Field site at Risør fjord in Norway.
About
I (she/her) am a marine evolutionary ecologist interested in how organisms respond to environmental change, including how adaptation to local environments in the past influences contemporary plastic responses and future environmental adaptation. I combine experiments with sequencing and bioinformatics to investigate these questions and am particularly interested in the genomic basis and spatial scale of local adaptation in the face of gene flow. I believe that the answers to these questions are critical for predicting the persistence of species in the face of environmental change and for managing populations effectively to lower the potential for extinctions and losses of biodiversity.
I'm currently a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellow at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Coastal Research and Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of Agder. Current projects include: 1) understanding the role of genomic architecture in plasticity and adaptation of Atlantic cod, 2) investigating the relative importance of mating behaviour and genomic incompatibilities in maintaining distinct cod ecotypes in the face of gene flow, and 3) bridging the gap between genomics and modelling to better understand how natural populations respond to environmental disturbance. I also collaborate with the Institute of Marine Research, Flødevigen to study the impact of cod body size on population productivity and ecosystem dynamics. I completed my PhD on the genomic basis and spatial scale of variation in thermal responses of Atlantic cod with Dr. Jeff Hutchings at Dalhousie University.
I'm an open science advocate, Editorial Board Member for Scientific Data, and Council Representative for Norway in the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium, where I serve on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Committee. I'm also lead producer of the scientific and artistic project TORSKETROMMING, which aims to understand the role of sound in the Atlantic cod mating ritual using ambisonics (3D sound) and machine learning.
Check out THE TEAM page for opportunities to join!
I'm currently a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellow at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Coastal Research and Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of Agder. Current projects include: 1) understanding the role of genomic architecture in plasticity and adaptation of Atlantic cod, 2) investigating the relative importance of mating behaviour and genomic incompatibilities in maintaining distinct cod ecotypes in the face of gene flow, and 3) bridging the gap between genomics and modelling to better understand how natural populations respond to environmental disturbance. I also collaborate with the Institute of Marine Research, Flødevigen to study the impact of cod body size on population productivity and ecosystem dynamics. I completed my PhD on the genomic basis and spatial scale of variation in thermal responses of Atlantic cod with Dr. Jeff Hutchings at Dalhousie University.
I'm an open science advocate, Editorial Board Member for Scientific Data, and Council Representative for Norway in the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium, where I serve on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Committee. I'm also lead producer of the scientific and artistic project TORSKETROMMING, which aims to understand the role of sound in the Atlantic cod mating ritual using ambisonics (3D sound) and machine learning.
Check out THE TEAM page for opportunities to join!
Photo credit: Espen Bierud
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Photo credit: Tore Jonssen c/o TV Agder
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Aftenposten, 12/11/2019. Photo credit: Erling Svensen
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News:
21/09/21: Our new paper led by Jesse Wolf, 'Preprinting is positively associated with early career researcher status in ecology and evolution', is out today! I was fortunate to participate in this grassroots effort by undergraduate and masters students to better understand the importance of preprints to early career researchers.
19/09/21: TORSKETROMMING premiered at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival! With three sold out performances, 120 people have now experienced the magic of the cod mating ritual.
12/09/21: I wrapped up my first week as a BAR International artist-in-residence at Pikene på Broen in Kirkenes. It involved a new-to-me type of "field work" - gathering local perspectives on the changing fisheries in the Barents region.
26/07/21: Our new paper 'Pathways towards a sustainable future envisioned by early-career conservation researchers' in Conservation Science & Practice incorporates survey and workshop data into a framework for helping ECRs to achieve real change in protecting biological diversity.
08/07/21: I presented our new project investigating the mechanisms maintaining divergent cod ecotypes in the coastal Skagerrak hybrid zone at the Temporal Genomics Twitter Symposium.
05/07/21: Sissel Jentoft and I held the second Genomic Forecasting Symposium at SMBEv2021 and were in awe of the creative ways people are using genomics to predict population responses to environmental change! Anyone can still view all the talks via the conference website! And talks from last year's GFS2020 are always available here.
08/06/21: Huge congratulations to Julie, Emilie, Amalie, Nora, Paul, and Fredrick who all defended their bachelor theses with flying colours! Watch out world!!
01/05/21: I'm excited to officially join the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) at the University of Agder to continue exploring applications of machine learning and AI to marine ecology and evolutionary biology!
23/04/21: A busy week in the media sharing our upcoming TORSKETROMMING TOUR 2021-2022 culminated in a feature story on VG-TV (>40K views and counting)!
15/04/21: Our paper on barriers to early career researchers in interdisciplinary marine sciences is out today in Frontiers in Marine Sciences.
11/04/21: A new preprint (about preprints)! A fun collaboration with researchers from my alma mater shows the impact of career stage and institution size on preprint usage. It also highlights difficulties of studying authorship by gender.
29/03/21: A fantastic feature announcing our upcoming TORSKETROMMING TOUR 2021-2022 was published at Titan: 'Trommende torsk går til scenen' ('Drumming cod take the stage').
03/02/21: Our new preprint 'Cryptic microgeographic variation in responses of larval Atlantic cod to warmer temperatures' is out now! This is the first in a series of experimental studies that will be coming out over the next year.
25/01/21: The European Reference Genome Atlas officially launched as a pan-European consortium today! I'm honoured to serve as Council Representative for Norway along with Prof. Torsten Struck at the UiO Natural History Museum.
11/01/21: We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Jeppe Have Rasmussen to the TORSKETROMMING team! Jeppe will use deep learning to understand cod sounds and mating behaviour for his postdoc in collaboration with CAIR and Mechatronics.
