Team

Thrond O. Haugen

PhD

Research focus

 

Ecological and evolutionary processes behind variation in fish behavior and life histories, and how natural and various human-induced selection alterations affect these processes

Appointments

Since - 2010:

  • Professor in Fish(eries) Ecology and Management at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management

2009 - 2015

  • Senior Researcher at Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) (20% position)

2009 - 2014

  • Professor at Hedmark University College (HUC), Campus Evenstad

2005 - 2009

  • (Senior) researcher at Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)

2001 - 2004

  • Post Doc in Population dynamics at University of Oslo

1996 - 2000

  • Dr. Scient (PhD) in Evolutionary Ecology at University of Oslo

1999

  • Lecturer at Telemark University College (TUC), Dep. Bø

1994 - 1995

  • Lecturer in Biology at Oslo University College

 

Three important Scientific Discoveries and associated papers

Haugen, T. O., I. J. Winfield, L. A. Vøllestad, J. M. Fletcher, J. B. James, and N. C. Stenseth. 2006. The ideal free pike: 50 years of fitness-maximizing dispersal in Windermere. Proceedings from the Royal Society of London Series B 273:2917–2924.

Haugen, T. O., I. J. Winfield, L. A. Vøllestad, J. M. Fletcher, J. B. James, and N. C. Stenseth. 2007. Density dependence and density independence in the demography and dispersal of pike over four decades. Ecological Monographs 77:483–502.

Koskinen, M. T., T. O. Haugen, and C. R. Primmer. 2002. Contemporary fisherian life-history evolution in small salmonid populations. Nature 419:826–830.