Permanent Staff

Professor H.J.B.Birks
Email: john.birks@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Quaternary palaeoecology, pollen analysis, vegetation history, quantitative palaeoecology and palaeolimnology, quantitative environmental reconstructions, community ecology, plant geography, bryology, alpine plant ecology.

Professor Hilary H. Birks
Email: hilary.birks@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Plant macrofossil analysis, palaeoecology, vegetation history, biogeography, late-glacial, Holocene, climate change, radiocarbon dating and chronology, palaeolimnology, atmospheric CO2 reconstrucion from the stomatal density of leaves, aquatic macrophytes.

Professor Peter Emil Kaland
E-mail: peter.kaland@bio.uib.no
Reserach fields: Heathland ecology, conservation and management; vegetation history, pollen analysis, cultural landscapes, environmental archaeology.

Associate Professor Knut Krzywinski
E-mail: knut.krzywinski@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Ecological change, palaeoecology, remote sensing and GIS, arid lands, environmental archaeology.

Associate Professor Kari Hjelle (Bergen Museum)
Email: kari.hjelle@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Pollen analysis, vegetation history, environmental archaeology, modern pollen deposition, cultural landscape development.

Associate Professor Mary H. Losvik (Bergen Museum)
Email: mary.losvik@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Cultural landscapes, meadows, biodiversity, management, community ecology, landscape conservation and restoration.

Associate Professor Aage Paus
Email: aage.paus@bio.uib.no
Research Fields: Pollen analysis, vegetation history, late-glacial, Holocene, climate change, arctic Russia.

Associate Professor Torstein Sølhoy
E-mail: torstein.solhoy@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Oribatid mite ecology and palaeoecology, alpine ecology, plant - animal interactions.

Associate Professor Richard Telford (Bio and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research)
E-mail: richard.telford@bjerknes.uib.no
Research fields: Quantitative palaeoecology, palaeoclimatology, quantitative environmental reconstructions, applied statistics.

Associate Professor Vigdis Vandvik
Email: vigdis.vandvik@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Community ecology, environmental change, functional ecology, heathlands, history and philosophy of ecology, land-use change, population biology, seed regeneration ecology, statistical analyses of time-series data, secondary succession, summer-farms, vegetation dynamics.

Post-Doctoral Fellows and Researchers

Dr Torbjørg Bjelland (Geomicrobiology)
Email: torbjorg.bjelland@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Lichen taxonomy and ecology, epilithic lichens, lichen growth, archaeology.

Dr. Anne Bjune (NFR)
Email: anne.bjune@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Pollen analysis, plant macrofossil analysis, palaeoecology, vegetational history, environmental archaeology, arctic ecology.

Dr John-Arvid Grytnes (NFR)
Email: jon.grytnes@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Control of species richness, diversity patterns, simulations, spatial analysis, plant geography, palaeolimnology, trend analysis.

Dr Einar Heegaard (NFR and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research)
Email: einar.heegaard@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Bryophytes, species-environment modelling, ecological theory, regression theory, bryophyte population ecology, aquatic macrophytes.

Dr Jorunn Larsen (NFR)
Email: jorunn.larsen@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Diatom analysis, heavy metal pollution, lake-water pH reconstruction, lake-catchment interactions, recent environmental change.

Dr Ole R. Vetaas (UNIFOB Global)
Email: ole.vetaas@sfu.uib.no
Research fields: Primary succession (glacial forelands), effect of human disturbance on arid vegetation and temperate forests, secondary succession, biodiversity, tree regeneration, species-environment relationships, sampling scales, species response curves, climate-niche estimation.

Dr. Gaute Velle (Zoology Museum)
E-mail: gaute.velle@zoo.uib.no
Research fields: Chironomid palaeoecology and ecology, quantitative environmental reconstructions.

Dr. Åse Myklestad
Research fields: Cultural landscapes, biodiversity, vegetation - land-use interactions, conservations evaluation.

Eli Bjørklid

Doctoral Students

Inger Elisabeth Måren (University of Bergen)
Email: inger.maaren@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Calluna heathlands, conservation, environmental change, land-use change, Pteridium aquilinium control, restoration, secondary succession, seed banks.

Marianne Presthus Heggen
E-mail: marianne.heggen@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Oribatid mite ecology and palaeoecology.

Arguitxu de la Riva Caballero
E-mail: arguitxu.caballero@bm.uib.no
Research fields: Oribatid mite ecology and palaeoecology.

Majduline El Hag El Tahir
E-mail: Majduline.Tahir@student.uib.no
Research fields: Remote sensing, GIS, arid regions.

Howaida Faisal Abdelrahman
E-mail: howaida.abdelrahman@bio.uib.no
Research fields: Remote sensing, GIS, arid regions.

Several members of the Group have recently gained international honours in recognition of their research. These include the William Starling Sullivant Award from the American Bryological Society (Einar Heegaard), a Young Researcher's Prize from the Royal Norwegian Research Society (Magne Sætersdal - Group member 1990-1996), the Fridtjof Nansen Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Rector's Medal from the University of Helsinki, an Honorary Dr. Philos. degree from the University of Lund and Honorary British Fellow of the Botanical Society of Scotland (John Birks), the Meltzer Prize for Young Researchers, University of Bergen (Ørjan Totland - Group member 1990-2000), and Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Hilary Birks).

John Birks is a Professor II (20%) at University College London and an Adjunct Professor at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He is currently taking sabbatical as a Senior Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. Hilary Birks is a visiting Professor at University College London.