ISOSCAN brings together researchers with diverse backgrounds from four Scandinavian countries, namely Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.
Throughout our research project, funded within the Water4All funding scheme, we co-create our science by working together across disciplinary and country borders.
At the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway, Prof. Harald Sodemann (Project lead) and Dr. Costijn Zwart approach the ISOSCAN objectives as meteorologists, investigating how rain and snow are enhanced by the coastal mountains in Western Scandinavia. University of Bergen also hosts FARLAB, the laboratory where we measure water isotopes, including the water samples from all ISOSCAN’ers.
From the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, Prof. Janne Liburd and Dr. Kristof Tomej contribute to ISOSCAN with their expertise in regenerative tourism and co-designing knowledge with others. They work closely with Dr. Ann Eileen Lennert, from the University of Tromsø’s Arctic Sustainability Lab, to bring ISOSCAN to recreational nature users and stakeholders in the Tromsø region. Ann replaced Delphin Ruché of the WildLabProjects, which was dissolved at the end of 2024.
From University of Uppsala, Sweden, Dr. Benjamin Fischer contributes to ISOSCAN by compiling and collecting a wide range of stable water isotope samples and datasets, including the setup of simpler sampling methods, rescue of otherwise discarded lake water samples, data quality control, and data compilation.
At the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Dr. Andrea Popp contributes with her in-depth knowledge of hydrological models that predict how much water running through rivers. Within ISOSCAN, she works with data from citizen science and other sources to build a better isotope-capable version of the water forecasting model HYPE.
While not funded within the Water4All scheme, our collaboration partners at University of Oulu, Finland, Prof. Pertti Ala-Aho and PhD cand. Charlotte Ditlefsen, contribute with their expertise on field measurements of how quickly the winter snow melts in the spring, and thereby contributes to water flowing in rivers and into the ground.