E-mail: kim.barum@hihm.no

Phone: +47 62 43 08 92 / 91 88 54 91
Fax: +47 62 43 08 51

Mailing address:

Hedmark University College
Faculty of Forestry and Wildlife Management
Campus Evenstad
NO-2480 Koppang
Norway

Research interests:

My main research interests are within the realm of ecology and evolution. In my master thesis I studied morphological divergence among sympatric demes of grayling ( Thymallus thymallus ). The grayling shared a common ancestor some 80-120 years ago, and shows evidence for evolution on a contemporary timescale which might be contributed to variation in climatic conditions between the demes.

In my PhD-project I will focus on develop population models for predicting climate effects on brown trout ( Salmo trutta ) across a coast-to-inland gradient. I will use data assessed from many lakes across a coast-to-inland gradient. I will also explore the climate effects on early life stages of the trout in controlled temperature-effect experiments. The aim is a general climate-driven population dynamic model which could generate population scenarios under various climatic conditions.