Thanksful for weeks of intensive transfer of knowledge on Greenlandic caribou & muskox ecology. Yeap, it is just to start... somewhere. Looking forward to when all these (gigantic) bits of lands aren't just topographic maps in my head! Pic: M.Martin

Unravelling the mystery of what happens when you send samples for ancient DNA sequencing! Visiting @CpgSthlm, learning lots, finding back last summer's ancient Svalbard reindeer specimens, now in a pretty different context! coldrein.org @MuseumEvoGen @CBD_NTNU

8th winter of rain-on-snow and icing simulation on tundra vegetation plots. So smoothly done with hands-on from the @UNISvalbard students learning about Climate Change Biology with @LarissaBeumer, @OysteinVarpe, @CBD_NTNU.

Peak growing season on Svalbard and the icing experiment. Pretty green but not many flowers to measure this year. @CBD_NTNU @UNISvalbard

Ongoing ColdRein.org sampling of ancient Svalbard reindeer! Back from trip 1 with @BrageBH on the @seesnl in Edgeøya, illustrated by ‘speed sampling’ as the next bear appears in the horizon pushing us back onboard. @CBD_NTNU @MuseumEvoGen

7th icing winter! When acute stress becomes chronic on high-arctic vegetation communities… @UNISvalbard @CBD_NTNU

How can we assess temporal changes in spatial population synchrony? Go and see our (e)poster at #EAB2021 (or contact me!) @CBD_NTNU

3 years of gardening on Svalbard has ended! More lab at @CBD_NTNU and let's explore warmer winters effects on vascular plants' biomass. Thanks to this hard-working team and @UNISvalbard for memorial times at Gamlenordlystation! Norway, France, Spain, Kenya and Mexico represented!

Harvest step 6: The dissection of the unseen iceberg. So much vascular plant biomass squeezed within the moss layer! @UNISvalbard @CBD_NTNU

Harvest step 5: Logging in the high Arctic looks like this! Only the leaves of the polar willow stick out of the moss layer, illustrating the importance of also studying effects of climate change below-ground! @UNISvalbard @CBD_NTNU. Picture F. Lazarus & MLM

Harvest step 4: Finally extracting our cakes out of the ground! Taking various soil and moss measurements before to tear all ingredients (species) apart! A particularly happy plot (& scientist). Was it an icing, thaw-freeze, or control pot last winters? @UNISvalbard @CBD_NTNU