News about Geophysics

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.

Arctic exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Snow and ice, darkness and northern lights, beauty, silence, strife and storm. Louisiana heads straight north to a region of magnetic lure. In themes ranging from the sublime to conquest and myth, this spectacular Arcti…

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…

Congratulations to Christopher Stowasser

Congratulations to Christopher Stowasser from Centre for Ice and Climate, who succesfully defended his PhD Thesis thursday, June 27, 2013.

Christian T. Holme

Analysis of the isotopic composition of the NEGIS ice core including a comparison with coastal temperature data Academic advisor: Bo Mølløse Vinther

Karl-Søren Geertsen

Determination of Reference Velocities in the North Atlantic based on Physical Oceanographic Inverse Methods Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Soeren Borg Nielsen

Oceanic Near-Inertial Waves induced by atmospheric storms - a quantitative analysis of a coupled climate model Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Vega Theil Carstensen

The tropical Atlantic near-inertial velocity from Eulerian observations at moored measurement stations Supervisor: Markus Jochum