Bilde av Aksamit, Nikolas Olson
Bilde av Aksamit, Nikolas Olson
Department of Mathematics and Statistics nikolas.aksamit@uit.no +4777645011

Nikolas Olson Aksamit


Associate Professor

Job description

My primary research interest is implementing innovations in applied mathematics, and developing novel measurements techniques, to better understand coherent structures relevant for cryosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere coupling.


  • Anna Poltronieri, Nils Ole Ronald Bochow, Nikolas Olson Aksamit, Niklas Boers, Per Kristen Jakobsen, Martin Wibe Rypdal :
    Arctic summer sea ice loss will accelerate in coming decades
    Environmental Research Letters 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Kristofor A. Olson, C. Yvonne Chung, Nikolas Olson Aksamit, Charles E. Hill, Carlos V. R. Brown, Pedro G. Teixeira :
    Rule of four: an anatomic and value-based approach to stent-graft inventory for blunt thoracic aortic injury
    European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery 2023 DOI
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, Robert Hartmann, Detlef Lohse, George Haller :
    Interplay between advective, diffusive and active barriers in (rotating) Rayleigh-Bénard flow
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit :
    Mapping the shape and dimension of three-dimensional Lagrangian coherent structures and invariant manifolds
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, Randall K. Scharien, Jennifer Hutchings, Jennifer Lukovich :
    A quasi-objective single buoy approach for un- derstanding Lagrangian coherent structures and sea ice dynamics
    The Cryosphere 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Alex Encinas-Bartos, Nikolas Olson Aksamit, George Haller :
    Quasi-Objective Eddy Visualization from Sparse Drifter Data
    Chaos 2022 DOI
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, George Haller :
    Objective Momentum Barriers in Wall Turbulence
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • George Haller, Nikolas Olson Aksamit, Alex Encinas-Bartos :
    Quasi-Objective Coherent Structure Diagnostics from Single Trajectories
    Chaos 2021
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, Ben Kravitz, Douglas G. MacMartin, George Haller :
    Harnessing Diffusion Barriers to Enhance Climate Geoengineering
    Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) 2021
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, Themis Sapsis, George Haller :
    Machine-Learning Mesoscale and Submesoscale Surface Dynamics from Lagrangian Ocean Drifter Trajectories
    Journal of Physical Oceanography 2020
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, John Pomeroy :
    Warm air entrainment and advection during mountain blowing snow events
    The Cryosphere 2020
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, Paul Whitfield :
    Examining the pluvial to nival river regime spectrum using nonlinear methods: Minimum Delay Embedding Dimension
    Journal of Hydrology 2019
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, John Pomeroy :
    Scale Interactions in Turbulence for Mountain Blowing Snow
    Journal of Hydrometeorology 2018
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, John Pomeroy :
    The Effect of Coherent Structures in the Atmospheric Surface Layer on Blowing-Snow Transport
    Boundary-Layer Meteorology 2017
  • Nikolas Olson Aksamit, John Pomeroy :
    Near-Surface Snow Particle Dynamics from Particle Tracking Ve- locimetry and Turbulence Measurements during Alpine Blowing Snow Storms
    The Cryosphere 2016

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    Research interests

    Environmental fluid dynamics, Cryosphere, Turbulence, Coherent Structures


    Member of research group