Our fourth and final call for INTERACT Transnational and Remote Access of our current EU-H2020 funding period is open for access taking place in April-October 2023. The call is for research groups to apply Transnational Access to 39 research stations across the Arctic, northern alpine and forest areas. The sites represent a variety of glacier, … Continue reading The final countdown! (for the INTERACT TA/RA call)
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Finally the time has come to again open the INTERACT Transnational Access Call! This time, access is available to 47 (Transnational Access) and 30 (Remote Access) research stations. The call is for access taking place between April 2022 and March 2023. The sites available for Transnational and Remote Access are located across Arctic and northern … Continue reading Call for Transnational Access is open!
Freshwater pearl mussels – the historians of the river The SALMUS project (Salmonid Fish and Freshwater Pearl Mussel – Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in the Green Belt of Fennoscandia) is a monitoring project of the endangered freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) and their host species, the brown trout and Atlantic salmon in different streams of … Continue reading Tales from the NIBIO Svanhovd station in Norway 5/5
Fishes in the Pasvik river – a life between power stations One project at the station is about fish monitoring in the Pasvik river. The Pasvik river is the border to Russia and has a comparatively high biodiversity and contains 15 different species of fish; many bird species are living in the wet areas and … Continue reading Tales from the NIBIO Svanhovd Station in Norway 4/5
Soil sampling – when bacteria act sensitive One windy afternoon, I joined a NIBIO Svanhovd researcher to go to the fjell (the Norwegian term for mountain). We drove as far as possible and could experience a Norwegian cart track but of course we needed to leave the car behind and headed towards the hill (or … Continue reading Tales from the NIBIO Svanhovd station in Norway 3/5
Root sampling – hidden interactions in the underground Imagine being told that a sunny day with a light wind (good against mosquitos!) occurs for only about ten days per year in this region. And imagine working in the field on one of those days! In the beginning of August, I joined two NIBIO scientists on … Continue reading Tales from the NIBIO Svanhovd station in Norway 2/5
Once upon a time in the most north-eastern part of Norway… …there was an intern (financed by the EU-funded ERASMUS+ program: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/node_en) at the Svanhovd Research Station, a station that is a part of NIBIO, the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research. I am Helena Klöckener, a student from Germany, staying here about two and a … Continue reading Tales from the NIBIO Svanhovd station in Norway 1/5
Greetings from the Oulanka Research Station in North-East Finland! The ’corona season’ of 2020 has been extremely busy and successful at Oulanka research station. Like everybody else, we have suffered from canceled bookings and rescheduled field courses. Despite that, we have been able to conduct our field and laboratory based research as normal. Actually, we … Continue reading Tales from the Oulanka Research Station
Another reason for TSU team to be proud of the Station and its life is provided by the regular and diverse Aktru Station’s “Event Programme”. Although the Station opens for the general public only during 3 summer months, it usually (annually) hosts 4 special, traditional events alongside other activities: International Summer School to study the … Continue reading Tales from the Aktru Station in Altai Mountains (Part 4)
The monitoring programme which has been re-started at the Aktru Reserach Station and which we are proud of is the monitoring the glacier mass balance. Glacier mass balance has been monitored since 1973 but ceased temporarily in 2012. In 2019, we restored this programme together with our colleagues from the Institute of Geography of the … Continue reading Tales from the Aktru Station in Altai Mountains (Part 3)
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