Magnus Gaard, Cand Scient

Senior lecturer, Føroya Studentaskúla -og HF-skeiði í Hoydølum - The Upper Secondary School of the Faroe Islands
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Research field: Biological Sciences
1. vegetation of North Atlantic Islands and arctic.
2. Fish parasites as indicators of fish migrations.
3. Evolution.

Publications

Book (5)
- Magnus Gaard (2010) Lívfrøði 1 - Lærarabók. In Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur.
- Magnus Gaard (2009) Lívfrøði 1 - Arbeiðsbók. In Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur.
- Magnus Gaard (2009) Lívfrøði 1 - Næmingabók. In Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur.
- Magnus Gaard (2007) Føroya Náttúra - Undirvísingartilfar. In Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur.
- Magnus Gaard, Anna Maria Fosaa, Eilif Gaard et al. (2006) Føroya Náttúra - lívfrøðiligt margfeldi. In Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur.
Journal Article (5)
- A. M. , Olsen, E. , Simonsen, W. , Gaard, M. & Hansen, H Fosaa (2010) Vegetation transition following drainage in a high-latitude hyper-oceanic ecosystem. In Applied vegetation sciense .
- K. MacKenzie, C. Kalavati, M Gaard et al. (2005) Myxosporean gall bladder parasites of gadid fish in the North Atlantic: an assessment of their economic importance in fisheries and mariculture. In Fisheries research.
- Tomatso. Hoshino, Magnus Gaard, U Kiriako et al. (2004) A snow mold fungus, Typhula incarnata, from the Faroe Islands, 71-76. In Acta Botanica Islandica.
- Anna Maria Fosaa, Martin T Sykes, Jonas E Lawesson et al. (2004) Potential effects of climate change on plant species in the Faroe Islands, 427-437. In Global Ecology and Biogeography.
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- Magnus Gaard (2002) Myxidium gadi and Myxidium oviforme in the gall bladders of cod Gadus morhua, from the Faroe plateau and the Faroe bank – a pilot study on implications of parasites as biological indicators of Faroese cod stocks, 111-120. In Fróðskaparrit.
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Magazine Article (2)
- Magnus Gaard, Janus Hansen (2004) Skelsandurin á Hvítanesi, 4-8. In Frøði.
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- Magnus Gaard (2001) – ein leivd av gróðri frá fornari tíð?, 28-33.
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Report (2)
- Agnes Mols Mortensen, Susse Wegberg, Høgni Arnbjarnason et al. (2005) Forsøgsdyrkning af Alaria Esculente på Færøerne, 12.
- Anna Maria Fosaa, Magnus Gaard, Janus Hansen (2005) Reyðlisti.
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Biographical Information

I am born on the 18 of july in 1970. Primary school in Tórshavn from 1977-1985. One year of primary school in Odense in 1985-1986. Attended secondary High school in Tórshavn 1986-1989. In 1989-1990 worked as a carpenter. 1990-1991 fisherman in the Baltic Sea. Started my university education in Tórshavn 1992. Took one year in RUC Roskilde, and the rest at Copenhagen university 1993-1999. Have been working as a scientist and educator since