Who are we?
Who are we?
Intern Théo Louis (GINR, AgroParisTech)
Théo helps us with a varaiety of tasks, including retrieving remote sensing environmental layers and on analyzing data from a circumpolar herbivory monitoring program, part of the Tundra Exclosure Network (TexNet), addressing how plant biomass and nutrients drive herbivore diversity at local scale.
Supervision: Mathilde Le Moullec (GINR)
MSc-student Amelia Keilbach (GINR, Umeå University)
Amelia is using telemetry and field data to investigate the landscape characteristics of calving and post-calving areas used by caribou in the Kangerlussuaq-Sisimuit management area.
Supervision: Mathilde Le Moullec (GINR), Gesche Blume-Werry (UMU)
@ Laura Barbero Palacios
PhD-candidate Laura Barbero Palacios (GINR)
Laura is an arctic ecologist interested in the effect of herbivores on tundra ecosystems. Her research focuses on plant-herbivore interactions at a landscape scale, as well as population dynamics and habitat use. She is also interested in the role herbivores play in nutrient cycling and in trophic rewilding. Additionally, she is a talented scientific illustrator!
Supervision: Mathilde Le Moullec (GINR), Aline M. Lee (NTNU), Anne Loison (USMB), Ivar Herfindal (NTNU)
@ Aurélien Grange
MSc-student Aurélien Grange (GINR, USMB)
Supervision: Mathilde Le Moullec (GINR).
MSc-student Arthur Grand (GINR, USMB)
Supervision: Mathilde Le Moullec (GINR)
PhD-candidate Maud Therrien (Guelph University)
Supervision: John Fryxell (Guelph University), Larissa Beumer (UNIS), Mathilde Le Moullec (GINR).
MSc-student Marcus F. Gran (NTNU)
Investigating observer error is sex-age classification of Svalbard reindeer
Supervision: Aline M. Lee (NTNU), Brage B. Hansen (NINA), Mathilde Le Moullec (GINR).
Graduated MSc-students:
2024. Aurelien Grange (USMB, GINR) “Diet variation in Greenlandic caribou with consequences on body condition.”
2024. Arthur Grand (USMB, GINR) “Effects of warmer and rainier arctic winters on a deciduous shrub (Salix polaris) nutrients’ content”.
2022 – 2023 Saria Sato Bajracharya (NTNU, Erasmus +) "Exploring 4000 Years of Mercury Variation in the Antlers of Svalbard Reindeer in the High Arctic".
2021 – 2022 Lia Lechler (Edinburg University) “Large-scale effects of warmer and rainier arctic winters captured from remote-sensing vegetation productivity maps”.
2021 – 2022 Halvor Røssum (NTNU) “Effects of warmer and rainier arctic winters on above and below-ground tundra vegetation biomass”.
2021 – 2022 Iselin Helløy (NTNU) “Effects of warmer and rainier arctic winters: energy allocation trade-offs between shoot growth and reproduction in two contrasting high-arctic shrubs”.
2020 – 2021 Jan-Philip Detempel (UNIS and Free University of Berlin) “Effects of warmer and rainier arctic winters on a widespread herb: Bistorta vivipara”.
2018 – 2019 Anna-Lena Hendel (University of Bayreuth, Germany) "Effects of rain-on-snow and basal ice on seasonal NDVI in High Arctic Svalbard: a multi-scale approach".
2018 – 2019 Kristine Valøen (NTNU) "Stochastic rain events increase NDVI through moss water content: a High-Arctic field experiment".https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/handle/11250/2618095
2015 – 2017 Lisa Sandal (NTNU) "Spatiotemporal patterns of plant growth in a warming high Arctic: insights from dendrochronology of Salix polaris".