After a successful pilot campaign around Tromsø last season, the team got their heads back together this fall for our annual meeting, got ‘locked up’ in a converted prison hotel in Stockholm to complete the necessary mid-term reporting and plan the coming field season.
We kicked off the meeting with a creative icebreaker: using LEGO bricks to represent each other’s work packages. Each construction sparked discussions about how our different tasks interconnect — and reminded us that some crucial roles, like admin and project management, may not always be visible but are essential for keeping the project running smoothly.
While online meetings keep us connected, meeting in person remains invaluable for deeper discussions, better coordination, and strengthening our sense of team spirit. Most of all, it’s simply enjoyable to spend time together and get to know the people behind the research.
We are now preparing sampling kits and scaling up the campaign for the upcoming season. There will be sampling campaigns involving a Finnish school, science institutes in SE Norway and citizen sampling in and around Tromsø.
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Text: Benjamin Fischer, Costijn Zwart, Harald Sodemann
Photo credit: Benjamin Fischer, Costijn Zwart