Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Bio On The Rocks. As announced, the past few weeks have been all about my first scientific cruise. We spent five days aboard the Helmer Hanssen, collecting samples and identifying countless species. Since some organisms were so small and the diversity simply too vast to be fully documented in …
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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 …
Continue reading “Full Circle Moment onboard the Helmer Hanssen”
Hello, and welcome back to Bio On The Rocks. I have now been in Svalbard for over two months, and my first course at UNIS, "Arctic Environmental Management", is coming to an end. One element of the assessment for this course is to work in groups on an environmentally relevant topic in Svalbard, conduct interviews …
Welcome to Bio On The Rocks! As announced, I would like to write more about a few stations of the Safety Course. Today we're talking about the danger of avalanches. I already mentioned in my last blog post that avalanches are by far the type of accident that causes the most injuries and deaths in …
Welcome back to Bio On The Rocks! In my second blog post, I would like to tell you about my first week here in Longyearbyen and at UNIS, especially about the intensive experiences in the Safety Course. When you think of Svalbard, polar bears and the extreme cold automatically come to mind. These are also …
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