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Scientist profile

Corinna Schrum

Professor

Geophysical Institute

Physical Oceanography

Homepage: http://www.uib.no/People/csc064/

Title: Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 26 20

Cellphone: +47 915 18 721 SMS

E-mail:

Visiting address: Allegt. 70

Research fields

Functioning of regional marine systems, its interactions with other parts of the climate system on the regional scale and the functioning of regional marine ecosystems. Coastal and environmental modelling and model development. Research methods employed: High resolution 3-d coupled modelling of the climate sub-systems on a regional scale (ice-ocean, atmosphere-ice-ocean, ocean-marine biosphere, lake-(sea)-groundwater, computational demanding regional climate system modelling and coupled physical biological larvae IBM (3-d)), in addition to field data and remote sensing.

 

Employment and working history:

·     April 1989-1990: Research Ass., Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, Hamburg

·    1990-Apr.1997: Scientist, Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg.

·     April 1997-January 2004: Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (German Assistant Professor equivalent) Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg.

·     August 2004-January 2006: Senior Scientist, Danish Institute of Fisheries Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.

·     Since February 2006 Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway, Professor (since September 2006, before Associate Professor).

·     August 2008-October 2010 Researcher II (20% position) at NIVA, Bergen.

 

 

Publications in Cristin

Peer reviewed articles in international journals:

1.     Floeter, J, Schrum, C, Rückert, C, Kempf, A, St John, M, Temming, A. Distribution of North Sea fish in relation to hydrographic fronts: discussing predator-prey overlap. Submitted to Marine Ecology Progress Series.

2.     Jansen, T, Kristensen, K, Payne, M, Edwards,, M Schrum, C., Pitois, S. Long-term Retrospective Analysis of Mackerel Spawning in the North Sea: A New Time Series and Modeling Approach to CPR Data. Submitted to PLoSOne, Marine and Aquatic Sciences.

3.     Årthun, M, Bellerby, R.G.J., Omar, A.M., Schrum, C. (2011) Air-sea CO2 fluxes in the Barents Sea as determined from empirical relationships. Accepted by Journal of Marine Systems.

4.     Årthun, M, Ingvaldsen, R, Smedsrud, LH, Schrum, C. (2011).Dense Water formation and circulation in the Barents Sea. Deep Sea Research I 58, 801-817.

5.     Daewel, U, Temming, A, Schrum, C (2011). Towards a complex understanding of the life cycle of brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) in the German Bight: a modelling study. Fisheries Oceanography, 20: 479–496. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2011.00597.x

6.     Daewel, U, Myron, P, Schrum, C. (2011). Life history strategy and impacts of environmental variability on early life stages of two marine fishes in the North Sea: an individual-based modellingapproachCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 68:426-443, 10.1139/F10-164.

7.     Berx, B, Dickey-Collar, M, Skogen, M, De Roeck, Y-H, Klein, H, Barciela, R, Forster, RM, Dombrowsky, E, Huret, M, Payne, M, Sagarminaga, Y, Schrum, C. (2011). Does operational oceanography address the needs of fisheries and applied environmental scientists? Oceanography, 24, 166-171.

8.     Skogen, Morten D., Drinkwater, Ken, Hjøllo, Solfrid S., Schrum, C. North Sea sensitivity to atmospheric forcing, Journal of Marine Systems (2011), doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2010.12.008

9.     R. A. Ibrayev, RA, Özsoy, E, Schrum, C, Sur, H (2010). Seasonal variability of the Caspian Sea three-dimensional circulation, sea level and air-sea, Ocean Sci, 6, 311-329, doi:10.5194/os-6-311-2010

10.   Rose, K, Allen, IJ, Artioli, Y, Barange, M, Balckford, J, Carlotti, F, Cropp, R, Daewel, U, Flynn, K, Hill, S, Hille Ris Lambers, R, Huse, G, Mackinson, S, Megrey, BA, Moll, A, Rivkin, R, Salihoglu, B, Schrum, C, Shannon, L, Shin, Y, Smith, L, Smith, C, Soldoro, C, St John, M, Zhou, M (2010). End-To-End Models for the Analysis of Marine Ecosystems: Challenges, Issues, and Next Steps, Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management and Ecosystem Science 2: 115-130, DOI: 10.1577/C09-059.1

11.   Årthun, Marius, Schrum, C (2010). Ocean surface heat flux variability in the Barents Sea. Journal of Marine Systems, 83, 88-98

