The group has a whole team up north again, monitoring vegetation and bumblebees, gathering microclimate data and so much more.

I was lucky enough to spend a few days up there as well, checking up on the long-term monitoring sites on mount Nuolja, hiking to the top of our gradient in the beautiful valley of Laktatjakka, and checking out the extremely poor and acidic heathlands of the steep slopes of the Norwegian fjord of Rombak.

Next week, a final two days of fieldwork for me in a beautiful Norwegian valley, then it’ll be the awesome, interested and enthusiastic students and fieldwork crew holding the fortress till early September and autumn setting in again. Jealous, but happy it’ll be a great time with great science for them!