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| Monday, 23 July 2007 | |
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The Travellers
 Xiuhua Zhang worked as a University lecturer in Tianjin, China before she left for Sweden and studies in informatics. After finishing her ph.d at lund universitet she moved to Norway where she has been working for various research institutes and the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority. Xiuhua has dedicated a lot of her resources to building bridges between the Chinese and Nordic Cultures and today she is the president of Chinese Professionals in Norway – CPN. Unfortunately, Xiuhua had to stay in Norway. She was however with us both on the phone during the journey and in our minds.
 Bjorn Geirr Harsson has a degree in geophysics and has worked for the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority for decades. In addition to being a specialist on geodesy in international context, Bjørn Geirr is taking a responsibility for securing the history of geodesy. Among his results so far are the establishment of the Museum for Surveying and Mapping and bringing the Struves Median Arc to the UNESCO list of World heritage. Bjørn Geirr has been awarded the royal order of St. Olav for contribution to national and international geodesy and is a fellow of the International Association for Geodesy.
 Klaus Erik Okstad is an acknowledged film photographer and documentary director as well as producer. He is also very interested in mountaineering and have experience from climbing in the Mt. Everest, Himalaya as well as in other challenging mountain areas. The first Norwegian expedition to reach the top of Mt.Everest was led by the late Arne Næss jr. In connection with the 20 year anniversary of this event, Klaus Erik Okstad revisited Mt. Everest Base Camp together with Arne Næss jr. son and other members of the expedition. This documentary demonstrate the respect that Okstad has for the mountains, nature in general as well as the people he describes in his work. Klaus Erik work for the NRK – The National Norwegian Broadcast Company. Lin Gan is currently senior research fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO), University of Oslo, Norway and also Administrative Coordinator of SINCIERE (Sino-Norwegian Centre for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research). In 1999-2005, he was director of the Climate and Energy Program, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), China. He was lecturer at Lund University, Sweden, senior research fellow at Harvard University and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria during 1991-1997. He received his Ph.D. on Public Administration from Roskilde University in Denmark in 1995 and Master of Science and Technology Policy in Lund University in Sweden in 1989. Dr. Gan has wide experiences on research and program/project management on areas such as renewable energy, energy conservation, sustainable transportation, environmental impact assessment, technology change and innovation, climate impact and adaptation, and published more than 50 articles in international academic journals. He has been senior policy advisor to EU and United Nation organizations on sustainable energy and environmental policy, and is included in the Marguis Who is Who in the World in 2007.
Mr. Gan assisted us while we were in Beijing.
Chinese Experts we met on the journey |
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Bente Lilja Bye has a background from theoretical astrophysics. When she was younger she wanted to become an astronaut and leave the planet Earth for a while, but in an ESA astronaut selection process in the early nineties she was grounded due to a pregnancy. One might say that Bente's beloved son Eilev this way ignited her deeper interest in the Earth and her caring about what happens to and on our home planet. 
Jiangqi Zhang
Dag Solheim has a degree in astrophysics from the University of Oslo. He is an experienced geodesist with both theoretical and practical experience from surveying and geodesy, focusing in particular on the determination of the geoid and the gravity field, where he has participated in numerous airborne and marine surveys. He is leading the Nordic working group on geoid determination and is project director for the Norwegian research project Ocean Circulation and Transport Between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Sea (| < Prev | Next > |
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