Prof. Vigdis Vandvik

@vvandvik.bsky.social

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❤️🧠 Plants; Alpine; Ecology; Experiments; Biodiversity; Functional Ecology; GlobalChange; Macroecology; Science-Policy; Science Communication; HigherEd; She/her 🌾🌱📏⛰📈🌦🐑🔥⛰🌍🧪🚴‍♀️💪👟📎 #BtwnTheFjords #CESAM_UiB #UiB 🇳🇴

Two smiling scientists, dressed in Blue - like the ocean
Wide angle photo of a meeting room with 13 scientists sitting around a horseshoe table. One person standing in the front, leading the discussion,
Two scientists talking to a full room.
Selfie with pink unicorn travel hairbrush, with text ‘I believe in magic’
Bergen city skyline, mirrored in still Store Lungegårdsvann waters
A selfie of a university meeting room with *21* (mostly young) lab group members in it. Taken by a slightly overwhelmed PI
Two scientists in heavy-duty raingear, smiling, sitting amongst blueberry plants with a lot of sampling gear and data sheets. Fieldwork!
Ph.d. student Hanif Kawousi recording plant diversity in a deciduous forest - part of the EcoBudgets project where we test biodiversity modells and devellop nature budgeting approaches for Norwegian municipalities
#Fieldworkselfie - four scientists and a vegetation plot, demarcated by a mental frame. This plot is part of a random sample of 200 sick plots in Bergen Municipality. And this particular one ended up on a roadside in Nygårdsparken!
A group of scientists sitting around a metal vegetation plot in a heathland - discussing protocols.
Open top chambers (OTCs) are small glasshouses without roofs that are extensively used in climate change research to warm Arctic and alpine vegetation to experimentally assess climate change impacts. In this picture we see a bunch of them newly set up in a mountain grassland
Two happy scientists, an open top chamber with three mock ‘plots’ made of paper, a meter stick, and a lot of general fieldwork mess in a university hallway
Molteblomst på torvmoseseng
Red Vaccinium myrtillus (blueberry) flowers, blue sky, White mountains in the background…
Ragnhild Gya presents our proposal to start a science-policy communication working group under #OikosNorway
A Mountain ridge in fog.
My feet up, against a blazing fire. Also, I’m dressed for the season, wearing wool socks & birkenstocks….
Starr sky, and some very faint Northern lights on the horizon.
Hare tracks in snow
Trees, mountains, snow, sun.
Sun peeks over a snowy mountain at Voss, Norway
A bottle of Kinn ‘solsnu’ beer on a table with a Chinese silk tablecloth in front of an empty lounge chair and a dark window with a christmas star
Full moon shining through the bare branches of a wintery beech
A winter landscape with snow covered ground, scattered shrubs, birch and pine trees, sun on some clouds in the background.
Asgeir Helgestad, Helene Ødven and I on stage in Bergen Kino, where we talked after seeing ‘A call from the wild’
Sunrise in the mountains with the first snow in the foreground and pine trees against the horizon
Togkupé på Bergensbanen - personlig tilpasset med sengeteppe, pute, potteplante, barnebilde av ungene, og geiteskinn på golvet
A black and white cat sitting in fresh snow, looking a bit annoyed
A cup of coffee (with milk), my hand holding a paperback of Rutger Bregman’s ‘Humankind’, against a backdrop of a corner window in a wooden cabin overlooking a green mountain landscape with scattered pine and birch trees
Oslo opera house under a light summer moon - with plenty of seagulls sitting calmly on the waterfront. A beautiful yet sad reminder that the Oslo fjord is in peril - and our politicians are not doing nearly enough to save and restore it.