By Vendula Špačková, Applied Ecology student, CZU Prague I am a Bachelor student of Applied Ecology at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. As part of my studies, I wanted to complete an internship abroad and actively searched for opportunities that would combine ecology, fieldwork, and international experience. After applying and successfully passing READ MORE
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Fieldwork for the DURIN project – from north to south, east to west
By Mika Kirkhus In September 2025 Jeanne, Sonya, Léo, Vendy, Kristine, Elias, Inge, and Mika of the Between the Fjords research group carried out one of its final field campaigns for the DURIN project. DURIN aims to understand how dwarf shrubs in boreal, alpine, and arctic ecosystems respond to a changing climate. To study this, READ MORE
Vigdis Vandvik to be Coordinating Lead Author on next IPCC report
After her role as coordinating lead author for the IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment, Vigdis Vandvik will now contribute to the upcoming seventh IPCC report and be co-responsible for a chapter on how climate change affects biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services on land and in freshwater. The Coordinating Lead Authorship will be shared with Denis J. READ MORE
Field season 2025: it’s (almost) a wrap!
Whilst most of Norway calms down when the summer approaches; in our discipline of field ecology the months of June, July and August are the highlight of the action. This summer has seen yet again a great amount of project planning, data collection, identifying sedges without flowers, cooking leaves, and hiking across Bergen municipality. For project READ MORE
Fieldwork blog: My trip around Norway
Picture from front left to right: Kristine Birkeli, Viljar Storvik, Vendula Spackova, Elias Skaslien Hi! I’m Elias Eide Skaslien, and I am a master’s student in Between the Fjords. For my master’s project I have been travelling with Kristine Birkeli and Durin around Norway to investigate diurnal fluxes in different macro- and microclimates in Norwegian READ MORE
New PhD student: Hanif Kawousi
Hello! My name is Hanif Kawousi. I’ve lived in Bergen for the past seven years, the last five with my wife and dog. Some of you may recognise me from classes or the hallways, as I recently graduated from BIO. I am excited to extend my journey at BIO as a PhD student with the READ MORE
A Tool Box for Early Career Researchers going to big conferences
By Joseph Gaudard The European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting is a major conference in natural science, and a good place to present “almost finished work”. It is also a terrifying event, with about 20’000 participants on site. In 2024, I was a first time attendee going there alone. It was a lonely week of READ MORE
Conference blog: My trip to Oikos Bodø (a student perspective)
Hi! I’m Elias Eide Skaslien, and I am a master’s student in Between the Fjords. For my master project I will be working with Kristine Birkeli and Durin to investigate diurnal fluxes across different macro- and microclimates in Norwegian heathlands. Earlier this spring (April 9th–12th), I had the opportunity to attend the Oikos conference in READ MORE
New season, new intern students
With the start of spring come the preparations for a new field season… and the arrival of new internship students who will get to experience what it is like to work in an experimental field ecology lab! In April, we welcomed interns Marine Dange and Ilko Sijbesma. We asked them to introduce themselves to you: READ MORE
New collaboration in Durin project: meet Sarah Schwieger
Sarah Schwieger from Umeå University (Sweden) recently received funding for a project in collaboration with Durin. We are excited to have her on the team and look forward to adding valuable insights on belowground processes to the project! Read further to learn more about her and her research plans: I am Sarah Schwieger, a READ MORE