News about Geophysics

Maria Arvaniti

Application of Contactless Conductivity Detection to Ice Core Analysis Supervisors: Anders Svensson and Paul Vallelonga

Jérôme Chappellaz receives the Niels Bohr Institute’s Medal of Honour

Jérôme Chappellaz is a glaciologist and the director of LGGE in Grenoble, France. He researches ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland and analyses the atmospheric composition in order to reconstruct past natural…

Charlotte Ditlevsen

Title: Electrical Conductivity Measurements (ECM) of Greenland ice cores Supervisors: Anders Svensson and Christoph Kort

Ida Margrethe Ringgaard

The impact of near-inertial waves on the Arctic halocline Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Rising sea levels of 1.8 meters in worst-case scenario

The climate is getting warmer, the ice sheets are melting and sea levels are rising – but how much? Now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and their colleagues have calculated the risk for a worst-case scenario.…

Antje Fitzner

Modeling the tidewater glacier Kangiata Nunaata Sermia and the freshwater flux into Godthaabsfjorden Academic advisor: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

Peter Ditlevsen receives EU grant to research abrupt climate change

The EU has allocated four million Euros (29.7 million kroner) to an international network of researchers who will try to understand critical changes in complex dynamic systems in nature, in technology and in society

Turid Lakså

Inertial resonance in the ocean mixed layer Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Past temperature in Greenland adjusted

During a period of several thousand years up until the last ice age ended approximately 12,000 years ago, the climate pattern in Greenland did not fit and this was a mystery to researchers. Now researchers from the Niel…

Congratulations to three PhD candidates

Congratulations to Helle Kjær who succesfully defended her PhD Thesis on August 25, 2014. Helle Kjær is our third Centre for Ice and Climate candidate to finish this year.

Helle Astrid Kjær

Continuous chemistry in ice cores -Phosphorus, pH and the photolysis of humic like substances Academic supervisors: Anders Svensson and Matthew S. Johnson

FNU grants to Biophysics and Oceanography

Two professors at the Niels Bohr Institute, Mogens Høgh Jensen, Professor of Biophysics, and Markus Jochum, Professor of Oceanography, have both received a grant of 2.4 million kroner from FNU

Yongbiao Weng

Title: Continuous Flow and Discrete Measurements of the Water Isotopes in an Firn Core from Greenland Supervisor: Bo Møllesøe Vinther

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives European Agassiz Medal

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, head of the Centre for Ice and Climate at NBI, has been awarded the Louis Agassiz Medal by the EGU (European Geoscience Union). She is receiving the medal for her outstanding scientific…

Klaus Mosegaard new professor of geophysics - again

Klaus Mosegaard is a geophysicist and researches the Earth’s internal processes and the geological structure of the subsurface using mathematical modeling. Now he is back at the Niels Bohr Institute as professor and hea…

Mars research receives FNU grant

Morten Bo Madsen, who leads the Mars Group in Astrophysics and Science at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of just over 3.8 million kroner from FNU, the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural…

Myriam Guillevic

Characterization of rapid climate changes through isotope analyses of ice and entrapped air in the NEEM ice core Academic advisor: Thomas Blunier

Ice and Climate participates with a newly developed drilling system in the Antarctic project

A completely new drilling system will give faster, easier and cheaper access to good climate data. Through 1 1/2 years of intensive work the Center for Ice and Climate has further developed the equipment to the legendar…

Ernesto Kettner

Highly Resolved Paleoclimatic Aerosol Records: Continuous Flow Analysis and the Potential of Flow Cytometry for the Characterisation of Aeolian Dust in Polar Ice Cores Academic advisor: Thomas Blunier

Centre people to Antarctic

In the beginning of December 2013 three scientists from the Centre for Ice and Climate fly to the Antarctic.

Congratulations to Myriam Guillevic

Congratulations to Myriam Guillevic from Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Wednesday, November 20, 2013.

Malte Nordmann Winther

Continous measurements of Nitrous Oxide isotopomers produced by nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Blunier

Magnus Elleskov Kristensen

NEGIS Phosphate and pH Measurements First continuous Phosphate and pH record from a Greenland shallow ice core Supervisors: Anders Svensson, Paul T. Vallelonga and Helle A. Kjær

In memory of Henrik B. Clausen

Asoc. prof., Henrik Brink Clausen died 23rd August 2013 at the age of 76 years. He participated in a great number of expeditions among others to Greenland and Antarctica. In recognition of his contribution to research h…