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With over 15 years of experience at NILU, senior scientist Sabine Eckhardt has worked with atmospheric transport modeling since 2006. Her expertise includes the development of the FLEXPART model, widely used to study the transport and dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere.

Sabine's research primarily focuses on the Arctic, investigating the effects of black carbon and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and their interactions with climate change. She is studying the deposition of aerosols and their long-term impact on Arctic environments, utilizing data from sources such as ice cores. Additionally, she collaborates with the meteorological institute, forecasting the dispersion of volcanic ash in the event of eruptions.

Her work also extends to the Global Methane Pledge, where she leads a project in the AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme) framework, addressing the impact of methane on climate change. Sabine co-leads the AMAP expert group on short-lived climate forcers, striving to mitigate the influence of pollutants that accelerate climate warming.

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Dr. Nikolaos Evangeliou is a Senior Scientist at NILU’s Atmospheric and Climate Research department (ATMOS). He has a PhD in Chemistry and has been working previously with radiochemical analyses of environmental samples followed by nuclear measurements.

Since 2014, when he joined NILU, he has been working with atmospheric dispersion modelling of conventional and radionuclide substances emitted after nuclear accidents and their impacts on human and non-human biota. He currently works with source emission optimisation of aerosols and gases using Bayesian inversion tools.

Since 2018 he is a board member of the Nordic Society for Aerosol Research .

A more detailed CV of Dr. Evangeliou can be found in https://folk.nilu.no/~nikolaos

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• EBAS operations & development coordinator
• Head of ACTRIS DC In Situ unit
• NILU’s expert and contact person on FAIR data and FAIR principles
• Lead Global Atmospheric Watch – World Data Centre for Aerosols (GAW-WDCA)

Responsibility and function

• Highly experienced project leader in ongoing and future projects in particular under EU and Research Council of Norway (RCN), mainly associated to EBAS and ACTRIS.
• Follow EOSC and consider and coordinate activities wrt to EBAS and ACTRIS in relation to EOSC activities
• Follow up the data centre team in the work with implementation and operation of EBAS and ACTRIS In Situ to partners
• Act as contact person for ACTRIS DC in ACTRIS Topical Centres for aerosol and cloud in situ (CAIS-ECAC and CIS)

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Dr. Rona Thompson is a senior scientist at NILU, Kjeller, since 2011. 

Dr. Thompson has a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Since completing her PhD, Thompson has been a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, and at the Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences in Saclay, France. 

Dr Thompson’s main research interests are in understanding the sources and sinks of atmospheric pollutants, including greenhouse gases, and the processes driving these. For this, she employs atmospheric transport models and statistical methods. 

Dr Thompson has a long experience working with, and developing, numerical models for atmospheric research. She is also the developer of the atmospheric inversion framework, FLEXINVERT. 

Dr Thompson is actively involved in Norwegian and European research projects and is currently the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project, EYE-CLIMA. She is also the co-leader of the Global Carbon Project N2O Budget activity. 

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Kjetil Tørseth received his Dr Scient  degree at NTNU-Trondheim, and has worked at NILU since 1992.Since 1999 he has served as department head/research director.

His expertize includes measurements and data management and assessment of precipitation chemistry, reactive gases, aerosols and climate forcers, and their associated effects on ecosystems, health and climate.

He is engaged in a wide range of programs addressing assessments of air pollution on regional and global scales, including EMEP (head the EMEP Chemical Coordinating Centre), WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW Country contact of Norway, member to the Scientific Advisory Group on Reactive Gases, responsible for the two GAW World Data Centers on Aerosols (GAW-WDCA) and Reactive Gases (GAW-WDCRG). He is also engaged in several research infrastructure activities like ICOS, ACTRIS and SIOS. He has a broad experience from many international research and capacity building projects.

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Dr. Paul Hamer is a Senior Researcher within the Atmosphere and Climate department at NILU.

He has a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of Bristol. He has over 20 years of experience working in the field of atmospheric sciences and has published on a broad range of research topics. His core expertise is in working with numerical models of the atmosphere and land surface and in working with data assimilation and satellite observations.

He has a strong interest in air quality, climate change, and land surface processes. As such, his recent research has focused on the impacts that climate and extreme weather have on surface fluxes (deposition and emissions) of air pollutants and their precursors.

Furthermore, he has a strong interest in providing a vital link between air quality science and policymakers through his activities within the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service.

Paul is motivated by the need to provide scientific knowledge to society to help decision making in relation to air quality management and climate change policy.

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Dr. Karl Espen Yttri is a senior scientist at NILU with a Ph.D. in aerosol science. He has extensive expertise in atmospheric aerosols and their chemical composition across diverse environments, ranging from urban areas to the pristine Arctic and Antarctic.

His primary focus is on carbonaceous aerosols, using both on-line and off-line methodologies for the source apportionment of anthropogenic and natural aerosol sources. This includes developing analytical methods for carbonaceous aerosol, including source-specific organic tracers.

As a member of the Chemical Coordinating Centre of the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) at NILU, he contributes to research on the long-range atmospheric transport of aerosol particles.

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• Lead for the ESA Validation Datra Centre EVDC operations & development
• SoMe contact person for the Centre for Atmospheric data

Responsibility

• EVDC data management coordinator
• Coordinate efforts towards the key stakeholders EEA, ESA, EUMETSAT, Norsk Romsenter for all activities in the centre including EBAS and EVDC
• Project leader responsible for ongoing and future project applications implementation and operation, for entities in particular EU ESA, EEA, CAMS/C3S etc.
• Keep broad aspects and facilitate link to EBAS and ACTRIS In situ unit, and the ACTRIS CLU, ARES, GRES and CREGARS DC units and Topical centres

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• EMEP data curation and EMEP/CCC activities

Responsibility

• Overall responsible for EMEP and GAW-WDCRG data collection, ingestion to data to repository and support
• EMEP QA/QC and annual data reports on ozone, CO, met, PM mass and inorganics
• EMEP intercalibration (technical part)
• LIMS data flow to EBAS
• EBAS maintenance (stations, labs, components, DOI, etc.) and emep/ccc web pages
• EBAS data curation and QA/QC responsible

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Responsibility

• Assistance with necessary administrative tasks and processes in the department
• Archiving
• Follow up of important documentation processes – e.g. signing of contracts, agreements
• Taking care of registration and quality control process / finalization of NILU reports
• Member in the NILU ISO group

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Dr Cathrine Lund Myhre holds the position as Head of NILU’s Centre for Atmospheric data. Furthermore, she leads the ACTRIS Data Centre within ACTRIS ERIC and is involved in most projects within the Centre for Atmospheric Data.

Lund Myhre has a Ph.D. in spectroscopy from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oslo. She has been involved in science and research projects at NILU since 2005. She is an expert in measurements and understanding of atmospheric compositional change, in particular aerosol and greenhouse gases and their sources, concentrations and long term trends.

During the last 10-15 years, Lund Myhre has been working with implementation and use of atmospheric observational networks and infrastructures and access to observational data. This includes implementation of FAIR data and FAIR principles within ACTRIS, and the atmospheric domain in general.

Lund Myhre emphasizes the importance of inter-disciplinary work and competence to address the challenges related to climate and the environment. She finds it both interesting and important to provide information to authorities, stakeholders and the general public.