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Sophia started as a research assistant
My current work is connected to the SUCC and MONEC projects, as well as a revegetation experiment in Skibotn (EISCAT). I am working together with Kari Anne Bråthen, Maria Tuomi, Hanna Boehner and Eva Breitschopf on the various projects.
In the summer, I have been busy measuring CO2 fluxes on plant-mycorrhizal communities. The goal is to gain knowledge about how CO2 fluxes change when ecosystems transition to new states.
I have also been participating in the plant- fieldwork in Finnmark for MONEC and COAT for the last few summers. During the winter I am mostly at the desk, analysing data, reading, or writing.
I came to Tromsø in 2018 for an internship during my bachelor. After graduating from my bachelor and finishing my master courses in Germany, I finally moved to Tromsø in 2020 to write my thesis with Kari Anne about the effects of climate change on Empetrum nigrum in summer reindeer pastures in Finnmark.
I finished my thesis and graduated my master’s programme in global change geography and despite being a geographer by education, I have acquired much knowledge about Arctic plants and ecology over the last few years.
In general, my research interests are linked to climate change and its effect on ecosystems in the Arctic, observing and modeling ecosystem transitions.
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