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Counting Reindeer and bullying Hugo!

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Hey beloved readers,   Fra is back here to tell you more about our biology courses! Today I’m here to tell you everything about some good Arctic environmental management fieldwork counting reindeers, reindeer poop and digging snow pits. With the coming of the light season, me, Mascha and Hugo finally got to go on our first snow scooter fieldwork! Light season doesn’t always equal good weather though, and obviously, we got all the bad weather we could wish for! The day before the fieldwork there was a very strong snowstorm which meant that I almost got lost on the way home which I’ve been doing twice a day for the past 8 months and which also meant that the day after, avalanche risk was quite high.  This meant that we couldn’t go to Colesdalen, where we would have counted our beloved reindeers! The professors decided to take us to Adventdalen instead, where we dug snow pits and counted reindeer poop as it was too foggy to count reindeers.   Us three got   (Of course) the stee
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Cheeky Little Update

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Biology's back! Hello people, it’s been a while… We are all still getting over the trauma Arctic Geology has inflicted on us last semester, so we didn't actually get to post about this semester yet... We’ve been pretty busy this semester already and it’s not going to get better any time soon *distressed laughter* , so I’m just gonna quickly update you on what we’ve been up to. First of all, I’m delighted to announce the big news: Hugo got rid of the beard! With the light returning throughout February, we dared to go explore on our trusted snowmobile Frygg. We started off with a birthday trip to Barentsburg and against all expectations only one of the scooters broke down (it did break down twice though)! Me + Frygg = obsessive relationship with material possessions The typical early February "blue season" light Efficiency: using one of the breakdowns as photo break The next weekend we went to Eskerfos
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Previous Blogs

No Business Like Snow Business Since we couldn't figure out how to change the name of the "SAMS Students in the Arctic 2018" blog, we have decided to join the tradition of creating a new blog every year. We do think the work of our fellow students shouldn't be lost to anyone wanting to read up on the courses and adventures the Arctic has to offer, so here are the links to the older blogs: 2018: https://samsunis2018.blogspot.com/ 2016/17: https://samsunis2016.blogspot.com/ 2015/16: https://samsunis2015.blogspot.com/ 2014/15: https://samsatunis2014.blogspot.com/ 2013/14: https://samsarctic.blogspot.com/
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