Category: September 2020

BIO102 brings the ocean to the students.

BIO102 brings the ocean to the students.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many of us to reconsider the way we teach larger classes. Digital solutions now replace or supplement classroom teaching, and videos take a larger part in the teaching material. However, field courses and excursions are still hardly replaceable by a screen, even if tremendous efforts...

Welcome to our new student representatives at UNIS!

Daniela Walch and Christina Hess are our two new bioCEED student representatives at UNIS this semester. Daniela is studying Biology and Geography in a Master of Education programme at Potsdam University (close to Berlin). For her master’s thesis, she is looking into influences of freshwater discharge to arctic fjords with...

bioCEEDsters: Seth Thompson

Hi! My name is Seth Thompson and I’ve been collaborating on the ExcelAQUA project with Ivar Rønnestad and others. I first joined the project as a graduate student in Dr. Sehoya Cotner’s lab group at the University of Minnesota and have primarily been involved with supporting the summer school program....