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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]

Søndag 15. dro jeg tilbake til Svalbard for å starte på feltarbeidet til masteroppgaven min. Oppgaven min dreier seg om flygeløse invertebrater og vindspredning. Ved å sette opp feller som fanger vindspredde flygeløse invertebrater håper jeg å kunne si litt om hvilke invertebrater som spres på denne mpten, hvor mye og korrelere dette til værforhold [...]