Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) is a non-profit research centre with focus on marine and Arctic science. NERSC is a project-based centre with major funding from Norwegian, European and international research programmes. Since 2012, NERSC has been a national environmental research institute, receiving basic governmental funding. Core research areas address climate and environmental changes in the Arctic. Research includes development of climate and met-ocean models, analysis of model predictions for scientific studies, providing input to national and global climate reports, contributions to climate services and development of data management systems. NERSC is a member of the NorESM Climate Modelling Consortium, and of data infrastructures Norwegian Marine Data Centre and Norwegian Scientific Data Network. NERSC has leading expertise in climate research focusing on variations and changes in climate, predictability in the climate system, and consequences of climate change, and in FAIR data management.
Role in the Project
In FAIR2Adapt, NERSC leads Case Study 1 Spread of radioactive isotopes in the Arctic under different climate scenarios, and the Transfer Case Marine heatwaves putting pressure on marine life in Arctic and North Atlantic waters. This includes engaging with stakeholders to elicit requirements for observations and predictions, tools and services that can support assessment of climate change and planning measures to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts. Furthermore, it provides well documented data products for the two case studies through open data repositories offering standard APIs for search and extraction. To back the case studies of the F2A project, NERSC implements services for accessing, processing, analysing and presenting the generated data products using widely used tools such as Jupyter Notebook and QGIS. The project results are presented at relevant conferences, workshops and stakeholder events, and disseminated by other media such as webinars, websites and scientific publications.