Four grants received by Team PPF Alpine!
Bergen, Norway
2024/03/08
Lotta and Eline both received funding from the Olaf Grolle Olsens legat. In addition, Eline received two more grants from Meltzer’s høyskolefond and Klima og Energiomstilling ved UiB!
First trip to share Mini-Enciclopedia of the Páramo
Santander, Colombia
2024/01/27
Diana has been visiting several schools in Colombia to give away the beautiful children’s book about the high-elevation ecosystems of the Northern Andes! See more about this trip in our section COLLABORATION.
Conference International Biogeograpic Society (IBS) – 4/4
Prague, Czech Republic
2024/01/10
In between sessions, we used our time for networking and could not get enough of it. This picture shows just the tip of the brilliant-female-scientist-iceberg we got to meet with at the conference. It was inspiring to discuss our work and ambitions.
Conference International Biogeograpic Society (IBS) – 3/4
Prague, Czech Republic
2024/01/10
In another session, Johannes de Groeve, one of our international collaborators from the University of Amsterdam, presented the TABS Rpackage to model Temporal Altitudinal Biome Shifts featuring Suzette and Eline as co-authors. This package will allow users to easily create reconstructions of altitudinal biome shifts anywhere in the world, including mountains!
Conference International Biogeograpic Society (IBS) – 2/4
Prague, Czech Republic
2024/01/10
Lotta also had her conference debute and gave an excellent talk about her integrated workflow to process the “mountains of data” across multiple taxa to assess alpine biodiversity.
Conference International Biogeograpic Society (IBS) – 1/4
Prague, Czech Republic
2024/01/08
Eline attented her first conference with a very successful poster session. For more than 2 hours, researchers could learn how palaeoclimate models perform in mountains. Curious? Check out her poster via this link!
Plant Functional Traits Course
Drakensberg, South-Africa
2023/12/01
Eline participated in this year’s edition of the PFTC course in Drakensberg, South-Africa. She studied plant functional traits along an elevational gradient (2000-3000m a.s.l.) in alpine grasslands. This truly beautiful study area is highly biodiverse with c. 3000 plant species and c. 9% endemism.
GIS/RS get-together
Bergen, Norway
2023/11/21
Suzette and Eline co-organised a seminar bringing GIS/RS enthusiasts together. The session was a great success, with over 20 talks and 40 attendees from researchers across 11 departments.
(GIS=geographic information system, RS= remote sensing)
Open, Reproducible, and Transparent Science in Ecology
Hjerkinn, Norway
2023/11/17
Lotta followed a course on open science in ecology and spent a week gaining new skills in data management, creating reproducible workflows, making data FAIR and learning how to build your own R-package.
GIS/RS workshop
Finse, Norway
2023/11/15
Eline attended a workshop that was organised in collaboration with the University of Bergen, the University of Oslo and the University of Tromsø. Together, they discussed how GIS/RS courses can be structured and improved nationally.
(GIS=geographic information system, RS= remote sensing)
Fieldwork alpine ecosystems
Ustaoset, Norway
2023/09/15
The best way to understand alpine ecosystems is of course to go into the field! We travelled around the region of Ustaoset in search of interesting wetlands where paleoecological research could be done, supporting the PhD project of Christian Quintana. The weather was surprisingly mild, and we managed to study the ecological past of this region in more detail.
Annual meeting CHESS
Tyrifjord, Norway
2023/09/25
Annual meetings of the Norwegian Research School on Changing Climates in the coupled Earth System (CHESS) are aimed at interdisciplinary groups of PhD researchers and their supervisors. During a 3-day meeting, Lotta and Suzette presented their work among 28 other talks and 14 poster presentations. It was certainly time well spent to share with so many interesting researchers over the long dinners.
Island Biogeography and Macroecology Summerschool
Terceira, Azores
2023/07/18
Eline and Lotta spent 16 days in the beautiful Azores for an intense summer school program on island biogeography. Combined lectures by esteemed experts in the field, practical coding sessions and fieldwork were the ideal way to learn more about the link between island and mountain biogeography for a range of different species.
Naturalis
Leiden, The Netherlands
2023/03/29
We visited our collaborators Renske Onstein and Luis Valente at the amazing Naturalis Biodiversity Center, which is a research centre on biodiversity in the Netherlands part of the National Museum of Natural History. There is certainly high potential for further integration of interdisciplinary work, and it will be a must to come back soon and develop these further.
Start-up meeting long-term alpine dynamics
Amsterdam
2023/03/27
We returned to the academic roots of Suzette and Eline at the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam. We organized a workshop to discuss the long-term history of alpine systems and their biogeographical links with true islands and their dynamic past. A cross-disciplinary integration is in place and we are excited to move forward with more collaborators.
Start-up meeting alpine biodiversity
Göttingen, Germany
2023/03/22
We were warmly welcomed by the Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography at the University of Göttingen. We organized our first project meeting aimed at organizing our global alpine biodiversity database! We had many fruitful discussions and set a clear workflow to get started. Excited!
