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
Category: fieldwork
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
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
Internship blog: Roos on the start of her internship
Roos Bruins Slot is one of our interns this year. She is part of the Durin project and works with our PhD student Kristine Birkeli to help collect carbon flux measurements in the field. Get to know Roos better! She writes: “I’m a Dutch Biology student and started my internship with Between the Fjords in READ MORE
Data cleaning – finding the problems with turfmapper
All large data sets have problems. The community data gathered in the Between the Fjords projects are no exception – there are inevitable spelling mistakes, synonyms, misidentifications (for example of sterile Carex). Fortunately, having community data from several years, we can compare the community over time to identify and then fix these sorts of problems. 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