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Kjersti Daae specializes in polar processes, with expertise in analyzing both observational datasets and numerical models. Recently, her focus has been on regional numerical models with idealized forcing and/or topography. Combined with observational data, these models are crucial tools for enhancing our understanding of various polar processes, such as frontal dynamics along continental shelf breaks. The Antarctic slope front regulates the water exchange between the continental shelf and the deep ocean. In West Antarctica (Bellingshausen and Amundsen Sea), the absence of strong fronts allows warm water to flow onto the continental slope and beneath the floating ice shelves, increasing melt rates. This increased melting accelerates ice transport from the ice sheet to the ocean, contributing to sea level rise. In the Weddell Sea, the stronger slope front impedes the inflow of warm water for most of the year. Warm inflow is controlled by seasonal forcing and does not necessarily reach far south every year. Kjersti Daae uses idealized models to improve our understanding of how frontal dynamics respond to factors such as large-scale wind patterns and how they may change in a warmer future.

 

Kjersti Daae is the Head of Education at the Geophysical Institute and teaching chair for IEarth Center for Excellent Education (SFU). She is also leading the project CoCreatingGFI (funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills) which focuses on letting students influence their own study time and include more active learning and co-cration in the classroom.

Kjersti Daae was awarded Excellent Teaching Practitioner in 2023 for her work with teaching development and publishing of teaching-realated articles.

Kjersti Daae teaches GEOF211 - Numerical modelling. This is a course for BSc and MSc students, where we explore the numerical solutions to typical geophysical equations such as advection, diffusion, inertial oscillations and waves.

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Active projects:

CoCreatingGFI: Co-creation to promote active learning and communities of practice (funded by HKdir), led by K. Daae (read more , or visit the )

iEarth Center for Excellent Education

Former projects:

TOBACO: Topographic Barriers Controlling Warm Water Inflow and Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting (NFR), led by E. Darelius

WARM: Inflow of Warm Deep Water onto the Antarctic Continental Shelves (NFR), led by E. Darelius