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Åpent møte om Fridtjof Nansens polar forskning - 24. januar

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 6. January 2012 - 10:01

Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi, NTVA, og Norges Vitenskapsakademi for Polarforskning, NVP, inviterer til fellesmøte i Bergen i anledning 150-års jubileum for Fridtjof Nansen og 25-års jubileum for Nansensenteret.

 

Tema: Nansen og Johannessen i isen i Arktis

 

New leadership at the Nansen Center

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 2. January 2012 - 16:19

Director Peter M. HauganDirector Peter M. HauganProfessor Peter Mosby Haugan has taken over the position as Director of the Nansen Center from January 1st 2012 after Professor Stein Sandven. Peter M. Haugan has been professor at Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen since 1999, where he also was institute leader from 2003 to 2011. For details see his CV.

Avtale signert om etablering av Nansensenter i Dhaka, Bangladesh

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 28. November 2011 - 9:10

Nansen‐Bangladesh International Centre for Coastal, Ocean and Climate Studies (NABIC) er etablert ved Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) i Dhaka. NABIC´s visjon er å bidra til å øke kunnskap om kystsone, hav‐ og klimaendringer for å stimulere til en bærekraftig utvikling i Bangladesh under det nåværende og framtidige klimaforhold.

Presentations from the Nansen Center´s 25 years colloquium available

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 25. November 2011 - 9:49

 PROGRAM

Annual Meeting of Nansen-Zhu International Research Center

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 24. November 2011 - 8:33

The participants at the NZC annual meeting in 2011. Photo: Jun Wang.The participants at the NZC annual meeting in 2011. Photo: Jun Wang.Annual meeting of Nansen-Zhu International Research Center (NZC) was held at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on November 23rd ,2011. Participants include Dr. Kari Kveseth (Science Chancellor of Norwegian Embassy in Beijing), Prof. Huijun Wang (Director-General of IAP and Director of NZC), Prof. Ola M. Johannessen (Executive chairman of Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, NERSC), Prof.

Intensiverer forskning på luftkvaliteten i Bergen

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 17. November 2011 - 19:21

GC Rieber Klimainstitutt skal utvikle en finskala atmosfæremodell for å varsling av luftforurensing i Bergen kommune. Modellen vil kunne gi politikere og myndigheter et bedre kunnskapsgrunnlag for å vurdere effektene av og å prioritere tiltak for å begrense luftforurensingen.

GC Rieber Funds Ph. D. fellowship on “Air Quality in Bergen under Present and Future Climate Conditions” - extended deadline

Job Position: 
PhD Student
Contact Person: 
Igor Ezau
Deadline: 
31. January 2012 (All day)

  A GC Rieber Funds Ph. D. fellowship is vacant at the GC Rieber Climate Institute at Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC), Bergen, Norway.

The study will address Air Quality in Bergen under Present and Future Climate Conditions

Nansensenterets 25 års seminar

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 16. November 2011 - 7:48

150 år etter at Fridtjof Nansen ble født, feirer Nansensenteret i Bergen sitt 25 års jubileum med et “25 years Nansen Colloquium in honor of Fridtjof Nansen 150 years anniversary “ fredag den 18 november – se vedlagte program.  Ledende internasjonale forskere vil holde foredrag - blant annet den verdenskjente Professor Walter Munk, som var den første doktorgradsstudenten til Prof.

Lecture series in acoustic oceanography

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 25. October 2011 - 15:28

The Nansen Center will host a lecture series in accoustic Oceangraphy during November and December, titled "Measuring mode-1 internal tides by ocean acoustic tomography and satellite altimetry: Towards global predictions of the mode-1 internal tide”.

Dr. Brian Dushaw is a visiting Fulbright exchange scientist at the Nansen Center for 6 months. He is a senior oceanographer at Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle with expertise in applications of acoustic tomography to explore the ocean processes in integration with ocean models and observations.

Researcher position open at the Mohn-Sverdrup Center

Job Position: 
Researcher
Contact Person: 
Laurent Bertino
Deadline: 
6. February 2012 (All day)

A research position in coupled ice-ocean modeling and data assimilation is open at the Mohn-Sverdrup Center, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway.

