It’s time for a new update, although not much new has been going on in life as a lab technician intern. I still have a very varied everyday where every day is different! Some projects are getting close to an end now, for example the epic clean-up and reorganisation of the department’s storage rooms. Although it has been a long process, it feels good to have everything in order and hopefully have made the scientist’s lives a little easier! Another project is soon getting back on track, namely the seawater nutrient analysis. The replacement part has been delivered and we […]
Monthly archives: April 2019
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This last period I have not been working very much. This because of the intensive period with the conference earlier, as well as saving working hours for my block work coming up on data management in May. Lately I have mainly been reading up on the data portals I will use during this work. Then I will write biological data into a DarwinCore standard dataset model, before this dataset will be put out on the web portal GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). DarwinCore provides a standardized way for writing datasets. The goal is that everyone will use standardized categories when […]
In my previous post I wrote about how nervous I felt about talking in front of an audience, but there was an even bigger challenge ahead when I was told we would be on live television. In fact, I was barely able to sleep the night before the ‘God Morgen Norge’ team visited us. They started shooting outside in front of the dome with Ben, who told them the story about Polar Permaculture. There was a little misunderstanding when the reporter gestured to go inside to see the lab and Ben thought she wanted him to look more towards the […]
Since I last wrote you, my internship has consisted of pretty much my usual every-day schedule at the school. I go to the school four times a week, where I participate in my regular classes. On Mondays and Tuesdays, this means helping out in the 9th grade mathematics class, and on Wednesday I usually have 8th graders in natural science before I have my little “bio-group” in the end of the day. On Thursdays I have a full day at the school, consisting of natural science with both 8th and 7th grade, In addition to SFO in the afternoon. This […]