Species determination

Karl-Otto Jacobsen

Birds of prey and owls. Monitoring and mapping of terrestrial birds. Biological diversity surveys. Seabird monitoring and surveys. Nature and wildlife management. Impact assessments and risk analysis for the petroleum industry, road projects, wind turbines, other installations.

Jarle Werner Bjerke

• Research on climate effects, especially related to climate change and extreme weather events in boreal and Arctic areas;
• Experimental studies for providing baselines for modeling og on-going and future ecosystem change due to climate change;
• Grazing ecology, especially related to effects of reindeer and goose;
• Anthropogenic effects, especially changes in land use (e.g. afforestation, industry, reduced outfield grazing) and air pollution, plus indirect effects via climate change, as listed above;
• Evaluations of biological diversity
• Taxonomy and systematics, especially on some lichen genera
• Impact assessments prior to planned land use changes.

Magni Olsen Kyrkjeeide

Sandra Charlotte Helene Åström

Jenni Nordén

Thomas Correll Jensen

Freshwater ecology, freshwater invertebrates, zooplankton, growth and respiration of zooplankton, arctic ecology, freshwater monitoring, Water Framework Directive, biological indicators, invasive species,

Mari Jokerud

Biodiversity, pollution ecology, climate change, cultural landscapes, mountains, mires, bogs, mosses, plants, plant ecology, vegetation ecology, vegetation monitoring, natural habitat mapping according to NiN, statistical analyses.

Kristine Bakke Westergaard

Arctic-alpine and boreal botany, biosystematics, plant geography, conservation genetics and genomics, vegetation ecology, floristics. Alien species: monitoring occurrences and pathways, identification of door knockers, and risk assessments.

Markus A.K. Sydenham

Knut Andreas Eikland

• Macro invertebrate collection
• Macro invertebrate taxonomy
• Echo sounding
• Pelagic trawling
• Gill nets (Multimesh and series)
• Electrofishing
• PIT tags
• Drift diving surveys

Elina Lungrin

• Macroinvertebrate sampling
• Macroinvertebrate taxonomy
• Zooplankton sampling
• Zooplanton taxonomy
• Net fishing
• Electro fishing

Anders Lyngstad

Thomas Kvalnes

• Ornitology, birds
• Species determination birds
• Ecology
• Evolutionary biology
• Conservation biology
• Life history theory
• Demography
• Eco-evolutionary dynamics
• Population dynamics
• Population ecology
• Population genetics
• Quantitative genetics
• Statistical modeling
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Björn Nordén

I am a forest ecologist and conservation scientist, and an expert in the biodiversity of temperate deciduous forest (edelløvskog), the worlds’ most degraded biome. Since there is so little left of the temperate deciduous forest, restoration is necessary, and I have led several projects on experimental evaluation of restoration measures at various scales, from creation of microhabitats to release cutting and landscape effects.

There is a strong tendency of taxonomic bias within conservation, meaning that nearly all interest is focused on a few taxa such as large animals and vascular plants, while hyper-diverse taxa such as fungi and insects are often neglected. I therefore engage in both basic exploration of biodiversity within hyper-diverse taxa, and study the effects of habitat loss, management et c on multiple taxa, including plants, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, and various insect groups. As a trained mycologist, I have over 30 years professional experience and a long list of publications on the biodiversity, ecology, taxonomy and conservation of Ascomycota, including lichenized species. Knowledge on species identification and taxonomy of hyper-diverse taxa are essential for such studies, but highly threatened and decreasing skills worldwide. My own taxonomic expertise is within pyrenomycetoid ascomycetes, especially those associated with living trees and dead wood, and I have described several species new to science from the Nordic countries.

Starting with my PhD, I have also published several papers on dispersal ecology, effects of habitat continuity, and the use of Indicator species, especially concerning cryptogams.

Egil Bendiksen

Botany, mycology, forest ecology, environmental gradients in forest, species and area management, threatened and vulnerable species

Bjørn Walseng

Senior Technician Field of work: Freshwater ecology, freshwater invertebrates (especially crustaceans), biodiversity, conservation plans, pollution ecology, environmental monitoring, enviromental impact assessments.

Odd Egil Stabbetorp

Research Ecologist Field of work: Vegetation ecology, botany, population ecology, population genetics, conservation biology, species and area management, agricultural landscapes, environmental impact assessments, landscape analysis, geographic information systems (GIS).

Tor Erik Brandrud

Mycology (Taxonomy and Ecology of Mycorrhizal Fungi), Ecology of Aquatic macrophytes (Higer Plants and Mosses, including Aquatic Weeds; Effect Studies and Management), Vegetation ecology, Acidification Research, Nature conservancy and management (freshwater and terrestrial anvironments), Biodiversity

Ola Ugedal

Aquatic radioecology, population ecology, life history, ecological modelling, fisheries management.

Morten Andre Bergan

Anders Endrestøl