Doctors MINA

All doctors conferred upon from the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), autumn 2019 - summer 2021
Hans Fredrik Hoen, Dean MINA

Greetings from the dean

Dear doctors.

Congratulations! Today we are celebrating the 28 of MINA’s PhD candidates who have defended their degree from fall 2019 up to mid 2021.

You will find my salutation below.

Best wishes,
Hans Fredrik Hoen

Salutation from the Dean

About this page

NMBU honour those conferred upon with a PhD degree between autumn 2019 and summer 2021. This web page is open to the public. You, and those you wish to share it with, can enter the experience at any time for the coming year from 17 September 2021 at 14:00 Central European Time (CET).

The web page includes similar elements found in a ceremony with physical presence, such as speeches, music, information about each NMBU doctor and a password-protected proforma diploma for display purposes.

The NMBU video salutation to the doctors:

The video honouring the doctors is a part of this year’s celebration of NMBU’s recently graduated doctors
Profilbilde av Yennie Katarina Bredin

Yennie Katarina Bredin

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Yennie Katarina Bredin. Your thesis ”Flooding matters: Structure, above-ground biomass, and carbon stocks of an Amazonian forestscape” was defended on 25.06.2021. 

Hilde Nikoline Hambro Dybsand

Hilde Nikoline Hambro Dybsand

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Hilde Nikoline Hambro Dybsand. Your thesis ”Participant Experiences in Wildlife Watching Tourism” was defended on 07.07.2021.

Pablo Durán Flores

Pablo Ignacio Adolfo Durán Flores

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Sérgio Domingos Cardoso Da Rocha. Your thesis ”Dietary influence on intestinal microbiota and immune responses in mice – roles of high-fat diet and reactive oxygen species (ROS)” was defended on 13.11.2020.

Paul David Hagen Beaumont

Denis Edem Kwame Dzebre

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Denis Edem Kwame Dzebre. Your thesis ”Sensitivity Analyses of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model for Wind Resource Assessment in Coastal Ghana” was defended on 18.12.2019. 

Knut Fossgard

Knut Fossgard

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Knut Fossgard. Your thesis ”Facilitating nature-based tourism experiences: A study of the relationships between providers, resources and products” was defended on 17.01.2020. 

Camilla Hedlund Corneliussen Hagman

Camilla Hedlund Corneliussen Hagman

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Camilla Hedlund Corneliussen Hagman. Your thesis ”Exploring the link between phytoplankton and environmental stressors using lake sediments as archives: A study of Gonyostomum semen’s expansion in Norwegian lakes” was defended on 18.06.2021.

Kaja Mathilde Aamodt Heltorp

Kaja Mathilde Aamodt Heltorp

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Kaja Mathilde Aamodt Heltorp. Your thesis ”Forestry and forest management in an uncertain environment – adaptation to climate change in Norwegian forestry” was defended on 16.09.2019. 

Eirik Ogner Jåstad

Eirik Ogner Jåstad

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Eirik Ogner Jåstad. Your thesis ”Assessments of the future role of bioenergy in the Nordic energy and forest sectors” was defended on 01.12.2020. 

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Zerihun Asrat Kutie

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Zerihun Asrat Kutie. Your thesis ”Modelling and estimating tree and forest resources of the Dry Afromontane forests in South-central Ethiopia using field and remotely sensed data” was defended on 30.10.2020. 

Erica Maremonti

Erica Maremonti

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Erica Maremonti. Your thesis ”Investigating sensitivity and tolerance to chronic gamma irradiation in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans” was defended on 14.02.2020. 

Lennart Noordermeer

Lennart Noordermeer

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Lennart Noordermeer. Your thesis ”Large-area forest productivity estimation using bitemporal data from airborne laser scanning and digital aerial photogrammetry” was defended on 27.05.2020. 

