I vår var vi på tur på Lygra med EKKO-reporter Ivar Grydeland. Turen resulterte i to reportasjar på radioprogrammet EKKO på P2. Klikk på lenkene under for å høyre om lyngbrenning og villsau. Lyngbrenning på Lygra: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/mdsp25009217/09-05-2017#t=1h8m50s Villsauen i kystlyngheia: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/mdsp25006117/27-03-2017#t=59m33s Vigdis forklarar kva som skjer over og under bakken når ein brenn kystlyngheia
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LandPress on radio!
This spring we brought EKKO-journalist Ivar Grydeland to Lygra. The trip resulted in two reportages on the radio program EKKO on P2. Click on the links below to hear about prescribed burning and the old Norse sheep (in Norwegian). Prescribed burning on Lygra: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/mdsp25009217/09-05-2017#t=1h8m50s The old Norse sheep: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/mdsp25006117/27-03-2017#t=59m33s Vigdis is explaining the processes above READ MORE
LandPress sommerfelt- den perfekte “sommerjobbferien”
Heisan! Jeg heter Elisabeth og går første året på masteren min i biodiversitet, evolusjon og økologi. I min masteroppgave skal jeg se på hvordan bladers funksjonelle egenskaper forandres gjennom ontogenien (den juvenile fasen) hos planter i kystlynghei. Siden jeg jobber med kystlynghei er jeg så heldig å få være en del av LandPress-teamet. I READ MORE
Singin’ in the rain
This week feels like proper Norwegian fieldwork again. Rain drips off your nose, water runs up your sleeves, and data sheets are hung up to dry like washing in the evenings. Nonetheless, we are over halfway now in terms of vegetation composition analysis (check out the map below!), and by the end of the week READ MORE
Back in the field
It’s been a beautifully warm and sunny week in western Norway for doing fieldwork which, of course, we took advantage of! I had just enough time back in Bergen after the conference last week to do my laundry and re-pack for fieldwork. There’s still a bit of snow in the mountains Happy plant ecologists after READ MORE
Spreading the word: presenting at the IAVS conference
Fieldwork for plant ecologists in Norway normally begins in June, and the hard work we put into our site maintenance and data collection pays off when we are able to share our findings with vegetation scientists from around the world. From the 20th to the 24th of June 2017, a conference was held on the READ MORE
Brenning førebygger brann!
I midten av mai braut det ut lyngbrann på Ottersøya i Nord-Trøndelag og ved Rylandsvatnet i Bremanger. Paradoksalt nok er det mangel på brenning, eller lyngsviing, som legg grunnlaget for desse ukontrollerte utmarksbrannane.Kontrollert lyngsviing på Nerlandsøy. Langs norskekysten har vi eit lyngheiareal på om lag 750 km2. Sjølv om det er lett å få inntrykk READ MORE
Prescribed burning spring 2017
This spring we managed to burn all our 7 resilience research sites. We will let the pictures talk for them selves. Novelandet in Bremanger municipality. Nerlandsøy in Herøy municipality. Golta in Sund municipality. Rossvoll in Smøla municipality.
Lyngsviing våren 2017
Denne våren har vi svidd lyng på alle dei 7 lyngsviingslokalitetane våre. Vi lar bildene tale for seg sjølv. Novelandet i Bremanger kommune Nerlandsøy i Herøy kommune Golta i Sund kommune Rossvoll i Smøla kommune
The Ethical dilemmas of the ‘Project’ PhD
Since the 18th Century, the world has undergone an industrial revolution, upturned the consensus on medical care, and invented a whole new way of conducting agriculture. But somehow, the institution of education has stayed somewhere in the past. School children are still subjected to the same teaching style that was used two hundred years ago. READ MORE