Congratulations Dr Salminen! It’s always great to see a PhD defence from the Arctic #Sustainability Lab, especially when their research tackles such important topics! Check it out if you’re interested in #PPGIS, #CoastalDevelopment, #Stakeholders, and #MarineSpatialPlanning 🧪🌊🦑 tinyurl.com/y4v2tk9b

Curious about how to study forage fishes (in Canada)? 🐟 Our new paper reviews current approaches, identifies key knowledge gaps, and offers advice on methods to address them. Read it here 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excited to share our new paper in #AnimalBiotelemetry @springernature.com! We classified killer whale tracks into five movement modes using movement metrics and absolute space use, revealing finer-scale behaviour and insights into how they use space along the Norwegian coast 🐋🛰️🧪 tinyurl.com/y8a3wdmy

🚨 Our new preprint! *Cascading mass loss of Antarctic ice shelves triggered by iceberg collisions* 🔗 doi.org/10.22541/essoar.175285257.77669558/v1 In 2021, giant icebergs hit Dronning Maud Land ice shelves in #Antarctica, causing a chain reaction of calving & major regional ice-shelf area loss. 💥

Our review of the Antarctic coastal zone is finally available after 3+ years of work with 50+ institutes! We highlight data gaps & future priorities. Preprint here 👇 doi.org/10.22541/ess... #SCAR_RINGS #glaciology

Can’t believe I was interviewed about my winning photo in the @nature.com contest on @npr.org’s All Things Considered! I grew up listening to this show, so it feels incredibly surreal to be on it. www.npr.org/2025/05/19/n... 🐋🧪

Congratulations to the winners of Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway. 🧵 #SciArt #Academicsky 🧪

Thrilled to have won @nature.com 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition! 🧪🐳📷 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

✨ What a blast we had in Iceland! 🇮🇸 🥳 🤝 This #BioProtect Annual Meeting had it all: ✅ collaborative atmosphere ✅ great team spirit ✅ incredible amounts of fun! 🤗 💙 Proud to be part of this project! 🙏 Thank you to our hosts & all partners for their participation! #MissionOcean #HorizonEU 🌊🐋

#BioProtect partners got really creative 🎨 this morning with a storyboarding workshop on Day 3️⃣ of our 1st Annual Meeting! 👏 🤗 Together we are co-creating our Demonstration Site Videos! 📽️🌟 #MissionOcean #HorizonEU

Excited to be at @bioprotectproject.bsky.social 1st annual meeting in Reykjavík! Great to hear updates from all the work packages and demo sites all working to protect & restore marine ecosystems & biodiversity🐋🌍🧪🐟 We even got a taste of some typisk Iceland—horses, thermal pools, and lots of rain!

Check out our new research note in the Fram Forum about the Coast Barometer! The Coastal Barometer is an open online platform used to explore sustainability trends across coastal municipalities in northern Norway⛴️🐟🐋🌍🌊 framforum.com/2025/03/14/a...

It’s always fun to teach outside of the typical classroom! This afternoon I taught a lab for @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social biology bachelor students at the Polar Museum on Marine mammal biodiversity 🐋🦭🐻‍❄️🦦

Excited to have contributed to this study where we tracked 29 sperm whales in the North Atlantic! 🐳 Some traveled nearly 8000km and dove deeper then 1000m! 🛰️🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is one of my favorite photos taken during this fieldwork of a 🐳 diving under the midnight sun 🌞

Yesterday @antarcticjenny.bsky.social and I had a great time talking with 2nd grade students at Clover Ridge Elementary in Minnesota about our research in the Arctic and Antarctic and life in the Arctic🐋 🐟🌊❄️ 🛰

Great to speak about @bioprotectproject.bsky.social at the 'Research Data & Science Cooperation for #MarineMammal Conservation Beyond Borders' panel at Arctic Frontiers. It’s clear that more collaboration is key for marine mammal research and marine biodiversity conservation🐋 @lmcwhin.bsky.social

At @arcticfrontiers.bsky.social, I'm helping co-host a workshop on 'Exploring future scenarios of #BlueFood systems in Northern Norway'. If you're attending #ArcticFrontiers, join us to explore innovative solutions and envision future scenarios for sustainable blue food systems🐟🌊🌐

I'm excited to be participating in a side event panel on 'Research Data & Science Cooperation for #MarineMammal Conservation Beyond Borders' at @arcticfrontiers.bsky.social next week! I'll be speaking about @bioprotectproject.bsky.social and data driven solutions for marine conservation. 🧪🐋🌊👩‍💻🐟🛰️❄️

Today is my 1 year anniversary of defending my PhD and becoming Dr. Vogel! What a wonderful and exciting year it has been since 💙🐋

New #IAPETUS UK #PhD opportunity! Mapping Arctic marine mammal distributions ❄️🐳 🐋🦭❄️ with ship & satellite surveys, investigating their interactions with vessels Led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social w @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @bas.ac.uk and Hurtigruten Expeditions 🚢 ❄️ tinyurl.com/mt6vuakx. 👇👇

Interested in boosting marine #biodiversity in your region? #BioProtect is seeking 5 regions to receive €100K grants each, along with technical support to implement the cutting-edge #Conservation tools we are developing in BioProtect! Apply by 1/1/2025! bit.ly/4frJenq #HorizonEU #MissionOcean 💙🦑🐋🌍

I've started a marine mammal reseachers starter pack. It focuses on researchers and labs studying marine mammals. Feel free to ask to be added :) go.bsky.app/MWiR9uS

Happy #PolarPride day! Visibility and diversity are so important, and I’m #proud to be in a field that celebrates our community 🏳️‍🌈✨ #PolarPride2024 #PolarPrideDay #LGBTSTEMDay #LGBTQSTEMDay

Fun session today with @ChrisRawlinsPri primary school today answering all sorts of great questions from 7 to 11 year olds about what it's like being a #whale scientist!🐋🦑🐟 #scicomm

Excited to see our paper published, led by the talented Ingvild Ytterhus Utengen @AkvaplanNiva @UiTNorgesarktis! Here we investigated humpback whale behaviour during their seasonal stopovers and classified their tracks into five distinct movement modes🐋tinyurl.com/ye7nxra6

Had a great kick-off meeting for the EU #BioProtect project! The University of Tromsø and many other national and international partners came together with the aim to advance area-based management tools for accelerating biodiversity protection and restoration in #EuropeanSeas by 2030.