28/10/20: Our article 'Evolution of Reaction Norms' (with Jeff Hutchings) is out now at Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. It's a guide to the reaction norm literature for research and teaching at all levels!
23/10/20: I was delighted to speak to the Women in Ecology & Evolution Podcast for their "Paper in Focus" segment about our paper on the consequences of genomic architecture for evolutionary responses to environmental change.
21/10/20: I attended my first Bioacoustics Day and learned so much about sound in the sea! Thanks to Karen De Jong at the Institute of Marine Research for the invitation.
05/10/20: Our op-ed about cod dialects is out today in Agderposten.
25/09/20: It was thrilling to speak about cod and artificial intelligence at Young Researchers Night for the brain-themed Forskningsdagene ('Research Days') 2020.
22/09/20: I had a blast staying up way past my bed time to speak to the Evolution courses at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo about my research, career path, and life! Many thanks to Dr. Matthew Knope for the invitation.
01/09/20: Thrilled to welcome Griet Nobis to the team! Griet will join us as an intern this year exploring alternative management strategies for coastal cod in Norway.
23/07/20: It was a pleasure to deliver a seminar to the Zoology Department at Punjabi University, Patiala. It's available on their YouTube channel.
04/07/20: Our Invited Perspective on the consequences of genomic architecture for evolutionary responses to environmental change was published in the Journal of Heredity as Editor's Choice!
More...
21/09/21: Our new paper led by Jesse Wolf, 'Preprinting is positively associated with early career researcher status in ecology and evolution', is out today! I was fortunate to participate in this grassroots effort by undergraduate and masters students to better understand the importance of preprints to early career researchers.
19/09/21: TORSKETROMMING premiered at Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival! With three sold out performances, 120 people have now experienced the magic of the cod mating ritual.
12/09/21: I wrapped up my first week as a BAR International artist-in-residence at Pikene på Broen in Kirkenes. It involved a new-to-me type of "field work" - gathering local perspectives on the changing fisheries in the Barents region.
26/07/21: Our new paper 'Pathways towards a sustainable future envisioned by early-career conservation researchers' in Conservation Science & Practice incorporates survey and workshop data into a framework for helping ECRs to achieve real change in protecting biological diversity.
08/07/21: I presented our new project investigating the mechanisms maintaining divergent cod ecotypes in the coastal Skagerrak hybrid zone at the Temporal Genomics Twitter Symposium.
05/07/21: Sissel Jentoft and I held the second Genomic Forecasting Symposium at SMBEv2021 and were in awe of the creative ways people are using genomics to predict population responses to environmental change! Anyone can still view all the talks via the conference website! And talks from last year's GFS2020 are always available here.
08/06/21: Huge congratulations to Julie, Emilie, Amalie, Nora, Paul, and Fredrick who all defended their bachelor theses with flying colours! Watch out world!!
01/05/21: I'm excited to officially join the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) at the University of Agder to continue exploring applications of machine learning and AI to marine ecology and evolutionary biology!
23/04/21: A busy week in the media sharing our upcoming TORSKETROMMING TOUR 2021-2022 culminated in a feature story on VG-TV (>40K views and counting)!
15/04/21: Our paper on barriers to early career researchers in interdisciplinary marine sciences is out today in Frontiers in Marine Sciences.
11/04/21: A new preprint (about preprints)! A fun collaboration with researchers from my alma mater shows the impact of career stage and institution size on preprint usage. It also highlights difficulties of studying authorship by gender.
29/03/21: A fantastic feature announcing our upcoming TORSKETROMMING TOUR 2021-2022 was published at Titan: 'Trommende torsk går til scenen' ('Drumming cod take the stage').
03/02/21: Our new preprint 'Cryptic microgeographic variation in responses of larval Atlantic cod to warmer temperatures' is out now! This is the first in a series of experimental studies that will be coming out over the next year.
25/01/21: The European Reference Genome Atlas officially launched as a pan-European consortium today! I'm honoured to serve as Council Representative for Norway along with Prof. Torsten Struck at the UiO Natural History Museum.
11/01/21: We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Jeppe Have Rasmussen to the TORSKETROMMING team! Jeppe will use deep learning to understand cod sounds and mating behaviour for his postdoc in collaboration with CAIR and Mechatronics.
28/10/20: Our article 'Evolution of Reaction Norms' (with Jeff Hutchings) is out now at Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. It's a guide to the reaction norm literature for research and teaching at all levels!
23/10/20: I was delighted to speak to the Women in Ecology & Evolution Podcast for their "Paper in Focus" segment about our paper on the consequences of genomic architecture for evolutionary responses to environmental change.
21/10/20: I attended my first Bioacoustics Day and learned so much about sound in the sea! Thanks to Karen De Jong at the Institute of Marine Research for the invitation.
05/10/20: Our op-ed about cod dialects is out today in Agderposten.
25/09/20: It was thrilling to speak about cod and artificial intelligence at Young Researchers Night for the brain-themed Forskningsdagene ('Research Days') 2020.
22/09/20: I had a blast staying up way past my bed time to speak to the Evolution courses at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo about my research, career path, and life! Many thanks to Dr. Matthew Knope for the invitation.
01/09/20: Thrilled to welcome Griet Nobis to the team! Griet will join us as an intern this year exploring alternative management strategies for coastal cod in Norway.
23/07/20: It was a pleasure to deliver a seminar to the Zoology Department at Punjabi University, Patiala. It's available on their YouTube channel.
04/07/20: Our Invited Perspective on the consequences of genomic architecture for evolutionary responses to environmental change was published in the Journal of Heredity as Editor's Choice!
More...
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