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by Lise Nordgård on 2019-12-19 at 19:19

by Lise Nordgård on 2019-12-18 at 13:57

An article by Malin Johansson, Eirik Malnes, Sebastian Gerland, Anca Cristea, Anthony P. Doulgeris, Dmitry V. Divine, Olga Pavlova and Tom Rune Lauknes has been accepted for publication in Annals of Glaciology. The title of the publication is “Consistent ice and open water classification combining historical synthetic aperture radar satellite images from ERS-1/2, Envisat ASAR,…

by Thomas Kræmer on 2019-12-12 at 09:29

The CIRFA management team has been expanded to include a centre co-leader. Prof. Camilla Brekke takes on the responsibility and will support Prof. Torbjørn Eltoft in managing the centre. Brekke is already a substantial contributor to CIRFA as a leader of WP3 and co-leader of WP6 and we appreciate that she takes on the additional…

by Lise Nordgård on 2019-11-30 at 16:31

An article by Stine Skrunes, Malin Johansson and Camilla Brekke has been accepted for publication in Remote Sensing. The title of the article is:  “Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing of Operational Platform Produced Water Releases”.

by Lise Nordgård on 2019-11-25 at 10:24

Master of Science, Martine Espeseth will defend her thesis for the PhD degree 5th December. Trial Lecture: “Gravity and Capillary Waves on the Ocean Surface” When: 5 December, 10:15 Where: Auditorium 1.022 Technology building Dissertation: “Analysis of Oil Spill and Sea Ice Measurements Using Full-Polarimetric and Hybrid-Polarity Synthetic Aperture Radar data” When: 5 December, 12:15…

by Lise Nordgård on 2019-11-19 at 14:54

The Department of Physics and Technology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway announces a vacant Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the area of optical remote sensing for water quality parameter retrieval at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Science and Technology. The position is affiliated with the research project The Nansen Legacy. The…

by Lise Nordgård on 2019-11-19 at 07:51

Welcome to a seminar on remote sensing of the Cryosphere organized by the Earth observation group at UiT and CIRFA. There will be two talks by well esteemed guests from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): • Brent Minchew (MIT) – “New Insights into the Mechanics of Glacier Beds from…

by Lise Nordgård on 2019-11-09 at 14:37

CIRFA Seminar Thursday 14 November 14:00-15:00 CIRFA welcomes you to a seminar presented by Alister Everett, MET Norway followed by a presentation by Tom Rune Lauknes and Rolf-Ole Rydeng Jensen, Norce. Date/time: Thursday 14 November, 14:00-15:00 Venue: CIRFA, SIVA Innovation Centre (Forskningsparken) Online: https://connect.uninett.no/cirfa-seminar The title of the presentation by Alister Everett is: The Ice…

by Lise Nordgård on 2019-10-25 at 12:57

The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) in Tromsø, Norway invites applications for a postdoctoral research fellow position in observational sea ice research linked to remote sensing in our Research Department, Section for Ocean and Sea Ice. The position has a duration of three years. The position is part of the collaboration the Norwegian Polar Institute has…

by Lise Nordgård on 2019-10-25 at 12:21

We will soon announce a vacant Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the area of optical remote sensing for biochemical water quality parameter retrieval affiliated with the research project Nansen Legacy. A link to the announcement will be found here when available.