Hjemmeside: http://emaps.uib.no
Stilling: stipendiat
Mobiltelefon: 454 28 780 SMS
E-post: Torleif.Lunde@cih.uib.no
Besøksadresse: Overlege Danielsens Hus, Årstav. 21
Malaria is one of the leading causes of sickness and death in Ethiopia. Epidemics occur often. Public health authorities can take the necessary precations if a malaria forecasting is available.
Climate is one of the driving force of malaria transmission,. Only with the latest years weather forecasting can such knowledge be integrated with numerical models. Both short-term and seasonal forecasts are available in Ethiopia. The seasonal forecasts often base their prediction of El Nino and La Nina events.
As well as predicting short-term variations in malaria transmission, understanding the impact of climate change is a challenge. Predicting possible impacts of climate change on human health needs an interdisciplinary approach using disciplines as metrology, hydrology, epidemiology, ecology, biology, and social sciences.
I shall in my research use several methods to consider how climate and malaria will interact through complex networks with feedback and “feed forward” mechanisms.
Former positions:
Coordinator Nile Basin Research Programme (University of Bergen)
Researcher Institute of Marine Research, Observation Methodology
T. M. Lunde, O. R. Godø, and R. Rosland
Reliability of trawl surveys on cod in Norwegian fjords, ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil Advance Access published on May 1, 2008
ICES J. mar. Sci. 2008 65: 937-945; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn068 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
Camilla Diesen Hosfeld, Annhild Engevik, Ted Mollan, Torleif Markussen Lunde, Rune Waagbo, Anne Berit Olsen, Olav Breck, Sigurd Stefansson, Sveinung Fivelstad,Long-term separate and combined effects of environmental hypercapnia and hyperoxia in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) smolts, Aquaculture In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 May 2008. [Full Text] [PDF]
Participated as student: Gregor D. Zupančič and Milenko Roš, Aerobic and two-stage anaerobic-aerobic sludge digestion with pure oxygen and air aeration, Biosource Technology, 99, 2008 [Full Text][PDF]
Ethiopian Malaria Prediction System (Funded by NUFU)
Space4International Health (Funded by European Space Agency)