Björn Lund

About me

My research focuses on the shipboard marine X-band radar, unmanned aerial system (UAS), and satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing of land–air–sea–ice interaction processes. I have developed Python algorithms to extract wind, internal wave, near-surface current, bathymetry, surface wave, and sea ice drift information, among other products, from radar image sequences and optical video data. My current tasks include the acquisition, near real-time processing, and sharing of marine X-band radar data and oceanographic products on R/Vs Neil Armstrong and Sikuliaq in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and University of Alaska Fairbanks.

I received a Diploma in environmental sciences from the University of Lüneburg, Germany, in 2006. During my studies and after graduating I worked in the Software Department at OceanWaveS GmbH, Lüneburg, where I was involved in several national and international research projects on marine X-band radar wave monitoring (2002-2007). I held a position as Visiting Researcher at University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science from 2007 to 2009, and then joined the Rosenstiel School's Ph.D. program in Applied Marine Physics, from which I graduated in 2012. From 2012 to 2013 I worked as Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Ocean Sciences at the Rosenstiel School. More recently, I worked as Assistant Scientist at the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) from 2013 to 2019, where I presently hold a position as Associate Scientist.

I was a Research Fellow at the NATO Undersea Research Centre in La Spezia, Italy, in 2011, a JSPS Short-term Postdoctoral Fellow at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Yokohama, Japan, 2014, and the recipient of a HIDA Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant to visit Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon in Geesthacht, Germany, 2023. I have been reviewer and served as guest editor for many scientific journals. ​I have coauthored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in international scientific journals and participated in more than 10 international research cruises and experiments.