Canβt believe it has all come around so quickly!
Big thank you to the Andrew Croft Memorial fund, @rgsibg.bsky.social, and Durham for funding this trip!
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A landscape photo looking towards Abisko village and Lake tornetrask
Not thrilled about the mosquitos π¦π¦ but very excited to be heading back to Abisko this summer to start the field season in a month!
This season absolutely wouldnβt be possible without the support of Durham Biosciences, @geogdurham.bsky.social, Pro:NE, @rgsibg.bsky.social, and Millieβs longest term fieldwork funder/supporter (has been funding her fieldwork since her masters!) the wonderful Andrew Croft Memorial Fund
Excited to be all confirmed for the 2025 SAFE field season!
We will be spending 6 weeks out and about across the Fennoscandia Arctic treeline looking at all things trees and shrubs π²π³π°οΈπ
Our team of three will be going out to Abisko, Sweden first and then departing for Norway and Finland!
Group at Arctic vegetation scientists all in a photo
Finally recovered from a full on 3 days of all things arctic vegetation science at the CAVSI workshop!
Great to meet loads of other ECRβs working on similar things and looking forward to the next steps
#ASSW2025
Island treeline looking towards the ΔuonjΓ‘vΓ‘ggi
Forest edge looking back towards roughly Abisko National Park
Millie hiking up towards the field sites with a bag and the Andrew Croft Memorial Fund pennant on the bag of her bag. She is wearing hiking clothes
We started fieldwork last summer in Abisko, Sweden where we sampled an elevational gradient from the forest edge but missed out on getting to the treeline edge!
Green shrubby tree covered hill over looking border between Finland and Norway. Woman in blue coat is flying a drone.
Woman lying down in dwarf shrubs with GPS and tape measure on ground. Vibe is tired!
Woman walking out of Kevo Subarctic research station
Trying the famous Norwegian petrol station hot dogs in Karasjok. Woman smiling holding hot dog!
Throwback to spending 3 weeks sampling around Kevo, Finland as part of my 1st field season for SAFE which was very kindly funded by INTERACT TA and helped by the lovely @thale.bsky.social
Also learnt that 30βC was possible at 70N! π±π±
This work is lead by @millicentharding.bsky.social and is her PhD work at Durham University across Biosciences and Geography
The first field season of this work was funded by INTERACT Transnational Access, the Andrew Croft Memorial Fund, and the Alpine Garden Society
Please go follow @safe-treeline.bsky.social to see what myself/my lovely field assistants get up to! This is mainly the work from my PhD
I will also be posting some content from last years field season in the meantime π²π³π°οΈ
