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Originally Posted by toretorden
You're wrong - a bit - I'm a biology student currently writing an ecology masters thesis on wind dispersal of high arctic non-flying invertebrates like mites and collembolans. I did quite a large part of my bachelor and much of the work for my masters up on Svalbard which is an archipelago in the norwegian arctic. 
It's a brilliant place and there are no rules concerning immigration there so it's a very mixed community. About half the students are norwegians and the rest come from all over!
By the way, the sun comes in at an angle on the southern hemisphere as well  |
That sounds fantastic what you're doing. I did a bit of microbiology in first year and found it quite interesting. It would be cool to go to Lake Vostok in Antarctica and see what types of microbes have survived over the years and to determine the age of the lake.
I like the idea of a mixed community, different cultures can make life so much more interesting, and some real characters often end up in situations like that with great stories!
I know the sun does, I didn't mean the zenith angle, more of the tilt that the earth rotates on which changes slightly once a year. But that is more of a natural thing.