Nathan Harris Phinney, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis “Lichen ecohydrology: from water uptake and storage to climate-driven growth rates and distribution patterns”, on 7 February 2020.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Nathan Harris Phinney, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend his PhD thesis “Lichen ecohydrology: from water uptake and storage to climate-driven growth rates and distribution patterns”, on 7 February 2020.
Norwegian title of thesis:
Lavers økohydrologi: fra vannopptak og vannlagring til klimadrevne vekstrater og utbredelsesmønstre.
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
Living on the edge: How will lichens and bryophytes respond to future climate change?
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Friday 7, February, kl. 12.15 Auditorium SKP (Senter for klimaregulert planteforskning), Kirkeveien 16
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Assistant Professor Daniel E. Stanton, University of Minnesota, USA
Second opponent: Dr. Claudia Colesie, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Committee administrator: Professor Mikael Ohlson, MINA, NMBU
Supervisors:
Main Supervisor: Professor Yngvar Gauslaa, MINA, NMBU
Co-supervisors: Professor Knut Asbjørn Solhaug, MINA, NMBU
Professor Per-Anders Esseen, Umeå University,
Sweden
The doctoral thesis is available for public review at the NMBU library.
Thesis number 2020:15 ISSN 1894-6402 ISBN 978-82-575-1680-2