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University of the Arctic
It are the little things that can make someone happy. Some of my Swedish pictures are featured on the website of the University of the Arctic. That idea is already nice, but I also find it nice to be associated … Continue reading
Posted in Sweden
Tagged arctic, Cold, Ecology, Hike, Mountains, Nature photography, north, Photography, Science, Scientists, Travel, Traveling, University
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Disturbing thoughts
Disturbance is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as ‘the interruption of a settled and peaceful condition’. Nature is everything but a ‘peaceful condition’. However, without disturbance it would be a settled one. In ecology, we use the term ‘climax vegetation’ for such … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged arctic, Disturbance, Ecology, Global change, Hiking, Lake, Lapland, Mountains, Nature, Photography, Scandinavia, Science, Sweden, Travel, Tundra
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Holiday break
Autumn arrived in the Arctic with fast incoming clouds and drizzling rains, luckily exactly the day when the field season was over! I am now going to celebrate this second field season of my PhD with a deserved holiday to Spain, where summers … Continue reading
Posted in Spain, Sweden
Tagged Abisko, arctic, Autumn, Ecology, Field season, Fieldwork, Photography, Scandinavia, Spain, Sweden, Travel
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Please do not disturb
If you leave your experiment behind in the Scandinavian mountains, you will have to deal with the wildlife up there. We learned that lesson the hard way. It turns out that the high north houses a high density of reindeer, a fact we immediately noticed … Continue reading
The fellowship goes up
We wanted to have our new experimental plots at 1000 meter above sea level, an easy decision on paper that however resulted in a lot of climbing in real life. We had to get up, up and up, higher and higher, … Continue reading
The 3D lab 