Alistair Seddon, Associate Professor is a long-term and global-change ecologist studying ecological responses to environmental change. He leads the PalaeoChem research group. He is also co-PI on the HOPE project and, as a member of the EECRG and Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, he uses long-term ecological and other time-series datasets to better understand drivers of ecosystem and biodiversity change in the past, present and future.
Natasha Barbolini, Researcher, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow is a deep-time palaeoecologist who uses the fossil plant record to reconstruct ancient ecosystems. Her research focuses on understanding how climatic and environmental changes impact biodiversity through the Phanerozoic.
Florian Muthreich, Postdoc is interested in understanding the application of chemical variations in fossil pollen to understand ecosystem dynamics in sediment cores. He is also developing methods in machine learning algorithms for identifying pollen grains in sediment cores.
Linn Cecilie Krüger (Head engineer, UiB) has a PhD in vegetation history and climate change. Linn is responsible for preparing pollen samples from modern and fossil material for pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry and helps coordinate field campaigns for the project group.
Mayke Nieuwkerk, PhD candidate is a (palaeo)-ecologist studying ecological responses to environmental change. She is doing her PhD in Palaeoecology, Experimental Ecology and Photobiology at the Palaeochem research group at the University of Bergen, researching the use of pollen chemistry as a proxy for past changes in UV-B radiation.
Tonje Sætre Olsen, Masters Student, joined the group in 2022 as part of a BIO299 project and is now doing her masters research in the QUEST-UV project.
Eline Stava is doing her masters project on pine pollen chemical variations from the greenhouse experiments we are undertaking in QUEST-UV.
Adam Bloch (University of Helsinki) is undertaken research on the chemical variations of Pinus sylvestris pollen from some experimental sites in Helsinki.
Visiting/ Associated researchers
- Dr Ben Bell (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Manchester)
- Ricarda Runte (DAAD Scholarship for student internships, 2021)
- Daniela Festi (Uni. Innsbruck)
- Matthew Robson (Uni. Helsinki)
- Boris Zimmermann (NMBU)