Rebekka Ween
About
Work areas
- BI1002 Faunistics and floristics
- Cordinates the floristics part of the course
- Responsible for the floristics field courses, labs, lectures and exam
- BI2023 Community ecology and ecosystems
- Field course organisation, teaching and exams
- BI1003 Ecology, Behavior, Evolution and Sustainability
- Substitute lecturer
- Head of the educational botany collection of plants, fungi, algae, lichens and moss
- Aids students and staff in research within floristics and plant ecology
Competencies
- Botanical field work
- Genetic test sampling
- Seed collection and storage
- Field analysis of climate and population parameters
- Pollination exlusion experiments
- Time-lapse cameras
- Plant diversity mapping (PIM, transects, plots etc)
- Wild flower meadow restauration and establishment
- HMS in the field
- Botanical species identification and herbarium collections
- Herbarium collections
- Identification of plants, fungi, lichens, algae and moss
- Green house, laboratories and freeze experiments
- Microscope and stereo lense
- Reproduction studies (seeds quality, genetics, phylogentics studies etc)
- Growth studies, drought studies, frost tolerance studies
- Project leadership and research projects
- Supervision of students
- Project coordination and leadership
- Application writing, including budjet and planning
- Data analsys and graphical design
- Outreach in norwegian and english
Research
Previous research project and groups:
- 2020-2022 BIG (Bjørndalen Integrated Gradients) led by Pernille Bronken Eidesen
- Feltlaboratory in Bjørndalen, Svalbard
- Bjørndalen Integrated Gradients (BIG) - UNIS
- 2020-2022 PollinatorWatch og BitCue prosjekt led by Toke Thomas Høye
- Automatisc camera monitoring of flowering phenology and pollination in polar regions
- BITCue.pdf (eu-interact.org)
- 2020 UniSprout prosjekt "Not all flowers are equal: Plant-pollinator interactions in a changing Arctic"
- 2019 Siri Fjellheim Research Group
- Fylogenetisc analysis of the origins of drough tolerance in Poaceae
- Siri Fjellheim Research Group| Evolution – Botany – Molecular Ecology | Siri Fjellheim homepage
- 2014-2015 CREES Manu
- Long-term Biodiversity Monitoring
- Research Program – Supporting a sustainable Amazon (crees-foundation.org)
Publications
Journal
Stolsmo, S. P., Lindberg, C. L., Ween, R. E., Schat, L., Preston, J. C., Humphreys, A. M., & Fjellheim, S. (2024). Evolution of drought and frost responses in cool season grasses (Pooideae): was drought tolerance a precursor to frost tolerance? Journal of Experimental Botany, 75(20), 6405-6422.
Reports
Hoye, T. H., Mann, H. M. R., Raundrup, K., Ween, R. E., & Eidesen, P. B. (2020). Automated-monitoring-to-study-plant-phenology, Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Report Card 2019. DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus Universitet.
Ween, R. E. (2018). The beauty of being trisexual: Gender system in the Alpine-Arctic cushion plant Silene acaulis. NMBU Student Journal of Life Science Vol. 8. (Student journal report)
Reviews
Constable, A. J., Harper, S., Dawson, J., Holsman, K., Mustonen, T., Piepenburg, D., ... & Van Dam, B. (2022). Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change In IPCC AR WGII. Cambridge University Press (Expert reviewer on Cross-Chapter Paper 6: Polar Regions | Climate Change 2022).
Books og booklets
Ween, R. E. & Hammerstrøm, M. (2022) Aktivitetshefte Barnas Blomstereng, Norsk Botanisk Forening (booklet, popular science).
Ween, R. E. (2019) Oppdag plantenes fantastiske verden, Norsk Botanisk Forening (booklet, popular science).
Ween, R. E., & Michaud, A. (2018). Flowers of Svalbard. Norsk Botanisk Forening (book, popular science).
Thesis
Ween, R. E. (2022). Timing is everything: Within-plant flowering phenology impacts fruit production in the Arctic-Alpine cushion plant Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq (Master's thesis, UiT Norges arktiske universitet).
Teaching
Courses
- BI1002 Faunistics and floristics
- Cordinates the floristics field courses, labs, lectures and exams
- BI2034 Community ecology and ecosystems
- Aids in field course organisation, teaching and exams
- BI1003 Ecology, behaviors, evolution and sustainability
- Substitute and guest-lecturer