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Dr. Sebastian H. Mernild
Dr. Sebastian H. Mernild is head of SDU Climate Cluster at the University of Southern Denmark and a professor in climate change and glaciology. From 2020-2022 he was pro-rector at SDU and also affiliated (20%) with University of Bergen (Geophysical Institute) as a professor. Mernild is also an IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) lead author. In 2018, Mernild won the Rosenkjær Prize and was nominated Dane of the Year, and in 2019, he was included in Kraks Blå Bog.
Mernild worked in the US for seven years at the International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2006-2009), and at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (2009-2013), and three years as senior research scientist/research leader at Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECs) in Valdivia, Chile (2013-2016). Further, he worked in Norway from 2016-2020 as full professor in Climate Change and Glaciology, and as Director of the Nansen Center (NERSC) in Bergen. After 15 years abroad he returned to Denmark in 2020.Let us help you create a captivating commercial that grabs the attention of your target audience and effectively communicates your message. Our team specializes in producing high-quality commercials that are both engaging and effective.
Dr. Matt Nolan
For the past 25 years, Dr. Matt Nolan has specialized in understanding the impacts of climate change on the landscape of Alaska and he developed fodar to facilitate that. He received an MS in Arctic Engineering at UAA in 1992, a PhD in Geophysics from UAF in 1998, and has been a research professor at UAF/INE since 1999. He has led dozens of field projects during that time, largely using equipment he built or techniques he developed to better understand our landscape and changes to it. No single investigator has acquired or made more topographic maps of Alaska than Dr Nolan, starting in 2000 with the first airborne IfSAR data in Alaska including the entire Kuparuk River basin and the largest mountain passes in Alaska to time-series of enormous lidar collections in the eastern Brooks Range to his own fodar mapping.
Former President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson served as President of Iceland for twenty years, 1996-2016, elected five times in nationwide elections. Previously, he was Minister of Finance, Member of Parliament, Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the first Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland. He now serves as Chairman of the Arctic Circle, which he founded in 2013 with various Arctic partners.
President Grímsson served on the International Advisory Board for COP28. For decades, President Grímsson has been an active participant in the global climate dialogue and, during his Presidency and in recent years, initiated and promoted clean energy projects in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the United States and the Americas; especially using Icelandic achievements and technologies as a model. Cooperation with Sinopec has led to the largest geothermal projects in the world, building clean energy urban heating systems in a multitude of Chinese cities. He was the Chairman of a commission established by IRENA on the new geopolitics emerging from global renewable energy transformation and served on the Advisory Board of Sustainable Energy for All, created by the United Nations and the World Bank. In addition to devoting his post-presidential efforts to the three areas of climate, the Arctic, and clean energy, Grímsson is also involved in international cooperation on the oceans and the evolution of sustainable use of marine resources.
President Grímsson has received many international awards, including the Nehru Award for International Understanding, presented to him by the President of India, and the First Class Order of Zayed II, bestowed to him by UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for his efforts and role at COP28.
Dr. Rachel Chisolm
Dr. Rachel Chisolm received her PhD in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at the Center for Research in Water Resources at the University of Texas at Austin. She received a B.S in Physics and Engineering from Washington and Lee University and an M.S. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Chisolm has been studying the impact of climate change on emerging glacial lakes in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, and the water resources implications of glacial retreat on water supply and the risk of glacial lake outburst floods.
Dr. Tómas Jóhannesson
Dr. Tómas Jóhannesson is the glaciological research group leader at the Icelandic Meteorological Office in Reykjavík. He received a Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Washington with a glaciological field of study. His focus areas are climate and environment, climate change, studies in snow avalanches and natural hazards, geophysical modeling and data processing, hazard zoning for snow avalanches and landslides, snow avalanche protection measures, snow avalanche forecasting and glacier/lidar mapping.
Dr. Guðfinna Th Aðalgeirsdóttir
Dr. Guðfinna Th Aðalgeirsdóttir is a professor in glaciology and is faculty of earth sciences at the
University of Iceland. She conducts scientific research in glaciology with a focus on the interaction of climate and ice sheets. She also studies past, present and future evolution of glaciers and ice sheets, ice dynamics, ice sheet modeling, isostatic rebound and sea level rise. She is also working on coupling of ice sheet models with global and regional climate models. She is the author/co-author of 45 peer-reviewed papers, h-index 23 (total of 1884 citations Dec 2020).
Todd Anders Johnson
Todd Anders Johnson
Todd Anders Johnson
Todd Anders Johnson is an environmental filmmaker, socially-conscious musician and educator and independently produced the Cresta Alta Film. With the Risan Brands’ family of companies, Todd merges his passions for the environment, the arts and outdoor recreation.
Todd studied international development at the University of Washington and has been a panelist and presenter with Bono’s One Campaign and with the United Nations' International Mountain Day. Todd has coordinated solar powered concert events with the Nantucket Land Council and with the City of Aspen and has established partnerships with organizations such as the Canadian Climate Project and Protect Our Winters.
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CRESTA ALTA FILM
Produced by Risan Media, the Cresta Alta film documents a journey to Alaska, Iceland, Chile and Peru to document glaciological research expeditions and sustainability.
