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Hei igjen! Jeg har nå tilbrakt rundt 50 timer i praksis hos havforskningsinstituttet, og jeg trives meget godt så langt. Det aller meste av arbeidet jeg har utført hittil har vert kontorarbeid. Jeg har brukt tid på å plotte landingsdata for ulike fiskearter helt tilbake til 1950 og frem til […]

Fisk er ikke bare feltarbeid

I’m writing this in my Norwegian office, like nothing ever happened. But no, just a couple of weeks ago I was in beautiful Peru. The course was a wonderful experience, a great learning experience in many ways. The course has fully met my expectations and objectives. I set out to the […]

Back in the lowlands

For this course I wanted to learn to how do the temperature response curves and analyses, and in general to learn more about trait-based approaches, field techniques and analyses. I think I realized my goals, not only because I did learn how to use the LiCor 6400 \o/ and understand […]

Post PFTC3 (Andrea)

My goals for the course were learn about functional traits, be able to work and discuss different topics with people from different backgrounds and non-Spanish speakers and experience different ways of working. I totally reached my goals!! Well, I still need to improve my English but I consider that I […]

Verónica (the mexican one)_PFT3_post-course blog

HOLA¡¡ In fact, the Course was one of the most pleasurable experiences I’ve had! The objectives I had for the course were, first of all, to understand the best way, ecology with a focus on functional features that, in reality, was a very novel subject for me. As you already […]

Lucely post-course follow-up

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Hei igjen! Da har jeg klart å samle sammen litt over 50 arbeidstimer hos Ocean Bergen. Jeg og Sebastian har blitt tatt godt imot av en gjeng artige, hardtarbeidende mennesker ute på pilotanlegget i Øygarden. Der har vi fått være med på høsting av tunikater, hvor vi har plukket dem […]

Høsting og prosessering av tunikater

The course was a great experience! One of my goals was to get introduced to functional trait science, which was completely fulfilled. Along the course we got hands in to the field and lab, learning how to collect and process leaf traits in an organized and systematic way. We also […]

Miguel.M_ PFTC 3_Post-Course

This course to Peru was a wonderful experience. Thanks a bunch to all who were involved! I am super happy to have met everybody who participated and to have started some exciting science with them! My primary goals coming into this course were to meet new people, learn new perspectives, […]

Jon H. Peru final blog post

    The goals of the course for me were twofold: (1) to learn more about plant functional trait collection and how to analyse the data and (2) meet a lot of awesome peers from around the world. I feel that only part of my first goal was achieved; I […]

Wrap-Up for PFTC3 Wayqecha, Peru!

  I will try to tell some appreciation for the Plant Functional Traits Course 3 – Peru. My aim for the course was to clarify some of the concepts that I learned during my work with functional traits. I think that I am near to fulfill this aim. I need […]

It was a nice adventure. I hope to see you ...

Velkommen til det første blogginnlegget fra meg! Jeg heter Marthe, en stolt 96’er fra Bergen på slutten av Bachelorgraden i biologi ved UIB. Gjennom denne bloggen vil praksisarbeidet jeg utfører dette semesteret dokumenteres, og forhåpentligvis inspirere andre til å benytte seg av muligheten for praksis innenfor biologi. Jeg har alltid […]

Praksis hos Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning (NINA)

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Så der satt jeg en tidlig morgen, med tårer i øyekroken og armene i været. Jeg hadde fått mail fra Katja på HI, hvor det stod at jeg skulle få være med på tokt! Hvem er jeg? Mitt navn er Frida, en nysgjerrig Herdlaværing med en livslang drøm om å […]

Ut mot havet

Hei! Jeg heter Sebastian, og er 21 år gammel. Jeg tar praksisfaget BIO298(Biopraksis), og skal bruke denne bloggen til å dokumentere praksisarbeidet jeg skal gjennom denne våren. Jeg går for øyeblikket siste semester av biologi-bacheloren min, og håper dette faget ville kunne tilby ett godt innblikk i arbeidslivet. Jeg var […]

Praksisarbeid med Ocean Bergen

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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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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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

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 :)

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

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!

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!

  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

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 _ ...

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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

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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!!!

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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!

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»

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

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 […]

Praksis hos Ocean Bergen

Hei og velkommen til min blogg! Mitt navn er Elise, jeg er 21 år og studerer bachelor i biologi på tredje året ved Universitetet i Bergen. Jeg har alltid syntes at naturfag og biologi har vært spennende fag på skolen, men det var ikke før det siste året på videregående […]

Praksis i Naturvernforbundet

Hei bloggen og lesere! Dette er det første av fire blogginnlegg som jeg skal skrive som en del av arbeidspraksisen hos Uni Research Miljø – LFI (laboratorium for ferskvannsøkologi og innlandsfiske). Praksisen er hoveddelen av faget Yrkespraksis i Biologi. Bloggskrivingen er en like ny erfaring for meg som praksisen jeg […]

Arbeidserfaring here I come!

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Noe av det siste feltarbeidet jeg fikk være med på var på Sørlandet. Turid, som jobber på LFI, og jeg kjørte ned til Otra området for å finne blekefisk i Blekkefjorden. Laksestammen bleke er spesiell siden den gjennomfører hele livssyklusen i ferskvann. På 70-tallet var det en nedgang i bleke […]

Nattdykking og Gassovermetning- Takk for meg

Så plutselig satt jeg i en blå caddy på vei til Aurland sammen med Max, en tysk exchange student (Tysken min har forbedret seg, naturlisch), for å møte Ulrich Pulg, en av LFI’s forskningsledere. Etter å ha kjørt i feil retning i over en time, var vi på riktig vei, […]

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