Økofysiologi, akvakultur, smoltproduksjon/utsettinger av fisk, forurensninger og menneskekapte påvirkninger, laksefisk i sjøen, fiskeparasitter, biotelemetri.
Ecophysiology, aquaculture, smoltproduction/releases of fish, pollution and other human impacts, salmonids in sea, fish diseases-parasites, biotelemetry.
2 days course in project administration, Songli, 1994 and a 3 days course in laboratory animal science (FELASA, Category C, Researcher), Oslo 1998. External examiner (censor) at the University of Nordland, Bodø, at the Norwegian Fishery College, University of Tromsø and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
Norwegian, English, German
Canada, Scotland, Russia
• Member of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles and the Norwegian Zoological Association • 2001-2006: Adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada • 2009 - 2016: Member of the Norwegian Scientific Advisory Committee for Atlantic Salmon • Contributing editor for the journal Aquaculture Environment Interactions