Peter Haugan

 

 

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Name:             Peter Mosby Haugan

Date of birth: 28.07.1958

Nationality:   Norwegian

Titles:             Policy director, professor.

Affiliations:   Institute of Marine Research and University of Bergen, Norway.

Email:            Peter.Haugan@hi.no, Peter.Haugan@uib.no

 

SUMMARY

Peter M Haugan is policy director at Institute of Marine Research, Norway and professor at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway. In his position at IMR he reports directly to the CEO on strategic matters and maintains a special responsibility for international and crosscutting issues. He has more than 30 years of experience in marine scientific research and international ocean science coordination covering ocean, climate and energy issues. His professional merits include 5 years as research engineer in the petroleum industry in the early 1980ies, active contributions to seagoing and polar oceanography from the late 1980ies, research on climate, carbon cycle and storage of CO₂ from he 1990ies, head of institutions, international coordination of marine research infrastructures and science-policy interface from 2000. From his professorship originally in oceanography, he has initiated and led research and education efforts in renewable energy including offshore wind and maritime low carbon solutions. He is also past chair of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC of UNESCO). Since 2018 he served as co-chair of the Expert Group, presently Lead Expert of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy and in 2021-2022 he was seconded part time to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

 

Education:     Dr. philos (PhD) at University of Bergen 1999, University pedagogical training 1999, Cand. real in applied mathematics at University of Bergen 1982, Norwegian military service 1977 and high school 1976.

 

Positions held:          

2023-…        Policy Director at Institute of Marine Research, Norway

2021-2022    On loan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (80%)

2019-2022    Programme Director responsible for the Global Development Programme at Institute of Marine Research, Norway

2018             Director of Ocean Sustainability Centre at University of Bergen    

2015-2019    Research Director II at Institute of Marine Research (20 %) and Chair of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC of UNESCO)

2012             Director of the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC; with temporary leave of absence from the university).

2003-2011    Director/head of the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen

2000-2003    Vice-director of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

1999-…        Professor of physical oceanography at the Geophysical Institute

1997-1999    Associate professor of polar oceanography at the University Centre on Svalbard

1996-1997    Senior scientist at the Geophysical Institute and adjunct senior scientist at Institute of Marine Research.

1987-1995    Senior scientist (1987-1989), research leader (1989-1993), research director and assistant director (1993-1995) at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center.

1982-1987    Research engineer and project leader in the Numerical Modelling Dept., Reservoir Section, Norsk Hydro Research Centre, Bergen. 

 

Fields of interest, research and educational activities:

• Sustainable development and the related science policy interface
• Renewable energy and energy transformation
• Ocean observing systems and development of infrastructure for marine, polar and energy related research.
• Sustainable ocean planning and ecosystem based management
• Supervised 21 PhD students and 17 master students since 1989.
• Teaching of university level courses in polar oceanography, air-sea interaction and dynamical oceanography since 1996, including extensive field courses in Svalbard, later operational and practical oceanography (GEOF231 and GEOF232), energy sources and use (ENERGI200), energy physics and technology (ENERGI210) at energy master as well as climate and energy at Sustainability master (SDG310) and crossdisciplinary climate/energy/ethics (VIT212) at University of Bergen.

 

 

Membership in academic and professional committees, scientific review work and other professional merits 

Lead Expert of the Expert Group for the High Level Panel on a Sustainable Ocean Economy (oceanpanel.org) from 2023, Co-chair of Expert Group 2018-2022.

Chair of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC/UNESCO; http://www.ioc-unesco.org/) 2015-2017 and re-elected 2017-2019, vice chair 2011-2015, National delegate for Norway to the IOC General Assembly from 1999 and to the IOC Executive Council (EC) 2005-2009. 

Vice-chair of the Norwegian National Committee for UNESCO 2008-2016 with responsibility for science.

Chair of the national Norwegian Committee for the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR,http://www.jhu.edu/scor/) of the International Council for Science (ICSU) from 2005-2020, member from 2004.

Member of the External Advisory Board of the Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), earlier CliSAP (integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction) cluster of excellence in Hamburg, Germany, from 2010.