Nansensenteret blir nasjonalt miljøinstitutt og får basisfinansiering

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 6. October 2011 - 15:12

Regjeringen innlemmer Nansensenteret i ordningen for basisfinansiering til miljøforskningsinstituttene i statsbudsjettet for 2012. Miljøverndepartementet øker basisbevilgingene til miljøinstituttene med 9 millioner, hvorav 4,4 millioner er satt av til Nansensenteret. 

”Nansen senter for miljø og fjernmåling ble etablert i 1986 og det var flott av miljøvernminister Erik Solheim å gi oss dette i ”25-årsgave”, spesielt nå ved 150-årsjubileet for Fridtjof Nansens fødsel” uttaler grunnlegger og arbeidende styreformann, professor Ola M. Johannessen.

Paper published on data assimilation in an eddy resolving tidal-driven model of the South China Sea.

Submitted by Francois Counillon on 6. October 2011 - 13:20

The paper "An eddy resolving tidal-driven model of the South China Sea assimilating along-track SLA data using the EnOI" has been published by scientists J. Xie, F. Counillon, J. Zhu and L. Bertino at the Nansen Centers in Bergen and Beijing in the journal Ocean Science.

Paper published on the meridional energy flux in the Arctic

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 3. October 2011 - 15:06

Ph.D. student Svetlana Sokorina and research director Igor Esau at the G.C. Rieber Climate Institute at the Nansen Center have published a paper on the Meridional energy flux in the Arctic based on radiosonde data analysis in the journal Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics. The IGRA radiosonde network in the Arctic used in this study.The IGRA radiosonde network in the Arctic used in this study.

ERS satellites has observed the Earth during 20 years

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 3. October 2011 - 14:37

The European ERS-1 satellite was launched in 1991 and the ERS-2 satellite followed in 1995. Both satellites have provided Earth observation data that has been essential for the scientific research performed at the Nansen Center during the last 20 years.

Transformations of Arctic sea ice

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 3. October 2011 - 14:19

Dr. Sara de la Rosá defended her doctoral dissertation titled Temporal changes of sea ice affected by waves and thermal forcing at the Nansen Center on September 30.

Studies of the plankton community in Norwegian coastal waters.

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 31. August 2011 - 14:36

Leading scientist Lasse H. Pettersson at the Nansen Center have co-authored the paper “The plankton community in Norwegian coastal waters—abundance, composition, spatial distribution and diel variation” recently published in Continental Shelf Research.

Paper published on the vertical structure of recent warming in the Arctic.

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 31. August 2011 - 13:27

Research Director Igor Easu and PhD student Svetlans Sokorina at the Nansen Center have co-authored the paper “Vertical structure of recent arctic warming from observed data and reanalysis products” recently published in Climate change.

Paper on "Accumulation over the Greenland Ice Sheet as Represented in Reanalysis Data" published.

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 11. August 2011 - 12:41

A new paper on "Accumulation over the Greenland Ice Sheet as Represented in Reanalysis Data" have been published by Chen et al. in Advance Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.

Mean (1989-2001) annual precipitation over the GrIS from (a) ERA-40, (b) ERA-interim, (c) NCEP-1, and (d) NCEP-2; Mean (1989-2001) annual evaporation over the GrIS from (e) ERA- 40, (f) ERA-interim, (g) NCEP-1, and (h) NCEP-2. Units: mm/yr.Mean (1989-2001) annual precipitation over the GrIS from (a) ERA-40, (b) ERA-interim, (c) NCEP-1, and (d) NCEP-2; Mean (1989-2001) annual evaporation over the GrIS from (e) ERA- 40, (f) ERA-interim, (g) NCEP-1, and (h) NCEP-2. Units: mm/yr.

Paper on "Interaction Between the Warm Subsurface Atlantic Water in the Sermilik Fjord and Helheim Glacier in Southeast Greenland" published.

Submitted by Ola Johannessen on 11. August 2011 - 9:30

Ola M. Johannessen, Alexander Korablev, Victoria Miles, Martin Miles and Knutv E. Solberg have published the paper Interaction Between the Warm Subsurface Atlantic Water in the Sermilik Fjord and Helheim Glacier in Southeast Greenland in Surveys in Geophysics.

Special issue on the Earth’s Cryosphere and Sea Level Change

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 4. July 2011 - 12:45

The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) workshop on the Earth’s Cryosphere and Sea Level Change was hosted by Lennart Bengtsson in Bern, Switzerland in March 2011. The main results anmd conclusions from the workshop are now published on-line in a special issue of Surveys in Geophysics.

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