Arctic Frontiers 2017: List of experts
For the media: UiT the Arctic University of Norway offers a long list of experts at Arctic Frontiers 2017 ”White Space - Blue Future”.
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Find an expert:
- Climate change and oil spill
- Renewable energy
- Arctic productivity and climate effects
- Law of the sea
- Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate
- How climate and climate changes affect the population in the Arctic
- How climate and climate changes affect health in the Arctic
- Professor Kristoffer Rypdal, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Office: +47 77645149
Mobile: +47 47712863
E-mail: kristoffer.rypdal@uit.no
Research: Natural versus anthropogenic climate variability by exploring the climate of the past, present and future. Predictability of climate change, including early-warning signals of sudden climate transitions and tipping points. Minimal mathematical models for climate prediction.
- Professor Are Kristoffer Sydnes, Department of Engineering and Safety
Office: +47 77660328
Mobile: +47 97532974
E-mail: are.sydnes@uit.no
Research: Security/protection related to oil spill in the Barents Sea
- Professor Torbjørn Eltoft, Department of Physics and Technology
Office: +47 77645184
Mobile: +47 95007345
E-mail: torbjorn.eltoft@uit.no
Research: Remote sensing of sea ice, chairs the new SFI: CIRFA – Centre for Integrated Remote Sensing and Forecasting for Arctic Operations
- Professor Tobias Boström, Department of Physics and Technology
Office: +47 77645153
Mobile: +47 41248485
E-mail: tobias.bostrom@uit.no
Research: Renewable Energy; his work focuses mainly on hybrid renewable energy systems. The objective is to create self-sufficient and robust sustainable energy systems by combing and coordinating intermittent renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, with energy storage solutions.
- Professor Per-Arne Sundsbø, Department of Building, Energy and Material Technology
Office: +47 769 66 257
Mobile: +47 924 63 430
E-mail: psu002@uit.no
Research: Arctic Maritime expertise at UiT campus Narvik. Design solutions and winterization measures for onshore/offshore facilities, vessels, outdoor working environment and infrastructure. Verification of designs for cold climate conditions.
- Professor Rajnish K. Calay, Department of Building, Energy and Material Technology
Office: +47 769 66 618
Mobile: +47 948 71 340
E-mail: rajnish.k.calay@uit.no
Research: Hydrogen energy, fuel cells and environmental technology. This also includes other forms of renewable energy sources such as biomass, wind and solar energy and their impact on the environment with particular interest paid to cold regions.
- Professor Mohamad Y. Mustafa, Department of Building, Energy and Material Technology
Office: +47 769 66 419
Mobile: +47 917 29 801
E-mail: mohamad.y.mustafa@uit.no
Research: Hydrogen energy and fuel cells, as well as other forms of renewable energy sources such as biomass, wind and solar energy and their impact on the impact on the environment with particular interest paid to cold regions.
ARCTIC PRODUCTIVITY AND CLIMATE EFFECTS:
- Professor Paul Wassmann, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology
Office: +47 77 64 44 59
Mobile: +47 977 73 451
E-mail: paul.wassmann@uit.no
Research: Arctic marine system ecology, flux of carbon in marine ecosystems as a function of trophic state and climate change, physical-biological coupled 3-D models of pelagic primary production
- Professor Rolf Gradinger, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology
Office: +47 77 64 45 14
E-mail: rolf.gradinger@uit.no
Research: Arctic marine system ecology, ecology of Arctic sea ice an phytoplankton, Primary productions, effects of climate change on Arctic marine ecocystems
- Professor Bodil Bluhm, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology
Office: +47 77 64 43 82
Mobile: +47 940 54 162
E-mail: bodil.bluhm@uit.no
Research: Arctic marine system ecology, biodiversity, food webs, benthic-pelagic coupling
- Professor Jørgen Berge, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology
Mobile: +47 901 69 125
E-mail: Jorgen.berge@uit.no
Research: Arctic marine ecology, seasonal studies with emphasis on polar night, effects of climate change on Arctic marine ecosystems, sea ice ecology, new introduced species, life history adaptations and ecology of Arctic organisms
- Professor Marit Reigstad, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology
Office: +47 77 64 45 25
Mobile: +47 901 10 092
E-mail: marit.reigstad@uit.no
Research: Arctic marine system ecology, seasonal ice zone and processes taking place under the sea ice, effects of climate change on Arctic marine ecosystems and productivity, coupling between pelagic and benthic systems, challenges for society with opening of new areas caused by climate change
- Professor Hans-Christian Eilertsen, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology
Office: +47 77 64 45 40
Mobile: +47 97522793