Member of the Science, Technology and Ethics Advisory Committee for the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO) ERIC from 2017.

Elected Vice-chair of the European Marine Board 2011-2014 (member representing the Norwegian Marine University Consortium since 2008).

Elected member of the board of the University of Bergen 2009-2017.

Project leader for Norwegian Atlantic Current Observatory (NACO) a glider-based research infrastructure funded by the Norwegian Research Council 2011-2017.

Principal investigator in the project NORTH funded by the Norwegian Research Council climate programme 2014-2017.

Member of the ICSU/ISSW Strategy Working Group 2017 leading to the merger into International Science Council.

Member of the board of NORCOWE, a centre for environment friendly energy funded by the Norwegian Research Council and industry 2009-2017, chair of the board 2012-2013, leader of the science committee 2009-2012.

Member of the steering committee of the Norwegian Offshore Wind Energy Research Infrastructure (NOWERI) and the steering group of the Offshore Boundary Layer Observatory (OBLO), a national research infrastructure funded through the Norwegian Research Council.

Chair of the University of Bergen committee 2010-2011 developing a master programme in energy in collaboration with Bergen University College, and Chair of the programme board for this energy master 2013-2017.

Member of the ESFRI Strategy Working Group for Environmental Sciences (ENV SWG) on behalf of the Norwegian Research Council 2011-2016.

Responsible for the University of Bergen contribution to Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), an ESFRI Preparatory Phase Project funded from the EU 2010-2014 and a Norwegian Research Council infrastructure being negotiated fall 2017, to the Gliders for Research, Ocean Observation and Management (GROOM) EU FP7 project 2011-2015, to the EU FP7 FixO3 project coordinating fixed point ocean observatories 2013-2017, and PI in the EU H2020 AtlantOS project 2015-2019.

Principal investigator in the Michelsen Centre for Research-based Innovation (CRI) funded by the Norwegian Research Council and industry 2007-2015.

Principal investigator (vice-director 2000-2003) in the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, a Centre of Excellence funded by the Norwegian Research Council 2002-2012 and coordinating a series of related projects in the period 1999-2007. 

Chair of the science committee for the open science conference on "Polar Dynamics: Monitoring, Understanding and Prediction" in Bergen August 2007.

Lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on carbon dioxide capture and storage written during 2003-2005 (http://arch.rivm.nl/env/int/ipcc/pages_media/ccs-report.html).

Member of the Ocean Observation Panel for Climate of the Global Climate Observing System/Global Ocean Observing System (IOC/WMO/UNEP/ICSU) 1996-2002.

President of the Norwegian Geophysical Society 2000-2001 (vice president 1998-99).

Member of American Geophysical Union, European Geosciences Union, Norwegian Geophysical Society

Referee for the journals Nature, J. Phys. Oceanogr., J. geoph. res., Geophysical Research Letters, Prog. Oceanogr., Deep-Sea Research , J. Climate, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Pol. Res., Ann. Glaciology, Environmental Science and Technology.

Evaluator for EU projects and for nationally funded projects in Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, UK and USA.

Expert reviewer for the IPCC 4^th Assessment Report.

Invited expert to IPCC WGI/WGII Workshop on ocean acidification Japan, 2011.

Invited expert to IPCC WGI/WGII/WGII Workshop on geoengineering, Peru, 2011.

Served as PhD thesis opponent in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and France.

 

Selected publications in referee journals and books:

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Eliza Northrop, Oliver S. Ashford, Thierry Chopin, Jessica Cross, Carlos Duarte, Steve Gaines, Tess Geers, Stefan Gössling, Peter Haugan, Mark Hemer, Jennifer Howard, Claire Huang, Andreas Humpe, Gabriella Kitch, David Koweek, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Catherine E. Lovelock, Kathryn Matthews, Patrick Mustain, Finn Gunnar Nielsen, Robert Parker, Joyashree Roy, Tristan Smith, Shreya Some, Ya-Yen Sun, Torsten Thiele and Peter Tyedmers 2023. The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change Updated Opportunities for Action. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute https://oceanpanel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ocean_Panel_Ocean_Climate_Solutions_Update_Full.pdf

