Category Archives: fieldwork

By Jon Henn During the last year, a group of us at Gothenburg including myself, Maria Fernanda Jimenez Torres, Christine Bacon, and Anne Bjorkman have been working to build a project examining genomic variation in Oxyria digyna. Oxyria, or mountain sorrel, is a very widespread plant that grows basically anywhere that is somewhat open and that staysContinue reading “What can genomics reveal about mountain sorrel and adaptations to life in the tundra?”

By Geerte Fälthammar In the early summer of 2021, a team of researchers and students screwed meter-long soil-screws into the tundra in Northern Sweden and Greenland. Now, one stormy –and even snowy- summer later, they are still standing. The goal was to tackle the problem of tripods that keep falling over, and that need toContinue reading “Using giant screws to reduce the footprint of Arctic research”