Greyson Zabron Nyamoga

Greyson Zabron Nyamoga

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Greyson Zabron Nyamoga. Your thesis ”Analyzing aspects of land-use sustainability in Tanzania: Current forest degradation, urban charcoal demand, and impacts of future fire-wood and charcoal consumption” was defended on 23.08.2019. 

Nathan Harris Phinney

Nathan Harris Phinney

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Nathan Harris Phinney. Your thesis ”Lichen ecohydrology: from water uptake and storage to climate-driven growth rates and distribution patterns” was defended on 07.02.2020. 

Shimelis Gizachew Raji

Shimelis Gizachew Raji

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Shimelis Gizachew Raji. Your thesis ”Climate smart agriculture in smallholder farming systems in the central rift valley of Ethiopia: potentials for improving productivity, climate change adaptation and mitigation” was defended on 11.12.2019. 

Aleksandra Roos

Aleksandra Roos

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Aleksandra Roos. Your thesis ”Demand flexibility in electricity markets” was defended on 21.01.2021. 

Ruben Erik Roos

Ruben Erik Roos

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Ruben Erik Roos. Your thesis ”Functional traits across primary producer groups and their effects on micro-arthropod communities in alpine Norway” was defended on 20.09.2019. 

Aina Lundon Russenes

Aina Lundon Russenes

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Aina Lundon Russenes. Your thesis ”Nitrous oxide emission and turnover in arable cropping in South East Norway” was defended on 25.06.2020. 

Eli Sandberg

Eli Sandberg

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Eli Sandberg. Your thesis ”Nordic district heating and energy system flexibility” was defended on 28.11.2019. 

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Thomas Corodius Sawe

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Thomas Corodius Sawe. Your thesis ”Crop pollination by insects in small-scale agroforestry farming in Tanzania” was defended on 19.12.2019. 

Thomas Mørtvedt Solvin

Thomas Mørtvedt Solvin

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Thomas Mørtvedt Solvin. Your thesis ”Quantification of genetic and epigenetic variation in phenology and growth in Norway spruce” was defended on 09.06.2020. 

Mari Steinert

Mari Steinert

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Mari Steinert. Your thesis ”The conservation value of power-line clearings for native insect-pollinated plants and wild bees in boreal forest landscapes” was defended on 12.06.2020. 

Mahdieh Tourani

Mahdieh Tourani

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Mahdieh Tourani. Your thesis ”Leveraging non-invasive monitoring of carnivores using hierarchical models” was defended on 25.09.2020. 

Kristel van Zuijlen

Kristel van Zuijlen

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Kristel van Zuijlen. Your thesis ”Functional traits and decomposition of lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants in an alpine ecosystem” was defended on 06.09.2019. 

Yibeltal Tebikew Wassie

Yibeltal Tebikew Wassie

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Yibeltal Tebikew Wassie. Your thesis ”Effects of access to renewable energy sources and technologies on rural household energy use and the environment in Ethiopia” was defended on 04.11.2020. 

Ross Thompson Wetherbee

Ross Thompson Wetherbee

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Ross Thompson Wetherbee. Your thesis ”Veteran oaks, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in southern Norway” was defended on 25.06.2021. 

Kebede Wolka Wolancho

Kebede Wolka Wolancho

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Kebede Wolka Wolancho. Your thesis ”Effect of soil and water conservation management on surface runoff, soil erosion, soil fertility and crop yield in southwest Ethiopia” was defended on 16.12.2020. 

Frøydis Meen Wærsted

Frøydis Meen Wærsted

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Frøydis Meen Wærsted. Your thesis ”Mobility of naturally occurring radionuclides and stable elements in alum shale:  A case study of Gran, Highway 4, Norway” was defended on 27.09.2019. 

Profilbilde av Li Xie

Li Xie

Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Li Xie. Your thesis ”Single and combined toxicity of gamma and ultraviolet B radiation in the aquatic macrophyte Lemna minor” was defended on 16.04.2021.