Many paths to the goal

How do other researchers approach the different issues? Reserachers learn from each others' experiences.

Researchers from five different research projects on ecosystem services met on 26 January to learn from one another. “Being able to listen to other researchers’ experiences with various methodologies in our field is extremely useful,” says Coreplan Project Manager Ann-Magnhild Solås. Camilla Brattland, Coreplan Researcher at the Centre of Sami Studies, UiT, hosted the seminar…

How to manage people, coral and sea snakes

Coreplan Researcher Jahn Petter Johnson visited the Great Barrier Reef to study the administration of this vast protected area. Here he will share some of his experiences. On my way up along the port side of SS Yongala, a shipwreck situated in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park, I came across a sea snake…

The coast: What values are to be found – and how do we take care of them?

Scientist Ann-Magnhild Solås leads the project Coreplan, which aims at improving coastal zone planning.

Many of the benefits that people get from nature are priceless. Others represent large monetary values. How do you measure all these values when plans are to be made for management of the coastal zone? And based on which criteria do you prioritize between divergent interests? Food and beverages, commercial space, minerals and energy. But…

We are underway!

Participants from the partner institutes met at Nofima in Tromso to start working with the Coreplan project. On the picture, from the left: Roy Robertsen, Nofima, Bjørn Hersoug, UiT, Kine Mari Karlsen, Nofima, Harald G. Johnsen, Troms fylkeskommune, Alma Thuestad, NIKU, Kjetil Hestad, Lingalaks og Tombre, Jahn-Petter Johnsen, UiT, Ann-Magnhild Solås, Nofima, Einar Eythórsson, NIKU,…