12.   Alekseeva, I, Jarsjö, J, Destouni, G, Schrum, C (2009). Reproducing the Aral Sea water budget and sea–groundwater dynamics between 1979 and 1993 using a coupled 3-D sea-ice– groundwater model. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.03.018

13.   Alekseeva, I, Schrum, C (2008). Historical reconstruction of the Aral Sea shrinking by a full 3-d wetting and drying model ECOSMO. Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 1, S92–S98, 2008

14.   Christensen, A, Jensen, H, Mosegaard, H, St. John, M, Schrum, C (2008). Sandeel larval transport patterns in North Sea from an individual-based  hydrodynamic egg and larval model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65-7, 1498-1511.

15.   Daewel, U, Peck, MA, Alekseeva, I, St. John, MA, Kühn, W, Schrum, C (2008). Coupling ecosystem and individual-based models to simulate the influence of climate variability on potential growth and survival of larval fish in the North Sea.  Fisheries Oceanography, 17-5, 333-351, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2419.2008.00482.x.

16.   Daewel, U, Peck, MA, Schrum, C, St. John, M (2008). How best to include the effects of climate-driven forcing on prey fields in larval fish individual based models. Journal of Plankton Research, 30, 1-5.

17.   Rindorf, A, Jensen, H, Schrum, C (2008): Growth, temperature and density relationships of North Sea. Canadian Journal of Fisheries Res, 456-470.

18.   Christensen, A, Daewel, U, Jensen, H, Mosegaard, H, St. John, M, Schrum, C (2007): Hydrodynamic backtracking of fish larvae by individual-based modelling, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 347, 221-232.

19.   Schrum, C, Alekseeva, I, St. John, M (2006): Development of a coupled physical–biological ecosystem model ECOSMO Part I: Model description and validation for the North Sea, Journal of Marine Systems, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2006.01.005

20.   Schrum, C, St. John, M, Alekseeva, I (2006): ECOSMO, a coupled ecosystem model of the North Sea and Baltic Sea: Part II. Spatial-seasonal characteristics in the North Sea as revealed by EOF analysis. Journal of Marine Systems, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2006.01.004.

21.   Schmitt, L, Larsson, S, Schrum, C, Alekseeva, I, Tomczak, M, Svedhage, K (2006): Why they came; an explanatory model concerning the seasonal colonization of western Sweden during the close of the Late Glacial period. Oxford Journal of Archeology, 25(1), 1-28.

22.  Schrum, C, Harms, I, Hatten, K (2005): Modelling Air-sea exchange in the Barents Sea By using a coupled regional ice-ocean model. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 14, No. 6, 1-3, DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0075.

23.  Floeter, J, Kempf, A , Vinther, M, Schrum, C, Temming, A (2005). Grey gurnard (Chelidonichthys gurnardus (L.)) in the North Sea: An emerging key predator? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 62 (8), 1853-1864.

24.  Harms, I, Schrum, C, Hatten, K (2005). Numerical sensitivity studies on the variability of climate relevant processes in the Barents Sea. JGR, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C06002 10.1029/2004JC002559.

25.  Schrum, C., Siegismund, F, St. John, M (2003): Decadal Variations in the stratification and circulation patterns of the North Sea. Are the 90’s unusual? ICES Symposium of Hydrobiological Variability in the ICES area 1990-1999, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Symposia series, Vol. 219, 121-131.

26.  Schrum C., Hübner, U., Jacob, D., Podzun, R.(2003): A coupled atmosphere/ice/ocean model for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-003-0322-8

27.  Schrum, C., Staneva, J., Stanev, E. and E. Özsoy (2001): Air-sea exchange in the Black Sea estimated from atmospheric analysis data for the period of 1979-1993. Journal of Marine Systems, 31/1-3, 3-19.

28.  Siegismund, F. and Schrum, C. (2001): Decadal variability of the wind field in the North Sea.  Climate Research, 18, 39-45.

29.  Schrum, C.(2001): Regionalization of climate change for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Climate Research, 18, 31-37.

30.  Janssen, F., Schrum, C., Huebner, U. and Backhaus, J. (2001): Validation of a decadal simulation with a regional ocean model for North Sea and Baltic Sea. Climate Research, 18, 55-62.

31.  Schrum, C, Backhaus, J. O. (1999): Sensitivity of atmosphere-ocean heat exchange and heat content in North Sea and Baltic Sea. A comparitive assessment. Tellus 51A. 526-549.

