Natalya Gallo

Dr. Natalya Gallo is marine ecologist and biological oceanographer working at the Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE) and the University of Bergen (UiB), and is affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Her overarching interests are in how climate change impacts marine ecosystems and how scientific research can support sustainable ocean management and development. She is passionate about the science-policy interface and was a co-author of the IUCN report on “Ocean Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem,” and has participated in multiple UN ocean and climate conferences. She is an advisory panel member of the IOC-UNESCO Global Ocean Oxygen Network, and is a member of the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative and the Early Career Ocean Professionals group of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. As a researcher at NORCE, she is working on two Horizon EU projects relating to the ocean-climate interface: OceanICU on ocean carbon uptake, and MARCO-BOLO on marine coastal biodiversity long-term observations. At UiB, her research has focused on the ecological effects of oxygen loss in the west Norwegian fjords. She also serves on the UiB advisory council for the Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate Scholarship Programme, an interdisciplinary PhD programme between the UiB and the University of the South Pacific.