Hiatus from internship After a hiatus from my internship period to focus on a different course, I’m now back at the Arctic Biology department working for bioCEED. The weeks of no internship was maybe a little long, and I got a bit “out of the loop”, but that’s how it goes when scheduling must work for several people. Anyway, this week we had our “end” of the internship course, but all of us still have more hours to burn, so the period is still not done. Presentations The end of AB-208 Internship in Arctic Biology was marked with a presentation […]
Monthly archives: May 2019
As we agreed on our midterm appraisal talk, Stuart has lately been teaching me a little more about molecular biology. So far, I’ve been doing DNA extractions, PCR and gel electrophoresis, and making glycerol stocks of e.coli cultures. Stuart is a good teacher, and lets me do everything myself. This is a good example of how well learning by doing works. Although it is a little frustrating in the beginning when I have no clue what I am doing, Stuart has been very patient and explains everything very well. Instead of just being told what to do, I have to […]
I have now finished the other course I had at UNIS, so I only have internship working every day now. I am really enjoying just working from nine till four every day, with every evening completely off. I fully appreciate not having something school-related that should be done hanging over me at all times. Especially after an intense exam period it is very nice to be able to relax without a bad conscience all the time. Since the exam, I have started my data management block work for SIOS. I have started working with a data set on phytoplankton now. […]
Hey there! The internship is soon in its final stage, and now as the month of May has just started, you can notice that the beginning of the end is here. The students at Longyearbyen school is approaching the end of this semester, and in the classrooms we are slowly starting to summarise and recap curriculum and think about the upcoming finals and exams. For the older students, the exams are approaching rapidly, and May is going to be a busy month for them. As “russetiden” has just begun, the students are balancing exams and partying, and it still impresses […]
In less than a month my semester at UNIS will come to an end. But I certainly will return. The picture above shows me standing in room one of the barrack – the place where I have been spending a lot of time to tend to our plants, such as our approximately 2m high tomato plant with its two tomatoes. Last week I held a short live presentation at UNIS about my internship, but since most of you probably were not able to attend, I will outline here what I talked about. Polar permaculture is an ambitious and challenging project. […]