Even though UW's weekly Lunch Lectures are on summer holidays, some research students from SeaTech Toulon are at work together with their supervisor, Björn Erlingsson. They are modelling the ocean currents in Skutulsfjörður, the fjord where the town of Ísafjörður is located on a sandreef in the middle of the fjord, and will present their findings on Friday, 27.02.2018, at 12:10, the normal time of Vísindaport Lunch Lectures.

The students come from SeaTech Toulon, which is a marine engineering school within the University of Toulon, France. Their supervisor is Björn Erlingsson, whom many in Ísafjörður remember as staff of the Avalance Center at Meteorological office. The annual coming of students from SeaTech is part of the Polar Ocean Research Group, which focusses on research on physical aspects of coastal processes and sea ice in the Arctic environment.

After an introduction by supervisor Björn Erlingsson, Kevin Dubois, who already has been with the group last year, will present the first edition of the hydrodynamic model of Skutulsfjörður. Emphasis was laid on providing means for making the hydrodynamic processes, where different processes have impact on mixing and distribution of different water masses, comprehensible and useful for insight into fjord dynamics for laymen as well as experts in various fields.

As this Lunch Lecture is on the last working day of the research students, UW invites presenters and audience for a slice of pizza on this occasion.

For those who want to dive deeper into Skutulsfjörð, the other four research students from Toulon, Nicolas Salaün, Valentin Vallaeys, Hassane Dhanoune og Nicolas Georges, will present their projects between 13:00 and 15:00. Those projects are the basic work that lead to the current model.

Their topics are:

• Real time In-Situ oceanographic in situ data acquisition
• Diagnostic analysis of water mass properties (stability, density, freezing point
• Presentation of water mass properties in dynamical oceanographic flow-fields, like tide, wind, densitiy driven currents
• Impact of wind current friction (Ekman pumping) on storm surges

The Lunch Lectures are open for public as always and will be this time in English. The first part will last from 12:10 to 13:00 and the second part from 13:00 to 15:00.