Slush 2017 Skolar Award Science Pitching

Hi guys!

I am very happy to say to that I am on of the ten finalists for the Skolar Award Science Pitching competition happening at Slush 2017 tomorrow! This means that I have amazing change to pitch my research idea in front of 2 000 people for three minutes! I will give everything I got!

Here’s my research idea in a nutshell:

As everyone should realize by now, climate change is one of the biggest threats to humanity. The main culprits are atmospheric greenhouse gases, GHGs, that increase the global temperature. This research aims to identify the main man-made areas of greenhouse gases with the help of space-based observations. Those offer a sustainable and cost-efficient tool to estimate the impact of human activities on our environment.

You can meet the finalist at http://www.slush.org/news/meet-science-pitching-2017-finalists/ and https://skolaraward.fi/finalists/

Yesterday morning I was in the Yle morning show talking about my idea. The interview went really well, and you can watch it from Yle Areena: https://areena.yle.fi/1-4299989

Yesterday evening we had The Skolar Award Premiere at the Kaskas Media HQ. Now I should be ready!

See You at Slush Central stage tomorrow at 13:10 Finnish time. You can follow the event online at http://www.slush.org/live/#central-stage

Crazy!

Janne

Eye in the Sky

Dear friends,

It is my pleasure to announce that the prestigious journal Science has published a collection of five research papers based on OCO-2 data.

The main finding of this special issue was how the 2015-16 El Niño, one of the largest on record, was responsible for the record spike in carbon dioxide levels. The increase was about 3 ppm per year,  while in recent years, the average annual increase has been closer to 2 ppm per year. According to  Dr. Junjie Liu who led the study "about 80 percent of that amount, or 2.5 gigatons of carbon, came from natural processes occurring in tropical forests in South America, Africa and Indonesia, with each region contributing roughly the same amount."

I wasn’t part of that study, but I had a little contribution to the paper "The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 early science investigations of regional carbon dioxide fluxes" with XCO₂ anomalies. Here’s a little video from Science Museum of Virginia explaining how the anomaly approach work:


You can find the OCO-2 special issue here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6360

Janne

IWGGMS-13

Dear readers,

Last week the 13th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space (IWGGMS) was held at the main building of the University of Helsinki. The meeting had a very good atmosphere, and with about 160 participants, I got to talk with many new and old GHG colleagues, and once again learned a lot! Here are couple of photos.

Thank you for the meeting!

Janne

Opening talk by Dr. David Crisp

That's me presenting my work!

Dr. Iolanda Ialongo presenting her poster

Our PhD student Ella Kivimäki presenting her poster

Dr. Hannakaisa Lindqvist presenting her posters

Group photo!

Back to the start

Dear readers,

I started my academic life in 2004 as a math student in University of Helsinki. I enjoined my time there, although, one of the best experiences of my “university years” was the academic year 2006/2007 that I got to spent in Roma Tre University as an Erasmus exchange student. During the later part of my studies, in 2008, I joined the Atmospheric Remote Sensing group of the Finnish Meteorological Institute first as a summer trainee, then as a master’s thesis worker, and finally as a research scientist. I never looked back, and went to do my PhD studies in Lappeenranta University of Technology (2011–2013). This means that I never actually worked for my alma mater.

Tomorrow that is about to change, as I will join the Inverse Problems research group in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics until the end of this year. I am excited about this opportunity and will try to learn as much as I can during the next seven months. Research-wise, this is also an excellent opportunity to study the different aspects of the inverse problems research.

Actually, I will start my first full week as a university employee in the “13th InternationalWorkshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space.” Finnish Meteorological Institute organizes the meeting, but it will be held in the main building of… University of Helsinki!

See you there!

Janne