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Between the Fjords Research Group
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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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Interested in doing an internship with us? Let us know! Find the application details here: betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/internships/
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The Centre for Mountains in Transition (CMT) is dedicated to understanding and addressing the impacts of climate and environmental change in mountain regions by bringing together climate science, ecology, hydrology, geoscience, and social sciences.

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September 17, 2025 at 2:45 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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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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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