Rebekka Ween

About

Work areas

Bi1002 Faunistics and floristics
- Cordinates the floristics field courses, labs, lectures and exams
Bi2023 Community ecology and ecosystems
- Aids in field course organisation, teaching and exams
Head of the educational botany collection of plants, fungi, algae, lichens and moss
Aids students and staff in floristics studies

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"
- Student-prosject
- Not all flowers are equal: Plant-pollinator interactions in a changing Arctic – Unisprout (uib.no)
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

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.

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).

Hoye, T. H., Mann, H. M. R., Raundrup, K., Ween, R. E., & Eidesen, P. B. (2020). AUTOMATED MONITORING USING TIME-LAPSE CAMERAS TO STUDY PLANT PHENOLOGY. Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Report Card 2019. DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus Universitet.

Ween, R. E., & Michaud, A. (2018). Flowers of Svalbard. Norsk Botanisk Forening (book, popular science).

Teaching

Courses

BI1002 - Faunistics and Floristics

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