Who are we

Bakke is a Professor of Quaternary Geology at the University of Bergen and a leading expert in paleoclimate research, glacial geomorphology, and sedimentary archives. With over two decades of experience in Polar and alpine fieldwork, his research has focused on reconstructing past climate variability using lake sediments and glacier fluctuations, with a growing emphasis on geohazards such as flooding and avalanches. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, including in Nature and Science, and his work has been cited over 5,000 times.

Steen-Larsen is Professor in Experimental Polar Meteorology and Climatology and an ERC Grantee. He is an expert in the use of water stable isotopes to study processes in the atmospheric hydrological cycle and quantify past climate variability from ice core records. His research focuses on the interactions between snow and the atmosphere, as well as snow processes. He leads the SNOWISO water stable isotope laboratory, which focuses on making state-of-the-art measurements of liquid and vapor isotopes. He has conducted field campaigns in Greenland, Antarctica, and on the Tibetan Plateau, and has been instrumental in obtaining high-quality water vapor isotope measurements from around the world. His research is bringing together model simulations, field observations, and laboratory experiments.

Robson specialises in studying glacial and periglacial environments through a range of remote sensing and geomatic techniques. He use a variety of methods and datasets to characterise and quantify how the cryosphere is changing in a variety of catchments in Norway, Chile, and Nepal. His expertise encompasses a variety of analytical tools and approaches, such as machine learning, image classification, photogrammetry, structure from motion, and synthetic aperture radar. He have applied these methods to interpret complex geospatial data and quantify cryospheric changes. He am interested in combining various geospatial datasets such as aerial and satellite imagery, unmanned aerial vehicle point clouds, and laser scanning data in order to quantify rates of change. 

Måren is professor in applied ecology and UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management – Nature and Culture. Måren’s background is multi-disciplinary, and her research focuses on processes and dynamics in social-ecological systems, including sustainable land-use, natural resource management, ecosystem services, agroecology, and sustainable food systems. She works both in the global north and south and has a clear development perspective in her research, reflected in several international cooperation networks in Africa and Asia. Måren works with colleagues across the social and natural sciences to elucidate links between anthropogenic activities and the environment to unravel social-ecological complexities in real-world contexts.

Paasche is the Head of the Climate Dynamics Department at NORCE and Director of Climate Futures. Paasche’s research focuses on past and present climate dynamics, with a particular emphasis on high-latitude regions. In recent years, he has developed a strong interest in how scientific data is communicated, interpreted, and applied by stakeholders and policymakers.

Li is a hydrologist with over 15 years of experience in hydrological and regional climate modeling, specializing in glacier- and snow-hydrology, floods, climate change impacts on hydrology and uncertainty estimation. She seeks to improve the understanding of past, present and future hydrological cycle, change and variability at local to regional scales. Her work focuses on the physical mechanism driving hydrological response to internal and external forcings, and on evaluating the impacts on human and natural systems. 

Pontoppidan is the Research Director of the Regional Climate and Climate Services research group at NORCE. Her work focuses on regional climate changes, with a particular interest in precipitation and physical climate risk, using advanced regional climate models as tools. In recent years, Pontoppidan has been extensively involved in cross-disciplinary projects, integrating climate research and regional climate modeling into a wide range of interdisciplinary studies. 

Grytnes is a professor in plant ecology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences specializing in biodiversity dynamics and species responses to environmental change. His current research focuses on understanding how species and ecosystems respond to human-driven environmental pressures, particularly climate change. A core part of this work involves leveraging historical ecological datasets and conducting resurveys to assess changes in species distributions and community composition over time. In addition, he has worked extensively on biodiversity patterns in mountain areas using both macroecological and fine-scale approaches.