I am happy to announce that I will be a guest editor for a special edition in MDPI Drones on the topic of UAV icing. I will be guest editor together with my colleague Eric Villeneuve from the University of Québec in Chicoutimi (UQAC). Official…

As a senior researcher at NTNU with over seven years of experience flying drones in the Arctic, I was excited to get the opportunity to take a secondment at Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. My stay at SIOS was driven…

I recently had some more time to look into the many drone datasets that I have collected from Svalbard over the years. As part of my research, I am flying drones to map glaciers and build 3D models that are used to study different aspects…

I have contributed a chapter to a new book about the simulation of aircraft icing. The book is a handy reference for anybody interested in working with icing CFD. My chapter summarizes my research and outlines the main challenges and key findings I discovered in…

On a more personal note. During the last two years, I had the incredible privilege and luck to get started as a dog sled driver (or musher as we say). Mushing has been my childhood dream ever since I read the Yukon Goldrush adventure stories…

Recently, a report on the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) was released during the SIOS Polar Night Week in Longyearbyen. It is the fifth issue of an annual series of reports published by the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS). Before, I wrote two…

This autumn I will be part of a training course with the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS). The course will be about how to use drones for scientific purposes specifically in Svalbard.  It is intended to give researchers who have not worked with…

In our new publication, we present the results of using drones to count reindeer in Svalbard. The work is based on fieldwork results that we collected in a summer campaign in 2021. The work was conducted in collaboration with NTNU, UNIS, and the Norwegian Polar…

I had a very busy year with not too many opportunities to blog. One of the most recent activities was the organization of the first-ever conference on the topic of my main research – the UAV Icing Workshop! One week after the 1st UAV Icing…

In our latest publication, we are introducing a novel method to measure wind with small quadcopters. The method works for drones type DJI Phantom and Mavic. The method post-processes the internal flight data (attitude data) from the drone to estimate wind speed and wind direction….