This week’s blog post will take you to two marteloscopes. Do you know what that is? Any guesses? We take a definition from a technical paper published by the EFI (Schuck et at., 2015): ”Marteloscopes are 1-hectare large, rectangular forest sites where all trees are numbered, mapped and recorded. In combination with a software tool, […]

At the moment of writing this post the number of infections of coronavirus in Germany is rising again. The winter semester is coming to an end and most of it has been in lockdown. Despite of this the students in Germany were able to experience first-hand some of the issues that were studied in the […]

It was my dream coming true when I first received the e-mail from our coordinator saying that I had been selected for the scholarship. Student life in Finland was a lot of fun for me. I was thinking how I could adapt to the new environment and study life specially in Europe. By being a […]

Despite the current pandemic situation, my Applied Period took place under the Chair of Forest Growth at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. I joined as a trainee in KonKlim Project which aims at the suitability of three most economically important coniferous tree species (Norway spruce, Silver fir and Douglas fir) regarding their growth increments to predict climatic […]