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Welcome our new team member, Marie Curtet !

Marie Curtet is a master’s student in Sustainability at the University of Bergen, Norway. Marie is currently pursuing her master’s thesis in collaboration with the ISOSCAN team, under the supervision of Harald Sodemann, leader of the ISOSCAN project, and Rose Trappes, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen. Her master’s thesis focuses on Citizen Science and hydroclimatic extremes. In particular, she is looking into what motivates people to participate in Citizen Science projects and how they experience their participation in the ISOSCAN project.

welcoming Ann Eileen Lennert to ISOSCAN team !

photo: private

Close to the end of 2024, one of our project partners, WildLabProjects decided to cease operation and it would take effect from December 2024. We started to look for alternatives and thankfully we could find a very adequate replacement with Ann Eileen Lennert from the Arctic Sustainability lab of University of Tromsø entering the project.

Ann Eileen Lennert, environmental anthropologist and creative mind. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary sciences, knowledge co-production, exploring human-nature interaction, visual storytelling and research built largely on an awareness of culture and integrity. She has worked with community engagement, SES, citizen and sustainability science. And loves to work with youth and communities, create engagement, co-creation and co-production of knowledge and ideas through creative spaces and has done so through a number of projects around the North and Arctic.

She loves snow, skiing and being outdoors in winter and therefor this project ISOSCAN was just right!

First sampling campaign

Our first sampling campaign is now taking place from 10 April to 1 May 2025 with a focus on Tromsø, Norway. We have set up 5 distribution stations at various locations through town.

Project members getting the sampling materials ready (photo: Tromsø Outdoor https://www.tromsooutdoor.no/)

We follow along when participants register a sample location in the ISOSCAN web application, and when samples are actually being returned.

Until this date (25 April 2025), we have seen the registration of 59 sampling locations. Most locations are within a few 100 km around Tromsø, but some are also collected in southern Norway and in Central Sweden. The sampling locations around Tromsø are shown on the map below:

59 sampling locations spread out in Norway and Sweden

After the distribution and collection of sample kits has ended, we will provide an update here on which samples have been received in the laboratory, as well as the final measured results.

Text: Harald Sodemann