Episode two is here of the Internship podcast! Emma and Oline reflects over how much (or little!) knowledge they had before they came up to Longyearbyen, sustainability on Svalbard and how you can actually contribute to society as a biologist. Tune in for some happy talks about the internship in Arctic Biology and life in general in Longyearbyen!
Monthly archives: May 2021
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As a student your responsibilities tend to affect just you, and you alone. Perhaps you will have a few unhappy study-mates if you don ́t contribute enough in a group, but the damage can often be disregarded. As an employee, you can’t afford to fall of the horse (at least not more than once). Your colleagues depend on you to get your work done, companies work like a machine, where each part has to work and contribute for a successful outcome. Working in the laboratory independently went from being empowering to feeling more lonely, and with repetition of the same […]
This is going to be the last blog post on my internship while I’m still in it. The next one will be a last reflection note on the whole internship from a retrospection. So, I finally will try to answer one of the questions I consider the most important. Who am I now in context of the company Polar Permaculture? I definitely feel like a part of it. At first as a reliable assistance with different working processes. Second, I feel being entrusted with working out a plan for a better Permaculture in Adventdalen in cooperation with Svalbard Husky, which […]
Hello again!The webinar on terrestrial research in Svalbard is getting closer, and I’m currently workingon the talk I will give. Since I’m not a scientist who has been working with reindeer for a verylong time, I will try to focus on letting the listeners know about my contribution to the largerproject BIG (Bjørndalen Integrated Gradients). These months here on Svalbard I have,together with Oline, been on weekly field trips counting the reindeer in Bjørndalen, and wewill use these data to get a better understanding of the spatial ecology of the Svalbardreindeer. As well as counting, we are also looking at […]