Nobel Prize winner and former United States Vice-President, Mr. Al Gore addressed the Trans Atlantic Climate Conference audience in 2008 with a keynote speech on climate change and its implications on ocean environments.
Presentations by the speakers:
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Bogi Hansen
Bogi Hansen is a Professor, author and debater. He is Winner of the Nordic Council's Nature and Environment Price 2006 for his wide-ranging research into the climate and oceanography of the Nordic seas. Of particular note are his many years of research into ocean currents and the risk that the Gulf Stream might alter course.
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Helena Dam á Neystabø
Helena Dam á Neystabø is Minister of Environment in the newly established government. Master of Arts (Danish and German language) and MSc. in Management.
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Marita Rasmussen
Marita Rasmussen is Managing Director of the House of Industry.
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Einar K. Guðfinnsson
Einar K. Guðfinnsson is Minister of Fisheries in Iceland since 2005. Member of Althingi for the Westfjord Constituency 1991-2003 and for
the Northwest Constituency since 2003
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Josef Motzfeldt
Josef Motzfeldt serves as an MP and is former Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Greenland Homerule Government.
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Rasmus Ole Rasmussen
Rasmus Ole Rasmussen is Lic. Scient/Ph.D. in Regional Analysis based on the modelling of human influenced Ecosystems. He has specialised is in Regional Development, Regional Analysis, Statistical Analysis, GIS and Arctic and Northern regions.
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Magni Arge
Magni Arge is President of Faroese airline carrier Atlantic Airways.
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Kjartan Hoydal
Kjartan Hoydal is Secretary of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission and the Conference Chairman.
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Orri Vigfússon
Orri Vigfússon is Recipient of the Goldman Environmental Price 2007 for his innovative and multinational initiative in preventing the seemingly inevitable decimation of wild North Atlantic salmon populations.
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Michaela Aschan
Michaela Aschan is Professor in Fisheries Biology. She has worked in the field of marine ecology and fish stock assessment since then. Her research covers wide range of scientific projects: stock assessment and population biology of shellfish, fish and benthic communities, sampling design, bio-economic aspects of fisheries regulation and management.
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Petter Olsen
Petter Olsen is Senior Researcher at NOFIMA Market, employed there since 1993, and Associate Professor at the University of Tromsoe since 2006. He has a MSc. in Software Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Operational Research from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland 1986. Working with applications of ICT especially related to production management, simulation and traceability. Initiated, co-ordinated and participated in numerous traceability projects, including development of generic software tools for internal traceability.
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Bogi Bech Jensen
Bogi Bech Jensen is Research Associate and Ph.D. Researcher at Newcastle University, UK. His field of research is design of electromagnetic components focusing particularly on energy efficient electrical machine design and inductor design.
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Helle Siegstad
Helle Siegstad has a MSc. in Biology. She is Department Manager of the Department of Fish & Scrimps in Greenland's Nature Institution (Grønlands Naturinstitut)
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Vilhjálmur Nielsen
Vilhjálmur Nielsen holds a Ph.D. in External Environmental Costs of Energy. His core competences are within Energy Legislation and Environmental Impact. He has worked for several years with technology perspectives of climate policy and climate projects.
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Hjálmar Hátún
Hjálmar Hátún has a MSc. in Physics and Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography. He is presently employed by the Faroese Fisheries Laboratory and by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre / Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway.
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Knud Simonsen
Knud Simonsen is Dr. Scient. in Oceanography and Associate Professor at the University of Faroe Islands.
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Annika Sølvará
Annika Sølvará is Director of the Faroese Research Council. Before that she was the Administrative Director of the University of the Faroe Islands for 9 years. MA from the University of Aarhus.
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Hannes Gislason
Hannes Gislason, born in 1965, has a MSc. in Physics from Copenhagen University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Technical University of Denmark (1997). Hannes has worked within semiconductor nanotechnology, mathematics education and software development. Since 2005 he has been the Head of research at P/F Fiskaaling - the Aquaculture Research Station of the Faroes.
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Kjartan Ólafsson
Kjartan Ólafsson is Corporate Finance Director at Glitnir Securities in Oslo and has been instrumental in building Glitnir´s seafood strategy. The Glitnir Seafood Team is a team of experts that combine their knowledge in banking and seafood to serve the various needs of seafood companies. Glintir offers a wide range of financial services to companies in all main fishing areas of the world operating within established regulatory framework with focus on efficient stock management and sustainable fisheries. Kjartan holds a MSc. Fishery Science from the University of Tromsoe.
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Sigríður Þórmóðsdóttir
Sigríður Þórmóðsdóttir is Senior Advisor at Nordic Innovation Centre (NICe), a Nordic instrument for promoting an innovative and knowledge-intensive Nordic business sector. BSc. in Biology from the University of Iceland and MBA from BI Norwegian School of Management, Norway. Sigríður is responsible for NICe's Environmental Technology focus area.
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Eyðfinn Magnussen
Eyðfinn Magnussen is Assistant Professor at the University of Faroe Islands, working on the field of fish ecology with especially research interest in life-history of fish, biodiversity, population genetics, zoogeography and temporal and spatial distributions. Since 1995, Eyðfinn has been responsible for annuals bottom surveys on the Faroe Bank performed by the Faroese Fisheries Laboratory.
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Corinna Schrum
Corinna Schrum is Professor at the University of Bergen, where she leads the research team on coastal and small scale oceanography. Her research comprises shelf sea dynamics and the coupling between environmental conditions and marine biota. Response of ecosystems to natural and anthropogenic climatic and environmental changes is one of her main research foci. Corinna Schrum is reponsible for the Nordic Master Programme in Marine Ecosystems and Climate, a nordic higher education collaboration.
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Peter B. Rhines
Peter B. Rhines holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, UK, and Joint appointment as Professor in the Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences departments of University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. Former Guggenheim Fellow, Cambridge University. Main research interests are fheory of the general circulation of the ocean and its waves and eddies; atmospheric and climate dynamics, particularly in the subpolar oceans; sea-going projects in high-latitude climate change; laboratory experiments and numerical models in oceanography and geophysical fluid dynamics; and computer data atlases and not least, understanding and teaching global environmental studies, from the sun (the mother of most energy) to climate to indigenous populations. Peter B. Rhines will speak about reasons to continue to develop the already productive collaboration we have between University of Washington and the Fisheries Research Institute.
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Alyn Smith
Alyn Smith is Scotland's newest and youngest MEP. He has a masters degree in European Studies and is a qualified lawyer. He is a full Member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee, an alternate Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, and the Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.
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