After being vary bad in upgrading this homepage, it´s definitely time again now. After a autumn were Rasmus and me did not see each other that much, now he has been up here quite a bit since christmas. So live slowly falls in place. I also finally got excepted officially as a PhD-student in january - more then a year after I started. Not entirely the universities fault, since it took me quite a while to figure out what I actually would be doing. But now I have a proper project plan that is realistic and that I hopefully will manage to follow. I will look at meroplankton. This are organism, that live parts of their life planktonic - that means floating in the water column. Mostly these are larval-stages of benthic organisms or fish. Many of them are very pretty, but quite small as well. I will try to find out when which species occur in the fjord and what some of these larvae feed on. The main challenge will be to find out who is who, since far from all of them are described so far.
This weekend Rasmus came up for 4 days and combined it with taking part on a conference about energy- and environment in Longyearbyen. Yesterday we went with a friend of mine and her visitor to Tellbreen to see if we could find an ice-cave there which Pernilla knows from last year. We were not as successful as hoped, but had a very nice trip anyway. Waking up this morning the weather was fantastic and we went for a short walk up the hill behind the cabin. Tomas, who has 2 dogs together with his girlfriend in the dog-yard with ours, accompanied us. Now we are at UNIS working. But since it started snowing I don´t really mind - especially since I took a day of from work last tuesday to go sledding since the weather was very nice. These are the advantages of being PhD-student. Very often I am quite free to organize my time.
Eike
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