Tag Archives: Scandinavia
Science at its most adventurous
We had stumbled upon a great treasure, when our colleague Keith, from Abisko in northern Sweden, found an old research paper from the 1950s written by a botanist called Olav Gjaerevoll. This Olav had spent several summers in the 1940s … Continue reading
Tundra traits
It was summer 2017, the height of my PhD. As always, I spent the longest days above the polar circle, in the north of Scandinavia. We were there to follow up on our long-term vegetation monitoring, in particular this time … Continue reading
The hidden waterfall
Years of travelling to the same place and monitoring the vegetation along the same trail, and nobody ever told me about this beautiful waterfall just 50 meters off track! It sits at the base of the ‘Björkliden’ trail, close to … Continue reading
Fieldwork done!
The team has done it: all 180 plots from our long-term vegetation monitoring along the Norwegian mountain roads have been surveyed! With that achievement in our pockets, we now have the third time step in our time series all on … Continue reading
News from the field
It has been a roller coaster ride to get the whole team in northern Scandinavia, as you can read here, but now the fieldwork is on a roll! That things are going well is testified by the pictures I am … Continue reading
Epic
What an epic week was this! The mountain part of The 3D Lab wanted to get to northern Sweden for an important summer of fieldwork, but the world was against it… A massive strike at Scandinavian Airlines (they seem to … Continue reading