Tag Archives: Hiking

Hooray!

Today is a special day: I arrived safely at the end of my very first year as a PhD-student! A year filled with tons of mountains and plants, filled with beautiful views and endless interesting datasets. A year with plenty of … Continue reading →

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Spain

From the high north to the south of Europe. From the cold-limited mountains in Lapland to the dry rocky mountain slopes of Catalonia in less than a week time. I am enjoying the end of the summer with a burning … Continue reading →

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Sweet summer child

I am a true summer child. I love the sun, the flowers, the birds and all nature’s activity in summer. I brighten up under a warm blue sky. I do not know a thing about the Scandinavian winters, with their … Continue reading →

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Fjord and fjäll

We ended our Scandinavian fieldwork trip with two days at the other sides of the mountains. We had to find back the Norwegian plots of the roadside research of two years ago to install temperature sensors in the soil. This little trip brought … Continue reading →

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Use the light you have

When time is short and work takes long, the midnight sun truly is a blessing. We had been climbing for a whole day to find a nice location to install our new experiment at one thousand meters, when it turned … Continue reading →

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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 →

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