I am an ocean glider engineer in NorGliders (Norwegian National Facility for Ocean Gliders), which operates a fleet of 9 underwater autonomous gliders. My work involves technical tasks and research related to our glider activity. 

My research focuses on the northern limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Nordic Seas climate system. In particular, I am interested in the pathways and processes transforming warm Atlantic Water flowing into the Nordic Seas into dense overflow waters.

2023:

X. Davila, A. Olsen, S.K. Lauvset, E.L. McDonagh, A. Brakstad, and G. Gebbie, 2023. 'On the origins of open ocean oxygen minimum zones.' Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128 (8)

K. Svingen, A. Brakstad, K. Våge, W.J. von Appen, and L. Papritz, 2023. 'The Impact of Cold-Air Outbreaks and Oceanic Lateral Fluxes on Dense-Water Formation in the Greenland Sea from a 10-Year Moored Record (1999–2009)'. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 53 (6), 1499-1517

A. Brakstad, G. Gebbie, K. Våge, E. Jeansson, and S.R. Ólafsdóttir, 2023. 'Formation and pathways of dense water in the Nordic Seas based on a regional inversion.' Progress in Oceanography, 212

2022:

X. Davila, G. Gebbie, A. Brakstad, S.K. Lauvset, E.L. McDonagh, J. Schwinger, and A. Olsen, 2022. 'How is the ocean anthropogenic carbon reservoir filled?' Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36 (5)

L. H. Smedsrud, M. Muilwijk, A. Brakstad, and 14 other co-authors, 2022. 'Nordic Seas Heat Loss, Atlantic Inflow, and Arctic Sea Ice cover over the last century'. Reviews of Geophysics 60 (1)

A. Bretones, K. H. Nisancioglu, M. F. Jensen, A. Brakstad, and S. Yang, 2022. 'Transient Increase in Arctic Deep-Water Formation and Ocean Circulation under Sea Ice Retreat'. Journal of Climate 35 (1), 109-124

2020:

J. Huang, R.S. Pickart, R.X. Huang, P. Lin, A. Brakstad, and F. Xu, 2020. 'Sources and upstream pathways of the densest overflow water in the Nordic Seas'. Nature Communications 11 (1), 1-9

N.C. Stenseth and 16 other co-authors including A. Brakstad, 2020. 'Attuning to a changing ocean'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 177 (34), 20363-20371

2019:

I.A. Renfrew and 65 other co-authors including A. Brakstad, 2019. 'The Iceland Greenland Seas Project'. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100 (9), 1795-1817

A. Brakstad, K. Våge, L. Håvik, and G.W.K. Moore, 2019. 'Water mass transformation in the Greenland Sea during the period 1986-2016'. Journal of Physical Oceanography 49 (1), 121-140

2018:

S.K. Lauvset, A. Brakstad, K. Våge, A. Olsen, E. Jeansson, and K.A. Mork, 2018. 'Continued warming, salinification and oxygenation of the Greenland Sea gyre'. Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 70 (1), 1-9

Overturning in the Nordic Seas (OVENS)

Gliders for Research, Ocean Observations and Management: Infrastructure and Innovation (GROOM-II)

Norwegian node of EMSO (NorEMSO)

Northern Ocean Rapid Surface Evolution (NORSE)

Resilient northern overturning in a warming climate (ROVER)

Advance Marine Research Infrastructures Together (AMRIT)