I am broadly interested in the diversity, systematics and ecology of ctenophores and medusozoan cnidarians. My recent work focuses on integrative morphological and molecular taxonomy of these groups, including reference libraries of DNA barcodes. My research also includes descriptive studies on faunistics and spatial and temporal distributions of gelatinous zooplankton based on both physical sampling, optical methods and, more recently, eDNA, as well as experimental work on their ecological and trophic roles in the pelagic.

I am a member of ICES Working Groups on Integrated Morphological and Molecular Taxonomy (WGIMT) and Zooplankton Ecology (WGZE), SCOR working group #157 and UN Ocean Decade Action No. 102.2 MetaZooGene, and The Hydrozoan Society

BIO325 Ocean Science

BIO266 Marine Benthic Fauna

BIO232 Systematics and Evolution of Marine Invertebrates

ForBio and NorHydro course: Diversity, Systematics and Biology of Hydrozoa

ForBio and MEDUSA course: Zooplankton Communities – Taxonomy and Methods

Ongoing and previous Norwegian taxonomy initiative projects:

Challenging taxa of gelatinous zooplankton (CHANGEZ)

Resolving poorly known hyperbenthic invertebrates in Norwegian marine ecosystems (HYPERS) (PI Sanna Majaneva)

Norwegian Arctic Hydrozoa (NOAH) (PI Joan J. Soto-Angel)

Metazoan parasites of non-crustacean zooplankton (ParaZoo) (PI Luis Martell)

Marine benthic hydroids (NorHydro) (PI Luis Martell)

Hydrozoan pelagic diversity in Norway (HYPNO)

Ctenophores along the Norwegian coast (GooseAlien) (PI Sanna Majaneva/NTNU)

Other ongoing projects:

Anthoathecate hydrozoans in Swedish waters (HYDROINS), PhD student Doris Björling/GU

JellySafe on Apolemia siphonophores

Gelatinous Lifeforms in farOese waters: Biodiversity, rEgional Connectivity, and Capacity building (GLOBECC) 

DRIFT - Systematically rethinking advection and cross-ecosystem subsidies

Past projects

Distribution and ecosystem impacts of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Norwegian waters

BAZOOCA

Mar-Eco

Gelatinous zooplankton in fjords and coastal waters of Norway

PhD thesis

Gelatinous zooplankton in western Norwegian fjords - Ecology, systematics and comparisons with adjacent waters