CIRFA Team
Agnar Sivertsen
WP4 leader, NORCE
Anca Cristea
Post Doc, NPI
Andrea Marinoni
Associate Professor, UiT
Andrea Schneider
Project Coordinator, UiT
Ann Kristin Sperrevik
Researcher, MET Norway
Anna Telegina
PhD candidate, UiT
Multi-temporal remote sensing of dynamic Arctic phenomena
Anthony Doulgeris
Professor, UiT
WP 2 co-leader and leader of UiT`s Earth Observation group
Arne O. Smalås
Member of the CIRFA Consortium Board, UiT
Camilla Brekke
Prorektor for Research and Development at UiT, Professor
Previous Member of the Center Management Team and WP 3 Leader
Catherine Taelman
Engineer, UiT
Cathleen Jones
Adjunct Professor, JPL/NASA
Charlotte Bay Hasager
Member of CIRFA`s Scientific Advisory Board
Christian Petrich
WP3 co-leader, Norut Narvik
Cornelius Quigley
Post Doc, UiT
Determination of the Dielectric Properties of Marie Surface Slicks Using Synthetic Aperture Radar
Debanshu Ratha
Post Doc, UiT
Radar polarimetry for sea ice applications
Edel Rikardsen
Researcher, MET Norway
Edels work focuses on cean modelling and computational physics
Edmond Hansen
Member of the CIRFA Consortium Board, Multiconsult
Eduard Khachatrian
PhD candidate, UiT
Multimodal Integrated Remote Sensing for Arctic Sea Ice monitoring
Geir Engen
Researcher, NORCE
Gjertrud Halset
Member of the CIRFA Consortium Board, Vår Energi
Harald Johnsen
Professor and WP1 leader, NORCE
Heidi Hindberg
Researcher, NORCE
Henning Skriver
Member of CIRFA`s Scientific Advisory Board
Hugo Isaksen
WP7 leader, KSAT
Irena Hajnsek
Member of CIRFA`s Scientific Advisory Board
Jack Landy
Associate Professor
Satellite laser and radar altimetry to study the physical properties of polar sea ice and oceans
Jan Petter Pedersen
Member of the CIRFA Consortium Board, KSAT
Johannes Lohse
Researcher, UiT
Automated Classification of Sea Ice Types in SAR Imagery
Johannes Röhrs
WP5 co-leader, MET Norway
Kai Christensen
Researcher, MET Norway
Katalin Blix
Researcher, UiT
Ocean color and water quality remote sensing
Kjell Arild Høgda
Member of the CIRFA Consortium Board, NORCE
Knut-Frode Dagestad
Researcher, MET Norway
Ocean drift models and forecasts
Lars-Anders Breivik
Member of the CIRFA Consortium Board, MET Norway
Laust Færch
PhD candidate, UiT
Mapping and Modeling of Iceberg Occurrences in the Barents Sea
Malin Johansson
Associate Professor, WP3 leader, WP6 co-leader, UiT
Using satellite images to study Arctic sea ice and oil spills
Martina Idzanovic
PostDoc, MET Norway
Drift modelling and prediction
Mathias Tollinger
PhD candidate, UiT
Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to improve prediction of Polar Lows
Muhammad Asim
PhD candidate, UiT
Optical Remote Sensing for Water Quality Parameters Retrieval in the Barents Sea, Nansen Legacy project
Nick Hughes
WP7 co-leader, MET Norway
Earth Observation with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Responsible for the daily operation of the Ice Service at MET Norway.
Polona Itkin
Researcher, UiT
Sea ice deformation and its impact on the sea ice mass balance, SiDRIFT project
Qiang Wang
Post Doc, UiT
Sea ice classification with AI methods
Richard Hall
Member of the CIRFA Consortium Board, Equinor
Rune Graversen
Professor and WP5 co-leader, UiT
Atmospheric circulation, climate dynamics and polar meteorology
Rune Storvold
Department manager observation systems, NORCE
Sebastian Gerland
WP6 leader, NPI
Sea ice and climate research with focus on the Arctic (Fram Strait, Svalbard, Barents Sea)
Silje Christine Iversen
PhD candidate, UiT and MET Norway
The impact of observations in a high-resolution ocean assimilation system for the Norwegian coastal and shelf seas
Stein Sandven
Member of the CIRFA Consortium Board, NERSC
Stian Solbø
Researcher, NORCE
Svein Jacobsen
Professor, UiT
Svein Olav Drangeid
Member of the CIRFA Consortium Board, OMV
Tor Arne Johansen
WP4 co-leader, NTNU
Torbjørn Eltoft
Professor and Center Leader UiT
Remote Sensing, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Neural Networks
Truls Karlsen
PhD candidate, UiT
Multi-frequency (C- and L-band) SAR sea ice classification
Victor de Aguiar
PhD candidate, UiT
Oil Spill Remote Sensing and Modelling
Wenkai Guo
Post Doc, UiT
Cross-platform application of a sea ice classification method for detecting deformed ice, SiDRIFT project
Wolfgang Dierking
Professor II and WP 2 leader, AWI/UiT
Professor II and WP 2 leader
Yvonne Gusdal
Researcher, MET Norway