At the Leena Pond
posted by aosva on 30 June 2010

13.7. Kaisu, Oula, Helene, Claudia and Antero looking for arctic char. 13.7. Underwater shooting :-) 4.7.2010 -  With a student course at the Leena Pond.  I took a sample of the  pond bottom with water and a zoo plankton sample of a nearby pond. Later I examined them in the laboratory. 4.7. 5.7. ------ Leena Pond is an arctic tarn-pond and since last summer it has been been a target of biological research concerning ecology, environmental changes  and global warming.  Also artists will participate  the project.  Director of Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (University of Helsinki),  professor Antero Järvinen is leading the project. 24.6.2010/  On the way up to the mountains, we saw a living lemming, first time for both of us. Leo, my husband was with me. We took a wrong  stream to follow and reached the pond from the hills,  the small spot on the right in the first picture.  The surrounding is extremely ascetic, rough and it is hard to  imagine the   pond  to be habitable. This I wish to  learn more about during my Ars Bioarctica residency here in Kilpisjärvi.