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Thor Edward Jakobsson, PhD
Project Manager, Sea Ice Unit
Weather Prediction Department, Icelandic Meteorological Office
Reykjavik, Iceland
Born in Wynyard, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 5, 1936, Jakobsson was educated in Iceland, with degrees in geophysics and meteorology at the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, Norway. He also holds a PhD in meteorology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
An author of a number of scientific and educational books and articles, Jakobsson is a contributing author to the ACIA (Arctic Climate Impact Assessment) report Nov. 2004 on "Impacts of a warming Arctic."
Jakobsson is a member of several professional societies in Iceland and abroad, including the Americal Meteorological Society, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and the International Society of Biometeorology.
- Main professional occupation:
- Research and computer work at the University of Bergen, Norway, 1966-1968
- Research Scientist at the Atmospheric Environment Service, Toronto, Canada, 1973-1979
- Division Chief and Project Manager, Sea Ice Unit, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, 1979 –
- Adjunct Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Iceland (1980 - 2003)
- Member of ETSI/JCOMM/WMO: Expert Team on Sea Ice/Joint Technical Committee of Oceanography and Marine Meteorology/World Meteorological Organization
Jakobsson is married to Johanna Johannesdottir, a laboratory technologist at the Department of Physiology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. They have two children, Thora, PhD in management, living in England, and Vesteinn, PhD in physics, living in USA.
Thor Jakobsson can be reached at thor@vedur.is
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