The project

In my last notice i just acknowledged the svalbard trip.  But now it's time for me to explain what my mission on svalbard is...

It was some months ago, I was in Tarfala research station and in Abisko to do a small project. On this trip I realized that the arctic environment is very interesting and also vulnerable for changes. Back in Gothenburg  I spoke to some of my teachers about my interest. A few weeks after I recieved an email from a PhD that informed me about a biogeochemical project on Svalbard. I contacted the guy responible for the project and after some discussions about grades and qualifications I was included in a research team.

This project will be my bachelor thesis. I will do feildwork on Svalbard in two months and then go back to Gothenburg for analysis and report writing. The project is a 30 ECTS course and will end in january 2012. In field I will investigate carbon dioxide fluxes from plants. In a simpler way: I will put a glass pot on the ground and continuously check how much carbon dioxide there is in the pot.. The concentration of carbon dioxide will be higher and higher the longer time the glass pot will cover the plants... exciting ha?!

The bigger question is if climate change affects the amount of CO2 fluxes from plants... Which we think is probable, cause the length of the growing season will be longer if the climate becomes warmer...

Hopefully this report I'm writing will be a part of the bigger groups article... If so it will be published, and that's great! The only thing I need to do is to write an amazing article in english and do a very good statistical analysis and find some very good litterture that strengthen my theories and so on... no problems, piece of cake!

That's all from now!