Knut Wiik Vollset
@kwvollset.bsky.social
Research professor at NORCE - fisheries biologist with a soft spot for salmonids. @bergentelemetry @yngreforskere alumni; member of @vitenskapsradet
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Interested in tracking data and fine-scale
#positioning? Check out our new paper using multilateralization to track brown trout in a hydropower regulated lake in western Norway! 🚨 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/eff.... 🐟
or check out our website summary:
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/new-pap...
#positioning? Check out our new paper using multilateralization to track brown trout in a hydropower regulated lake in western Norway! 🚨 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/eff.... 🐟
or check out our website summary:
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/new-pap...
September 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Interested in tracking data and fine-scale
#positioning? Check out our new paper using multilateralization to track brown trout in a hydropower regulated lake in western Norway! 🚨 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/eff.... 🐟
or check out our website summary:
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/new-pap...
#positioning? Check out our new paper using multilateralization to track brown trout in a hydropower regulated lake in western Norway! 🚨 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/eff.... 🐟
or check out our website summary:
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/new-pap...
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Just wrapped an incredible fieldwork week at Finse with @kwvollset.bsky.social 🎣 Fieldwork thread 🧵 (1/5)
August 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just wrapped an incredible fieldwork week at Finse with @kwvollset.bsky.social 🎣 Fieldwork thread 🧵 (1/5)
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PhD candidate Jessica Robichaud at Cooke lab at @carleton.ca is visiting us for a month to help with field work. Today, she presented her work for our lab. She is using acoustic telemetry to track permit in the Florida keys! So interesting to see some of her findings! 🐟
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August 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
PhD candidate Jessica Robichaud at Cooke lab at @carleton.ca is visiting us for a month to help with field work. Today, she presented her work for our lab. She is using acoustic telemetry to track permit in the Florida keys! So interesting to see some of her findings! 🐟
@sjcfishy.bsky.social
@sjcfishy.bsky.social
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What a week it’s been! I’ve visited @lottepohl.bsky.social & David Casals at @vliz.be in Belgium for our #EMFish project. My first time seeing and tagging a Mustelus asterias - so cool! Thanks for a very fun day on the North Sea!
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@aquatictracking.bsky.social
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July 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What a week it’s been! I’ve visited @lottepohl.bsky.social & David Casals at @vliz.be in Belgium for our #EMFish project. My first time seeing and tagging a Mustelus asterias - so cool! Thanks for a very fun day on the North Sea!
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@aquatictracking.bsky.social
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Last week @lottesdahlmo.bsky.social visited @lottepohl.bsky.social and David Casals at @vliz.be through their #EMFish acoustic tracking project.
Read more about her visit: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/fieldwo...
@em-oyster.bsky.social
@aquatictracking.bsky.social
@oceantracking.bsky.social
Read more about her visit: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/fieldwo...
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@aquatictracking.bsky.social
@oceantracking.bsky.social
Fieldwork in Belgium
PhD Candidate Lotte S Dahlmo visited two early career researchers at VLIZ in Belgium this week. In the fall of 2023, Lotte Pohl and David Casals, both employed at VLIZ, reached out to Lotte to collabo...
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July 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Last week @lottesdahlmo.bsky.social visited @lottepohl.bsky.social and David Casals at @vliz.be through their #EMFish acoustic tracking project.
Read more about her visit: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/fieldwo...
@em-oyster.bsky.social
@aquatictracking.bsky.social
@oceantracking.bsky.social
Read more about her visit: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/fieldwo...
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@aquatictracking.bsky.social
@oceantracking.bsky.social
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New paper 🚨 Do pathogens predict salmon survival? In our recently published study on the Endangered Atlantic salmon, we combined acoustic telemetry with pathogen and gene expression profiles. Read the paper here
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#Salmosalar
#Telemetry
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#Salmosalar
#Telemetry
Pathogen and Gene Expression Profiles of Atlantic Salmon From an Endangered Population
The role of pathogens in impacting the behaviour and fate of salmonids has been studied extensively for some selected pathogens such as sea lice. However, the whole pathobiome of the fish are seldom ...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New paper 🚨 Do pathogens predict salmon survival? In our recently published study on the Endangered Atlantic salmon, we combined acoustic telemetry with pathogen and gene expression profiles. Read the paper here
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#Salmosalar
#Telemetry
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#Salmosalar
#Telemetry
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We’ve downloaded data from our receivers around Bergen city center for the #BOATS project. Interested to see an example of fine-scale positioning movement data from a tagged European lobster? Check out the BTN website here www.bergentelemetry.com/post/downloa...
July 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We’ve downloaded data from our receivers around Bergen city center for the #BOATS project. Interested to see an example of fine-scale positioning movement data from a tagged European lobster? Check out the BTN website here www.bergentelemetry.com/post/downloa...
