Past Climate Dynamics
Research group 7
Studies of past climate - from greenhouse to icehouse
Research in RG7 focuses on understanding how and why climate has changed in the past.
The group is interdisciplinary and integrates empirical and dynamical studies of past changes in the ocean, atmosphere and cryosphere (both sea ice and land ice) and on land.
Activities include studies of past warm greenhouse climates, greenhouse-icehouse transitions, interglacial climates, glacial inception, glacial cycles, abrupt climate changes, past ice sheet evolution and deglaciations.
Resources
- Uni Research Trace Element Lab
- Palaeoecology Laboratory at the Biodiversity Lab, Department of Biology The lab has an Open Lab policy: for visits, click here
- Research microscope for palynology and micropaleontology: Contact person Stijn De Schepper
- NorESM – Norwegian Earth System Model, including low resolution version used for ensemble and sensitivity studies of past climates
- NOTUR/NORSTORE – Norwegian national high performance computational facilities
Research Group 7
Leader: Bjørg Risebrobakken (Uni Research Climate)
Co-leader: Kerim Nisancioglu (SKD/UIB/ Uni Research Climate)
Members:
Name | Discipline | Affiliation | Projects |
Bachem, Paul | Paleoceanograph, paleoclimatology |
Uni Research Climate | OCCP |
Birks, Hilary | Botany, palaeoecology, plant macrofossils | BIO, UiB | Kråkenes, Bjerkreim Abernethy Forest UK, Red Tarn UK |
Brendryen, Jo | Paleoclimate | GEO, UiB | INTERACT |
Clotten, Caroline | Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography |
Uni Research Climate | PEGSIE |
De Schepper, Stijn | Paleocenography and palynology | Uni Research Climate | PEGSIE, OCCP |
Dokken, Trond | Paleoceanography paleoclimatology | Uni Research Climate | Ice2Ice (2014-2019), Past4Future (ut 2014), Immunity (SKD) (ut 2014) |
Farmer, Elizabeth | Paleoceanograph, paleoclimatology |
GEO, UiB | SOVar General Quaternary climate change |
Galaasen, Eirik Vinje | Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography |
GEO, UIB | Past4Future, BIOFEEDBACK, BigChange, THERMODYN |
Hannisdal, Bjarte | Paleobiology, Geobiology, Earth Systems | GEO, UiB | Earth System Interactions and Information Transfer (BFS, NFR) |
Hughes, Anna | Palaeoglaciology, glacial geomorphology remote sensing and GIS | GEO, UiB | DATED, EISCLIM |
Jensen, Mari | Oceanography and climate dynamics | SKD, UiB | |
Langebroek, Petra | Paleo ice sheet and climate dynamics | Uni Research Climate | IceBed, Ice2Ice, ESM |
Lauritzen, Stein Erik | Speleothem geochronology and paleoclimate. Deep weathering processes and geomorphology. Cave microclimate. | GEO, UiB | CAVEMONITOR |
Linge, Henriette | Geomorphology, geochronology | GEO, UiB | Sensitivity of the northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) to Holocene climate variation |
Mangerud, Jan | Quaternary geology, paleoglaciology, paleoclimate | GEO, UiB | DATED, EISCLIM |
Nisancioglu, Kerim | Climate dynamics | SKD, UiB / UniResearch Climate | Ice2Ice (PI), ESM (PI), SiU Partners in Higher Education (PI), EISCLIM, OCCP, DYNAWARM, Past4Future, INTIMATE |
Risebrobakken, Bjørg | Paleoceanograph, paleoclimatology |
Uni Research Climate | OCCP, ESM, DYNAWARM, ClimLink, Ice2Ice, PEGSIE, NoAClim |
Skoglund, Rannveig | Geomorfology, speleology | GEOG, UiB | |
Strømsø, Jørund | Paleoclimate | Uni Research Climate | ESM, Ice2Ice |
Svendsen, John Inge | GEO, UiB | ||
Tisserand, Amandine | Marine paleoclimatology, geochemistry | Uni Research Climate | RETRO, projects related to the Uni Research Trace Element Lab (TELab) |
Zhang, Zhongshi | Paleoclimate modelling | Uni Research Climate | ESM, OCCP, PEGSIE |
Associated members | |||
Andersson Dahl, Carin | Marine paleoclimatology | Uni Research Climate | OCCP, ESM, DYNAWARM, Ice2Ice |
Birks, John | BIO, UiB | NoAClim, DYNAWARM + various smaller collaborative projects in Tibet, Norway, and Siberia | |
Bjune, Anne E. | Botany, palaeoecology, terrestrial palaeoclimatology |
Uni Research Climate | NoAClim, BioDiverse, DOORMAT |
Jansen, Eystein | GEO, UiB/ Uni Research Climate | ||
Lorentzen, Torbjørn | Uni Research Climate | Vietnam-project: “Applying Norwegian Earth System Model for Climate Change Scenario Development, Monsoon and Climate Extreme Events Studies in Vietnam” | |
Åkesson, Henning | GEO, UiB | EISCLIM |