Laurent Bertino

Leading Scientist
of the Modeling and Data Assimilation group.
Deputy director of the Mohn-Sverdrup Center

Laurent Bertino
Me ten years ago...



The Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography
is a department of the Nansen Environmental and Remote-Sensing Center.

Research Interests:

Sequential data assimilation in ocean models (EnKF and other advanced filters).
Ocean modeling (esp. with HYCOM).
Geostatistics for environmental data.

A few basic ideas stolen from the book by Chilès & Delfiner (1999):

What is a Monte-Carlo simulation: "I am a lie that always tells the truth" (Jean Cocteau).
The reason for probabilistic forecasts: "As soon as a map is put out, everyone around the table tends to consider it as the truth", old saying in mining engineering.

Recent Projects:

Running
The eVITA-EnKF multidisciplinary project (funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2007-2012), Vice-coordinator together with Geir Evensen.
The MyOcean integrated project from the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme (2009-2012), leader of WP5, the Arctic Monitoring and Forecasting Center.
The BOSS4GMES integrated project from the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme (2007-2009)
Completed
PRECOC a project from the Franco-Norwegian Foundation (2006-2009, Coordinator)
The MERSEA integrated project from the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme (2004-2008)
The EMOFOR Phase-II project (2003-2005)
The TOPAZ project from the European Commission's 5th Framework Programme (2000-2003, Coordinator)
See the TOPAZ fact sheet.

More info:

Publications, thesis, reports and course
Personal / Professional links
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Copy of my passport (Pass)

Address:

    Laurent Bertino
    Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
    Thormøhlensgt. 47
    N-5006 Bergen
    Norway

    Phone:  +47 55 20 58 61 (work)   +47 55 32 15 96 (home)
    Fax:    +47 55 20 58 01 (work)
    E-mail: laurent.bertino'tralala'nersc.no
    WWW:    http://www.nersc.no/~laurentb/