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We are now starting the second part of the #NFR_HITLICE project on Senja, Northern Norway, where we infect migrating salmon smolts with salmon lice and tag them with acoustic transmitters with predation sensors to investigate the vulnerability to predation 🐟
June 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We are now starting the second part of the #NFR_HITLICE project on Senja, Northern Norway, where we infect migrating salmon smolts with salmon lice and tag them with acoustic transmitters with predation sensors to investigate the vulnerability to predation 🐟
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Beautiful day in field earlier this week deploying receivers in the fjords around Bergen city☀️ These will track some fascinating species that we’re going to tag through some new projects starting this year 🌊🦈🐠
#TrackingNotSlacking
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#TrackingNotSlacking
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February 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Beautiful day in field earlier this week deploying receivers in the fjords around Bergen city☀️ These will track some fascinating species that we’re going to tag through some new projects starting this year 🌊🦈🐠
#TrackingNotSlacking
@oceantracking.bsky.social
@aquatictracking.bsky.social
#TrackingNotSlacking
@oceantracking.bsky.social
@aquatictracking.bsky.social
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Interested in predation? Our #NFR_RePress project investigates the reemerging conflicts between European Otter and Atlantic salmon in Norway. Go check out our webpage for an update of the development of the project:
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/progres...
Photo credit: Vegard Lødøen
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Photo credit: Vegard Lødøen
February 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Interested in predation? Our #NFR_RePress project investigates the reemerging conflicts between European Otter and Atlantic salmon in Norway. Go check out our webpage for an update of the development of the project:
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/progres...
Photo credit: Vegard Lødøen
www.bergentelemetry.com/post/progres...
Photo credit: Vegard Lødøen
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We've installed a PIT antenna in Nidelva to track returning Atlantic salmon smolts tagged last year through our #NFR_HITLice project. Smolts were infested with sea lice before release. Low discharge makes drilling the antenna to the riverbed easier, still a river with 3–4°C makes it quite tough!
March 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
We've installed a PIT antenna in Nidelva to track returning Atlantic salmon smolts tagged last year through our #NFR_HITLice project. Smolts were infested with sea lice before release. Low discharge makes drilling the antenna to the riverbed easier, still a river with 3–4°C makes it quite tough!
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🚨 New project 🚨 @saveourseas.bsky.social is funding our #SOSF_GhostTrack project - we’re tracking ghost sharks, Chimaera monstrosa, around Bergen city! Read more here: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/excitin...
@lottesdahlmo.bsky.social
#trackingnotslacking
@lottesdahlmo.bsky.social
#trackingnotslacking
Exciting news - we are tracking chimaeras, the ghost shark, in the Bergen city fjords
We received great news from Save Our Seas Foundation that the Ghost Track project will be funded. The ghost shark, Chimaera monstrosa, is a deep water cartilaginous fish that occupies great depths. Th...
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March 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🚨 New project 🚨 @saveourseas.bsky.social is funding our #SOSF_GhostTrack project - we’re tracking ghost sharks, Chimaera monstrosa, around Bergen city! Read more here: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/excitin...
@lottesdahlmo.bsky.social
#trackingnotslacking
@lottesdahlmo.bsky.social
#trackingnotslacking
Dean Grubbs is visiting our lab and will holding a guest lecture at Univerisity of Bergen. Stop by if you happen to be in Bergen.
February 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Dean Grubbs is visiting our lab and will holding a guest lecture at Univerisity of Bergen. Stop by if you happen to be in Bergen.
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Interested in predator-prey dynamics & habitat restoration? Check out our new review paper🚨 We discuss the importance of habitat complexity as a refuge, for phenotype variation, energetic costs, & apparent competition - and their implications for restoration.
doi.org/10.1111/rec....
doi.org/10.1111/rec....
The role of habitat in predator–prey dynamics with applications to restoration
Habitat is a powerful force in ecosystems, and the quantity and quality of habitat can shape ecosystem structure and function. Among the many important roles that habitat plays is as a mediator of ec...
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February 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Interested in predator-prey dynamics & habitat restoration? Check out our new review paper🚨 We discuss the importance of habitat complexity as a refuge, for phenotype variation, energetic costs, & apparent competition - and their implications for restoration.
doi.org/10.1111/rec....
doi.org/10.1111/rec....
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De siste tre dagene har det nyoppnevnte Vitenskapsrådet vært samlet på Meråker. 11 medlemmer ble oppnevnt på nytt, og tre nye forskere tar fatt på arbeidet sammen med dem. #villaks
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Nytt vitenskapsråd oppnevnt
Vitenskapelig råd for lakseforvaltning er et uavhengig råd opprettet av Miljødirektoratet, som vurderer bestandsstatus for norsk laks, trusselfaktorer, beskatningsnivå og andre tema som berører villak...
