Reports from INTERACT field sites
Its been over a week since my last blog, but time is of the essence now, with the end of the field season fast approaching. Over the last couple of weeks we have had some heavy days in the lab, sampling and sorting through the root ingrowth cores from the elevated CO2 x UV-B experiment. […]
Read More…Things move at their own pace in these parts, especially the weather. But, summer may have arrived at last, with sunshine and blue sky promised this week! I made the most of the fine conditions yesterday and collected soil and gas flux samples from the heath as part of the spatial survey of microbial diversity. […]
Read More…It has been some time since my last post, as I have been busy in the lab back at Aberystwyth working through and processing the samples collected from May. But now a short break is due as I join fellow researchers Dr Dylan Gwynn-Jones and Dr Alan Jones in the field for our summer visit […]
Read More…It’s been a busy few weeks at the research station and I write this as I am travelling home to sunny Wales after a hard, but thoroughly enjoyable, field season in the Swedish Arctic. After finishing sampling the snow melt experiment I have also been collecting samples across a spatial gradient in the heathland to […]
Read More…Well it has been just less than a week since I arrived in Abisko and already the signs of spring change are here. The snow is receding and the lake will soon be ice free. So far I have been busy preparing and monitoring my plots, studying the effects of early snow melt on the snow and […]
Read More…Hello all, Aberystwyth calling! My name is Richard Hill and I am a first year PhD student in Microbiology at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Today I bring you the first, of hopefully many, blogs from at home in Wales and northern Sweden, where I will do my research. I am interested in the effects of climate […]
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Arctic Research 