Welcome talk

Time: 18:10

The Arctic Ocean in the Ocean Decade

Time: 18:20

Julia Olsen is Senior Researcher at Nordland Research Institute and Associate Professor at Nord University, Bodø, Norway. Her primary research areas are socio-economic adaptation to multiple changes in the Arctic, ocean sustainability, marine litter, shipping, and tourism development in the High North.

Plankton: a Drifting World

Time: 18:40

Chloé is a naturalist guide and lecturer specialised in polar regions. She takes people diving, hiking and camping in different arctic countries and in Antarctica. She earn a European master degree in Marine biodiversity and conservation and love to share her fascination for the marine environment and polar exploration history. When she is not onboard expedition ship or sail boat, she can be found underwater: observing the ocean’s inhabitants, searching for forgotten wrecks or mapping and exploring undiscovered underwater cave passages.

Calanus helgolandicus - More than a Guest in the North?

Time: 19:20

Mads Schultz is a PhD student at the Faculty of Bioscience and Aquaculture at NORD University. During his masters and PhD, Mads focused on Arctic and boreal Calanus copepods. In his talk, Mads will try to answer the question, does the southern copepod species Calanus helgolandicus reproduce locally in Skjerstadfjord?

Copepods Under Lockdown: Transport Barriers and Calanus finmarchicus Distribution on the Lofoten Shelf

Time: 19:40

Andrea is an ocean science communicator at North SciComm. She holds a PhD in Aquatic Biosciences from Nord University. Andrea runs her own science communication company where she promotes ocean literacy among the public. She does science outreach for Lofoten Research at UiT, including this talk on swarming copepods seen from space. See Andrea's other projects here.

Whale Communication: Studying the Vocal and Social Communication of Long Finned Pilot Whales and Killer Whales in the Vestfjord

Time: 20:00

Ellyne is an Assistant Director at Ocean Sounds Norway, a nonprofit research organization focused on marine mammal research and conservation that studies the vocal and social communication of whales and dolphins and monitoring human impacts in northern Norway.

Learn more at Oceansounds.no

From Monsters and Gentle Giants: Endangered Sharks Around the Globe

Time: 20:20

Isabel is a Doctoral Research Fellow at Nord University, studying sharks, their genomes, and populations. She works with species threatened with extinction, and provide scientists, conservationists, and politicians with information that help to protect these species in the future.

Charismatic Microflora - What Diatoms on Sea Turtles Tell us About Their Hosts

Time: 20:40

Roksana is an aquatic biologist with experience in marine, environmental, and biotechnological sciences. Her work integrates basic and applied multidisciplinary research focused on marine diatom ecology and taxonomy, diatom-based indices of environmental health and disturbance, and bioprospecting for diatom products. She currently holds a position of an Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at North-West University (NWU, South Africa), where she studies African diatom biodiversity and supports the management and development of the South African National Diatom Collection.

Back to the Future with a Copepod Cousin

Time: 21:00

Joost is the Head of the Genomics Division and the Landscape Genomics Group at Nord University. His main research areas are population genetics and evolutionary ecology and he takes a particular interest in local adaptation, ecological speciation, adaptive radiation, host-parasite interactions and eco-evolutionary dynamics.

The Whale Exhale Project - Sampling Humpback Whale Blows with a Drone

Time: 21:20 (video presentation)

Helena is a veterinarian focusing on wildlife health and conservation and currently a PhD student at Nord University. For her project, Whale Exhale, she is exploring the use of drones to collect whale "blows" to hopefully discover new non-invasive biomarkers of cetacean health.