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@polarwillow

Polar ecologist, printmaker, house plant hoarder and lover of all things vast, icy, remote and leafy. www.runamagnusson.com

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A bit of a hiatus here, oops! Here is some #forest #photography from close to #oslo.

More on my website: runamagnusson.com/2025/11/01/o...

08.11.2025 17:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Got to see this beautiful replica od De Witte Swaen, the expedition ship on which Willem Barentsz sailed to Bear Island, Svalbard and Nova Zembla in 1596. #history #sail2025 #polarexploration

23.08.2025 09:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Leerzaam is het wel, zo'n oude auto..
#vw #t3

19.08.2025 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oh oh Terso
#terschelling

16.08.2025 19:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SHRUB! You dig? ;) #tundra #shrub #dendrochronology #svalbard #salixpolaris

31.07.2025 14:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stuck in traffic.. #rushhour #longyearbyen #svalbard #barnaclegeese

30.07.2025 07:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#pastis, #petanque and #polarbears in Ny-Ålesund

#svalbard #arctic #ny-alesund

21.07.2025 18:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One of the only Salix lanata individuals on #Svalbard.

#arctic #plant #flora #higharctic #willow #rarespecies #ecology

08.07.2025 13:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Abundance!

#garden #veggies #harvest #nodig #allotment

06.07.2025 14:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some new #photo and #artwork blogs after a recent work/family trip to #Iceland

www.runamagnusson.com

#mountains #hike #flora #linocut #printmaking #waterfall

06.07.2025 12:45 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#campervan

04.07.2025 19:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Still one of my favourite places in town #Reykjavík #hólavallagarður #cemetary #Iceland

23.06.2025 19:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some new lino's + aquarel. Turns out aligning coloured layers of lino is not my strong suit, and the subtle colours of aquarel paint made more sense anyway....
Gerðuberg, Iceland
#linocut #aquarel #printmaking #iceland #mountains

17.06.2025 08:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A very beautiful Salix polaris micro thin cross-section under our mixroscope today! #dendrochronology #arctic #shrub #svalbard #climatechange #willow #wood #microscope #treerings

16.06.2025 09:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gardening season is in full swing #garden #veggies #flowers #allotment

15.06.2025 14:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Always a fun little challenge in High Arctic spring; finding the first flowers of Saxifraga oppositifolia. These ones were in Endalen, #svalbard.

#arctic #flora #ecology #fieldwork #saxifraga

28.05.2025 07:31 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's wonderful to know, thank you :)

28.05.2025 07:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#longyearbyen #svalbard #spring

26.05.2025 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah no, not those things, sorry! :) but we do measure lots of root and microbial biomassa, glomalin, soil physical proporties..

26.05.2025 18:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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INSULATE The Arctic is underlain by vast areas of permafrost, holding tremendous amounts of greenhouse gases that may be released into the atmosphere under a warming climate. Driven by rising temperatures…

Absolutely! In these permafrost monitoring sites we measure aboveground plant community composition and belowground soil communities and structure in relation to thermal insulation. The project also includes a lab experiment and panarctic meta analysis. www.unis.no/project/insu... thanks for asking!

21.05.2025 18:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Back on #Svalbard for #fieldwork! I am starting up my student teams, and we began by monitoring snowmelt progression and #permafrost thaw. Thawing has just begane and already we are measuring 30cm of thaw in quite a few places.. We will see how this develops..

21.05.2025 17:12 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A day with very few appointments and meetings means I can play around with my #arctic #shrub samples in the lab. Why oh why did I choose the tiniest, most difficult species ever (Salix polaris).. I gave up with this sample :) 1mm diameter incl. bark. #treerings #dendrochronology #svalbard

15.05.2025 09:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Life is good...

11.05.2025 14:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mood. #cat #box

06.05.2025 18:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#moestuin moment 🥰

27.04.2025 12:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Very very slowly, #mountains appear from the linoleum sheet.. #printmaking #linocut

21.04.2025 12:34 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Frontiers | The changing face of the Arctic: four decades of greening and implications for tundra ecosystems

Proud to present this co-authored synthesis #paper on 40 years of #tundra #greening, featuring extensive regional syntheses and discussion of key implications and future directions.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

16.04.2025 18:47 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today @w-u-r.bsky.social joins the relay #strike against budget cuts in higher education

14.04.2025 08:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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More spring excursions for our landscape geography students at Wageningen University @w-u-r.bsky.social. Today we explored the hydrology and plant communities of Dutuch dune ecosystems. We found many interesting plants and lots of horny wildlife :)

02.04.2025 15:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kicking off the student #excursion season at the #Plant #ecology department of Wageningen uni! Today we explored #river associated plant communities at the #millingerwaard. Super warm and sunny for March, low water levels in the river and lots of fun!

20.03.2025 17:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0