32.   Becker, G.A., H. Giese, K. Isert, P. König, H. Langenberg, Th. Pohlmann, C. Schrum (1999): Mesoscale variability in the German Bight. Deutsche Hydrogr. Zeitung, 51, No. 2/3, 155-179.

33.  Janssen, F.,  J. O. Backhaus, C. Schrum (1999):  A climatological dataset for Temperature and Salinity in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Deutsche Hydrogr. Zeitung, Supplement 9.

34.  Schrum, C., P. König, K. Michaelsen, U. Niemeier, T.Pohlmann (1997): Meteorological and Oceanographic Situation in the German Bight  from 23 to 29  April 1991. Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 156, 263-273 .

35.  Schrum, C. (1997): Thermohaline stratification and instabilities at tidal mixing fronts. Results of an eddy resolving model for the German Bight. Cont. Shelf Res., 17(6), 689-716.

36.  König, P., C. Schrum, (1997). Hydrographic Observations and Model Results From a PRISMA Drift Experiment April (23 to 29, 1991), Marine Ecology  Progress Series, Vol. 156, 255-261.

·       Different lectures given at University of Hamburg and University of Bergen, being part of the curricula in Oceanography (Master & Bachelor, Diplom) and the Nordic Master Programme (lecturing since 1997)

·       Basic teaching qualification from University of Bergen

·       Seminar series for PhD and Graduate student level (University of Hamburg, together with a.o. Prof. H.v. Storch, Prof. D. Marotzke, Peter Mueller)

·       Lecturer at summer schools in Sylt/Helgoland (AWI/GKSS, Germany), Kos (Greece) and the Baltic Sea Summer School/Bornholm (Uni. Gothenburg, DTU Aqua)   

·       Supervision of Graduate and PhD student theses  

 

  • ECODRIVE (Ecosystem Change in the North Sea: Processes, Drivers, Future Scenarios), 2009-2012 (project coordination Juergen Alheit), project partner, PI.
  • Joint Nordic Master in Marine Ecosystems and Climate (NMP), development of a Joint Master programme, funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers (2007), coordinator.[Joint Nordic Master's Programme in Marine Ecosystems and Climate]
  • EU MEECE (Marine Ecosystem Evolution in a Changing Environment), 2008-2012 (project coordination Icarus Allen, project partner, PI
  • EU RECLAIM (REsolving CLimAtic IMpacts on fish stocks), 2007-2009 (project coordination Professor Adriaan Rijnsdorp), project partner, PI [RECLAIM].
  • EU-IP ECOOP (European COastal-shelf sea OPerational observing and forecasting system), 2007-2009 (project coordination Professor Erik Buch), project partner, PI [ECOOP].
  • EU BECAUSE (2004-2007). Hydrodynamic modelling and life cycle modelling for sandeels, project coordination Professor Axel Temming.
  • NRC BIAC IPY-project (2007-2010), project coordination Professor Tor Gammelsrød.
  • DFG Projekt RECONN 2005-2010 im DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm AQUASHIFT, (2005-2006 co-PI together with Prof. Mike St. John und Dr. Myron Peck, from 2007 external cooperation partner). [RECONN].
  • DFG Project Study of the Groundwater Contribution to the Aral Sea Region Water Supply and Water Quality: Strategies for Reversibility and Pollution Control. DFG, additional naional funding for EU-INTAS Project, 2003-2005, PI.
  • EU-INTAS project Study of the Groundwater Contribution to the Aral Sea Region Water Supply and Water Quality: Strategies for Reversibility and Pollution Control, 2002-2005, project coordination, Cluster coordination INTAS Projekte 1014 und 1003.
  • NATO-SfP project The Caspian Sea Circulation, Mass and Energy Budgets and Climate Controls, project plan grant, 2001, project coordination.
  • SFB 512 sub-project B4, Impact of nordatlantic variability on climagtic relevant processes in the Barents Sea, 2001-2003, DFG, (PI). [SFB512].
  • LIFECO, EU-Projekt, 2000-2003, WP-Coordination: Hydrodynamische Modellierung (Project coordination Prof. Mike St. John). [LIFECO].
  • Limnological studies in Lake Baikal, ESA Projekt, 1998-2001, PI.
  • KLINO sub-project B Circulation and water mass exchange between North Sea and Baltic Sea, BMBF 1996-1999 (PI).

Numerical modelling of ocean currents, marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles.