Nyansatte ved AMB våren 2010
| Arve Lynghammar My name is Arve Lynghammar and I’m originally from a small village called Røldal in Hordaland, Norway. My Master’s thesis was conducted at the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. The thesis was called “Morphological characteristics and DNA barcoding of skates (Rajidae) in the Norwegian Economic zone” and was completed in December 2009. Hence, I‘ve been using morphological and molecular methods in order to solve uncertainties in a taxonomically challenging group. Systematic, phylogenetic and phylogeographic issues in skates will be topics in my ARCTOS Ph. D. thesis. Besides this, I’m an editor of www.fiskipedia.no, a web based encyclopaedia of the Norwegian fishes. |
| Mikko Vihtakari My name is Mikko Vihtakari. I come from a Finnish city called Tampere, but moved to Jyväskylä to study Fish Biology and Fisheries at the University. After three years of basic studies in fresh water ecology, fish biology, parasitology, chemistry and statistics, I was accepted for a semester to take undergraduate courses at the University Centre on Svalbard. My semester long Svalbard visit prolonged into 1,5 years, because I decided to write my Master's thesis about population dynamics of an amphipod species living in Adventfjorden under supervision of Jørgen Berge. My stay at Svalbard left a spark towards polar research and I somehow drifted to Tromsø to finish my studies. I then received a part time research assistant job at the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) where I worked mostly with seabird issues over two seasons. In autumn 2009 I was told about a PhD position with clams as environmental monitors. Since I found the topic interesting, knew both of the supervisors and wanted to do work involving scientific diving, I applied for the position. In March 2010 I was accepted for a research fellow position at UiT having my office at NPI. The aim of my PhD project is to increase understanding of the role of bivalve communities in the Svalbard marine ecosystem and how different aspects of the changing climate (temperature, salinity, acidification, timing, food supply etc.) could affect these communities and their predators. |
| Mona M. Fuhrmann Stipendiat in benthic ecology Undervisning: BIO 2501/2513 Akvatisk biodiversitet Research project The PhD project addresses the ecology of benthic communities in Porsangerfjord, Norway. We will focus on soft-bottom infauna as well as trophic interactions with the king crab and model possible changes in benthic community due to this new invader. Other research interests Arctic ecosystems, marine biology, crustaceans, ice-fauna |
