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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik
@vvandvik.bsky.social
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❤️🧠 Plants; Alpine; Ecology; Experiments; Biodiversity; Functional Ecology; GlobalChange; Macroecology; Science-Policy; Science Communication; HigherEd; She/her 🌾🌱📏⛰📈🌦🐑🔥⛰🌍🧪🚴‍♀️💪👟📎 #BtwnTheFjords #CESAM_UiB #UiB 🇳🇴
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‘Planlegging er politikk, dispensasjoner er juss.’ Greit oppsummert av Statsforvalter Liv Signe Navarsete på #Øygardskonferansen #Dilemma
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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#høst #autumn #beby #ProfLife
Bergen city skyline, mirrored in still Store Lungegårdsvann waters
September 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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#thatfeeling - when you walk unsuspectingly into your lab meeting one autumn Monday and realize that, whoa, yeah, #fieldseason does seem to be over… *so* much cool science going in with this lot!! @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social #ProfLife #ProudSupervisor
A selfie of a university meeting room with *21* (mostly young) lab group members in it. Taken by a slightly overwhelmed PI
September 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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September 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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September 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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#valg2025 - selv om valgkampen har handlet om alt mulig annet har dette valget enorme konsekvenser for #klima og #natur. Her er min appell, formidlet av @naturvernforbundet.no @naturvernhordaland.bsky.social #jegståropp
September 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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I'm honoured and excited (and a bit awe-struck) to report I'll be serving as a Coordinating Lead Author on the next #IPCC report! I look forward to getting to know the chapter team and work alongside them to summarise climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems @ipcc.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 3:43 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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Some of our research systems - climate change experiments, biodiversity monitoring, new tools for Conservation and spatial planning @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social 🍃🏔️🌦️📏🌡️📈👩🏻‍💻
Ph.d. student Hanif Kawousi recording plant diversity in a deciduous forest - part of the EcoBudgets project where we test biodiversity modells and devellop nature budgeting approaches for Norwegian municipalities NINA researcher Mari Jokerud, BetweenThe Fjords PI Vigdis Vandvik and MSc student Viljar Storvik recording plant functional composition in a heathland vegetation plot. Drought experiment in the background We work indoors, too! A group of scientists having a meeting around a table full of Computers, coffee, etc Ph.d. student Nadine Arzt and an assistant recording vegetation in Open Top Chambers in the mountains as part of the RangeX project where we assess the role of warming and novel lowland competitors in affecting alpine vegetation
June 16, 2025 at 5:42 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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#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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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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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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Håpet blinker i fjellet, i år igjen, i form av skjøre, skire, molteblomster.

Men holder det helt inn? Er det insekter nok der ute nå, og berger de unge bærknutene unna en plutselig sommerfrost?

Det startet så tidlig, så tidlig i år, og da er risikoene enda større enn vanlig….

#klimaendringer
Molteblomst på torvmoseseng
May 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Gratulerer med dagen! Det er Norge i rødt, hvitt, og blått på fjellet óg … ❤️🏔️🫐 🌤️🇳🇴
Red Vaccinium myrtillus (blueberry) flowers, blue sky, White mountains in the background…
May 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#Thatfeeling - when you ballpark the budget for a 5 mill NOK grant proposal on your phone over the first cup of coffee in the morning - and the proper budget comes back and shows you missed the max sum by only 88.000 (<2%). #GrantCraft #ProfLife @cesam-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Snow is gone, as are my easter skiing prospects. The birds don’t seem to mind…. #Voss #Norway #EasterTraditions ⛷️🥚🐣
April 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#BetweenTheFjords students Eirik, Elias, and Rakel presented their research on @nordicoikos.bsky.social Norway conference in Bodø this week!
April 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Great @nordicoikos.bsky.social Norway conference in Bodø this week! Proud of all the #BetweenTheFjords contributions!
April 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Lots of engagement and a willingness to collaborate on science-policy communication going forward - we’re starting a new working group under #OikosNorway
Ragnhild Gya presents our proposal to start a science-policy communication working group under #OikosNorway How can we contribute in the science-policy interface? Eagerly discussing and noting ideas on post-it notes. Workshop participants sitting around a conference table, discussing A speaker under a Vegas-style sign saying ‘welcome to the fabulous Anthropocene era’
April 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Thanks to all who participated in our #science #policy #scicomm workshop at #OikosNorway2025! Great discussions and ideas on how scientists can help promote implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework & support national action plans. #NBSAP #IPBES @nordicoikos.bsky.social 🧪
April 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Hey, #USA, really glad to see #HandsOff2025 kicking off today.

While these are scary and depressing times for everyone around the world, and while global impacts are obviously being felt, it’s your country and your democracy that is at stake.

Here’s some #Norwegian #mountains cheering for you.
April 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Something really quite cool happened - and we celebrated by sharing a clementine … ❤️🏔️😅🍊

#ProfLife #BeBy #Mountains4Ever

@cesam-uib.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no
April 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM