ISOSCAN (2024-2027). In the Water4All grant ISOSCAN (Isotope-aided assessment and forecasting of hydroclimatic extremes in Scandinavia with stakeholder co-design) we put the information in stable water isotopes in the snow pack to use for better prediction of hydrometeorological extremes in Scandinavia.
FARLAB (2015-2025). As co-manager in this Infrastruktur project FARLAB (Facility for advanced isotopic research and monitoring of weather, climate, and biogeochemical cycling) funded by the Norwegian Research Council, we are establishing state-of-the-art measurement facilities for light stable isotope analysis at University of Bergen. Our ambition for FARLAB is to become a national hub and training facility for triple-isotope analysis of liquid water samples and for water vapour isotope measurements in Norway. Take a look at our equipment and capabilities at the FARLAB home page.
Completed projects:
VISOR (2023-2024). ERC Proof-of-Concept grant for the development of a versatile device for generating a precisely controlled stream of water vapour in terms of water vapour mixing ratio and stable isotope composition. This grant is emerging from the ERC project ISLAS.
ISLAS (2018-2025). In the ERC Consolidator Grant project ISLAS (Isotopic links to atmospheric water’s sources) we will follow the water evaporating in the Nordic Seas during its entire atmospheric life time. From measurements of the stable isotope composition of water vapour using research aircraft, we will obtain an unprecedented picture of how water is processed in the atmosphere.
SNOWPACE (2017-2021). As Principal Investigator of SNOWPACE (Sources of the Norwegian Winter season snow pack) we will work closely together with the group of Prof. John Burkhard at Univeristy of Oslo to analyze from which parts of the North Atlantic the water deposited with the winter snow in the Norwegian mountains in Norway comes from. A PhD at UiO and a PostDoc at UiB will soon start their positions within this project.
INTAROS (2017-2022). As co-Investigator in INTAROS (Integrated Arctic Observing System), funded by the EU in Horizon 2020 blue growth call H2020-BG-09-2016, we will be conducting water vapour isotope measurements during research cruises to the Marginal Ice Zone. The large INTAROS project has many partners and is lead by the Nansen Centre, which is also one of the partners of Bergen’s renowned Bjerknes Center.
S5P-Innovation H2O-Iso (2019-2021). As co-Investigator in this ESA development project, we will be responsible for providing the datasets and model simulations with isotope-enabled regional models that will allow to evaluate the new satellite retrieval algorithms developed by the project partners.
LEMON (2019-2023). As partner in the EU-H2020 project LEMON, GFI will contribute to the validation of a new space-borne LASER instrument that is capable of measuring the isotope composition of water vapour in the atmosphere.
WaVIL (2017-2020). As external partner in the WaVIL Project (Differential Absorption lidar for monitoring water vapor and isotope HDO in the lower troposphere: the Water Vapor and Isotope Lidar) funded by the French ANR and led by Cyrille Flamant at CNRS, we support the development of an exciting new instrument for the remote sensing of stable isotopes in atmospheric water vapour.
COIN (2016-2018). As PI of the Collaboration Iceland-Norway project, funded by the Participation in Arctic Research and Studies Program of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs in Iceland and Norway, we coordinate activities with research groups working on stable water isotopes in Denmark and Norway through a series of workshops.
ACE (2016-2018). As collaborators in the Antarctic Circumpolar Expedition (ACE) project XI (“Investigation of air-sea interaction in the Southern Ocean from stable water isotope measurements”), we collected a unique set of samples in this project led by Heini Wernli’s research group at the IACETH at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. The cruise has been very successfully completed from Dec 2016 to Mar 2017 and we are now analysing samples at FARLAB. Here are TV reports on Swiss and French television about this fascinating cruise.
TWEX-Future.no (2016-2020). As counsellor in the TWEX-Future.no project (Translating weather extremes into the future – a case for Norway) lead by Jana Sillmann at CICERO, we support the analysis of how extreme flood events produced by Atmospheric Rivers affecting Norway today and in the future are represented in high resolution climate models. The project is set up to such that enables close interaction with stakeholders and local communities.
AC-AHC2 (2015-2019). As external partner in the AC-AHC2 project (Atmospheric Circulation and Arctic Hydrological Cycle Changes) funded by the French ANR and led by Valerie Masson-Delmotte, CNRS, we contribute to the installation of a bottom-up network of water vapour measurement stations in the European Arctic, including moisture source analysis.