Last week the European Space Agency organized the fifth Advances in SAR Oceanography workshop, SeaSAR 2018, in Frascati, Italy. The Nansen Center was well represented with a delegation of 5 participants.

In 2014 Kristoffersen set out on a 12-month polar expedition in a small hovercraft (R/H SABVABAA) together with the experienced ice-sea adventurer, Audun Tholfsen. All this happened under the direction of Kristoffersen's long-standing workplace The Nansen Center in Bergen.

This week 221 registered participants from a Norwegian education and research delegation will visit China. The Minister of Research and Higher Education, Iselin Nybø, is leading the delegation and the Nansen-Zhu Centre in Beijing will be one of the hosts on the program. The delegation includes strong participation from former and existing partners of the Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre (NZC) in Bergen.

The publication Delineation of marine ecosystem zones in the northern Arabian Sea during winter, resently published in Biogeosciences, is a result of collaboration between the Nansen Centers in India, Norway and South Africa. It was inititated under the EU FP7 project Indo-Mareclim: Indo-European research facilities for studies on marine ecosystem and climate in India, coordinated by the Nansen Center in India.

It is with deep sorrow that Nansen Environmental Research Centre – India (NERCI) in Cochin, India and the Nansen Center in Bergen report the sad and unexpected demise of Prof. (Dr.) N.R. Menon on Sunday 18^th March 2018. Prof. N.R. Menon was the Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of NERCI and Dean, Faculty of Climate Variability and Aquatic Ecosystem, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS).

Denne uken samles 160 forskere, forskningsledere, representanter fra Norges forskningsråd, næring og forvaltning samt internasjonale samarbeidspartnere i Tromsø. De skal markere oppstarten av det nasjonale forskningsprosjektet Arven etter Nansen.

Yesterday NERSC hosted a kick off meeting of a new big national project called ALERTNESS (Advanced models and weather prediction in the Arctic: New capabilities from observations and polar process representations). ALERTNESS is a large-scale national research project with the total funding of 23 million NOK.

From ALERTNESS-kick off

Stefan Muckenhuber will defend the thesis for his PhD degree 06.12.2017 at University of Bergen and

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). The title of the thesis is “High resolution sea ice monitoring using space

borne Synthetic Aperture Radar”. Stefan has been employed at the Nansen Center since 2013 and has had a

PhD scholarship from the Research Council of Norway for the last three years. In 2017 he has received a visiting

research grant and stayed at Technical University of Vienna. 

The International symposium on Numerical modeling, predictability and data assimilation in weather, ocean and climate gathered 150 experts from all around the world and attracted scientists from a diverse provenance and generation. During four days, from October 17 to 20, scientific discussions and high-standard contributions led to a unique, animated and stimulating conference on the theoretical aspects of the climate sciences.