Van Dijk CV
Keynote Presentations from the 5th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 14 September 2010
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Speaker: Jiska van Dijk jiska.van.dijk -at- nina.no Norwegian Institute for Nature Research - NINA, Tungasletta 2, NO-7047 Trondheim, Norway http://www.nina.no |
Title of the talk: ALTER-Net
Integration of traditional and scientific knowledge in human-wildlife conflict management (pdf: 6MB)
Biosketch
Jiska van Dijk was born on January the 28th 1970 in the Netherlands. She graduated at the Biology department of the University of Amsterdam in 1996. At the University of Amsterdam her interest in different ecology related topics was developed and while she was able to extent her master period she worked on gentians in Sweden, on macaws in Ecuador and on lizards in the Netherlands. After graduation she moved on to predators and worked on brown bears in Eurasia and Alaska until she and her husband both got the opportunity to start their PhD work on wolverines at the Norwegian Institute for Nature research (NINA) in Norway. They moved to Norway in 2003 and their daughter was born in the summer of 2007. Jiska defended her thesis on wolverine foraging strategies in March 2008. After finishing her PhD work she continued with predators and is currently involved in arctic fox, red fox and wolverine research at NINA and she is leading the work on Eurasian otter and North American mink. Apart from her interest in single predator species and their interactions she wanted to step into the world of biodiversity conservation at the European level and since April 2009 she is the coordinator for ALTER-Net, a long-term biodiversity, ecosystem and awareness research network (www.alter-net.info).
