On Tuesday 14 January, Jacqueline Hoppenreijs, RivEM PhD-student, will give a seminar titled “Rooting for riparian vegetation”. Jacqueline will present her plans for her PhD project during the seminar, with emphasis on her fieldwork this summer.

The seminar starts at 13:15 in room 5F416 at Karlstad University. Everyone who wants to are welcome to attend the seminar.

Jacqueline doing fieldwork

Riparian plants in the growroom at Karlstad University

On Tuesday 8 October, Ann Erlandsson, Assistant Professor at Karlstad University, will give a seminar titled “DNA barcoding of spider gut contents”. The seminar starts at 13:15 in room 5F416. Everyone who wants to are welcome to attend the seminar.

On Tuesday 24 September Ryan Lepak, Postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, will give a seminar at Karlstad University entitled: “Use of Stable Isotope Signatures to Determine Mercury Sources in Aquatic Ecosystems”. The seminar starts at 13:15 in room 5F416. Everyone who wants to are welcome to attend the seminar.

On Friday 20 September, Ivan Olsson, Senior Project Manager at the County Administrative Board (länsstyrelsen) Skåne (and former RivEM PhD student), will give a seminar titled “LIFE CONNECTS – River connectivity, habitats and water quality towards restored ecosystem services“. The seminar starts at 10:00 in room 5F416. Everyone who wants to are welcome to attend the seminar.

Tomorrow Tuesday 14 May, Lina Polvi Sjöberg, Assistant Professor at Umeå University, will give a seminar at Karlstad University:

“What controls the physical habitat template and disturbance regime of streams? — understanding sediment transport and channel form of semi-alluvial streams in northern Sweden”

The seminar starts at 13:15 in room 5F416.

Everyone is welcome to attend the seminar.

On Monday and Tuesday 6 – 7 May, Dr. Helen Kopnina from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, will visit Karlstad University. During her visit, Helen will give two talks:

Monday 6 May, 13:30 in room 1D350

Sustainable development goals – A critical evaluation in theory and educational practice

Tuesday 7 May, 13:15 in room 5F416

Ethical debates in biological conservation

Everyone that wants to are welcome to attend the seminars.

Today, Tuesday 23 April, Erik Petersson (Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) will give a seminar titled “Effect of cormorant predation on fish populations – a meta-analysis”. The seminar will be held at 13:15 in room 5D306 at Karlstad University. Everyone that wants to are welcome to attend the seminar.

On 12 March (tomorrow) Eva Bergman, NRRV Professor, will give a seminar titled “Improvement and evaluation of connectivity and habitat quality for sustainable hydropower”. The seminar begins at 13:15 in room 5F416 at Karlstad University. Everyone is welcome to attend the seminar.

On Tuesday 5 March (tomorrow) Anna Hagelin, PhD student at Karlstad University, will give a pre-dissertation talk titled “Conservation of landlocked Atlantic salmon in a regulated river: behaviour of migratory spawners and juveniles”. The seminar starts at 13:15 in room 5F416. Everyone is welcome to attend the seminar.

Anna will defend her doctoral thesis on 12 April at 10:00 in room 1B309 at Karlstad University. More information will come closer to the dissertation.

On Tuesday 11 December Lovisa Lind Eirell, Assistant Professor at Karlstad University, will give a seminar titled “The story of the seed – establishment and dispersal among different process domains”. The seminar will be held at 13.15 in room 5F416 at Karlstad University. Everyone who wants to are welcome to attend the seminar.