Mathilde Le Moullec

Thanksful for weeks of intensive transfer of knowledge on Greenlandic caribou & muskox ecology. Yeap, it is just to start... somewhere. Looking forward to when all these (gigantic) bits of lands aren't just topographic maps in my head! Pic: M.Martin

Unravelling the mystery of what happens when you send samples for ancient DNA sequencing! Visiting @CpgSthlm, learning lots, finding back last summer's ancient Svalbard reindeer specimens, now in a pretty different context! coldrein.org @MuseumEvoGen @CBD_NTNU

8th winter of rain-on-snow and icing simulation on tundra vegetation plots. So smoothly done with hands-on from the @UNISvalbard students learning about Climate Change Biology with @LarissaBeumer, @OysteinVarpe, @CBD_NTNU.

Peak growing season on Svalbard and the icing experiment. Pretty green but not many flowers to measure this year. @CBD_NTNU @UNISvalbard

Ongoing ColdRein.org sampling of ancient Svalbard reindeer! Back from trip 1 with @BrageBH on the @seesnl in Edgeøya, illustrated by ‘speed sampling’ as the next bear appears in the horizon pushing us back onboard. @CBD_NTNU @MuseumEvoGen

7th icing winter! When acute stress becomes chronic on high-arctic vegetation communities… @UNISvalbard @CBD_NTNU

How can we assess temporal changes in spatial population synchrony? Go and see our (e)poster at #EAB2021 (or contact me!) @CBD_NTNU

3 years of gardening on Svalbard has ended! More lab at @CBD_NTNU and let's explore warmer winters effects on vascular plants' biomass. Thanks to this hard-working team and @UNISvalbard for memorial times at Gamlenordlystation! Norway, France, Spain, Kenya and Mexico represented!

Harvest step 6: The dissection of the unseen iceberg. So much vascular plant biomass squeezed within the moss layer! @UNISvalbard @CBD_NTNU

Harvest step 5: Logging in the high Arctic looks like this! Only the leaves of the polar willow stick out of the moss layer, illustrating the importance of also studying effects of climate change below-ground! @UNISvalbard @CBD_NTNU. Picture F. Lazarus & MLM

Harvest step 4: Finally extracting our cakes out of the ground! Taking various soil and moss measurements before to tear all ingredients (species) apart! A particularly happy plot (& scientist). Was it an icing, thaw-freeze, or control pot last winters? @UNISvalbard @CBD_NTNU

Harvest step 3: Before to start with the below-ground harvest, we scan leaves to investigate potential changes in their size after experiencing winter warm spells in the high Arctic. @UNISvalbard @CBD_NTNU

HARVEST step 2. Last visit of our pots from above, after > 100 visits over the past 3 years with phenology, NDVI, point intercept ++! Ready to explore below-ground effects of winter extreme events! @CBD_NTNU @UNISvalbard

How does warmer winters affect high Arctic vascular plants above- AND BELOW-ground the following summer? The 'harvest' of our common garden experiment has many steps: each day one picture! HARVEST step 1: you need an amazing dedicated team! @CBD_NTNU @UNISvalbard

Norwegian discipline and their spatial distribution at a bus stop...

Great talk by @katelm92 at @EvoDemo7 on how earlier spring onset on Svalbard benefits age at first reproduction in barnacle geese but how density dependence may knock them down later on.

Peak growing season measurements at the icing vegetation experiment! Contact us if you would like to be part of the @CBD_NTNU @BrageBH INSYNC team as Master student. Unique opportunities to be guest Master this fall at @UNISvalbard.