Field_school_student_profiles

M.Litt Polar Studies, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
I am investigating the patterns of ship traffic on the ice diminishing Arctic Ocean.

Nils Arne Kavli Walberg

Bachelor in Geology and Hydrology, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo.
Planning to take a master somewhere, sometime, but haven’t found out yet what I like to go deeper into, probably something that includes Hydrogeology.

Trine Kvist-Lassen

Bachelor in geology, Geologisk Institut, Aarhus University, Denmark. Bachelor project in sediments and gamma-logging

I plan on doing a master concerning the basin development in western Greenland, and would very much like to live and work in Greenland when I finish my education

Sarah Rachael Lee

B.Sc in Marine and Freshwater Biology, University of Aberystwyth
My dissitation is on the Effects of Noise Pollution on Invertebrates. I would like to continue in further education and undertake a masters in Conservation and ecology in Polar environments.

Susanne Meidell

Physical Geography, University of Bergen
I really want to be a researcher when I grow up. I haven’t decided what I want to work with, maybe geology. But I definitely want to work out doors, and hopefully in the arctic, solving some important questions

Anja Lyng Bækken

Space Physics, University of Oslo

I just started my master degree in space and plasma physics, mainly focusing on the aurora and I hope I will be able to work with this later on. I also work as a teacher in high school and think this is really interesting, so I hope to continue this work part-time for some years.

Mihkel Järveoja

Physical geography, University of Tartu
I am going to start my masters this autumn and focusing probably on mapping and investigating last glaciation moraine ridges, using both GIS and field work data. At the same time I am interested in humans’ life in harsh areas like arctic and the traditional way of living there.

Ingrid Myrnes Hansen

Marine Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

I have half a year left of by bachelor in marine biology in Trondheim. I like my study a lot, and I hope I can work in the Barents Sea and the Arctic later on.

Inger Haugsgjerd

Environment and Natural Recources, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
I will finish my master degree by march next year. My thesis is about treatment of Acid Mine Drainage and I hope to do more work on related subjects in the future.

Ingrid Husøy Onarheim

Meteorology and oceanography, University of Bergen
I have one year left at my bachelor of meteorology and oceanography, and will complete it at UNIS. Then I’m planning to take a master in climate modeling, and I want to work with Arctic research.

Siri Almenning Stenhaug

Civil Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
I have one year left of my master in Hydrology, I’m going to write my thesis about the problems associated with hydro power plants and river ice. I like to study, but now I’m looking forward to be finished.

Konstantin Mamis

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
I’m actually started writing my master thesis in ship hydrodynamic design. I would like to study further at UNIS and learn more about arctic offshore engineering and do research in that field.

Janin Schaffer

Meteorology, Oceanography, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany (IFM-GEOMAR)
I just handed in my Bachelor thesis before I came to Svalbard. In autumn I will start my Master in Climate Physics in Kiel. In view of studying more on the ocean - sea ice – atmosphere interactions I like to study one semester of my Master at the university of Bergen.

Thorstein Holtskog

Nature Management, University of Life & science (UMB)
I’m on my last year on my Master and after that a hope I will get a job on a project or a place were a can have most of the work outside in the nature

Marcus Zanacchi

Oceanography, University of Plymouth, England
I have recently finished my BSc (Hons) Ocean Science. For my third year dissertation I studied the effects of flocculation on settling velocities of cohesive sediments. However I have recently become interested in Polar oceanography and in particular the formation of water masses in the Arctic basin.

Kristin Heggland

Biology, University of Bergen
I am on my second year of by bachelor in biology and I have been up at Svalbard studying since January and are staying till December. One particular aspect of Arctic biology I find fascinating is how fauna and flora agreeable to adapt to the environment.

Yury Deart

Invertebrate zoology\marine ecology
I have recently finished my diploma study in Moscow State University. My scientific intrests are temporal changes in benthic communities( especially in the Barents sea), malacology and microevolution.

Hannah Katzensteiner

Geography, University of Vienna
I’m close to finish my diploma study in Geography. So far, my research focus is on geomorphology and risk and hazard assessment in high mountain areas.

Solveig Otterå

Physical geography, University of Bergen

I just finished my bachelor degree with a main focus on climate fluctuations and glacial deposits.

Hilary Dugan

Physical Geographer, Queen’s University – Canada
My primary research interests focus on polar lakes and hydrological routing in cold-regions. In May, 2010 I defended my MSc at Queen’s University, and plan to start a Ph.D. in Earth Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago in August.

Yuehua Liang

Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Science
M.Sc. - Glaciology, Quaternary Geology

Bo Haugan

Bachelors in Geology at University of Oslo and UNIS, Norway
MSc – Geoscience: Petroleum
Research interests: Sedimentology concerning the petroleum industry. Starting M.Sc. at University in Bergen combined with UNIS.

Pavel Aleksandrovich Sultanov

M.Sc – Oceanography, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Moscow, Russian Federation
Research interests: Relationship between the Arctic Ocean and Subpolar North Atlantic, Deep water formation, Interaction between ocean and atmosphere, Deep and bottom branch of the meridional overturning circulation. I am going to proceed my education in MSU for the first year of my Phd. Preliminary theme: Modal and central water masses in the World Ocean (Volume thermohaline analysis)

Ylva Ericson

Marine Programme focus on Marine Biology in University of Gothenburg.
Interested in global environmental change – especially ocean acidification and its impact on marine primary producers.

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