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Norwegian College of Fishery Science
Department of Aquatic Biology

e-mail: bjoerng@nfh.uit.no
Telephone: +47 77 64 44 90

Research
Fulbright-scholarship (California,USA) 1966/67, cand. real. in marine biology 1971, Associate Professor & Director - Marinebiological station in Tromsø (1977-1989), Visiting professor - Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University (1983/84), Professor - Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Univ. Tromsø (1990-present), Professor II – University courses on Svalbard (1994 - present). He is a marine ecologists who has been studying several aspects of marine ecology for more than 30 years including field-work in Antarctica, the Arctic, along the Norwegian coast , the Baltic and at the Californian coast. He has published >100 articles (ca 80 in internationally peer-reviewed journals), mainly related to benthos and ice-fauna i polar waters, but has also participated in studies and published papers related to the ecology of halibut, Arctic fish species and marine mammals.

Teaching areas
F-130 Aquatic Ecology

The course treats basic ecological principles related to marine animal resources. Main topics are an introduction to physical oceanography, marine production, trophic relationships in aquatic ecosystems, systematics of marine evertebrates & vertebrates, basic limnology and pollution in aquatic environments. Approved report from the field course and laboratory exercise is required.