I love thinking about how animal assemblages are shaped by their environment. How do abiotic factors determine access to habitat and food as well as interactions like competition and predation? How resilient are marine assemblages to environmental change? A better understanding of biotic and abiotic relationships is crucial to predict how ecosystems may evolve and help mitigate the effects of anthropogenic pressure.
Here I am getting my hands wet and surveying seagrass cover in Samish Bay (USA)
I’m a researcher at the University of Oslo, studying how zooplankton respond to low oxygen in the Oslofjord. However, my scientific curiosity does not stop at the zooplankton and I’ve researched a number of diverse topics, including intertidal ecology, trophic linkages, salmon migration, tidal energy, nutrient cycling in the Arctic, and Indian Ocean coral reefs.
Check out some of my current and past research, as well as my scientific adventures in the Arctic (Svalbard and Alaska), Chile, and the San Juan Islands.
View from Huinay research station, in Chile
Monitoring macrofaunal diversity at a reef in Southwest Madagascar