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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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Ellen Katrin Enge completed her MSc degree in analytical chemistry at the University of Tromsø, with her master's thesis carried out at NILU in Tromsø in the period 1995–1997. After graduating, she was employed at NILU, first at the laboratory in Tromsø, and from 2001 at the laboratory at Kjeller.

Throughout her time at the department, Ellen Katrin has had several key roles, including Project Manager and Head of the section for test preparation. The section currently consists of 14 employees, including technicians, engineers and researchers. She also has a key role in the department's accredited laboratory activities.

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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

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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)

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Núria Castell, Senior Scientist at NILU, is the coordinator of the Technology and Society group, leading national and international research projects focused on the uptake and validation of novel sensor technologies and the integration of citizen observations in policy and research.

She is currently coordinating the Horizon Europe CitiObs project, aiming at enhancing Citizen Observatories for urban environmental monitoring in 85 cities in Europe.

Núria’s academic pursuits encompass a wide-ranging spectrum of fields, including sustainable urban development, citizen science, environmental governance, planetary health, urban living labs experimentation and the intersection of science and art.

Núria also holds the position of co-chair of the Citizen Science Global Partnership group on Scaling-up citizen science Air-quality monitoring and the European Citizen Science Association's working group on air quality.

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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.

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Dr. Tore Flatlandsmo Berglen is a senior researcher at the Department of Urban Environment and Industry. He received his PhD in Geosciences at the University of Oslo in 2006 with a thesis on the sulphur cycle in the atmosphere, with a particular focus on natural and anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2) and sulphate particles.

Tore has worked at NILU since 2008 and leads various industrial projects concerning monitoring of air quality close to industrial facilities, dispersion calculations and CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage).

For a number of years, he was responsible for the monitoring project in the border areas with Russia. Air quality in the border areas was strongly affected by emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2) and heav metals (Nnickel, copper, cobalt and arsenic) from Russian smelters in Nikel and Zapolyarny. The smelter in Nikel was shut down in December 2020 and there was an upgrade of the briquetting plant in Zapolyarny. Emissions fell sharply, and thus the air quality in the border areas has also improved. Tore also has other projects in Eastern Finnmark, including studies of the environmental impact of war remnants, moss sampling and analysis, and dioxins around Kirkenes.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is becoming an increasingly important field in terms of transition and the path towards a zero-emission society. Amines are a well proven technology for capturing CO2, but there have been concerns about the release of amines and degradation products from amines, especially nitrosamines and nitramines. NILU has many projects to study emissions from CCS facilities and environmental impact.

Tore also works with dispersion calculations from industrial companies and influence on a local and regional scale. These are projects for both the oil and gas industry and metal industry.

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Dr. Alena Bartonova’s core research area is environmental exposure assessment. Her work rests on high levels of interdisciplinary collaboration and often supports science use for policies. She is interested in environmental/air quality assessment methods combining results from monitoring and diverse measurement technologies (including low-cost sensors) with models, resulting in a basis for health impact assessment, and in development of methods for practical use.

Alena has a MSc and a RNDr degree in Probability and Mathematical Statistics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, CZ, and PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Faculty of Science of the same University. She started at NILU as a post doc 1987-1990, when she was studying environmental epidemiology methods and the relationship between air pollution and material damage.

Alena has served in several positions of trust nationally and internationally, including as in expert groups within the fifth and seventh Framework Programs for research of the EU, and as a member of SCHER 2013-2016. She has coordinated or co-coordinated several EU-co-funded research and innovation projects. Alena serves as Research Director - coordinator for EU research and Manager, European Topic Center for human health and environment.

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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)..

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Dr. Leonor Tarrasón is Research Director for Environmental Solutions at NILU.

She has 30 years’ experience on air pollution modeling, supporting the implementation of control options and air quality legislation at urban and European level. She has contributed to the development of urban planning tools to secure better air quality and improved quality in Norwegian cities and is presently responsible for policy-user interaction activities under the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS), advocating for the use of Citizen Science to inform on urban air pollution.

Tarrasón co-chairs the Global Emission Initiative (GEIA) and the urban emission activities under the FAIRMODE. She has been a member of the Technical Analysis Group under the DG ENV supporting the development of the Thematic Strategy on Air pollution under the Clean Air for Europe programme and lead of EMEP/MSC-W under the UN/ECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). She is currently member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA).

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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.

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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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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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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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