My Thoughts and Stories

Flying over the Swedish Arctic The helicopter dropped us off, we unloaded our gear, and then it disappeared back over the horizon. For the next ten days, this was home. We were in northern Sweden, in a place called Tavvavuoma, well above the Arctic Circle, in an area with no roads, no phone reception and no easy way out. I was there as part of my master’s thesis fieldwork, with the main goal of catching birds and deploying GPS loggers to collect movement data. A few days earl