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A new monograph was published, written with the participation of experts from the Scientific Foundation “Nansen Center” “Sea Ice in the Arctic: Past, Present and Future”  (Editors: Ola M. Johannessen, Leonid P. Bobylev, Elena V. Shalina, Stein Sandven)Springer, 575 pp., 2020. Book contents

We sincerely congratulate our colleague, research fellow of the Group of Applied Meteorological and Oceanographic Research Denis Demchev on the successful defense of his PhD dissertation at St. Petersburg State University on the topic “Monitoring of ice drift in the Arctic based on satellite radar images”. The defense took place on June 17, 2019 at… Read more: Denis Demchev PhD thesis defended

Most heartily we congratulate our colleague Valeria Selyuzhenok and her scientific supervisors Prof. Dr. Ruediger Gerdes and Dr. Thomas Krumpen on the successful defence of her PhD dissertation “Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea landfast ice: Mechanism of formation and variability of extent”. The defense took place on 13 October 2017 at the Jacobs University Bremen (Bremen, Germany). We… Read more: Valeria Selyuzhenok PhD thesis defended

October 19, 2017 marks 25 years since the establishment of the “Nansen Center” in St. Petersburg! On this occasion celebrations were held in St. Petersburg on October 12 and 13. The main event was the Jubilee Symposium, which was held on the first day of October 12 in the Petrovsky Hall in the Main Building of… Read more: “Nansen Center” 25 years

Most heartily we congratulate our colleague Natalia Gnatiuk and her scientific superviser Dr. Krakovskaya Svetlana Vladimirovna (Ukraine hydrometeorological Institute, Kiev) as well as her scientific  advisers Dr. Leonid Petrovich Bobylev and  Prof. Ola M. Johannessen on a successful defence of her PhD dissertation “The projections of air temperature and precipitation in Ukraine in the 21st… Read more: Natalia Gnatiuk PhD thesis defended

Congratulations to Alexandra Mushta! Diploma “For the Best Poster” in the section “Physics of the Ocean” At the II All-Russian Conference of Young Scientists “Comprehensive Studies of the World Ocean” April 10-15, 2017, Moscow, Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Theme of the presentation: “On the climatic changes in the large-scale ice… Read more: Best poster award

12 – 16 September 2016 St. Petersburg hosted the University Arctic Congress – UArctic Congress 2016 in which the leading scientists of the Foundation “Nansen Centre” in collaboration with scientists from the Norwegian “Nansen Centre” (Bergen, Norway) took active participation. “Nansen Center” Science Foundation presented four presentations on the latest results of their research.

New fundamental article published in the journal Tellus: Ola M. Johannessen, Svetlana I. Kuzmina, Leonid P. Bobylev and Martin W. Miles. Surface air temperature variability and trends in the Arctic: new amplification assessment and regionalization. Tellus A 2016, 68, 28234, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v68.28234, 12 pp.

The 2016 European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium was held in Prague (Czech Republic) 9-13 May 2016 and was organised in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and the local support from Charles University in Prague. Scientific Foundation “NANSEN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTRE” has… Read more: Living Planet Symposium 2016

We sincerely congratulate our colleague Julia Smirnova and her supervisors – Dr. Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev (Russian State Hydrometeorological University) and Dr. Leonid P. Bobylev (NIERSC) on the successful defense of her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Geographical Sciences on the topic “Spatio-temporal variability and main parameters of polar lows over the Nordic Seas”.… Read more: Julia Smirnova PhD thesis defended

A new monograph “Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management” Eds. Danling Tang & Guang Jun Sui. Springer, 582 pp., 2014, was published. The monograph was written with the participation of Prof. D. Pozdnyakov, Dr. of Sciences, Deputy director for Science of the “Nansen Centre”, Leader of the Aquatic Ecosystems in Response to Global Change Group.

Between June 29 and July 5, 2014, a Summer School for young scientists “Land Hydrology and Cryosphere of the Arctic and Northern Eurasia in the changing climate” was successfully held within the framework of the EuRuCAS project (“European-Russian Centre for cooperation in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic environmental and climate research”. This Project   project has received… Read more: EuRuCAS Summer School

EuRuCAS Workshop 5-7 November, 2013International scientific meeting in the frame of European-Russian Centre for Cooperation in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Environmental and Climate Research (EuRuCAS) project was held at NIERSC, Saint-Petersburg, Russia during November 5-7, 2013.The two-day meeting brings together a number of EuRuCAS project partners from international organizations from (Austria, Finland, France, Sweden, UK,… Read more: EuRuCAS Workshop

Evgeny Morozov successfully defended his PhD thesis on June 6, 2013, at the Russian State Hydrometeorological University (St. Petersburg). His thesis is titled “Algorithms for the retrieval of the concentrations of chlorophyll-a and suspended matter as well as for identification of Lepidodinium chlorophorum and Emilianya Huxley blooms in the Bay of Biscay”. The members of the defence committee… Read more: Evgeny Morozov PhD thesis defended