Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Bio On The Rocks. After giving you a detailed summary of the "Arctic Environmental Management" course, which has now concluded, I thought it would be an excellent opportunity to discuss upcoming projects. My other course, which is now running parallel and becoming very intensive, is "Arctic Marine Biology." In …
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Welcome back to Bio On The Rocks. Actually, the next post in the series would be about meiofauna, a topic we have now also covered at UNIS. After having reported on the smallest living organisms (plankton and ice algae), it would be time to discuss the next larger ones – and such an article will …
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Bio On The Rocks! After writing about the tiny organisms living in, on, under, and next to sea ice last week, and with this covering a topic that fits perfectly with Bio On The Rocks, I thought it was time to talk a little about what BOTRi, as I …
While many of us associate the Arctic with the icy cold, the west coast of Svalbard hides a surprisingly "mild" climate. We owe this phenomenon to the unique ocean currents that bring warm water from the south. But the dynamics of this process and the interactions with the polar currents shape not only the climate …
Continue reading “Where does Ice, Soil and Life actually meet?”
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