/07/2018 in Molly N (USA) by mollyn

A. What is your background? Where are you from? What do you study? What are you most interested in, scientifically? This is YAOQI LI, a Ph.D. student from the Peking University (PKU) in Beijing, China, and currently on exchange at the University of Arizona (UofA) in Tucson, AZ, USA as […]

From hot Summer to frozen Winter (Tucson->Svalbard)

11/07/2018 in Yaoqi L (China/USA) by lorip

My name is Karolína and I come from Czech Republic, Czekkia. For those who are not sure where it is situated, it is “the heart of Europe”, small country with no sea between Poland, Germany, Austria and Slovakia. In Prague, the capital, I study masters in Botany on Charles University […]

TrainTrait4: Polar adventure on the way

10/07/2018 in Karolína P (Czech Republic) tagged Svalbard2018 / TraitTrain by karolinap

I am a PhD student in the Landscape Ecology group of Stockholm University, but originally I come from Germany. My background is mostly in landscape planning and applied nature conservation in the south-western part of Germany. After a few years working in this field, I got more and more interested […]

only a few more days…

10/07/2018 in Nina R (Germany/Sweden) tagged Svalbard2018 / TraitTrain by ninar

PFTC4 Blog Post 1 from Polly Bass A. What is your background? Where are you from? What do you study? What are you most interested in, scientifically? My background is in plant geography and geomorphology. I study alpine plants, substrate preferences among plants, and island biogeography in its application to […]

Plant Functional Trait Train Course 4!

10/07/2018 in Polly B (USA) tagged Svalbard2018 / TraitTrain by pollyb

Growing up in Iceland most definitely shaped the passion that I have for ecology and environmental conservation. Although growing up in the small city of Reykjavík, as a child I was always fascinated by the country side and the great wilderness that our country offers. Choosing the field of biology […]

Back to the Arctic

09/07/2018 in Katrín B (Iceland) by katrinb

Hi! I am from Philadelphia, USA and currently completing an MPhil in Environmental Change and Management at Oxford. Previously, I did my undergraduate studies in environmental engineering at Princeton University, where my research focus was on the environmental trade-offs to agricultural expansion in Zambia. My interests lie at the intersection […]

Looking forward to Svalbard

09/07/2018 in Marcus S (UK) tagged Svalbard2018 / TraitTrain by marcuss

I am a PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolution at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Currently, I am working as a PhD visiting researcher at the Ecosystems Lab, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. The main goal of my thesis is to evaluate […]

Towards the North Pole

08/07/2018 in Ilaíne SM (Brazil) by ilainem

Jeg har nå jobbet over 140 timer på Hjelmsøya, og er så heldig som får jobbe her i 2 uker til! Praksisverten har vært utrolig flink til å la meg være en del av alle oppgavene her på øya, så jeg føler jeg har fått mange opplevelser og erfaringer fra […]

Tusen takk NINA!

07/07/2018 in Marthe - NINA / Vår 2018 by martheo

Heisann! Jeg har nå jobbet i overkant av 100 timer her på Hjelmsøya, og stortrivdes her. Det er et utrolig fugleliv, og hver dag bringer nye utfordringer. Spesielt da det er mye håndtering av både voksne og juvenile fugler. Lundefuglpullus til venstre, og alkepullus til høyre. Denne perioden har bestått […]

Min sommerforelskelse: pullus i alle varianter

07/07/2018 in Marthe - NINA / Vår 2018 by martheo