Henriette Linge

Research interests

My main research interest is to understand how, when and why changes occur on the surface of the earth.

After obtaining a Doctoral degree in geology, on speleothems, caves and palaeoclimate, the interest in landforms and landscapes lead to a post doctoral project where terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides (nuclides produced in situ, i.e. in rocks exposed to cosmic rays) were applied to dating of landforms. Today I use cosmogenic nuclides to solve questions regarding:

• geomorphology and geochronology
• glaciation history (incl. provenance of glacial erratics)
• weathering, erosion and denudation rates
• cave development
• the impact of climate on long-term landscape evolution

The past 15 years I have conducted annual fieldwork on mainland Norway, participated in fieldwork in Denmark, Sweden, Russia and Svalbard, joined two expeditions to northernmost Greenland and one to southwestern Greenland. In 2008-2012 I established a preparation laboratory for in situ cosmogenic nuclides at GEO. Since September 2014 we have processed more than 150 samples. The laboratory is now equipped to produce Be and Al targets for AMS analysis for both NEC and HVEE accelerator mass spectrometers.