Finding Industrial Pollutants on Svalbard Glaciers
In a recent article that I worked on, we studied winter snow samples from four glaciers on Svalbard. We analyzed the snow for organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and found seven industrial compounds. These pesticides are categorized as persistent organic pollutants – this means that they degrade…
Featured Article
A few weeks back, I was asked to give an interview about my work on Svalbard. I was thinking we would be talking about my research on glaciers with drones, but instead ended up talking about life on Svalbard in general. So it wasn’t the…
Svalbard Fieldwork during COVID-19
I have a project at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) using drones to study glacier crevasses. Together with my master student, we are working on creating high-resolution maps of crevassed glacier areas. The goal is to understand the role of crevasses on how glaciers…
Published!
I took my first picture with a borrowed DSRL camera two and a half years ago. Since then, I have gradually become more and more intrigued with taking photos of the places I love. Today, some of my pictures were featured in an article about Svalbard…