🌍Come work with us!
We are hiring a postdoc in Climate Change Ecology. In this position, you will work on Climate Change synthesis research, and assist the upcoming IPCC report (CH14: impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and cryosphere) 🌿🐸❄️ Deadline: 8 March
More information: tinyurl.com/2c83uakz
Norge trenger mer kraft – hvordan kan vi få det til på en naturvennlig måte?
Lær mer gjennom klare presentasjoner og en engasjert debatt mellom @vvandvik.bsky.social, @bardvegar.bsky.social ogTerje Aasland (AP), organisert av Verdens Naturfond / WWF Norge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mox9...
#NatuRAproject #ecosystemgasfluxes in the #drakensberg with a custom made tent setup and a @li-corenv.bsky.social LI-7810. @anna-dam.bsky.social on the chain ladder to the high site.
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @vvandvik.bsky.social @audhalbritter.bsky.social
Fieldwork in the #Drakensberg mountains in South Africa with @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social. While learning a lot about #ecosystemgasfluxes, I have been exploring the potential for an exciting future #insect project along the gradient. @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
😍Congratulations @vvandvik.bsky.social with the Bonnevieprisen 2025! ✨ 'The winner of the prize has in the last 5 years established as a prominent voice in the Nature Crisis debate, both nationally and internationally'.
#bonnevieprisen #naturecrisis #outreach
www.bio.no/2025-vigdis-...
Ecosystem gas fluxes are crucial to water and energy cycling. Fluxes are measured in closed-loop chambers. But how do you deal with the data? An R package by @jogaudard.bsky.social from @unibergen.bsky.social and Bjerknes simplifies processing and comparison. Check it out! 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Interested in doing an internship with us? Let us know! Find the application details here: betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/internships/
We believe in learning by doing real research - an important driver for us to host many interns every year. Curious what that can look like? Read Vendula's blogpost!
Also: we are currently looking for interns in the upcoming seasons. Interested? Apply! 📃
betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/intern-blog-...
📖Published📖
The fluxible #rstats package provides tools to process #ecosystem gas fluxes in a fully #reproducible workflow, while offering full flexibility to the user 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇
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@hanifkawousi.bsky.social, PhD student in the ECOBUDGETS project, spent this summer registering (plant)biodiversity and carbon storage in #Bergen. How that looked? What is he finding? Read about it here!
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Last chance, deadline TODAY!
#hiring #PhDposition #alpineecology #globalchangeecology
@vvandvik.bsky.social
My first PhD paper is out!
It describes the fluxible #rstats package, a toolbox to process and quality check #ecosystem #gasfluxes in a reproducible and automated way.
@unibergen.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no @li-corenv.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
The Centre for Mountains in Transition (CMT) is dedicated to understanding and addressing the impacts of climate and environmental change in mountain regions by bringing together climate science, ecology, hydrology, geoscience, and social sciences.
cmt.w.uib.no
🌄🌿Come work with us! We are #hiring a #PhDcandidate in global change ecology to become part of our brand-new Centre for Mountains in Transitions.
Apply here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
For an overview of all available positions, see:
cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...
@vvandvik.bsky.social
Mika Kirkhus taking soil and root samples for fungal belowground analysis.
🫐🍂 New blog about our DURIN adventures is up!
Read all about what our dwarf shrub team got up to during the autumn sampling campaign here:
betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/fieldwork-du...
fluxible R package CRAN update (v1.3.0): new functions, vignette for tent setup, various fixes, and a logo!
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#rstats #ecosystemgasfluxes #carbonfluxes
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @hilaryrosed.bsky.social @jonastrepel.bsky.social @martabaumane.bsky.social @kristabirk.bsky.social
Also, our MSc student Elias wrote a blog post about his #fieldwork experience this summer! 🫐🧪🌐🏔️https://betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/fieldwork-blog-my-trip-around-norway/
Our own Vigdis Vandvik will be Coordinating Lead Author on the upcoming seventh #IPCC report, co-leading the chapter on climate change, #biodiversity, #ecosystems and ecosystem services on land and in freshwater. A big, challenging, and very exciting task! @vvandvik.bsky.social
shorturl.at/07NJf
Temperature and Precipitation Jointly Shape the Plant Microbiome by Regulating the Start of the Growing Season
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@dina-intzandt.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @vvandvik.bsky.social
#fieldwork is a key component of our research @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social - here’s a shoutout to all great colleagues & students who made it all happen this year! 🌐 🧪🏔️🫐 betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/field-season...
Paradisets Bakside / On the Flip Side of Paradise: How our gardens are linked to the Anthopocene. An amazing documentary informed by @unibergen.bsky.social project 'Gardening the Globe'!
www.uib.no/en/cesam/178...
