October leaf

Isn't autumn the best season of the year (except for a snowy winter of course!)?

Autumn evening

Gothenburg okt 2012

Time goes on

Well. In january i'm supposed to finish my thesis, and graduate.. I have applied for a PhD position at KU, university of Copenhagen, Denmark. The project is about VOC (Volatile organic carbon) fluxes, and how the fluxes are affected by climate change. There will be fieldwork on three greenlandic sites and thereafter some incubation- and labeling studies in lab. The project is suppose to start in february, I really hope I will get the position. Will see. There is also a very interesting upcoming PhD position in Umeå, northern Sweden. There are some places where the reindeer concentration has been really high, and it seems like the vegetative production is much higher at those spots. So, the project will address whether reindeer livestock increases the production in the vegetative system. I'll apply for this position as well. As far as I know will also this project start in the beginning of 2013.

About my thesis.. The Lab work with the mycelia is much more time consuming than I first thought. The extraction of Chitin is rather complicated, since we used a GC instead of a LC... Well.. I hope we'll solve this and that I will have some results soon. The extraction of ergosterol didn't give any exciting results either.. I think I have to do the extraction again. Maybe there is something wrong with the sand or with some of the chemicals.. In any case, I have to write something before christmas, otherwise I won't make it in time..

I'm also rewriting the first paper, which was not published in PED. Trying an other journal and hope for the best. Hopefully you'll soon be able to search for Lindwall et al. on google.. =)

It feels a bit strange that i don't know where I'll live in a few months.. gothenburg, copenhagen, umeå or somewhere else... ?!

At least I'm happy!

Film from Greenland

I've made a film from the fieldwork on greenland. Feel free to watch. just a warning: the quality is rather crap... it's twelve minutes. have fun... And, we mostly speek swedish...
THE FILM: fieldwork on greenland

3rd day of NordSIR meeting

Todays key note speaker was Susan Trumbore from the Max planck university, Jena. The only person on this meeting who is actually not working with stable isotopes. No, she a radiocarbon person and she was the one responsible for the radiocarbon course in Jena in July this year. Very nice to see her again. Me, and four other had to leave earlier, so unfortunately we didn't have the chance to listen to Sabine Reinsch, Lorenzo Menichetti, Jurgen Schleucher and Craig Barrie. Over all the meeting have been very interesting and organized very nicely! I hope I can join next year NordSIR meeting! 

Susan sharing her knowledge of 14C

Day 2, Nordsir meeting

Today Nina Buchmann started with a talk about stable isotopes as a tool for tracing carbon, at molecular and ecosystem levels. Ina Ehlers continued and thereafter Helle Plough, Marja Tiirola, Promis Mpamah and Per Ambus. everything before lunch. Leif Klemedtsson gave a short introduction to the Skogaryd research catchment before everybody left the station for a trip to the field site. Myself and a few other people did not come along to the field, because we have been there several times before. Instead we took the afternoon off and visited the small town Lysekil. We went to a café and took a walk in the town. Isoprime sponsored a very fancy seafood buffe this evning, thanks a lot for that!

Nina giving her talk

lunch time on the station

The station is located in the outlet of a fjord

Visiting a cafe in Lysekil town

The old part of Lysekil.

Lysekil

The ferry, named Ran,  crossing the fjord back and forth to Lysekil.

NordSIR meeting

1-3 October- NordSIR (Nordic network for  stable isotope research) meeting at the marine research station in Fiskebäckskil, Bohuslän, Sweden. So far, very nice organized and everything works well. Very interesting talks about nitrogen isotopes, different approches and methodes when using stable isotopes. We are about 30 people here, with many different scientists giving talks. Today David Myrold from Oregon was the key-note speaker, followed by Petra Lachouani, Lars-Ola Nilsson and Hanna Silvennoinen. Thanks a lot to Tobias Rutting for organizing the meeting! tell you more tomorrow