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Scientist profile

Berit Oline Blihovde Hjelstuen

Associate Professor

Department of Earth Science

Marine Geology and Geophysics

Title: Associate Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 35 07

E-mail:

Visiting address: Realfagbygget, Allegt. 41

Research field:

  • Margin evolution
  • Seismic stratigraphy
  • Sedimentary processes
  • Depositional environments

Research area: Norwegian-Barents Sea continental margin

Education:

1997: Dr. Scient, Department of Geology, University of Oslo

1993: Cand Scient, Department of Geology, University of Oslo

1991: Cand Mag, Department of Geology, University of Oslo

Publications in Cristin

Hjelstuen, B.O., Nygård, A., Sejrup, H.P., Haflidason, H. Quaternary denudation of southern Fennoscandia - evidence from the marine realm. Boreas. In press

Amundsen, I.M.H.,  Blinova, M.,  Hjelstuen,  B.O., Mjelde, R.,  Haflidason, H., 2011. The Cenozoic western Svalbard margin – sediment geometry and sedimentary processes in an area of ultraslow oceanic spreading. Marine Geophysical Researches, 32(4), 441-453.

Reiche, S., Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., 2011. High-resolution seismic stratigraphy, sedimentary processes and the origin of seabed cracks and pockmarks at Nyegga, mid-Norwegian margin. Marine Geology, 284, 28-39.

Chand, S., Rise, L., Knies, J., Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Bøe, L., 2011. Stratigraphic development of the south Vøring Margin (Mid-Norway) since early Cenozoic time and its influence on subsurface fluid flow. Marine and Petreoleum Geology, 28(7), 1350-1363

Rise, L., Chand, S., Haflidason, H., L’Heureux, J.S.,  Hjelstuen, B.O., Bellec, V., Longva, O., Brendryen, J., Vanneste, M., Bøe, R., 2011. Investigations of Slides at the Upper Continental Slope Off Vesterålen, North Norway.  In: Yamada, Y et al. (eds) Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazard Research, 31, 167-177.

Vanneste, M., L’Heureux, J.S.,  Baeten, N., Brendryen, J.,  Vardy, M.E., Steiner, A., Forsberg, C.F., Kvalstad, T.J., Laberg, J.S., Chand, S., Longva, O., Rise, L., Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Forwick, M., Morgan, E., Lecomte, I., Kopf, A., Vorren, T., Reichel, T., 2011. Shallow Landslides and Their Dynamics in Coastal and Deepwater Environments, Norway. In: Yamada, Y et al. (eds) Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazard Research, 31,  29-43.

Rise, L., Chand, S., Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., Bøe, R., 2010. Late Cenozoic development of the south Vøring Margin, mid-Norway. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27, 1789-1803.

Chen, Y., Ussler, III., Lepland, A., Haflidason, H., Rise, L., Hovland, M., Hjelstuen, B.O., 2010. Sources of methane inferred from δ13C of dissolved inorganic carbon in pockmark G11, offshore Mid-Norway. Chemical Geology, 275, 127-138.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., Sejrup, H.P., Nygård, A.,2010. Sedimentary and structural control on pockmark development - evidence from the Nyegga Pockmark Field, NW Europaen margin. Geo-Marine Letters. Geo-Marine Letters, 30, 221-230.

Lyså, A., Hjelstuen, Larsen, E., 2010. Fjord fill in high-relief area; rapid deposition influenced by deglaciation dynamic, gravitational activity and glacio-isostatic rebound. BOREAS, 39, 39-55.

Knies, J., Matthisen, Vogt, Laberg, J.S., Hjelstuen, B.O., Smelror, M., Larsen, E., Andreassen, K., Eivind, T., Vorren, T.O., 2009. A new Plio-Pleistocene ice sheet model for the Svalbard/Barents Sea region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 812-829.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Haflidason, H., Sejrup, H.P., Lyså, A., 2009. Sedimentary processes and depositional environments in glaciated fjord systems – a case study from the west coast of Norway. Marine Geology, 258, 88-99.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Eldholm, O., Faleide, J.I., 2008. Armageddon in the oceans. GEO no. 7, pp. 52-53.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Eldholm, O., Faleide, J.I., 2007. Recurrent Pleistocene mega-failures on the SW Barents Sea margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 258 (3-4), 605-618.

Evans, D., Stoker, M.S., Shannon, P.M & STRATAGEM partners (including B.Hjelstuen), 2005. The Stratagem Project: stratigraphic development of the glaciated European margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 969-976.

Shannon, P.M., Stoker, M.S., Praeg, D., van Weering, T.C.E., de Haas, H., Nielsen, T., Dahlgren, K.I.T., Hjelstuen, B.O., 2005. Sequence stratigraphic implications for deep-water, underfilled basins. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 1185-1200.

Laberg, J.S., Stoker, M., Dahlgren, T., de Haas, H., Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Nielsen, T., Shannon, P., Vorren, T.O. and van Weering, T., 2005. Cenozoic alongslope processses and sedimentation on the NW European Atlantic margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 1069-1088.