E-mail: hans.c.eilertsen@uit.no
Research: Bioprospecting all types marine arctic organisms, physiology/biochemistry of arctic phytoplankton, irradiance (atmosphere vs. sea) in Arctic environments
- Professor Tore Henriksen, K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea
Office: +47 77 64 52 37
E-mail: tore.henriksen@uit.no
Research: Sea, fisheries, arctic shipping
- Researcher Vito De Lucia, K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea
Office: +47 77620863
E-mail: vito.delucia@uit.no
Research: International law, biodiversity, ecosystem approach, climate
- Assosiate Professor Ingvild Ulrikke Jakobsen, Faculty of Law
Office: +47 77 64 62 08
E-mail: ingvild.jakobsen@uit.no
Research: Climate, Arctic shipping, environment, integrated oceans management
- Professor Jon Mattias Årén, Faculty of Law
Office: +47 77 64 69 15
E-mail: jon.m.ahren@uit.no
Research: Sami- and indigenous people’s law
- Post doc. Margherita Poto, K. G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea
Office: +47 77 62 31 45
E-mail: margherita.p.poto@uit.no
Research: Governance in the Arctic, Arctic Council
- Post doc. Kristoffer Svendsen, K. G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea
Office: +47 77 64 92 37
E-mail: kristoffer.svendsen@uit.no
Research: Oil and gas in the Arctic, pollution damage, liability and compensation, Russia
- PhD-student Hilde Juliette Woker, Faculty of Law
Office: +47 77 62 09 66
E-mail: hilde.j.woker@uit.no
Research: Law of the Sea, aboriginal subsistence whaling, marine scientific research, Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf
- Read more about K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea
CENTRE FOR ARCTIC GAS HYDRATE; ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE (CAGE). NORWEGIAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE:
- Professor Jürgen Mienert, Arctic marine geology and applied geophysics. Director, CAGE.
Office: +47 77644446
Mobile: +47 99794063
E-mail: jurgen.mienert@uit.no
Research: Stability of methane ice (gas hydrates) in climate change sensitive Arctic marine areas. Underwater landslides and climate change.
- Professor Karin Andreassen, Marine geology and geophysics. Assistant director, CAGE
Office: +47 77644420
E-mail: karin.andreassen@uit.no
Research: Reconstruction of the past Barents Sea Ice Sheet. The goal is to provide new information and improve our understanding of the variability of methane release, which can be related to retreating glaciers.
- Researcher Monica Winsborrow, Marine geology and geophysics
Office: +47 77623176
E-mail: monica.winsborrow@uit.no
Research: Work focuses on how ice sheets behave and what factors control this behavior. In particular, Winsborrow studies the former marine-based ice sheets such as the Barents Sea Ice Sheet, in order that we may better understand and predict the behavior of contemporary ice sheets such as West Antarctica and Greenland. Also: Interactions between ice sheets and fluid flow and gas hydrate systems.
- Professor Alun Lloyd Hubbard, Glaciology
Office: +47 77623253
E-mail: alun.l.hubbard@uit.no
Research: Studies of the behaviour of the modern day ice sheet on Greenland. What makes modern day marine terminating glaciers melt and calve? How and why do ice streams move? Also: Modelling of the past ice sheets of the Barents Sea and their interactions with gas hydrate systems. As the present studies of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica help us unravel the past, so does the past provide perspective on the future of the warming planet.
- Associate Professor Stefan Bünz, Marine geophysics
Tel: +47 77646266
E-mail: stefan.buenz@uit.no
Research: Among the greatest uncertainties in the Arctic is the amount of frozen methane in sub seabed sediments. A more important question is how much of this methane will be released. We are developing new high-resolution geophysical technology within acquisition; processing and interpretation to directly detect and image marine methane hydrate reservoirs in the Arctic.
- Postdoctoral researcher Anna Silyakova, Oceanography
Office: +47 77646603
E-mail: anna.silyakova@uit.no
Research: How much dissolved methane is there underneath the Arctic sea ice and in the water column? Does the sea ice cap stop methane from escaping into the atmosphere? Anna Silyakova spent six weeks frozen in the Arctic Ice pack on board Research Vessel Lance trying to find answers to these questions.
- Professor Tine Lander Rassmusen, Marine geology and paleooceanography
Office: +47 77644408
E-mail: tine.rasmussen@uit.no
Research: Methane emissions, ocean acidification and CO2 are measured throughout our geological past: Geochemical records from measurements of the shells of single celled organisms (foraminifera) help us evaluate the changes in methane emissions, while studies of distribution of living and fossil species and abundance of the benthic foraminifera community in methane seep areas indicate the degree of methane release through time.
