Curriculum Vitae

Personal information:
Name : Cecilie Hansen
Date of birth : 15.04.1978
Citizenship : Norwegian
Address : Institute of marine research
Nordnesgaten 33
N-5005 Bergen
NORWAY
Telephone : +4755238689
E-mail : cecilie.hansen@imr.no

Research interest and experience : Coupled physical-primary production models, with focus on the Nordic Seas. Effect of mesoscale activity on primary production, impact of changes in atmospheric conditions on timing and strength of phytoplankton blooms. End-to-end models, with focus on the Barents and Nordic Seas.

Present position:
Post-Doc. Implement an end-to-end model in the Barents and Nordic Seas. Comparative studies between this area and the west coast of the U.S.

Education:
2005-2008 : Phd in oceanography- University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute
2003-2005: University of Bergen, 80 points from department of Geophysics, oceanography.
Courses taken at the same time as working as a research assistant at Nansen
environmental and remote sensing center (NERSC).
1998-2003: NTNU- Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Faculty of
Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, department of
Mathematics.
Spring 2003, master thesis: “Prothesis design”.
1997-1998: University of Bergen, Ex.Phil+45 points mathematics.

Work experience:
2010- : Post Doc, Institute of Marine Research
2009-2010: 8 months maternity leave
2008-2010: Post Doc, NERSC
2005-2008 : PhD-student, NERSC
2003-2004: Research assistant, NERSC (Working on industry oriented modelling projects, modelling the South China Sea and the North Sea/Norwegian Sea)

Publications

Samuelsen, A., Bertino, L. and Hansen, C. The 2007 North Atlantic spring bloom in
operational analysis from the TOPAZ system. Ocean Sci. Discuss., 6, 343-369,
2009.

Hansen, C. and Samuelsen, A. 2009. Influence of horizontal model grid resolution on the
simulated primary production in an embedded primary production model in the Norwegian Sea. Journal of Marine Systems, 75(1-2): 236-244

Samuelsen, A. and Huse, G. and Hansen, C. 2009: Shelf recruitment of Calanus
finnmarchicus off the west coast of Norway – the role of physical processes and timing of diapause termination, Marine Ecology Progress Series (In Press)

Hansen, C. and Samuelsen. Interannual variability of the primary production in the
Norwegian Sea: Relation to the NAO in a numerical model, in prep.

Hansen, C., Kvaleberg, E. and Samuelsen, A, 2010. .Anticyclonic eddies in the Norwegian
Sea: Their generation, evolution and impact on primary production. Deep-Sea
Research, Part I, 57(9):1079-1091.

Godø, O.R, Patel, R, Samuelsen, A., Hjøllo, S.S., Horne, J., Anderson, C.I.H., Hansen, C.,
Bertino, L, Kaartvedt, S., and Johannessen, J.A.: Mesoscale eddies are oasis for higher
Trophic marine life. Submitted to Plos One.

Hansen, C. 2008. Simulated primary production in the Norwegian Sea – Interannual
variability and impact of mesoscale activity. Ph.D. thesis, Geofysisk Institutt,
Universitetet i Bergen,