The University of Leeds has returned to the Finse Alpine Research Station, Norway. We are met by wetter, colder and windier conditions than during our July stay, and persistent mist and fog has joined us. Autumn has arrived here and during patches of improved visibility, the mosses and dwarf shrubs are a show of colour. […]

We are entering the last few days of our first trip to Finse. We have been really lucky with the weather and have managed to collect benthic cobbles from 14 rivers, for incubation in our respiration experiment. On returning to Finse in September, we will re-run this process, to detect any seasonal variation within benthic […]

Over the past few days at Finse Alpine Research Station, our University of Leeds Team have been collecting benthic cobbles and water from our 12 river sites, which span a gradient of glacial influence from 0-85%. Our aim (aside from weight training), is to determine how benthic respiration rates alter along this continuum. Back at […]

Following the beautiful train journey from Oslo, our University of Leeds team arrive at Finse. Having hauled our suitcase of equipment (fondly named the ‘lab in a bag’) down the dirt track to the alpine research station, we catch our first view of the Hardangerjoklen Ice Cap. The station make us welcome and we set […]