- PhD Candidate Alexei Portnov, geology
E-mail: alexey.d.portnov@uit.no
Research: Ice sheets of the past may have contained enormous amounts of methane stored as hydrates in the ground. As the ice sheet retreated, the methane rich hydrates melted, releasing the climate gas into the ocean and atmosphere for millennia. This is relevant for modern ice sheets as well – how much methane is stored under Greenland and Antarctica?
Also: Permafrost thawing offshore Siberia, releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gas methane from the ocean floor.
- Researcher Jochen Knies, Marine geology
Office: +47 77625223
E-mail: jochen.knies@uit.no
Research: What was the ultimate timing of historic methane leakages from sediments in the Arctic seabed? Did they occur periodically over millions of years or rather abruptly? This may be significant for our understanding of future release of the potent greenhouse gas from natural sources.
Also: Sea ice cover in the Arctic was established 2,6 million years ago. However, due to global warming, we may see an ice-free Arctic in our lifetime.
- Associate Professor Giuliana Panieri, Micropaleontology
Office: +47 77625191
E-mail: giuliana.panieri@uit.no
Research: Using micropaleontology and geochemistry to study present and past methane emissions. What is the timing, periodicity, and intensity of methane emissions? How do they evolve through time?
Also: Recent observations of pervasive, thin hydrate pavement, carbonate crusts, and bacterial mats on surface sediments offshore Svalbard. The discovery of these features informs our understanding of gas hydrate dynamics and methane release in the Arctic Ocean, and how these processes may impact carbon budgets and cycles, ocean acidification, and benthic community survival.
- PhD candidate Pavel Serov, Marine geology
Mobile: +47 99867350
E-mail: pavel.russerov@uit.no
Research: Huge mounds of methane ice, pingos, discovered on the seabed offshore Siberia. They are forming because of the thawing of subsea permafrost and high accumulation of the green house gas.
HOW CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGES AFFECT THE POPULATION IN THE ARCTIC:
- Associate Professor Berit Kristoffersen, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Community Planning
Office: +47 77646967
Mobile: +47 95702600
E-mail: berit.kristoffersen@uit.no
Research: Petroleum policy, climate/environmental politics and sustainable tourism. Kristoffersen has for the past decade been researching developments in Norwegian petroleum politics, and the move northward in particular. In her PhD (2014) she forwarded the analytical concepts of opportunistic adaptation and post-petroleum security to describe top-down and bottom-up perspectives and processes related a potential new petroleum region, and the interconnected environmental and climate challenges. In her post-doc she is also working on sustainable tourism and whale watching in Arctic Norway. http://arcticencounters.net/
- Professor Hans-Kristian Hernes, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Community Planning
Office: +47 77645602
E-mail: hans-kristian.hernes@uit.no
Research: Environmental and resource management, shipping.
- Barents Chair in Politics Rasmus G. Bertelsen, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Community Planning
Mobile: +47 913 18 623
E-mail: rasmus.bertelsen@uit.no
Research: Arctic Governance, War and Peace Dynamics
- Senior Lecturer Øyvind Stokke, Department of Philosophy
Office: +47 77 64 63 34
E-mail: oyvind.stokke@uit.no
Research: Global justice and the environment, focusing on climate justice, energy justice and fair distribution of natural resources. In April he starts on a NFR project on sovereignty, resource rights and legitimacy of the Antarctic Treaty (POLAR PROG).
- Barents Chair in Russian Studies, Kari Aga Mykelbost, Department of History and Religious Studies
Office: +47 77 64 67 67
E-mail: kari.myklebost@uit.no
Research: The History of Science in the High North. Scientific relations between Fenno-Scandinavia and Russia, 19th and 20th centuries
HOW CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGES AFFECT HEALTH IN THE ARCTIC:
- Professor Jon Øyvind Odland, Department of Community Medicine
Office: +47 77 64 64 07
E-mail: jon.oyvind.odland@uit.no
Research: Pollutants in breast milk. Professor Odland has researched pollutants in the Arctic for several years. He refers to several studies that show that the population in arctic areas may have hazardous levels of pollutants in their body, and that these are associated with disrupted brain development, a compromised immune system, effects on fertility and increased risk of cancer. Odland has especially studied infants exposed to pollutants through breast milk.
- Associate Professor Torkjel Sandanger, Department of Community Medicine
Office: + 47 77 64 54 04
E-mail: torkjel.sandanger@uit.no
Research: Parabens from cosmetics. Associate professor Sandanger has among other things looked at the parabens we consume through skin care lotions. Among the 300 women included in the study, those with the highest usage of lotion were also the ones with the highest level of parabens in their blood. Parabens are an endocrine disrupter that can be especially disruptive for infants, children and pregnant women. Even if the substance is quickly excreted, continuous use will lead to high levels. – We have several hundred other pollutants in our body, and do not need this in addition. We know little of the sum of all pollutants combined, and it may be some time until we see the consequences, he says.