Stoker, M.S., Praeg, D., Hjelstuen, B.O., Laberg, J.S., Nielsen, T., Shannon, P., 2005. Neogene stratigraphy and the sedimentary and oceanographic development of the NW European Atlantic margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 977-1005.

Stoker, M.S., Hoult, R.J., Nielsen, T., Hjelstuen, B.O., Laberg, J.S., Shannon, P.M., Praeg D., Mathiesen, A., van Weering, T.C.E., McDonnell, A., 2005. Sedimentary and oceanographic responses to early Neogene compression on the NW European margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 1031-1044.

Praeg, D., Stoker, M.S., Shannon, P.M., Ceramicola, S., Hjelstuen, B.O., Mathiesen, A., 2005.Episodic Cenozoic tectonism and the development of the NW European ‘passive’ margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 1007-1030.

Sejrup, H.P., Hjelstuen, B.O., Dahlgren, T., Haflidason, H., Kuijpers, A., Nygård, A., Praeg, D., Stoker, M., Vorren, T.O., 2005.  Pleistocene glacial history of the NW European Continental margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 1111-1129.

Ceramicola, S., Stoker, M.S., Praeg, D., Shannon, P.M., De Santis, L., Hoult, R., Hjelstuen, B.O., Laberg, J.S., Mathiesen, A., 2005. Anomalous post-rift subsidence from 2D flexural backstripping of Cenozoic megasequences along the NW European margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 1045-1067.

Stoker, M. S., Praeg, D., Shannon, P., Hjelstuen,  B.O.,  Laberg, J.S., Nielsen, T., van Weering, T.C.E..,  Sejrup, H.P., Evans, D. 2005.  Neogene evolution of the Atlantic continental margin of NW Europe (Lofoten Islands to SW Ireland): anything but passive. In: Doré, A.G. et al. (eds), & Vining, B.A. (eds). Petroleum Geology: North-West Europe and Global Perspectives - Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference. Geological Society, London, pp 1057-1076. 

Hjelstuen, B.O., Sejrup, H.P., Haflidason, H., Nygård, A., Ceramicola, S., Bryn, P., 2005. Late Cenozoic glacial history and evolution and of the Storegga Slide area and adjacent slide flanks regions, Norwegian continental margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22 , 57-69 

Lekens, W.A.H., Sejrup, H.P., Haflidason, H., Østvik Pedersen,G., Hjelstuen, B.O., Knorr, G., 2005. Plume sedimentation in the Northern North Sea preceding Henrich Event 1: origin, processes and regional linkages. Marine Geology, 216, 27-50.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Sejrup, H.P., Haflidason, H., Nygård, A., Berstad, I.M. and Knorr, G., 2004. Late Quaternary seismic stratigraphy and evolution of the South Vøring Margin, Norwegian Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 1847-1865. 

Hjelstuen, B.O., Sejrup, H.P., Haflidason, H., Berg, K., Bryn, P., 2004. Neogene and Quaternary depositional environments on the Norwegian continental margin, 62oN-68oN. Marine Geology, 213, 257-276.

Sejrup, H.P. Haflidason, H, Hjelstuen, B.O., Nygård, A., Bryn, P., Lien, R. Pleistocene development of the SE Nordic Seas margin.  Marine Geology, 213, 169-200.

Sejrup, H.P., Larsen, E., Haflidason, H., Berstad, I., Hjelstuen, B.O., Jonsdottir, H., King, E, Landvik, J., Longva, O., Nygård, A., Ottesen, D., Raunholm, S., Riise, L. Stalsberg, K, 2003. Configuration, history and impact of the Norwegian Channel Ice Stream. Boreas, 32 (1), 18-36.

STRATAGEM partners (including Hjelstuen, B.O.), 2002. The Neogene stratigraphy of the glaciated European Margin from Lofoten to Procupine. Atlas. A product of the EC supported STRATAGEM project, Contract No. EVK3-CT-1999-00011, 75 pp.

Butt, F.A., Elverhøi, A., Hjelstuen, B.O., Dimakis, P. and Solheim, A., 2001. Modelling late Cenozoic isostatic elevation changes in Storfjorden, NW Barents Sea: an indication of varying erosional regimes. Sedimentary Geology, 143 (1-2): 71-89.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Eldholm, O. and Vogt, P. R., 1999. Slamdiapirar og slamvulkanar på den norske kontinentalmarginen. GEO 4: 2 pp.

Vogt, P.R., Crane, K., Sundvor, E., Hjelstuen, B.O., Gardner, J., Bowles, F., and Cherkashev, G., 1999. Ground-truthing 11-12 kHz sidescan sonar imagery in the Norwegian- Greenland Sea - Part II:  Probable diapirs on the Bear Island Fan slide valley margins and the Vøring Plateau. