Yearly Archives: 2018

Hei internett! Det skjedde i de dager at det gikk ut befaling fra Beate, om at alle studenter måtte melde seg opp i fag. Fristen for denne registreringen ble holdt mens det fortsatt var jul i heimen. Og alle studenter registrerte sine emner, hver til sitt fakultet. Henrik, som registrerte […]

Praksis hos Uni Research Miljø

07/03/2018 in Henrik - SAM marin / Vår 2018 by Wirsching

Hei og velkommen til mitt første blogginnlegg! Mitt navn er Amalie, jeg er 22 år gammel og studerer for tiden Biologi ved Universitetet i Bergen. Jeg er nå kommet så langt som det siste året på bacheloren min (tiden går fort!!), og ettersom det ikke passet inn med fagene jeg […]

Praksis hos Statens Naturoppsyn

06/03/2018 in Amalie - SNO by amaliek

HOLA! I’m Lucely Vilca Bustamante, I’m from Peru, specifically from the imperial city of Cusco. Study Biology at Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco, take many courses in relation to Ecology and Botany, since that is what interests me the most, collaborate as a field assistant for some researchers who […]

Lucely B pre-course introduction

06/03/2018 in Lucely B (Peru) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

My name is Alyssa and I am a first year PhD student at the University of Arizona. We know that species diversity has profound effects on Earth’s ecosystems, but the effects of intraspecific diversity remains a frontier to be explored. Therefore, I am interested broadly in the ecological importance of […]

Alyssa S pre-course introduction

06/03/2018 in Alyssa S (USA) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

I am Jhonatan Sallo Bravo, I was born in the city of Cusco – Peru, I has studied biology at the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad, I am interested in studies like the dynamics of populations, distribution of plant species, diversity (however I am open to new experiences). Currently […]

New Experiences!

06/03/2018 in Jhonathan B (Peru) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

I am from São Paulo, Brazil. My studies has been focused in plant ecophysiology, I have done works with plant responses to elevated CO 2 and crassulacean acid metabolism. Currently, my interest is on the role of leaf venation in the ecophysiology of trees and how human-disturbance may affect the […]

Leonardo H pre-course Introduction

06/03/2018 in Leonardo H (Brazil) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

I come from the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, where the mountains are short and dry. I have a degree in computer science from Arizona State University and I love writing code, as well as thinking about how to use graphics to visualize ecological patterns. My interests range from large scale […]

Adam C pre-course introduction

06/03/2018 in Adam C (USA) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Hello, everyone! I am Anders, a student from Norway, currently doing a Master’s degree in Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity at the University in Bergen. I will start writing my thesis this summer, which most likely will be about sexual selection and dimorphism in a monogamous bark beetle native to the […]

Anders I pre-course introduction

06/03/2018 in Anders I (Norway) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

From city to nature – and halfway back Living in the centre of a Northern European capitol my entire life, it might not have been obvious that a city girl would develop a professional interest centred on nature conservation, local biodiversity and landscape ecology. However, spending every other weekend in […]

PFTC: PERFECT FUN-TRAIT COMBO!

06/03/2018 in Peru2018 / Signe K (Denmark) tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Hello everybody!! I am Erickson Urquiaga, I am from Peru, I am a biologist, my studies I did at Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco and Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina. I have special interest on ecology of tropical high mountain vegetation. How this plant communities will response to climate […]

Hello from Erickson Urquiaga

05/03/2018 in Erickson U (Peru) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Hello everyone! My name is Verónica Pinelli, I´m from a small county to the south: Uruguay. I study biology, more specifically, ecology. I finished my master studies in 2016, and in 2017 I started my PhD studies. I also work as a teacher in a gardening and landscape design technical […]

Verónica_P_Pre-Course Blog Post

03/03/2018 in Peru2018 / Veronica P (Uruguay) tagged TraitTrain by veronicap

Da var det på tide med blogginnlegg nummer to! Nå har jeg jobbet hos LFI i rundt 50 timer og begynt å komme litt inn i de få tingene jeg har rukket å gjøre på denne korte tiden. Det har vært en bratt læringskurve på noe, mens annet ikke har […]

Undervannskamera og øresteiner

01/03/2018 in Skjalg - LFI / Vår 2018 tagged Fiskehelse / LFI by skjalgs

My name is Andrea Sánchez Tapia, I am a Colombian biologist living, studying and working in Brazil since 2007. My main scientific interest is to understand human-related drivers of change in different contexts and kinds of vegetation, ideally in order to subsidize restoration actions here in the Tropics. I started […]

From the Andes… to the Andes :)

01/03/2018 in Andrea S-T (Brazil) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by andreast

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 […]

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