- Professor Terje Traavik, Department of Pharmacy
Office: +47 77 64 43 79
Mobil: +47 455 07 471
E-post: terje.traavik@uit.no
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Professor Ørjan Olsvik, Department of Medical Biology
Office: +47 77 64 62 01
Mobile: +47 916 74 135
E-mail: orjan.olsvik@uit.no
Research: A milder climate may make it easier for insects, species of ticks and unknown viruses to survive in Northern Europe. A report developed by Professor Traavik suggests that the combination of climate changes, other influences of the ecosystem, and new infections may activate latent infections and cause new spread. In spite of some knowledge gaps, the new rapport concludes that humans as well as both domestic and wild animals in our part of the World have not developed protection against viruses that until now have only circulated the southern parts of the World.
- Professor Tordis A. Trovik, Department of Community Medicine
Office: + 47 77 64 42 97
E-mail: tordis.trovik@uit.no
Research: One of UiTs research groups has mainly engaged in research and development in the Northwest of Russia. Activities comprise environmental medical studies, the establishment of medical birth registries (Murmansk and Arkhangelsk), cancer registry (Arkhangelsk), population studies and the subsequent establishment of a Master program in Public Health. In addition, the Arctic dimension has been expanded to include reference populations and the Southern hemisphere with projects and co-work in Australia, Africa and South America. There is also extensive cooperation with a number of other countries, including the Scandinavian countries, Canada, USA and more.
- Associate Professor Laila Hopstock, Department of Health and Care Sciences
Office: +47 77 62 07 18
Mobile: +47 900 10 811
E-mail: laila.hopstock@uit.no
Research: Cardiovascular disease research in the High North. Studying cardiovascular disease in the High North by comparisons between the Tromsø 7 Study and the International Project on Cardiovascular Disease in Russia will contribute to the explanation of the poorly understood epidemic of premature mortality from cardiovascular disease in Russia, and to the development of more effective interventions and treatments in the future. The comparable data offers extensive opportunities for further research collaborations.
- Professor Rolf Jorde, Department of Clinical Medicine
Office: +47 77 62 68 27
E-mail: rolf.jorde@uit.no
Research: Low levels of vitamin D are associated with almost all risk factors of diseases such as overweight, higher levels of fat in the blood, higher blood pressure and higher levels of blood sugar. Some diseases (such as cancer and multiple sclerosis) are most often found in northern areas and areas with low sun exposure, and many infectious diseases such as influenza occur more frequent in the winter when the level of vitamin D is at its lowest. Yet the researchers are not convinced that vitamin D is a miracle cure. Read more on blogg.uit.no/helsefak (Norwegian only)
- Associate Professor Guri Skeie, Department of Community Medicine
Office: +47 77 64 65 94
E-post: guri.skeie@uit.no
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Professor Magritt Brustad, Department of Community Medicine
Office: +47 77 64 48 43
Mobile: +47 992 54 476
E-mail: magritt.brustad@uit.no
Research: Experts in nutrition
- Researcher Ann Ragnhild Broderstad, Centre for Sami Health Research
Office: + 47 76 98 50 30
Mobile: + 47 959 70 559
E-mail: ann.ragnhild.broderstad@uit.no
Research: Centre for Sami Health Research is responsible for a major health and lifestyle survey in northern Norway: SAMINOR. The research is in municipalities with Sami and Norwegian settlement. The main focus is on lifestyle diseases like cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
- Professor Torkjel Tveita, Department of Clinical Medicine
Office: +47 77626208
E-mail: torkjel.tveita@uit.no
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Professor Mads Gilbert, Department of Clinical Medicine
Office: +47 77626197
Mobile: +47 90878740
E-mail: mads.gilbert@uit.no
Research: Our local celebrity professor Mads Gilbert, is together with professor Torkjel Tveita among the world’s leading experts on hypothermia, and reviving people who have been cooled down to extreme temperatures. In 2000 Gilbert and his team saved the life of a woman whose temperature was down to 13,7 C, the lowest survived body temperature recorded.
- Professor Sameline Grimsgaard, Department of Community Medicine
Office: +47 77 64 92 85
Mobile: +47 913 51 858
E-mail: sameline.grimsgaard@uit.no
Research: The Tromsø Study is Norway’s most extensive and most visited population study through 40 years. The research has yielded valuable health data that is in demand both nationally and internationally, and has led to a better basis for disease prevention and treatments. The seventh survey of the Tromsø Study has recently been completed. A total of 33 000 people (the entire population of Tromsø between 40 and 79 years) was invited to participate, and 22 000 of them filled out questionnaires and participated in multiple medical tests. There are currently some 100 different ongoing research projects based on the data from the consecutive six surveys.
