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Fluorescence
For years, I have been teaching a practical course on the measurement of plant stress to our master students. In that course, we introduce them to the magical ecological process called ‘fluorescence’ to investigate stress in their studied plant species. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Science
Tagged climate change, Ecology, Fieldwork, Global change, Nature, PhD, Plants, Science
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Following from afar
What a feeling that gives: when your PhD- and master-students are rocking their fieldwork, and pictures of their successes are tumbling past. Case in point: this success for our mountain trail surveys in Norway, finished in the rain and with … Continue reading
2018 in stories (1)
Here on ‘On top of the world’, we have the tradition to end the year with a ‘best of’, a list of the most read stories on this blog from the last year. This list helps us to wrap up … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Landscape photography, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, PhD, Postdoc, Science, Travel, Travel photography
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Dovre
The beginning of this week brought me to Dovre, a stunning National Park in the center of Norway. The area is sitting a 2,5 hours of steady uphill driving south of Trondheim, and was covered in a beautiful November snow … Continue reading
Posted in General, Norway
Tagged Ecology, Fieldwork, Global change, Landscape photography, Nature photography, PhD, Scandinavia, Science, Travel photography, Winter
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Adding stones to the mountain
I felt humbled and proud at the same time when I realized my paper citation count on Google Scholar reached 100 this week. I know, modern science is focussing way too much on the numbers, but what this particular number … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Landscape, Landscape photography, Mountains, PhD, PhD-life, Photography, Scandinavia, Scicomm, Science
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The 3D lab 