For you who like bikes!

If you're a person who like bikes and you visit stockholm, you should defenitley visit the bianchi cafe!

It's a really nice italian café where they also have lots of bikes, expensive bikes though! We just had a cup of coffee but the sandwiches looked really good (so if you are rich try one of those!).

 Not that cozy but a really cool place.

They also have an adjacent gadget shop 

 wow, nice bike! =)

This day was really tough! First I had a modelling excercise, just sit infront of a computer whole day. When I tried to go home I went to my bike and realised that I had a flat tire on the back wheel. Scheiße!
So, I started to walk with the bike. When I came into town (after maybe 3-4 km) I left my bike and took the tram home. So stupid of me not to bring an extra tire and some tools! well, finally at home, I'll go get my bike tomorrow, if it is still there! =/

picking mushrooms

After a very nice breakfast I started to write on a project work about cushion plants. I did almost finish but I want to write a bit more and correct some parts before I hand it in.

After lunch we went out for picking mushrooms! Very nice to be out in the forest where you don't have to think about anything. Very relaxing! We found some mushrooms aswell! 

Hiking boots and a small backpack with coffee and sandwiches! 

We found a nice rock, perfect for climbing! 

One more rock, perfect for climbing.. 

 Don't worrie! we didn't pick this one.. (Cortinarius rubellus) 

(spetstoppig giftspindelskivling in swedish) 

Except for the toxic C. rubellus we found Cantharellus tubaeformis (trattkantarell in swedish)  

Cantharellus tubaeformis  

we saw a lot of small frogs 

This is some kind of slime molds (don't know if that is the proper english name for it?), in latin Myxomycota and swedish slemsvampar, on a blueberry plant (Vaccinium myrtillus)

Calluna vulgaris 

Is this Leucobryum glaucum? 

 Me sitting in heather (Calluna vulgaris) 

A very big ant-heap! 

finaly we found some realy nice and big chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius)...

So, for lunch tomorrow: butter fried mushrooms on bread! =)

...nothing really!

Came home from the fieldtrip two days ago. We were working with the data yesterday, had a model and tried to get out some understandable results from all the data. We came to the conclusion that one hectar of trees will take upp 3,38 kg carbon dioxide per day (in a cloudy day), which is corresponding to a petrol consumtion of 1,43 liters. (in a sunny day the same amount of trees would take up 258 kg carbon dioxide per day which is equal to 109,3 liters of petrol). Even though the model is very simple these results are very interesting, just to know the difference in CO2 uptake in a cloudy and sunny day. But the best part is that we measured everything on our own! 


Well, that was the boring part of those days. I've been biking and climbing a lot, very fun and I'm making progress! Next weekend some friends and I will go to a place called Kjugekull. It's a very big bouldering area, for climbing on boulders. Before then I have to climb a lot to get fit for fight!


Well, that's all for now. 

Excursion day 2

Today we did a lot of measurments... 

To see how much light that is absorbed by a certain amount of leaves we measure the incoming light and the light below the canopy. The difference between these values is the amount of light absorbed by the canopy. 

 Measuring incomming radiation on a field

measure the radiation below a forest canopy 

 This sensor register the radiation

We also wanted to know how effecient the photosynthesis are in a leaf, and how much it respire. We had a pretty advanced instrument, measuring the difference in CO2 concentration for a certain time and the difference in water vapor concentration in the same time. Then we calculate the respiration and the Photosynthesis.. very easy! =)

This instrument measure the CO2 uptake in a leaf and the H2O output from a leaf

 Johan Uddling, one of the teachers at one measure station

 We are measuring the uptake of CO2 by the leaf

Much better weather today than yesterday, we're happy for that. In the afternoon we had free studies, reading articles and prepair for a seminar tomorrow.

Excursion

We left Gothenburg early this morning driving to Skogaryd, a station were we measure green house gas fluxes. It was pretty exciting to see the area but the weather was horrible! 

 Bridges to reach the methane mesurments in the lake

Methane measure

Brownification in a nearby stream 

Gas measurements in the soil at different depths 

A tower for measuring the respiration at different heights and Green house gas fluxes and air turbulens

 An overflooded road

 John had high boots which Julia didn't =)

this day was embossed by heavy rain and wet feets, but the temper were good and we hope that the storm and the rain stops until tomorrow!