This weekend I am attending a facilitator training workshop for #Imacocollabo’s #2030SDGsGame! I’m very excited to bring this #SustainableDevelopmentGoals based game to The University of Tromsø community this fall! #gamification #SDG2030

Realy happy that the final paper from my PhD is finally published! We found that Norwegian killer whales optimise their movements for their preferred prey 🦭🐟 🍽️ polarresearch.net/index.php/po...

Come join our lab for a dream spatial ecology PhD student position! Exciting opportunity to work with tracking data of mobile species to identify ecological corridors as part of the EU Horizon BioProtect project. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

All geared up this morning for the first day of my postdoc🚴‍♀️@UiTNorgesarktis @ArcticSustain

Excited to be back at the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St Andrews for research stay to continue working on our project on acoustic #mitigation efforts for #whale-#fisheries interactions 🔊🐋👩‍💻

Thrilled to have accepted a Postdoctoral position in the @ArcticSustain(ability) Lab at @UiTNorgesarktis! And guess what—you can too! We are looking for two MSCA postdocs in #Arctic #sustainability, #BigData and #AI! ❄️♻️🌍🌐🐋 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/186262 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/186307

I passed my PhD defence on Friday! Thank you to everyone who made it a such a special and enjoyable day! Extra big thankyou to @antarcticjenny.bsky.social for the incredible killer whale cake! 🐋🛰️🦭🐟

It’s really happening 😬 On Friday I have my trial lecture and PhD defense at the University of Tromsø. If you’re interested in joining for any part, it will be both in person and streamed online. 🐋🦭🐟🍽️🛰️ uit.no/tavla/artikk...

It is clear from responses like these (and many others) that Pride very much matters for polar research, and that visibility and inclusivity are still vital in research and society as a whole 🏳️‍🌈. #PolarPride #DiversityinPolarScience

Happy #PolarPride and #ArcticPride! Visibility and diversity are so important, and I’m #proud to be in a field that celebrates our community 🏳️‍🌈✨ #PolarPride2023 #LGBTSTEM

Happy #PolarPrideDay from the Arctic! 🏳️‍🌈 🐻‍❄️🐧 We're celebrating at @NorskPolar and this time the whole @Framcentre - fantastic seeing enthusiasm and support once again! #PolarPride2023 #DiversityinPolarScience

The manuscript of the 2nd chapter of my PhD was accepted for publication last night🎉 That means all of my chapters will be published before my defence! Stay tuned to find out how seal-eating Norwegian killer whales optimise their movements for their preferred prey🦭🍽️

It feels unreal that it has already been almost a month since I submitted my PhD thesis on the influence of prey distribution on marine top predators! Thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way!🐟🐋🦭

10/10 can recommend tiny remote cabin post-PhD-submission getaways 🍂✨

Hot off the printer, here’s my poster for #BESMove2023 on how prey distribution influences #HumpbackWhale movements! Unfortunately I can no longer attend @BES_Move_SIG, but I’m more than happy to chat and answer any questions here or via email 🌊🐟🐋

Making art counts as thesis writing, right? 😬

3rd chapter of my PhD was accepted this morning🎉 Stay tuned to see how the lateral and vertical distributions of capelin influence the movements of humpback #whales in the Barents Sea🐟🐋! Very excited to present a poster on this research at #BesMove2023 at the end of the month!

Congratulations to the newly minted Master of Science, Elida, who gave an amazing presentation of her thesis this morning examining the effect targeted #acoustic deterrent devices on killer and humpback whale surfacing around fishing vessels!

Had a great time presenting some of our #whale-#fisheries interactions and #mitigation research at #PintOfScience last night alongside other great talks! Nice to get so much interest in our study! Looking forward to 2 more evenings of talks🐋🍻 #Pint23 #pint23no @UiTNorgesarktis

On Friday @AntarcticJenny called and asked if I wanted to do a ski half marathon. Yesterday (with no training or preparation), we not only finished the #KvaløyaSkiMaraton, but we were tied first (and only) in the ‘#fjellski devision’⛷️🏅🌞

The @Framcentre #FramForum 2023 is out! Check out this piece about #toxicological studies being conducted by my friends and collaborators at @AkvaplanNiva & @NorskPolar! I have been collecting whale biopsy samples for this project (👀the 4th picture!)🐋🐻‍❄️ https://framforum.com/2023/03/09/pola...

Today Elida presented some exciting results from our FHF whale-fisheries interactions project that will be part of her master thesis! She is examining the effect of #GenusWave's targeted #acoustic deterrent devices on killer and humpback #whale surfacing around fishing vessels.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2023! I'm so grateful to work with so many amazing #WomenInSTEM and #WomenInMMSci! This picture is extra special to me since it was the first (and so far only) time I've been on an all woman ("#unmanned") boat for field work! #IWD2023 👩‍🔬👩‍💻👩‍💼

Happy #WorldWhaleDay! Here’s a cool clip filmed from a tag deployed on a #KillerWhale feeding at the Norwegian spring-spawning herring grounds! It’s always exciting studying these fascinating animals 🐟🐳