Employee

Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• UX/UI Designer and user experience coordinator at
• Key developer and contact for ACTRIS DC portal

Responsibility

• UX and user experience coordinator and analyst, ensuring good systems and architectures for analysing user needs and behaviour for improvement of the databases and services
• Responsible for ACTRIS Data Portal and the DVAS - Data Discovery, Virtual Access and Services unit (DVAS) applications
• Responsible for a wide range of frontend services and migration to long term sustainable solutions
• Responsible for metadata services related to EBAS and ACTRIS DC portal
• Contribute to IRISCC services by implementing relevant EBAS and ACTRIS data products and services

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Employee

Dr. Yvan Orsolini joined NILU in March 1998 as a senior researcher posted at Kjeller, Norway. 

He earned his MSc. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois (Urbana, USA) and his PhD is in geophysics from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA). He has worked with dynamics, chemistry and remote sensing of the middle atmosphere and, in particular, with the Earth’s ozone layers and the solar radiative and particle impacts on the atmosphere. 

Another area of research is cryosphere-atmosphere interaction, in particular the role of snow and sea ice in the climate system and in seasonal predictions. 

He has a long experience working with general circulation models, either atmosphere-only or coupled ocean-atmosphere models, including whole-atmosphere models (such as WACCM) which extends into the lower thermosphere, as well with seasonal prediction systems. He has also contributed to the analysis of numerous satellite remote sensing datasets (UARS, SABER, ENVISAT, MLS, SOFIE,…), and atmospheric re-analyses regarding dynamics or composition. 

He has coordinated one European project and several Norwegian Research Council projects on behalf of NILU, while participating to numerous other projects. He was affiliated part-time (20%) with University of Bergen (2010-2020) and with NTNU (2020-2023). 

His h-index is 40, with over 5000 citations (Google Scholar). 

Employee

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.

Employee

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)

Employee

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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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.

News about Sabine Eckhardt at NILU

Employee

Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• Key developer of EBAS core database
• Key developer of EVDC core database

Responsibility

• Technical lead and coordinator of operation of EBAS core database
  • Keep overview of technical aspects of the EBAS database (development, maintenance, curation routines, automatic QA)
  • Responsible for implementation and monitoring of NRT data flow
• EBAS data curation and QAQC responsible for selected components
• Technical lead and coordinator of operation of EVDC core database
  • Keep overview of technical aspects of the EVDC database (development, maintenance, curation routines, automatic QA)

Employee

Employee

Dr Knut Breivik works as a senior scientist at NILU and as an adjunct professor in environmental chemistry at the University of Oslo.

His research is motivated by the need to protect environmental and human health from harmful organic contaminants. This calls for a better understanding of relationships between sources and exposure.

Knut Breivik’s main research activities are (i) to develop, evaluate and apply mathematical models to understand and predict production-exposure relationships for these chemicals, (ii) emission inventories, and (iii) long-range transport of harmful chemicals across societies and ecosystems.

Most of his research projects aim to provide environmental authorities as well as international conventions and programs (e.g. EMEP, UNEP and AMAP) with scientific support in their efforts to reduce further environmental and human exposure of these harmful substances.

Employee

Dr. Wenche Aas holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and specializes in atmospheric composition and the long-range transport of air pollution. She leads the Norwegian monitoring program for long-range transboundary air pollution on behalf of the Norwegian Environment Agency and the Ministry of Climate and Environment.

She coordinates the work under the Chemical Coordinating Centre (CCC) hosted at NILU within the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) under the UNECE.

Dr. Aas is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Total Atmospheric Deposition (SAG-TAD) and Measurement-Model Fusion for Global Total Atmospheric Deposition (MMF-GTAD) within the WMO/GAW framework. She is a member of the Board of Directors for SIOS (Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System)..

Employee

Employee

Employee

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.

Employee

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

Employee

Employee

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

Employee

Employee

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