Northern Norway experienced an intensely snow rich winter in 1997 when settled snow heights reached a record 240 cm at the weather station in Tromsø on April 29th. Numerous avalanches, settlement evacuations, and two fatalities in a destroyed house in the settlement of Breivikeidet left the public exhausted at the end of the winter. The chaotic response to avalanche events during the season demonstrated ...

The global society is shaped by the continous emerge of new technologies and increased globalization which makes the world more interconnected. This affects the ways in which risks can impact, and alters the global state of societal safety. The effects of climate induced events and conflicts can have impacts sporadically, and one must therefore adapt to the new risk pathways. By analyzing societal ...

Objective of presentation:<uli> <li>Of particular concern is the difference between short-term activities, which can be conducted within a good weather forecast period, and activities that take longer time, or may be regarded as a permanent activity. </li> <li>First, a discussion of short-term marine activities will be given, emphasizing aspects specifically related to deep water, such as the ...

Behov for prosjektet:<p> <p>❑ Behov for å modernisere undervisningsopplegget for maritim næring i nord. <p> <p>❑ Vi foreslo at en serie med kurs gjøres tilgjengelig for våre studenter og for næringsaktører. <p> <p>❑ Kursoppleggene vil også kunne deles med andre som driver undervisning for maritim næring.

The need for experienced nautical officers is imminent, the possibilities to work ashore which requires their expertise are plentiful. Now, a new maritime profession is emerging, the remote operator. Again, we require mariners to take that role, resulting in a further increase in the personnel shortage. It is time we consider an alternative to sate the need for qualified persons in the remote operation ...

The Arctic Seas are attractive for shipping, fisheries, and other marine activities due to the abundant resources of the Arctic. The shrinking ice cover allows for the opening of activities in increasingly larger areas of the Arctic. This paper evaluates the possibility of executing all-year complex marine activities, here termed “marine operations”, in the Norwegian Sea and the icefree part of ...

Escort and convoy operations are commonly employed and highly effective strategies in the Arctic, particularly when ship navigating independently becomes challenging due to adverse ice conditions. Nonetheless, these operations are also among the riskiest, given their potential to lead to collisions between ships and icebreakers, as well as ships besetting in ice. Consequently, a robust estimation ...

A rapid and widespread institutionalization of climate security is underway, led by powerful states and international organizations. Recognition of the climate crisis by security actors as a serious threat to humanity is long overdue, but it is imperative that this institutionalization is critically scrutinized. This commentary highlights specific dangers that accompany the institutional mainstreaming ...

Representing the entire operational range of an ocean-going vessel with linear equations is often a formidable task. In this research study, a datadriven localized model is presented for ship performance prediction as a part of the digital twin development. For this purpose, different operational conditions of the vessel, i.e., data clusters, are identified using the Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) ...

In many machine learning applications, there are many scenarios when performance is not satisfactory by single classifiers. In this case, an ensemble classification is constructed using several weak base learners to achieve satisfactory performance. Unluckily, the construction of the ensemble classification is empirical, i.e., to try an ensemble classification and if performance is not ...