Arctic research in my life

- is much funnier wearing orange vinyl trousers

April 25, 2012

The life of a master student

I'm soon about to start my last semester. That's a bit scary, and the main question is growing larger and larger: What shall I do next?

I still got lot to do before then, but still, time running fast and I will soon find my self in a postition with a  master degree. I'm quite sure that I will find my self a job. But where, how and which kind of job am I looking for. Those questions are really hard to answer..

Anyway, as aforementioned, I still got lot to do. At the moment, i'm reading articles. Trying to find some facts that can help me to interpret my results. It is in no way easy to find sollutions in nature. If anyone believes it's piece of cake to do science, they must revise. I can't even count how many factors that may affect my results, I guess I'm not even awere of half oh them! What a pitty!

Well, I'm starting to be really good at finding words as: "However", "Nevertheless", "Yet", "Still" etc.
Those are the words that builds up scientific articles.. If you just learn those words, you can write articles.. =)

Mycelia production in arctic ecosystem is what i'm focusing on right now. It is suprisingly interesting. Mycorrhiza is the symbiosis between plants and fungi. Fungi provides plant with nutrients and host plant support fungi with carbon. The mycelia of fungi is like the roots of a plant, scanning the soil for nutrients. I'm trying to find the relationship between reindeer grazing and mycelia production. There should be an interaction, since both fungi and reindeer gets energi from the same source, but the results are a bit fuzzy, making the intrepretation hard.

Thats all from now, back to papers!