Lock, Erik-Jan, Monica Sanden, Livar Frøyland, Peter Haugan and Øivind Strand 2022. What are the implications of climate change on the future of food from the ocean? (In Norwegian) Naturen 146, No 6, 284-290 https://doi.org/10.18261/naturen.146.6.7

Lubchenco, J., P.M. Haugan & M.E. Pangestu 2020. Five priorities for a sustainable ocean economy. Nature 588, 30-32 (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03303-3

Eldevik, Tor and Peter M Haugan 2020. That´s a lot of water. Nature Physics 16, 496 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0866-0

Stuchtey, M., A. Vincent, A. Merkl, M. Bucher, P.M. Haugan, J.  Lubchenco & M.E. Pangestu 2020. “Ocean Solutions That Benefit People, Nature and the Economy.” Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. https://oceanpanel.org/ocean-action/files/full-report-ocean-solutions-eng.pdf

Haugan, P.M., L.A. Levin, D. Amon, M. Hemer, H. Lily and F.G. Nielsen. 2020. What Role for Ocean-Based Renewable Energy and Deep Seabed Minerals in a Sustainable Future? Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. www.oceanpanel.org/blue-papers/ocean-energy-and-mineral-sources

Ringkjøb, H.-K., P.M. Haugan & A. Nybø 2020. Transitioning remote Arctic settlements to renewable energy systems – A modelling study of Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Applied Energy 258 114079 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114079

Ringkjøb, H.-K., P.M. Haugan, P. Seljom, A. Lind, F. Wagner & S. Mesfun 2020. Short-term solar and wind variability in long-term energy system models - A European case study. Energy 200 118377 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.118377

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Ken Caldeira, Thierry Chopin, Steve Gaines, Peter Haugan, Mark Hemer, Jennifer Howard, Manaswita Konar, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Elizabeth Lindstad, Catherine E. Lovelock, Mark Michelin, Finn Gunnar Nielsen, Eliza Northrop, Robert Parker, Joyashree Roy, Tristan Smith, Shreya Some, and Peter Tyedmers 2019. The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change Five Opportunities for Action. Washington, DC: World Resources Institutehttps://oceanpanel.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/HLP_Report_Ocean_Solution_Climate_Change_final.pdf

Ringkjøb, H-K, Haugan, P.M. and Solbrekke, I.M. 2018. A review of modelling tools for energy and electricity systems with large shares of variable renewables. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 96, 440-459.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.08.002

Haugan, P. 2017. Oceanography. Chapter 7 in "Norwegian Geophysical Society 100 years", a collection of articles edited by Magnar Gullikstad Johnsen. ISBN 978-82-303-3582-6, p. 151-171 (in Norwegian).

Lambert, E., T. Eldevik and P.M. Haugan 2016. How northern freshwater input can stabilise thermohaline circulation. Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 68:1, 31051. http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v68.31051

Haugan, P.M. 2015. Estimating the cost of energy services. Paper presented at BEEER Conference Bergen May 2015, http://www.nhh.no/beeer.

Haugan, P.M. 2015. Distributed renewable energy production in the high north. Paper presented at Arctic Frontiers Conference January 2015, http://www.arcticfrontiers.com/arctic-frontiers/archive/2015-conference.

Lars H. Smedsrud, Igor Esau, Randi B. Ingvaldsen, Tor Eldevik, Peter M. Haugan, Camille Li, Vidar Lien, Are Olsen, Abdir Omar, Odd H. Otterå, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Anne B. Sandø, Vladimir Semenov and Svetlana Sorokina 2013.The role of the Barents Sea in the Arctic climate system.  Reviews of Geophysics.

Haugan, P.M., H. Sagen and S. Sandven 2012. Ocean Observatories for understanding and monitoring Arctic change. Paper 120113-102 accepted at IEEE/MTS Oceans 2012 Conference, Yeosu, Korea, May 2012.

Haugan, P.M., K.G. Frøysa and F.G. Nielsen 2012. The Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE). Paper 120113-099 accepted at IEEE/MTS Oceans 2012 Conference, Yeosu, Korea, May 2012.

Rygg, K., G. Alendal and P.M. Haugan 2011. Flow over a rounded backward-facing step, comparing a z-coordinate and a s-coordinate model. Ocean Dynamics 61 (10). pp. 1681-1696.

