Ilker Fer
Associate Professor, Physical Oceanography

Research interests

Physical oceanography, including the boundary layer processes, dense water overflows, turbulence, fine and microstructure data acquisition and interpretation, newly-developing seismic reflection techniques to image oceanic finestructure, convective processes leading to dense water formation, turbulence in the under ice boundary layer, air-ice-sea interaction, internal waves and their non-linear interaction, turbulence parameterizations; Physical limnology, especially winter cooling dynamics, turbulence and convection.

Summary

Ilker Fer, born in 1973 (Turkey), has completed his postdoc (Feb. 2004) at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen (UoB)  under the NFR-funded project entitled "Boundary layer processes affecting dense water flow on a slope". He received his Ph.D. (2001) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne through his dissertation entitled "Dynamics of winter cooling in Lake Geneva". He obtained his M.Sc. on hydraulics engineering (1997) from the Institute of Science and Technology, Technical University of Istanbul (ITU) after being graduated as a civil engineer (ITU, l995). From August 2001 to February 2002 he worked under the "Study on the development of new CO2 sending method for Ocean Storage" project at UoB. He is also affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) and is presently the co-leader of the “Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere processes” BCCR research group.

Peer-reviewed publications

18.  Fer, I., and B. Ådlandsvik (2007). Descent and mixing of the overflow plume from Storfjord in Svalbard: An idealized numerical model study. Ocean Science, submitted, Oct. 2007. [preprint pdf – 1476 KB].

17.  Skogseth, R., L.H. Smedsrud, F. Nilsen, and I. Fer (2007). Observations of hydrography and downflow of brine-enriched shelf water in the Storfjorden polynya, Svalbard. J. Geophys. Res., submitted, Jun. 2007. [preprint pdf – 1561 KB].

16.  Fer, I., and K. Widell (2007). Early spring turbulent mixing in an ice-covered Arctic fjord during transition to melting. Cont. Shelf Res., 27, 1980-1999. [pdf – 614 KB].

15.  Sundfjord, A., I. Fer, Y. Kasajima, H. Svendsen (2007). Observations of turbulent mixing and hydrography in the Marginal Ice Zone of the Barents Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 112, C05008, doi:10.1029/2006JC003524. [pdf – 1470 KB].

14.  Fer, I. and A. Sundfjord (2007). Observations of upper ocean boundary layer dynamics in the marginal ice zone, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C04012, doi:10.1029/2005JC003428. [pdf – 1007 KB].

13.  Widell, K., I. Fer, and P.M. Haugan (2006). Salt release from warming sea ice. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L12501, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL026262. [pdf – 239 KB].

12.  Fer, I. (2006). Scaling turbulent dissipation in an Arctic fjord. Deep-Sea Res. II. 53, 77-95. [pdf - 735 KB].

11.  Holbrook, W.S: and I. Fer (2005). Ocean internal wave spectra inferred from seismic reflection transects. Geophys. Res. Lett., L15604, doi: 10.1029/ 2005GL023733 [pdf – 382 KB].

10.  Skogseth, R., I. Fer, and P.M. Haugan (2005). Dense-water production and overflow from an Arctic coastal polynya in Storfjorden. In The Nordic Seas: An Integrated Perspective, edited by H. Drange, et al., pp. 73-88, AGU Geophysical Monograph, 158.  [proof pdf -2.16 MB].

9.  Fer, I., M.G. McPhee, and A. Sirevaag (2004). Conditional statistics of the Reynolds stress in the under-ice boundary layer. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L15311, doi: 10.1029/ 2004GL020475. [pdf -213 KB]

8.  Fer, I., R. Skogseth, and P.M. Haugan (2004). Mixing of the Storfjorden overflow (Svalbard Archipelago) inferred from density overturns. J. Geophys. Res., 109, C01005, doi: 10.1029/ 2003JC001968.  [pdf -5.6 MB]

7.  Fer, I., R. Skogseth, P.M. Haugan, and P. Jaccard (2003). Observations of the Storfjorden overflow. Deep-Sea Res. Part I, 50(10-11), 1283-1303. [pdf -786 KB]

6.  Fer, I., and P.M. Haugan (2003). Dissolution from a liquid-CO2 lake disposed in the deep ocean. Limnol. Oceanogr., 48(2), 872-883. [pdf -318 KB]

5.  Fer, I., U. Lemmin, and S.A. Thorpe (2002). Winter cascading of cold water in Lake Geneva. J. Geophys. Res. 107(C6), 3060, doi: 10.1029/2001JC000828. [pdf -1.14 MB]

4.  Fer, I., U. Lemmin, and S.A. Thorpe (2002). Contribution of entrainment and vertical plumes to the winter cascading of cold shelf waters in a deep lake. Limnol. Oceanogr. 47(2), 576-580. [pdf: 133 KB]

3.  Fer, I., U. Lemmin, and S.A. Thorpe (2002). Observations of mixing near the sides of a deep lake in winter. Limnol. Oceanogr., 47(2), 535-544. [pdf -341 KB]

2.  Fer, I., U. Lemmin, and S.A. Thorpe (2001). Cascading of water down the sloping sides of a deep lake in winter. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(10), 2093-2096. [pdf -1.09 MB]

1.  Thorpe, S. A., U. Lemmin, C. Perrinjaquet, and I. Fer (1999). Observations of the thermal structure of a lake using a submarine. Limnol. Oceanogr., 44(6), 1575-1582. [pdf -1.25 MB]

Selected conference proceeding and popular science publications

Fer, I. and W.S. Holbrook (2005). Seismikk avslører indre bølger i havet, Cicerone, 4, 30-31. [pdf- 308 KB] 

Fer, I., and P.M. Haugan (2003). On the fate of a purposefully disposed CO2 lake in the deep ocean. In: Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Volume I. J. Gale and Y. Kaya (Eds.), Elsevier, pp. 747-752.

Fer, I., U. Lemmin, and S. A. Thorpe (2000). Winter cold slope boundary layer. In Proceedings of the Fifth IAHR  International. symposium on stratified flows, 10-13 July, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 301-305.

Lemmin, U., I. Fer, and C. Perrinjaquet (1999). Courantologie Lémanique: le refroidissement hivernal. In: Découvrir le Léman. 100 ans après F.-A. Forel, C. Bertola, C. Goumand and J.-F. Rubin (Eds.), Editions Slatkine, Geneva, pp. 54-67 (in French).

Recent reports

Data report from the cruise HM2004 613 with R.V. Håkon Mosby, 1-10 July 2004. [pdf – 7371 KB]

Current measurements at the Storfjorden sill, September 2003 – August 2004. [pdf – 1975 KB]

General and fine scale oceanographic properties on the Norwegian Continental slope inferred from a moored CTD- and current profiler. [pdf – 4781 KB]

Address

Ilker Fer
Geofysisk institutt
Allégaten 70
N-5007 Bergen

Telephone: 55 58 25 80
Fax: 55 58 98 83
E-mail: ilker.fer@gfi.uib.no

Ilker Fer.  Last updated: May 2006.