The 8^th International EuroGOOS Conference Operational Oceanography Serving Sustainable Marine Development started in Bergen to day. The Directors of the two local host organizations opened the conference, 

Forskningsdagene 2017 på VilVite.Nansensenteret deltar på Forskningsdagene 2017 på VilVite. På Forskningstorget får skoleelever fra Bergen og omegn oppleve, prøve, eksperimentere, se og høre på alt det spennende som skjer blant annet på forskningsinstituttet Nansensenteret. Temaet for Forskningsdagene i år er ”Verdier” og vi viser fram vår forskning relatert til verdiene av ren luft, rent hav og sjøisen for oss mennesker og jorden som helhet.

NERSC scientists Laurent Bertino, Alberto Carrassi, Geir Evensen and Patrick Raanes are lecturing the new course on Data Assimilation. 

The Nansen Center shall pioneer our understanding of the Earth system and to deliver science-based innovation to the benefit of society. In achieving this the Center conduct marine, cryosphere, and atmosphere research using in situ and remote sensing observations, models, and data assimilation leading to innovation and service development.

More than 30 sea ice experts and scientists are gathered at the Nansen Center this week. Multi-satellite based sea ice concentration and ice drift for the entire Arctic based on data from the SPICES and ESA CCI Sea Ice projects.Their expertise covers both studies of the sea ice cover in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. The Arctic and changes of its sea ice conditions has increased European interest.

The participants and lecturers at the data assimilation crash course.The Nordic Centre of Excellence Ensemble-based data assimilation for environmental monitoring and prediction - EmblA coordinated by the Nansen Center in Bergen organises this week a 4-days summer school for 22 students from 13 countries world-wide.

The first Ocean State Report (OSR) is a step forward into the development of regular annual reporting on the state and health of the European regional seas and global ocean based on European Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service products.

The Arctic is a rapidly changing region where new economic opportunities meet geopolitical interests and the accelerated climate change. These three intertwined components concentrate in the arctic cities – a remote constellation of the cold frontier settlements, some of them as large as 300 thousands dwellers. The Arctic is rapidly urbanizing attracting worker migrants from southern latitudes, sometimes from as far south as Philippines (to Canada) and Tajikistan (to Russia).