Written by Tobias Vonnahme ARCTOS PhD students Ulrike Dietrich and Tobias Vonnahme just finished a week of fieldwork in Billefjorden in Svalbard. Together with Eva Hejdukova from the Prague University, Josef Elster and Jiri Stojdl from the Centre for Polar Ecology (Czech republic), they investigated the influence of a shallow tidewater outlet glacier on the phytoplankton and bacteria activity and […]
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ARCTOS member Sünnje Basedow is the research project leader of the new project Stressor, together with Meng Zhou from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Stressor is a Norwegian-Chinese collaborative research project in which they look at mesoscale eddies and how they affect the formation of zooplankton swarms. It is financed by the National Science Foundation of China and the Norwegian […]
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At the beginning of its fifth and last year of the project, the FAABulous team is gathering in Oslo for a workshop meeting to discuss results and draft publications. The scientists and students around Eva Leu (PI, Akvaplan-niva) have collected a comprehensive dataset of phytoplankton and ice algae bloom dynamics in different Svalbard fjords. Now, they are in the final […]
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On February 28th, Andrea Bozman successfully defended her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Bodø, Norway. The title of her thesis is: The structuring effects of light on the deep-water scyphozoan Periphylla periphylla Andrea’s thesis consists of two published articles and one manuscript: Article I: Bozman, A., Titelman, J., Kaartvedt, S., Eiane, K. & Aksnes, D.L. […]
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Written by Tobias Vonnahme, ARCTOS student representative 2018-2019 The topic of the ARCTOS student days this year were funding opportunities relevant for Master and PhD students. A group discussion at the first day revealed that ARCTOS PhD students have already quite some experiences in applying for funding. Especially mobility is supported by a variety of grants. Together we shared our […]
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Written by Estelle Coguiec Earlier this week I went to Ramfjord to deploy a mooring together with my supervisors, Jørgen and Malin, and Daniel. The mooring is a part of my PhD project and will be out for a year. The project in Ramfjord is about seasonality in activity pattern of Calanus finmarchicus. Every month, I sample zooplankton in Ramfjord, […]
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Written by Eva Leu A group of ARCTOS PhD students, postdocs and scientists are attending the Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science in Italy this week. They are contributing to this inspiring meeting by presentations from different projects, such as CarbonBridge, TerrACE, Arctic SIZE, and FAABulous.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Arctic Marine Ecology (3 years) – Application deadline 1st Match 2019
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PhD fellowship within marine ecology – application deadline 6 February 2019
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PhD research fellowship in Marine Molecular Ecology – application deadline 22 February 2019 PhD fellowship in marine ecology – application deadline 1 February 2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 years) in marine biology – application deadline 10 Match 2019
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