Never Cry Wolf
Mikkel Sinding did a joint (cotutelle) PhD at the Natural History Museums Copenhagen and Oslo. Øystein and Lutz were his supervisors on the Norwegian side. Mikkel... Read more.
Beetles on the Falkland islands
Field work is an important activity for many researchers at the museum. Every field trip contributes to development of the museum collection and adds species that... Read more.
Where do all the sharks live
Many marine top-predators, among them many shark species, are particularly vulnerable to environmental changes as they are contingent on the various prey species... Read more.
From small body size to big data
You remember door 3 of our calendar where we presented the UiO:LifeScience summer project of Liepa on the speciation of intertidal beetles? FEZ was very happy to... Read more.
Bringing museum specimens back into the light: Meet the new postdoctoral researcher molecularly exploring museum collections
Rita M. Austin, a recent addition to the FEZ group, is working as a postdoctoral researcher exploring and optimizing the recovery of museum biomolecules in the Oslo... Read more.
Assessing biodiversity in the marine algae belt
The marine algae belt comprising kelp forests, seagrass meadows and rocky reefs with coralline red seaweeds is one of the most active primary producing environments... Read more.
Did the vikings bring beetles along to Iceland?
Vetle started his MSc-project in the late parts of 2018, and continued with fieldwork in Iceland, Scotland, Norway and the Faroes. The goal of the thesis is to determine... Read more.
The wrong food chain
Plastic pollution has become a major threat to many marine ecosystems, and there is a need for an improved understanding of its impact on marine organisms. The Masters... Read more.
Natural history collections in the molecular era
Public outreach is an important task for scientists, not only for those based at natural history museums. FEZ researchers aim at disseminating relevant topics relating... Read more.
A new PhD student in town
This year in September Alberto Valero-Gracia started has a new PhD student in our group. After completing a Bachelor + MSc degree at University Autónoma de Madrid... Read more.