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In august 2007, me and Christiane were on a cruise with the course “Arctic Marine Biology”. The boat was Jan Mayen and we went up to do a little student research on the north polar ice sheet which was located at about 80 and a half degrees latitude, a bit north of Spitsbergen. There were [...]

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Etter jeg har vært på Svalbard har jeg fått problemer med en fakturering fra One Call som har kommet til min addresse i Oslo mens jeg har vært på Svalbard. Det er en kjedelig situasjon når slike ting skjer og det fikk meg til å tenke på en episode jeg og Christiane hadde med internett- [...]

Today was the last day of my stay up here for the field-season. Tomorrow – or today since it’s just past midnight as I write this – I will take the plane back to Oslo. I am really looking forward to going back to Christiane and my friends and my life there. While leaving is [...]

Yesterday, I packed up site 4, the one behind the airport. It was a strange feeling, packing it up. Not bad, just strange. My time here (for now) is coming to an end. I carefully made a drawing of all the traps and their relative position and distance from eachother so that I can re-establish [...]

Friday 15th of august, just after I came back to Longyearbyen after my fieldwork-week at Alkepynten, I met up with my father and younger brother who had come to visit me for the weekend. Superb! They didn’t stay for long, but we still got to do quite a lot of stuff.
After the happy reunion, we [...]

My field season is definetly coming to an end. My traps no longer seem to catch many invertebrates and yesterday, I ordered a plane ticket back to Oslo. I’ll be leaving on friday the 12th of september and I’m really looking forward to seeing Christiane again as well as my other friends in Oslo. I’ll [...]

Tuesday 12th of August, I went with my supervisors to Alkepynten, an area on the north side of the mouth of Isfjorden, opposite Kapp Linnè. It was a rainy day. Logistics brought us out by boat and dropped us off at a beach there, not far from a cabin used by employees of the sysselmann. [...]

Sometime during the week after Christiane left, I was approached by Graeme. He asked me if I wanted to go to Svea with him ..
Some of you mainland people may not know what Svea is, so I’ll elaborate. In Svea, you find the biggest coal-mining operation on Svalbard. It is run by the Store Norske [...]

Den 17. juli forlot Christiane sommern i Oslo for å besøke meg i Longyearbyen. I 10 dager var hun min kjæreste samt felt og lab-assisten, en veldig grei ordning for oss begge – kanskje spesielt meg.
Allerede første lørdagen etter hun kom dro vi atter på tur til studenthytta i Bjørndalen. Det var meg, [...]

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I helgen dro jeg sammen med diverse andre masterstudenter til studenthytta i Bjørndalen! Med på turen hadde jeg sovepose, mat, øl og whisky – altså bare det viktigste. For å komme dit suklet vi, gikk litt og vasset gjennom en veldig kald elv, men turen var fin. Da jeg dro med gummibåt til colesdalen for litt siden [...]