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China

I have only been a few days in China, but I already love it. The people are very friendly and try to help, even if they understand a word. The food is excellent although I temporarily had to give up being vegetarian, because they don’t understand what it is. Vegetarian = vegetables! We went up to 4100m today and looked at plants. It’s amazing and unlike Australia we can recognize many species, not the species but genus. We saw yaks, snow, mountains, red stones (algae) and had Tibetan butter tea.

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Mountain Forum 2015 in China

I am off to China in a couple of hours. I will fly to Chengdu where I will participate the Mountain Forum 2015. We will spend some days in Chengdu with lectures on various topics in mountain ecology and learning about traits data. Then we will head off to the mountains to do actual field work and get a traits data set along an elevational gradient. We will stay in Moxi a town located at 2500m, near Mt. Gongga. The field sites go up to 4000m.

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Mondays

Why we don’t like Mondays?

Maybe because things like that only happen on Mondays! I got up a little after 5 to drive 3 hours to one of my field sites. Four hours counting flowers, wearing thights because it was ice cold. It’s June! Even up here this means summer. On the way home a tractor had a flat tire and we waited for over one hour to pass. Then John Snow died which made everything much worse. Finally I ended up waiting four hours on the night train in Voss and missed the connection to Göteborg…

Well I’m in Oslo now. The sun is shining and it‘ Tuesday!

  

 

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The sweet season

Summer is near and the field season has started. I am allowed to drive through western Norway, walk up mountains, lie on the ground all day and count flowers. Is there a better job?

I know I will get enough of field work, long rainy and cold days by the end of the season. But for now, for now life is grand.