As I’m writing this, it is the last week of my five and a half weeks stay at the Benedikt Hallgrímson lab (https://hallgrimssonlab.ca/) at the University of Calgary in Alberta Canada. They specialize in genetic morphometric analysis exploring complex traits in zebrafish, mice, and humans. However, I’m here to micro-CT scan some Arctic charrs. Maybe […]
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Nursery grounds are habitats mainly used by juvenile (baby) fish. As the name suggests these habitats are like nurseries for fish. Nursery grounds are very important for the fish species using them. Since they provide protection and food for the young. Therefore, knowing where they are and how they are holding up is important.
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Hello, my name is Guðbjörg and I’m a new member of Ice Fish Research. I was born and raised in Iceland. Currently I’m working on my PhD in Biology at the University of Iceland where I research diversity in Arctic charr. Wait, doesn’t everyone love natural science? I was never going to be a
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Today´s spotlight we want to shine on Marina de la Cámara as she is defending her PhD this coming Friday (17.01.2025). A big congratulatory hug from us, you are going to do wonderful! Growing up Marina had a bit of an identity crisis as a kid. She wanted to be a musician, a writer
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While research on Arctic charr (“bleikja”) in Thingvallavatn has been going on for decades (and the earliest studies even going back to the early 1900s!), a lot of knowledge on their behaviour is unknown. This is because getting information on fish behaviour in their natural environment is very hard. It is way easier to
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Today I get to talk about my own paper! Last year we published an article where we introduced a method we developed to detect and monitor Salmonid spawning grounds using a drone and machine learning. Spawning nests are where the fish release their eggs and the eggs develop until the fish hatch. You
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Written with Guðbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir. At the end of May Guðbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir and her team published an article on the diversity of jaw bones in Arctic charr. They looked into the differences in the skull of the Arctic charr morphs in Thingvallavatn. A little bit of background on the Arctic charr
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Meet Sébastien Matlosz, a PhD student at the University of Iceland defending his PhD this Friday! We are very proud of him for (almost) finishing his PhD, so that’s why we are shining a spotlight on him ☺️ From France to Iceland Sébastien was born and raised in France. As a kid, he had
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In April, Camille Leblanc published an article on diversity in Arctic charr populations that live in the caves of lake Mývatn. Read the poster below for more information! Do you want to read more? Find the article here: Fine scale diversity in the lava. Feel free to leave comments below and we get
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Meet Camille Leblanc, professor at Hólar University Meet Camille Leblanc! She is a professor at Hólar University in the beautiful countryside of Skagafjörður, northern Iceland. She has been working with Arctic charr for over 10 years and has mentored many students in her young career! She has been doing such an amazing job that in
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