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• ANNUAL REPORT 2013
Since his arrival at NTNU in early October, Schulson
has mentored a number of SAMCoT graduate students,
lectured in Trondheim and at UNIS in Svalbard, and
worked with researchers both within and outside of
SAMCoT. He’s been very impressed by the quality of the
work in Trondheim.
SAMCoT “is probably the foremost group in (ice) model-
ling in the world,” he says.
A visit to Svalbard
Hansen Johnson, a 2013 graduate of Bates College in the
United States, came to NTNU as a Fulbright Research
Scholar to study climate change and expand his science
communication skills.
He travelled to Svalbard with SAMCoT and veteran
science journalist Nancy Bazilchuk in September 2013
to help with the production of several SAMCoT videos
and to interview researchers who had just completed
the Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise off of the
northeast coast of Greenland.
The cruise included five marine observers, one of whom
was Michel André, one of the foremost marine acoustic
scientists in the world. Johnson, whose undergraduate
thesis addressed bowhead whale songs in the Alaskan
Arctic, was thrilled to have a chance to talk to André and
the other SAMCoT researchers. The experience also
helped cement his own conviction that he will continue
his career as a researcher.
“Any time you can sit down and interact with profession-
als in your field of interest, it can be really enlightening,”
he said. “But this was really inspiring.”
OATRC2013: Back from the ice!
In September 2013, a multinational team of 33 research-
ers returned to Longyearbyen, Svalbard with full scale
data on everything from iceberg drift to bowhead whale
sightings, after a cruise in the iceberg-infested waters
off northeast Greenland. They rammed through ice
ridges, took 360-degree pictures of the ice, tracked the
movement of icebergs and measured the underwater
Johnson and veteran science journalist Bazilchuk during their visit to Svalbard. The oden Icebreaker in the background.
Photo: Roy Wollvik