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January 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
De siste tre dagene har det nyoppnevnte Vitenskapsrådet vært samlet på Meråker. 11 medlemmer ble oppnevnt på nytt, og tre nye forskere tar fatt på arbeidet sammen med dem. #villaks
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We spent the last field days in December retrieving receivers for our eel project in Storelva in southern Norway. All found, none lost! Looking forward to starting 2025 digging into the data✨
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January 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We spent the last field days in December retrieving receivers for our eel project in Storelva in southern Norway. All found, none lost! Looking forward to starting 2025 digging into the data✨
@tormodharaldstad.bsky.social @kurtjoh.bsky.social
@tormodharaldstad.bsky.social @kurtjoh.bsky.social
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Manuscripts drafted and written, revisions done, application sent in, and we even had a GAM crash course - safe to say we can call the third year of writing retreat a success! ❄️
December 5, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Manuscripts drafted and written, revisions done, application sent in, and we even had a GAM crash course - safe to say we can call the third year of writing retreat a success! ❄️
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🗯️ #Angling 🎣 increases pike timidity and lure avoidance, potentially reducing catch rates 🐟. Our latest study in #Fisheries Management and #Ecology explores these effects and their implications for management strategies. #Fish
December 11, 2024 at 8:40 PM
🗯️ #Angling 🎣 increases pike timidity and lure avoidance, potentially reducing catch rates 🐟. Our latest study in #Fisheries Management and #Ecology explores these effects and their implications for management strategies. #Fish
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Recently out in Science Advances, we compiled and reviewed the evidence surrounding pathogens from salmon aquaculture and their risk to wild Pacific salmon in British Columbia. We highlight pathogen impacts in relation to climate change, evolution & management
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December 4, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Recently out in Science Advances, we compiled and reviewed the evidence surrounding pathogens from salmon aquaculture and their risk to wild Pacific salmon in British Columbia. We highlight pathogen impacts in relation to climate change, evolution & management
🧪🐡🌎🐠
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
🧪🐡🌎🐠
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
New publication! "The Pathobiome of Salmo trutta From the North Sea to the Barents Sea". We studied pathogens of sea trout along the Norwegian coast and find remarkable similar pathobiome from north to south. @robertlennox.bsky.social @sjcfishy.bsky.social
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The Pathobiome of Salmo trutta From the North Sea to the Barents Sea
Aim Salmonids are some of the best studied species with respect to their pathobiome, and at the northern range limit, there is potential for pathogens to expand with both climate change and increase...
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December 4, 2024 at 1:54 PM
New publication! "The Pathobiome of Salmo trutta From the North Sea to the Barents Sea". We studied pathogens of sea trout along the Norwegian coast and find remarkable similar pathobiome from north to south. @robertlennox.bsky.social @sjcfishy.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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ICYMI 📢 Learn more about a twinning project we're part of—Digital Twin of the Ocean: Animal Tracking (or DTOTrack)—that was recently awarded €2.1m from the European Union Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership to support decision-making & biodiversity conservation in the North Sea tinyurl.com/8t7tw637
November 28, 2024 at 1:15 PM
ICYMI 📢 Learn more about a twinning project we're part of—Digital Twin of the Ocean: Animal Tracking (or DTOTrack)—that was recently awarded €2.1m from the European Union Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership to support decision-making & biodiversity conservation in the North Sea tinyurl.com/8t7tw637
A beautiful place to do some writing. Sad that this years writing retreat at Finse is over @lottedahlmann.bsky.social @robertlennox.bsky.social @tormodharaldstad.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 11:31 AM
A beautiful place to do some writing. Sad that this years writing retreat at Finse is over @lottedahlmann.bsky.social @robertlennox.bsky.social @tormodharaldstad.bsky.social
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Second day of the BTN writing retreat is a success! We’re taking a break from writing this evening with a crash course on why use GAMs for ecological data like animal tracking 💻📈
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November 26, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Second day of the BTN writing retreat is a success! We’re taking a break from writing this evening with a crash course on why use GAMs for ecological data like animal tracking 💻📈
@bergentelemetry.bsky.social
@bergentelemetry.bsky.social
The best meeting of the year!
We have our annual writing retreat this week at Finse! The goal is to start, continue, finish or develop new ideas for manuscripts and applications 💻🐟🦈
@lottesdahlmo.bsky.social
@tormodharaldstad.bsky.social
@kwvollset.bsky.social
@mathildeoddekalv.bsky.social
@robertlennox.bsky.social
@lottesdahlmo.bsky.social
@tormodharaldstad.bsky.social
@kwvollset.bsky.social
@mathildeoddekalv.bsky.social
@robertlennox.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 3:02 PM
The best meeting of the year!