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Between the Fjords Research Group
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social
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Climate research in a fjord landscape
Based at the University of Bergen, Norway
PI: @vvandvik.bsky.social
https://betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/home/
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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · Apr 28
Between the Fjords is an ecology research group led by @vvandvik.bsky.social at the University of Bergen. We study environmental change in alpine and coastal landscapes, using field experiments, functional traits, carbon cycling, species composition, belowground ecology, & many more. Follow along!
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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! 📃

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October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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📖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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October 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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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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Han sjekker naturen i Bergen
Det har gitt noen overras­kelser.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Last chance, deadline TODAY!
#hiring #PhDposition #alpineecology #globalchangeecology
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October 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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.

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fluxible: An R package to process ecosystem gas fluxes from closed‐loop chambers in an automated and reproducible way
Measuring ecosystem gas fluxes is crucial to understanding the dynamics of ecosystem water and energy cycling. A common method to measure ecosystem gas fluxes (CO2, CH4, N2O) and to compare experi...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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🌄🌿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
PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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🫐🍂 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:
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Mika Kirkhus taking soil and root samples for fungal belowground analysis.
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
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August 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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/
Fieldwork blog: My trip around Norway – Between the Fjords
Picture from front left to right: Kristine Birkeli, Viljar Storvik, Vendula Spackova, Elias Skaslien
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August 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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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

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August 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Temperature and Precipitation Jointly Shape the Plant Microbiome by Regulating the Start of the Growing Season

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August 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#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...
Field season 2025: it’s (almost) a wrap! – Between the Fjords
Whilst most of Norway calms down when the summer approaches; in our discipline of field ecology the months of June, July and August are the highlight of the action. This summer has seen yet again a great amount of project planning, data collection, identifying sedges without flowers, cooking leaves, and hiking across Bergen municipality.
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August 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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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'!

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On the Flip Side of Paradise
How is your garden related to the Anthropocene? This rather large question is the be starting point for the documentary “Paradisets bakside”, now available with both Norwegian and English subtitles on...
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June 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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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
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.
June 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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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 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪
June 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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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 🍃🏔️🌐🧪🪏📏
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.
June 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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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
The photo shows two scientists in a forest bent over a metal frame, working on a vegetation inventory.
June 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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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!
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June 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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#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
GitHub - jogaudard/phdthesis_toolbox: Some technical tricks to write a PhD thesis in Quarto
Some technical tricks to write a PhD thesis in Quarto - jogaudard/phdthesis_toolbox
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June 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪
#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
June 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪
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.
June 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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#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 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪
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
June 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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The plots will indeed fit comfortably! #fieldseason #protip: try out new experimental setups in the office before heading out, to avoid unnecessary hiccups in the field! #ProfLife #PhD 🍃🌐🏔️🪏📏@dagmaregelkraut.bsky.social @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
Two happy scientists, an open top chamber with three mock ‘plots’ made of paper, a meter stick, and a lot of general fieldwork mess in a university hallway
June 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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This spring's Student Poster Symposium at the Faculty of Science and Technology was a great success! It is so inspiring to see the great work students do, and have them gain experience in science outreach and communication.
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Prisvinnende læringsarena vokser videre
Torsdag 15. mai ble Student Poster Symposium arrangert for 13. gang – denne gangen med rekordmange deltakende emner og en tydelig ambisjon om videre vekst.
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May 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Why being outside helps us learn better: a walk in the forest and excellent talk by @ragnhildgya.bsky.social at @pintsworld.bsky.social 🌿👩‍🏫
May 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM