Rosie Fisher
Rosie has a background in land surface model development and ecosystem manipulaiton experiments. She iniated the FATES model activity within CLM and works on numerous collaborative projects across terrestrial systems modeling.
NorESM land modeling network
The NorESM-FATES modeling community works across several institutes in Norway, and collaborates very closely with the international CLM and FATES development teams. This network works closely and has significnat overlap with the NorESM consortium, the LATICE network and Center for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene.
Core NorESM-FATES team
Kjetil Aas
Kjetil has a background in land surface modeling with a particular focus on the cryosphere and land-atmosphere coupling. He is heavily involved in the development of both FATES and NorESM, andserves as WP leader in the NorSink and INES2 projects.
Jessica Needham
Jessie has a background in plant ecology and interests in carbon cycling, plant mortality, forest structure and demographic properties of tropical forests. She was formerly a scientist at Lawrence Berkely lab in California and has been a member of the core FATES team since 2018.
Matvey V. Debolskiy
Matvey is a core developer of the software architecture and maintenance of NorESM, CLM and FATES, and additionally provides technical support for PhD and postDocs using and developing CLM and FATES at MetOs/UiO. He has worked extensively on permafrost and land surface hydrology modeling.
Marit Sandstad
Marit has a PhD in theoretical astrophysics, and currently works on several aspects of climate dynamics, including simple climate models, emulators, scenario generation. Marit is interested in operational efficiency of climate workflows, and has, among many other things, developed a flexible diagnostics package for NorESM-FATES.
Mariana Vertenstein
Mariana was previously the chief software engineer of the Community Earth System Model at NCAR. and is the primary architect of the coupling infrastrucure of both NorESM and CESM. She has worked extensively on infrastructure for almost every part of the coupled Earth System.
Jan-Ivar Korsbakken
Jan-Ivar works on numerous research and commissioned projects, including the Global Carbon Budget and municipal emissions forecasting. He has technical expertise in many aspect of CLM and is part of the NorSink project.
Early Career Researchers working with NorESM-CLM-FATES
Elisabeth (Betty) Worner
-Betty is working on the implementation of the biogeochemistry of mycorrhizae into the CLM6 model framework in the BIOGOV project.
Adele Zaini
-Adele studies the biogeochemical and biogeophysical responsese to land use change and natural climate solutions using coupled NorESM experiments. She is also part of the NCS-REVISE project.
Erik Kusch
-Erik is a senior advisor and data steward at CICERO. He is interested in data pipelines and effective access to climate infomation and is involved in genreation of scenarios for FATES within the NorSink and NCS-REVISE projects.
Zosia Staniaszek
-Zosia is a senior researcher at CICERO in the Climate Systems group. She has background in coupled system dynamics of methane, and is working to improve FATES fire precictions and functionality for simulating high latitude fire emissions in the context of the Boreal Blaze project.
Gregoire Canchon
-Greg is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. He is working (via an internship at CICERO in 2026) on benchmarking and validation of CLM-FATES fire predictions using a variety of Earth Observation data products.
Robbert Kouwenhoven
-Robbert is a masters student at the University of Bern, working on the implementation of agroforestry in FATES for application in Peru and across the tropics. He is part of the Wyss Academy for nature.
Norwegian Land Modeling Community
Terje Koren Berntsen
-Terje is an expert in atmospheric chemistry mediated Earth system feedbacks and supervises several ECRs working on FATES. He leads the BIOGOV project. Terje has mentored many members of the land modeling network (Marianne, Kjetil, Betty, Adele, Shelby and many other prominent atmospheric scientists in Norway. He was an IPCC lead author in AR5)
Frans-Jan Parmentier
-Frans-Jan is an arctic carbon cycle scientist at MetOs. He has extensive experience and expertise in remote sensing, plant physiology and ecophysiology and leads the SNOWLESS project. Frans-Jan is a member of the Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene at the University of Oslo. .
Ben Sanderson
-Ben is Research Director for the Climate Mitigation group at CICERO and a lead author in WGI of the IPCC AR7. He is interested in the links between climate emissios targets, land use scenarios and carbon cycle models. He in involved in the NCS-REVISE and NextGenCarbon projects.
Marianne Tronstad Lund
-Marianne is Research Director for the Climate System group at CICERO. She is an expert in climate-aerosol interactions and has strong interests in understanding the role of fire in the Earth System. She leads the BorealBlaze project.
Glen Peters
-Glen is a founding memeber of the Global Carbon Budget, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author and an authority on trends in fossil fuel emissions. Glen leads the NorSink project, which aims to provide deeper understanding of land use and how it relates to policy and land carbon uptake.
Hanna Lee
-Hanna is a terrestrial ecosystem ecologist and land surface modeler interested in the feedback cycles of global climate change and ecosystem carbon cycles. She has extensive experience with CLM, particularly focused on the impacts of climate change on high latitudes, permafrost systems and arctic ecophysiology.
