Svalbard adventures
Welcome to the blog! My summer of 2018 has been off to a great, albeit rather late start. I spent five weeks in May and June in the high-Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, attending the course "Life-history adaptations to seasonality" at the University Centre of Svalbard (UNIS). The course is run by prof. Øystein Varpe, and I attended alongside 15 MSc and PhD students from Norway, the UK, Spain, France, Germany and the US. Not only was the course very interesting and entertaining, visiting Svalbard was also an amazing experience, incredibly intense and entirely different from anything else I've encountered. I've been back on the mainland - where there actually are trees, tendencies to diurnal rhythms, and less than one rifle per person - for two weeks now, but it already feels like ages ago. Was it all just a dream? In fear of this intense experience slipping away, I've decided to write a quick post on both the curricular and non-curricular activities I went through...