Prof. Elisabeth Cooper is a plant ecologist based in Tromsø at UiT- The Arctic University of Norway. She studies plant- and tundra ecosystems responses to climate. She runs a long-term experiment on Svalbard to find out more about the role of snow and changes in winter conditions for tundra ecology. She has previously worked at UNIS in Longyearbyen and Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø and is an active member of the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) network.
