J. Holfort, oceanographer

  

Since 2006 at the BSH as leader of the German ice service and the German Baltic sea water level service.

The Diplom and PhD studies done at the Institut für Meereskunde at Kiel working about large scale circulation and transports in the South Atlantic. Post-Doc at Brookhaven Natl Laboratory about the CO2 transport in the Ocean, then working in the equatorial west Pacific back at the Institut für Meereskunde at Kiel. Then the focus shifted northwards, working in Nordic Seas and northern North Atlantic at the Institut für Meereskunde Hamburg. From December 2003 to January 2006 at the Norwegian Polar Institut in Tromsø mainly working about the circulation in Fram Strait and the Freshwater transport in the East Greenland current.

On these pages I present some of my oceanographic work: