Participants

Dr Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk (IO PAS)

Prof. Hans Petter Leinaas (UiO)

Prof. Dag Olav Hessen (UiO)

Dr Martin-A. Svenning (NINA)

Dr Paul Renaud (APN NIVA)

Dr Sławomir Kwaśniewski (IO PAS)

Dr Joanna Pawłowska (IO PAS)

Prof. Jan Marcin Węsławski (IO PAS)

Dr Katarzyna Błachowiak-Samołyk (IO PAS)

Barbara Górska (IO PAS)

Dr Piotr Kukliński (IO PAS)

Dr Joanna Legeżyńska (IO PAS)

Mikołaj Mazurkiewicz (IO PAS)

Joanna Piwowarczyk (IO PAS)

Dr Anna Stępień (IO PAS)

Dr Emilia Trudnowska (IO PAS)

Dr Marek Zajączkowski (IO PAS)

Krzysztof Zawierucha (University in Poznań)

Kristian Alfsnes (UiO)

Dr Magdalena Łącka (IO PAS)

Dr Agata Zaborska (IO PAS)

Partner Institutions:

IO PAS - Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

University of Oslo (UiO)

Akvaplan-niva (APN)

Norwegian Institute of Nature Research (NINA)

PR Martin-A. Svenning

Martin-A. Svenning is a senior scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), which has four departments in Norway. Svenning is working at the Arctic Ecology Department in Tromsø (NINA-Tromsø) being one of the institutes in the FRAM center. His scientific interests are in wide aspects of ecology, but especially focused on ecology and life-history in salmonid fishes.

M.-A. Svenning received his PhD at the University of Tromsø in 1993, focused on life history variations and polymorphism in Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus (L.), on Svalbard and in Northern Norway. He was applied at Akvaplan-niva (1985-87), Nofima (1987-89), The University of Tromsø (1989-94) and at NINA from 1994. He was also applied as an Associate Professor at the University of Tromsø from 2006-11, and has also been given lectures at several courses (+ field work and lab) at The University Centre in Svalbard annually since 1994. He has conducted most of his research in North-Norway, Kola Peninsula (Russia) and on Svalbard.

In the DWARF project he is responsible for WP2, focusing on body size, cell size and genome size in limnetic fauna along a gradient from Southern Norway to Northern Svalbard.

affiliation: Norwegian institute for nature research, Arctic Ecology Department (NINA-Tromsø)
e-mail: martin.svenning at nina.no
web page: nina.no