Drs. Richard Davy and Igor Esau, NERSC.Nansen Centre Scientists Drs.

Bergen University College and Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center are jointly organizing a “Workshop on Computational Meshes and Applications” at HiB on 23. May.

The goal of the workshop is to gather scientists from the Bergen area working both on mathematical foundations of mesh generation and also with various applications of computational meshes in real-life applications.

The soundscape in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) is comprised of seismic airgun noise, ship cavitation noise, and natural background noise due to different geophysical processes in the MIZ. Cavitation noise from the research ice-breaker dominated the sound scape at times.

The sail-off meeting of Nordic Center of Excellence Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies (ARCPATH) took place at Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) during April 11. and 12. 2016. ARCPATH is funded by the Nordic Council and includes nine partners from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland in addition to Canadian, Chinese, Russian and US partners.

A new publication in Journal of Glaciology reveals the importance of internal dynamical process in the abrupt changes of the Helheim and other glaciers at Greenland during the last 35 years. Nansen Center and Bjerknes Center scientists Victoria Miles, Martin Miles and Ola M. Johannessen have published the paper Satellite archives reveal abrupt changes in behavior of Helheim Glacier, southeast Greenland.

I slutten av februar observerte forskere ved Nansensenteret store mengder alger i satellittbilder fra Skagerrak og langs kysten av Øst- og Sørlandet – HAB.nersc.no. Denne første vårblomstringen kom i år noe tidligere enn normalt, og er i tillegg også tilsynelatende mer massiv både i geografisk utbredelse og algemengder. Høye algekonsentrasjoner er observert i Kystrømmen fra Ytre Oslofjord til Farsund. En annen kraftig algeoppblomstring observeres i Boknafjorden i Rogaland.

Nansen Center scientists and partners have published a paper on Diurnal asymmetry to the observed global warming in Internatinal Journal of Climatology. This paper by Davy, R.; Esau, I.; Chernokulsky, A.; Outten, S. & Zilitinkevich, S. continiues a series of studies devoted to understanding of the role of the planetary boundary layer in the earth's climate.

The interdisciplinary PhD and Post-Doc summer school Arctic Ocean Governance as a Multifunctional Challenge was held in Longyearbyen, Svalbard 2^nd to 9^th August 2015.