Events

Ph.d.-kandidat Elin Cecilie Ristorp Aas ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen To mimic microbes with models: Development and application of the microbially explicit soil model MIMICS+ in cold climates for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Eirik Aasmo Finne at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis On the role of lichens in vegetation-climate interactions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

The EMERALD Open Science Day is the closing meeting of the project with the aim to share the experience and knowledge gained throughout the project period between 2019 and 2023.

Doctoral candidate Eva Lieungh at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "Changing alpine vegetation dynamics: insight from complementary modelling and observation approaches" for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Vegetation changes affect ecosystem C flux in a thawing palsa peat mire under warming.

Speaker: Inge Althuizen, NORCE

Title: Strong isoprene emission response to temperature in tundra vegetation 

Speaker: Roger Seco, researcher at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) in Barcelona. 

Note: new start time at 11:00 (not 12:00).

Title: The Land Sites Platform makes CLM-FATES modelling easy. Now what? 

Speakers: Eva Lieungh, NHM, and the team behind the NorESM Landsites Platform 

Title: Evaluating global and regional land warming trends in the past decades with both MODIS and ERA5-Land land surface temperature data 

Speaker: Frode Stordal, UiO

Title: The Changing Arctic Landscape of Alaska: Beaver Colonization of the Tundra. 

Speaker: Ken Tape, Research associate professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks
 

This event will be arranged hybrid: both on Zoom and in the Climate house at Tøyen.

Title, talk 1: A Green Blanket: How vegetation insulates the Arctic soil. 

Speaker: Sil Schuuring, PhD student at UNIS

Title, talk 2: New climate projections for Norway: Climate in Norway 2100.

Speaker 2: Irene Brox Nilsen, NVE and the Norwegian Centre for Climate Services

Title: A joint climate and nature cure: A transformative change perspective. 

Speaker: Magni Olsen Kyrkjeeide, NINA

Title: An artificial intelligence approach to remotely assess pale lichen biomass. 

Speaker: Rasmus Erlandsson, NINA

Title: Opportunities for integrating insights from population ecologists into FATES. 

Speakers: Ragnhild Gya, UiB and participants at a joint IPM/Galaxy FATES workshop

Title: Understanding and predicting plant traits and carbon processes with Eco-Evolutionary Optimality principle. 

Speaker: Han Wang, Tsinghua University

Title: Modeling of a century with tree- and forest line changes and their climate impact.

Speakers: Master students at UiO, Adam Naas and Gunnar Thorsen Liahjell.

Title: From trees to cloud seeds: modelling the climate influence of biogenic volatile organic compounds with the Norwegian Earth System Model. 

Speaker: Sara M. Blichner, PhD, UiO

Title: Improved management, sharing and reuse of ecological data with Living Norway Ecological Data Network. 

Speaker: Erlend B. Nilsen – Senior Research Scientists at NINA and Professor II at Nord university

Title: Variation in albedo and other vegetation traits along gradients of reindeer grazing intensity in Arctic, alpine and boreal regions 

Speaker: Eirik Aasmo Finne, NINA Tromsø and UiO

Title: Vegetation atmosphere interactions in earth system models. 

Speaker: Devaraju Narayanappa, UiO

Speaker 1: Ane Vollsnes, UiO

Title: Field work at Iškoras and input to transpiration modelling.

Speaker 2: Ragnhild Gya, UiB

Title:  Indirect effects of climate change on alpine plant communities (the INCLINE project).

Speaker 3: Michal Torma, NHM and UiO

NiN mapping in Northern Norway.

Speaker 1: Inge Althuizen, NORCE

Title: The effects of abrupt permafrost thaw on carbon exchange in Northern Norway - current work and future directions.

Speaker 2: Aud Halbritter Reichsteiner, UiB.

Title: Data collection on biodiversity and carbon fluxes responses to warmer climate, nitrogen deposition and grazing – the first field season (Three-D project). 

Title: The CLM-FATES model platform for EMERALD and its implementation on GALAXY. 

Speaker: Hui Tang, UiO

Title: Challenges in linking ecological data to vegetation models

Speaker: Sonya Rita Geange, UiB

Title: Temporary Exhibition about climate feedbacks at the Climate House

Speaker: Anders Bryn, NHM.

Please have a look at this Climate House webpage.