About the authors: Researchers working within the YOPP-endorsed APPLICATE project recently released a case study analyzing Alaska’s extreme wildfire season in 2019. The case study was created by an interdisciplinary group of researchers: social scientists Sara Octenjak and Dragana Bojović, science ...[Read more]
Graham Oakley is a forecaster who has worked for many years in Antarctica with the Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian Antarctic Program, and also with the tourism operator Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions. Forecasters within the Australian Antarctic Program (and some of the other National ...[Read more]
About the Author: Thomas Viguier is an Arctic researcher working at the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network in Akureyri, Iceland. He is an expert in global and Arctic shipping and maritime industries, having worked as Safety and Security Officer in the Merchant Marine. He is focusing his research ...[Read more]
About the author: Jennifer Ross is a PhD student at the University of Sheffield, supervised by Prof Grant Bigg, University of Sheffield, Prof Bob Marsh, University of Southampton and Dr Yifan Zhao, Cranfield University. Her PhD, funded by the global insurance and reinsurance provider AXA XL, ...[Read more]
About the Authors: Sergi González is a weather forecaster and research scientist at the Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET. He earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 2019. Sergi has been a weather forecaster at the Spanish Research Station Juan Carlos I and ...[Read more]
About the Author: Matilda Hallerstig is a PhD candidate in meteorology at the Norwegian Research Center NORCE and the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway. The topic of her PhD study is on the evaluation of weather forecasts in the Arctic. Matilda received her master in ...[Read more]
About the Authors: Gunnar Noer has a MSc from the University of Oslo in 1997. He has been working as a senior forecaster at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), in the forecasting department in Tromsø, since 1998. Since 2010, he has held the position as a developer for polar ...[Read more]
About the authors: Richard Thoman is a Climate Specialist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, USA, (see an earlier post by Rick here) and Gita Ljubicic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies ...[Read more]
About the author: Mark R. Payne is a Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU-Aqua) in Copenhagen, Denmark, whose research examines the impacts of climate change and climate variability on life in the ocean. His work is pioneering the development of Climate Services for ...[Read more]
About the author: Senior researcher Tanja Joona works at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland. Joona’s research interests focus on indigenous peoples’ rights, especially the Sámi rights, the ILO Convention No. 169 and other relevant international instruments, as well as traditional ...[Read more]
