Master students

Present and former master students in the Fjord and Coastal Ecology Group

Current Master Students

Eli Inntveit, M. Sci student 2025 -

Project: Relative otolith size as a growth and survival proxy in young Atlantic cod

Supervisor: Arild Folkvord

 

Regine Asbjørnsen, M. Sci student 2024 -

Project: Effects of continuous low-frequency sounds on fish abundance and behavior

Supervisors: Lise Doksæter Sivle (HI), Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO)

 

Adrian Haugland, M. Sci. Student 2024 – 

Project: Effects of EL-fishing on salmon and trout smolt

Supervisors: Knut Wiik Vollset (NORCE LFI), Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO)

 

Jesper Berntsen, M. Sci. Student 2024 –

Project: Population structure of hake in the Skagerrak,  North Sea and Møre

Supervisors: Arved Staby (HI), Guldborg Søvik /HI), Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO)

 

Former Master Students

Liv Kristin Knappskog, M. Sci. Student 2024 – 

Project: A baseline study of energy content and lipid composition in 0- and 1-group cod

(Gadus morhua) in the Barents Sea

Supervisors: Arild Folkvord (BIO), Sonnich Meier (IMR)

 

Adrian Lenoard Røsland, M. Sci. Student 2024 – 

Project: Sampling with an in-trawl stereo camera system in pelagic swept area trawl surveys: Effect of fish behaviour in the trawl

Supervisors: Maria Tenningen (IMR), Michael Breen (IMR), Arild Folkvord (BIO)

 

Mathilde Oddekalv, M. Sci. Student 2024 – 

Project: Atlantic cod as a test species for Atlantification: tracking seasonal presence, migration and behaviour in Isfjorden, Svalbard

Supervisors: Robert Lennox (Dalhousie University), Gaute Velle (NORCE), Arild Folkvord (BIO)

 

Tiril Vesterheim, M. Sci. Student 2023 –2024 

Project: Varying back-calculated growth in Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) along the Norwegian coast based on scales and otoliths

Supervisors: Florian Berg (HI), Arild Folkvord (BIO)

 

Miranda Huitfeldt Asplund, M. Sci. student 2021-2023

Project: The biological potential for utilization of bycatch in Norwegian fisheries

Supervisors: Arild Folkvord (BIO), Kjell Nedreaas, Tom Clegg & Tom Williams (IMR)

 

Torlaug Auestad, M. Sci. student 2021-2023

Project: Comparison of diet and stomach content in relation to growth of haddock, Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Supervisors: Arild Folkvord (BIO) & Edda Johannessen (IMR)

 

Sander Digre, M. Sci. student 2021-2023

Project: Use of SNP markers to unravel sex and inversion types, and how these "traits" relate to growth and ecotype of cod

Supervisors: Arild Folkvord (BIO), Halvor Knutsen & Per Erik Jorde (IMR)

 

Nicolina Juraco, M. Sci. student 2022-2024

Project: Can better control of tral position relative to target fish improve catch success in acoustic trawl surveys?

Supervisors: Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO), Maria Tenningen & Nils Olav Handegard (IMR)

 

Sigrid Kjeldstad, M.Sci. student 2021-2023

Project: Deep Sea communities in west Norwegian fjords (CoastRisk-IMR/HypOnFjordFish-BIO)

Supervisors: Natalya Gallo & Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO), Guldborg Søvik & Fabian Zimmermann (IMR)

 

Modupe Olawunmi Ibikunle, M. Sci. student 2021-2024

Project: Distribution pattern and abundance of the jellyfish Periphylla periphylla in West Norwegian fjords

Supervisors: Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO) & Aino Hosia (Bergen Museum)

 

Bernt Rydstrøm, M. Sci. student 2022-2023

Project: Bycatch of coastal cod (Gadus morhua) and redfish (Sebastus norvegicus) in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea saithe fishery

Supervisors: Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO) & Arved Staby (IMR)

 

Martin Bua Rønhovde, M. Sci. student 2021-2023

Project: Gene expression in sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) from different geographical areas in Norway in a common garden experiment

Supervisors: Håkon Dahle & Inga Kjersti Sjøtun (BIO)