Haugan, Peter M. 2010. Observatories for Understanding Arctic Change. In Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development, UNESCO Press 2010, p. 303-308.

Orr, James C., Ken Caldeira, Victoria Fabry, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Peter Haugan, Patrick Lehodey, Silvio Pantoja, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Ulf Riebesell, Tom Trull, Ed Urban, Maria Hood, Wendy Broadgate 2009. Research Priorities for Understanding Ocean Acidification: Summary from the Second Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO₂ World. Oceanography Magazine Vol 22 (4) pp. 182-189.

Haugan, Peter M. 2009. Communicating scientific uncertainty for decision making about CO₂ storage. P 253-264 in Baveye et al. (Ed.): Uncertainties in Environmental Modelling and Consequences for Policy Making. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series – C: Environmental Security. Springer ISBN 978-90-481-2635-4.

Widell, K., I. Fer, and P. M. Haugan 2006. Salt release from warming sea ice. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L12501, doi:10.1029/2006GL026262.

Alendal, G., P.M. Haugan, R. Gangstø, K. Caldeira, E. Adams, P. Brewer, E. Peltzer, G. Rehder, T. Sato and B. Chen 2006. Comment on "Fate of Rising CO₂ Droplets in Seawater", Environmental Science and Technology, 40(11), 3653-3654.

Caldeira, K., M. Akai, P. Brewer, B. Chen, P. Haugan, T. Iwama, P. Johnston, H. Kheshgi, Q. Li, T. Ohsumi, H. Poertner, C. Sabine, Y. Shirayama, J. Thomson, 2005: Ocean storage. p. 277-318 in: IPCC, 2005: IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. Prepared by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Metz, B., O. Davidson, H. C. de Coninck, M. Loos, and L. A. Meyer (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 442 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-521-86643-9.

Peter M. Haugan, Peter G. Brewer, Edward T. Peltzer III, Peter Walz, Izuo Aya, Kenji Yamane, Ryuji Kojima, Yasuharu Nakajima, Noriko Nakayama, Joakim Hove, Truls Johannessen, Richard G.J. Bellerby, Guttorm Alendal 2005. Ocean abyssal carbon experiments at 0.7 and 4 km depth. In, E.S.Rubin, D.W.Keith and C.F.Gilboy (Eds.): Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies. Volume 1: Peer-Reviewed Papers and Overviews, Elsevier ISBN: 0-080-4481-X, 801-808.

R. Skogseth, I. Fer and P.M. Haugan 2005. Dense-Water Production and Overflow From an Arctic Coastal Polynya in Storfjorden. In: The Nordic Seas - An Integrated Perspective. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union (AGU) ISBN 0-87590-423-8, 73-88.

Peter M. Haugan and Guttorm Alendal 2005. Turbulent diffusion and transport from a CO₂ lake in the deep ocean. J. geoph. res. 110, C09S14, doi:10.1029/2004JC002583.

Reidun Gangstø, Peter M. Haugan and Guttorm Alendal 2005. Parameterization of drag and dissolution of rising CO₂drops in seawater. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 32, L10612, doi:10.1029/2005GL022637, 2005

Joakim Hove and Peter M. Haugan 2005. Dynamics of a CO₂-seawater interface in the deep ocean. J. Mar. Res. May 2005, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 563-577(15).

R. Skogseth, P.M. Haugan and M. Jakobsson 2005. Watermass transformations in Storfjorden. Cont. Shelf Research 25, 667-695.

Peter M Haugan and Fortunat Joos 2004. Metrics to assess the mitigation of global warming by carbon capture and storage in the ocean and in geological reservoirs. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L18202, doi:10.1029/2004GL020295

Cicerone. R., J. Orr, P. Brewer, P. Haugan, L. Merlivat, T. Ohsumi. S. Pantoja and H.-O. Poertner, M. Hood and E. Urban 2004. The Ocean in a High CO₂ World. Oceanography 17(3), 72-78.

P.M. Haugan and H. Drange 1992. Sequestration of CO₂ in the deep ocean by shallow injection. Nature 357, 318-320.