Blogs from the field

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Santa Nemaine (University of Helsinki & University of Latvia)

• Santa's TA visit for the Sun-Signal eLTER TA project was to the French Alps LTSER platform. Read blog...

 Stephanie Reiter (Potsdam University, Germany)

• Stephanie visited the Negev desert in September 2016 to investigate soil moisture in the dry soils of the Negev, Israel. Read blog...

 Shabnam G. Farahani (Belarus National Academy of Science)

• Shabnam visited the Braila Islands LTSER in Romania to study the seston (the organisms and non-living matter that swim or float in a water body) of the Danube river Read blog...

 Vojkan Gavojić (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia)

• Vojkan worked within the Postojna-Planina cave system in Slovenia to consolidate the wide array of data collected in the cave so the data can be presented through a Geographic Information System (GIS). Read blog...

 Heikki Kiheri (Natural Resources Institute, Finland)

• Heikki and his colleagues visited Whim Bog in Scotland to investigate how soil fungi respond to increases in atmospheric nitrogen deposition, and what this might mean for carbon stocks.  Read blog...

 Melanie Batista (Universidade de Lisboa)

• Whilst visiting the Whim Bog site in Scotland to study the effects of nitrogen deposition on plants, Melanie also learned about the effects of the Scottish midge on people! Read blog...

 Dušanka Krašić (Biosense Institute, Serbia)

• Dušanka writes about some of the recent research at the Fruška gora LTER site in Serbia, including studies of hoverflies. Read blog...

 Jan Pisek (Tartu Observatory, Estonia)

• Jan blogs about his research visit to Kindla, Sweden, where's he's made radiometry measurements among the blueberries. Read blog...

 Laura Busato (University of Padova, Italy)

• Laura blogs about her visit to Siptenfelde, Germany, where she's studied an underground aquifer. Read blog...

 Jen Holzer (Technion Socio-Ecological Research Group, Haifa, Israel)

• In Jen's fourth blog post, she discusses her return visit to the Cairngorms LTSER platform, in June 2018, during which she presented her research findings from stakeholder interviews. Read blog...
• Jen has recently returned from another socio-ecological research trip, this time to the Cairngorms, Scotland. Read blog...
• Here's Jen's second blog about her recent socio-ecological research visit to Braila Islands, Romania. Read blog...
• Jen blogs about her visit to the Braila Islands, Romania. Read blog...

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