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I am an ecologist with a PhD in Biology from the University of Copenhagen. Since 2017, I have conducted extensive field-based research in Svalbard and Greenland, focusing on exploring aquatic ecosystems in the Arctic and their response to environmental change. My work includes investigating primary producers—phytoplankton and other microalgae—and their roles within aquatic ecosystems. Using … Continue reading Sanne Mariël Moedt

I am a PhD student in Oceanography, specifically environmental biology at Laval University, Québec. I study the adaptive responses of Arctic microbial phytoplankton communities in the North Water and how environmental factors impact these communities. The most efficient way to understand how organisms are adapted is to have a sound knowledge of genetic capacity of … Continue reading Nastasia Freyria

I am a Professor of Energy and Resources Law at Macquarie University, but I was formerly the former Director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL). I am an Honorary Professor at the University of Eastern Finland and Murdoch University, and a Visiting Professor at the Biological Research Institute, Tomsk State University, Russian … Continue reading Tina Soliman Hunter

I am an environmental anthropologist interested in the themes of indigeneity, human–resource relations and multispecies encounters in the Arctic and Siberia. I grew up in Karelia, Northwestern Russia, and my passion for Indigenous studies originates there, at the time when I started studying the rare Veps language at school. Years later, I returned to my … Continue reading Anna Varfolomeeva