A BIT ABOUT ME
I’m a female Norwegian researcher, nature and expedition guide and climate change impacts communicator with a particular interest and love for our planet's glaciers.
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I live in the Northernmost human settlement in the world - at 78° N in Longyearbyen on Svalbard .
After living on Svalbard just a short while, I quickly started seeing the impacts of climate change in the Arctic with my own eyes.
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what i saw was terrifying
I felt an immediate urge to do something.
I decided to study glaciers on Svalbard
and how they change over time relative to their environment.
and i brought my camera with me
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I am half and half -
half (mad) scientist, half nature guide
Through my studies in Svalbard, I got experienced with field work out in the harsh cold Arctic. Hours and days spent outside studying and getting data, sometimes in minus 40 celsius, sometimes in company of a polar bear.
I loved it. So much that I became a nature guide alongside my studies and got to spend even more time outside!
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Today, I am an experienced nature guide and a senior expedition Polar Tourism Guide Association guide.
In the boreal winter/ spring, I work as a snowmobile and skiing guide in Svalbard. In the boreal summers, I work as a lecturer on glaciers and climate change impacts in the Arctic and expedition guide, expedition leader and small- boat driver, where I operate from expedition cruise ships.
When the dark season sets in in the Arctic - I work in Antarctica as an expedition guide in the austral summer.
I also work as a lecturer on glaciers and climate change impacts in Antarctica, oversee glacier and crevasse safety for the routes we set and I drive a small- boat here as well.
I call it my penguin office.
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Through my work as a nature and expediton guide - I do science and communicate climate change impacts related to glaciers, snow and ice to hundreds of polar travellers every year.