Lisette van Noord
Study: MSc Aquaculture and Marine Resource management.
Destination: Norway.
Exchange student.
Hi Everyone,
My name is Lisette. I study the Master Aquaculture and Marine Resource management and for the next few months I follow courses in Norway. At this page you can follow my adventures. You can also follow me (@lisette_van_noord) and other WURldexplorers on Instagram: search for #WURldexplorers!
I am finally going to Svalbard!
I wanted to go to Svalbard for several years and now it is finally going to happen. I have already tried to go there during my bachelor but unfortunately I was not accepted as a student at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). Back then I was planning to go there for 6 months. I kind of gave up on the dream till I found out that they provide a course that would fit my master (Aquaculture and Marine Resource management) perfectly. This course would only take 5 weeks meaning I would not be there during the winter (which I do not mind since during the winter the sun does not rise and temperatures of minus 20 are not strange).
Arrived in Svalbard!
I am finally here in Svalbard! The weather is very nice and a lot better than I anticipated on. The people are very nice as well. I already met a girl on the airport that used to study at UNIS. She went back to Svalbard to meet up whit some friends that she made here. After arrival she showed me the town and where I could go to do my groceries. I went to bed really early since the night before I was sleeping on a sofa on Oslo airport.
Safety training!
All students that follow courses at UNIS have to participate in a safety training. For us, the safety training only took one day, but students that stay here during winter have to follow one that takes up several days, since the environment can be quite harsh in that period. Our day started with an introduction about the dangerous situations you can get yourself into and more important, how to avoid that from happening.
Sailing the Barents Sea
In the past two weeks we took part in a survey of the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) to get more insight about how the data from such a survey is collected and what kind of work researchers do on such a ship. The survey took as from Tromsø along the continental shelf back to Longyearbyen.