The Team

Alistair Everett is a software engineer in the Norwegian Ice Service. Alistair is employed as part of the Horizon 2020 ExtremeEarth project and is working to develop the systems used for daily production of the ice charts, as well as…

Email: alistair.everett@met.no
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverettAlistair
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4045-4491

Atle Sørensen works in the Division for Remote Sensing and Data Managment at the Norwegien Meteorological Institute. He has worked within remote sensing since 2012, mostly with sea ice concentration derived from passive microwave satellite data.

Emily Down is based in Tromsø and works in the Department of Remote Sensing and Data Management in the Research and Development Division, for the OSI SAF sea ice monitoring service. She has worked mainly with sea ice type and drift.

Email: emilyjd@met.no

Frode Dinessen works in the Division for Remote Sensing and Data Management at MET-Norway in Tromsø. He has been working with satellite remote sensing data since 1997. Currently his main research focus is on development of a operational multi-sensor sea ice…

Julia Lutz is employed at the division for model and climate analysis at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Oslo. She has been working on statistical climate modelling and climate analysis for several years. With her work she has been contributing to different projects…

Ketil Isaksen is based at the Division for Model and Climate Analysis in Oslo and is a permafrost specialist at MET Norway. Isaksens primary area of interest and expertise are related to permafrost and climatology, including permafrost thermal response and sensitivity to…

Email: ketil.isaksen@met.no
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ketil_Isaksen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2356-5330

Mari Anne Killie works in the Division for Remote sensing and data management at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. She has a Ph. D. in astrophysics (2006) from the University of Oslo, and has been working on remote sensing of snow since 2007.

Expertise: Remote Sensing, Snow

Marina works on Data Assimilation of Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) observations into the ROMS/CICE model using the Ensemble Kalman Filter approach. She is involved in the SIRANO project and investigates the assimilation of SIC Level-2 information (individual orbits) instead of…

Nick Hughes is leader of the Norwegian Ice Service and is based at the Division for Forecasting in Tromsø and is responsible for the daily operation of the Ice Service and for project management including the development of new data processing algorithms and information…

Penelope Wagner is based at the Norwegian Ice Service in the Division for Forecasting in Tromsø. Penelope works on the evaluation of remote sensing data products for operational use and to aid in sea ice monitoring and forecasts. Since 2006, she has been working with…

Signe Aaboe works in the Division of Remote Sensing and Data Management at MET-Norway. She received her M.Sc. in physics-geophysics from the University of Copenhagen and has a Ph.D. in physical oceanography (2008) from the University of Bergen. Since 2013 she has worked as a…

Email: signe.aaboe@met.no
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SigneAaboe
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5618-4537

Signe Alvarstein has been with the ice service at Norwegian Meteorological institute for more than 20 years. She is one of the ice analysts responsible for the daily production of the operational ice charts in Tromsø.

Expertise: Sea Ice Analyst

Steinar Eastwood works in the Division for Remote Sensing and Datamanagement in the Research and Development Department. He has worked with remote sensing since 1997, with main focus on sea surface temperature, sea ice surface temperature, sea ice classification, snow cover and…

Thomas Lavergne is at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Oslo. Thomas is engaged in several operational polar sea ice monitoring services including EUMETSAT OSI SAF, Copernicus Marine,…

Email: thomas.lavergne@met.no
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lavergnetho
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9498-4551

Trond Robertsen ice analyst at The Norwegian Iceservice and meteorological consultant at the Meteorological Institute in Tromsø. Several periods on the arctic islands Hopen and Bear Island, iceberg scouting in Baffin Bay, educational training for students at University of…

Expertise: Sea Ice Analyst

Trygve Halsne is based in Bergen and works in the Department of Remote Sensing and Data Management in the R&D division. He is mainly focusing on the distribution of Sentinel data in Norway and on data services.

William is a researcher at the Norwegian Ice Service at MET-Norway in Tromsø. He mainly works with dissemination activities related to international projects, social media dissemination and analysis of SAR imagery.  

Email: williamjp@met.no

Øystein Godøy is Head of Division for Remote Sensing and Data Management. His educational background is within satellite remote sensing (meteorology) and climate analysis (oceanography). Godøy is seating the SAON/IASC Arctic Data Committee representing WMO, is data manager within the Svalbard…