Harald Steen

Leader for ICE
Harald Steen
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Phone+47 77 75 05 31
Cellphone+47 412 32 588
Work placeTromsø
Affiliation

Dr Harald Steen is leader for the Norwegian Polar Institute's centre for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems (ICE). Harald has worked as deputy research director and leader for ICE Ecosystems.

Career

  • 1/1-91 1/1-95 Ph.D. stipend Univ. of Oslo (UIO), Norway
  • 1/1-95 - 31/6-95 Researcher NINA- Dept. of Arctic biology (NINA), Tromsø, Norway
  • 8-10-95 - 31-7-96. Assistant professor (stand in) Zoological Institute, Univ. of Trondheim (NTNU), Norway.
  • 31-7-96 – 14 Feb 98. Post doc. stipend Norwegian Science Foundation to stay and work with Prof. C. Krebs, Univ. of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.
  • 14 Feb 1998 to 14 Feb. 2001. Director of Wildlife Management Diploma (post graduate) and lecturer at the Department of Zoology, University of Otago, New Zealand.
  • 15 Feb. 2001 Assistant professor at the Department of Biology, Div. Of Zoology. University of Oslo. Director of Finse Alpine Research Station.
  • 15 Oct. 2003 – June 2005 Professor in zoology, University of Oslo.
  • June 2005 to present. Seabird ecologist, Norwegian Polar Institute

Areas of interest and expertise

Population dynamics, foraging ecology, mark-recapture.

References/Bibliography

  • Hoset, K.H., Galliard, J.F., Gundersen, G., Steen, H. (2007) Home range size and overlap in female root voles: effects of season and density. Behavioural Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arm112
  • Le Galliard, J. F., Gundersen, G., Steen, H. (2007) Mother-offspring interactions do not affect natal dispersal in a small rodent. Behavioral Ecology 18 (4): 665-673.
  • Steen, H., Vogedes, D., Broms, F., Falk-Petersen, S., Berge, J. (2007) Little auks (Alle alle) breeding in a High Arctic fjord system: bimodal foraging strategies as a response to poor food quality? Polar Research. 26: 118-125.
  • Loe, L.E., Mysterud, A., Stien, A., Steen, H., Evans, D.M., Gunnar Austrheim, G. 2007. Positive short-term effects of sheep grazing on the alpine avifauna. BIOLOGY LETTERS 3 (1): 109-111
  • Korslund, L. & Steen, H. 2006. Small rodent winter survival: snow conditions limit access to food resources. J. Anim Ecol.75:156–166.
  • Korslund, L. & Steen, H. 2006. Small rodent winter survival: snow conditions limit access to food resources. J. Anim Ecol.75:156–166.
    Pedersen, H.C., H. Steen, L. Kastdalen, H. Brøseth, R.A. Ims, W. Svendsen, N.G. Yoccoz. 2004. Weak compensation of harvest despite strong density-dependent growth in Willow Ptarmigan. Proc. Roy Soc, Lond. 271: 381-385.
  • Steen H., Mysterud, A., Austrheim, G. 2005. Sheep grazing and rodent populations: evidence of negative interactions from a landscape scale experiment. Oecologia 143: 357-364.
  • Haydon, D. Steen, H. 1997. The effects of large and small random events on the synchrony of metapopulation dynamics: a theoretical analysis. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 352:1-7.
  • Erikstad, K.E., Fauchald, P. Tveraa, T. Steen, H. ,1998. On the cost of reproduction in long-lived birds; the influence of environmental variability. Ecology 79(5) 1781-1788.
  • Steen, H., Haydon, D. 2000. Can Population Growth Rates Vary With the Spatial Scale at which they are Measured? Journal of Animal Ecology: 69 (4), 659-671.

Projects

Working with seabird monitoring at Spitsbergen through NPI's internal project, SEAPOP (www.seapop.no) and "Winter ecology of Brünnich’s' guillemots”.