In the perfect cross section between anthropogenic constructions and nature, we mapped the vegetation. One of the more unique compositions of species so far in #Ecobudgets.
The great advantage of having QGIS take care of creating randomly distributed sites for fieldwork. don’t think I could have picked a better spot myself to investigate the crossover from human made construction and nature! #Ecobudgets @uibcet.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social
First round of germination recordings, and @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social & MSc Silje Steine @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social and I were thrilled (& a bit relieved) to find hundreds of seedlings. Out experiment works! #ITEX #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍📏🧪
Two scientists in heavy-duty raingear, smiling, sitting amongst blueberry plants with a lot of sampling gear and data sheets. Fieldwork!
A person looking up at us over some blueberry bushes - smiling, wearing a moskito net
A student analysing a vegetation plot for bryophyte biodiversity. Surrounded by forest. His pro tip: laminated cards with samples of the most common species and their characteristic traits to help him keep on top of the ID-ing during long and sometimes wet field days.
Two scientists in the lab preparing samples fir thermal tolerance measurements.
The #DURIN #fieldseson is ramping up - we are collecting plant growth, biodiversity, biomass, soil, and thermal tolerance data from #dwarfshrubs across gradients to understand their responses and ecosystem roles under a changing #climate. @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social 🍃🏔️🌐🧪📏
Reminding people that we are always open for new collaborations in our field sites and set-ups!
For more information, check out our website 😊
betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/collaboration/
#researchfunding #mariecuriefellowship
In new project 'Ecobudgets' @hanifkawousi.bsky.social maps the biodiversity in Bergen municipality. We inventory in random spots, today high up on the hills over Svartediket.
Great day being out with @vvandvik.bsky.social & @dagmaregelkraut.bsky.social!
@uibcet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
#phd thesis at @unibergen.bsky.social have to include a table with co authors of included articles, contributions and affiliations.
Here is a @github.com template to do this in #quarto, using the Plume R package and multibib filter.
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #rstats #phdLife
#Fieldworkselfie - four scientists and a vegetation plot, demarcated by a mental frame. This plot is part of a random sample of 200 sick plots in Bergen Municipality. And this particular one ended up on a roadside in Nygårdsparken!
First day of field work! PhD student Hanif Kawousi starting his field work by sampliing a vegetation plot in an urban park. In this picture he is standing, smiling, with a tablet and weseing a yellow rainjacket and a blue hat. In the background, a water fountain… that’s urban ecology for you!
PhD student Hanif Kawousi and lab manager Dagmar Egelkraut eagerly messuring traits of plants …. sitting on a lawn in a park roadside curb,…
PhD student Hanif Kawousi talking to a passer-by on a paved park path. When doing urban ecology, remember to factir in some time talking to strangers :-) …for this plot alone, we had 8 people ask questions… #outreach
New project! @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social to map biodiversity and ecosystems in #Bergen. Very first randomly located plot in Hanif Kawousi’s #PhD is in Nygårdsparken! @uibcet.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social #EcoBudgets #DarkDiv #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍📏🧪
Open top chambers (OTCs) are small glasshouses without roofs that are extensively used in climate change research to warm Arctic and alpine vegetation to experimentally assess climate change impacts. In this picture we see a bunch of them newly set up in a mountain grassland
An Open Top Chamber (OTC( in a grassland, seen from above, with some plots inside. The plots are 50% vegetarion, 50% bare soil. OTCs are small glasshouses without roofs that are extensively used in climate change research to warm Arctic and alpine vegetation to experimentally Assessment climate change impacts.
Msc student Silje Steine has her ducks in a row! 😉. She is sitting at a table sorting many many little bags into neat stacks, in a candle-lit mountain cabin. The bags contain seeds to be sown as part of a field experiment.
MSc Student Silje Steine sitting in a meadow, bent over a vegetation plot, sowing some seeds. Lots of bags, equipment, recording sheets in the foreground.
Update! @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social & MSc Silje Steine @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social have now set up plots & OTCs, prepared and sowed seeds of 8 lowland species into the alpine, with/without warming & neighbours. Excited to see results over the summer!! #ITEX #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍📏🧪
A group of scientists sitting around a metal vegetation plot in a heathland - discussing protocols.
MSc student Viljar Storhaug in the field, looking through a hsnd-lens at a bryophyte he is learning to identify. Two supervisors, Mari Jokerud and Vigdis Vandvik, looking at him, smiling, a drought experiment in the background
Attila Nemes from NMBU sitting in the field, demonstrativt soil water measurement equipment
Researcher Liv Guri Velle with a vegetation plot
#FieldSeason update! The #DURIN project keeps @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social busy - this year we’ll be doing vegetation analyses & with @nibiolandskap.bsky.social #NINA and #NMBU we’be been out to prepare and discuss protocols. @droughtnet.bsky.social #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍📏🧪