 

Cecilie Kaars Skaale, M. Sci. student 2020-2023

Project: Effect of surface coverage on night swimming behaviour of Atlantic salmon investigated using broadband acoustics (CRIMAC)

Supervisors: Frode Oppedal & Tonje Nesse Forland (IMR), Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO)

 

Hannah Sønsteng-Røkke, M. Sci. student 2021-2023

Project: Growth of larval herring (Clupea harengus) at different light regimes

Supervisors: Arild Folkvord (BIO), Florian Berg (IMR), Gaute Seljestad (BIO)

 

Øivind Andersen, M. Sci. student 2021-2022

Project: Effect of a copepod parasite on the mesopelagic fish Benthosema glaciale (HypOnFjordFish)

Supervisors: Anne Gro Vea Salvanes & Henrik Glenner (BIO)

 

Saron Berhe, M. Sci. student 2021-2022

Project: Effect of tag weight on vertical behavior of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts: an overlooked tag effect?

Supervisors: Robert Lennox & Knut Wiik Vollset (NORCE), Arild Folkvord (UiB IMR)

 

Øydis Brendeland, M. Sci. student 2021-2022

Project: Life history traits of coastal sprat in Norwegian fjords

Supervisor: Florian Berg (IMR), Arild Folkvord (UiB, IMR)

 

Carl Bukowski (visiting from Freie University of Berlin), M. Sci. student 2021-2022

Project: Effect of hypoxia on the community structure and trophic ecology of diel vertical migrating crustaceans in Norwegian fjords (HypOnFjordFish)

Supervisors: Natalya Gallo & Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO)

 

Karoline Hegdal Jakobsen

Project: Otolith growth of small pelagic fish in Norwegian fjord

Supervisors: Florian Berg (IMR), Arild Folkvord (UiB, IMR)

 

Sakura Komiyama

Project: Spatiotemporal dynamics in the acoustic backscatter of plankton and lesser sandeel (Ammodytes marinus) in the North Sea measured using a Saildrone

Supervisors: Espen Johnsen & Geir Pedersen (IMR), Arild Folkvord (UiB, IMR)

 

Nils Mo

Project: Distribution of saithe (Pollachius virens) in the Barents Sea during a period with varying environmental conditions.

Supervisors: Arved Staby (IMR) & Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO)

 

Tomine Grov Lekven

Project: Temporal stability of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) otolith shape

Supervisors: Florian Berg (IMR), Arild Folkvord (UiB, IMR)

 

Ainsley Nash

Project: A tale of two fishes: The depth preference of migrating Atlantic salmon smolts, and their aquatic predator Brown trout, in a Norwegian freshwater lake.

Supervisors: Robert Lennox & Knut Wiik Vollset (NORCE), Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO)

 

Marius Nilsen

Project: Experimental investigation of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) genetic signal duration in the stomachs of predatory Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus).

Supervisors: Martina Stiasny (IMR), Jessica Rey (NORCE), Arild Folkvord (UiB, IMR)

 

Karen Rosland

Project: Distribution and trophic interactions of Velvet Belly Lantern shark (Etmopterus spinax) and Blackmouth Catshark (Galeus melastomus) in fjords that differ in basin oxygen levels. (HypOnFjordFish)

Supervisors: Natalya Gallo & Anne Gro Vea Salvanes (BIO)

 

Daniel Jarl Skåtøy Stiti

Project: Analyse tempo-spatial distribution of sprat in Norwegian fjords using echosounder data

Supervisors: Espen Johnsen (IMR), Florian Berg (IMR), Arild Folkvord (UiB, IMR)

 

Frida Tronbøl

Project:  Tracking the time course of reproductive events in Northeast Arctic haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

Supervisors: Olav Sigurd Kjesbu & Edda Johannessen (IMR), Arild Folkvord (UiB, IMR)

 

Tommy Gorm-Hansen Tøsdal

Project: An investigation of spatial and temporal patterns in the Norwegian mackerel fishery during the period 1900-2020

Supervisors: Leif Nøttestad & Øystein Skagseth (IMR), Arild Folkvord (UiB, IMR)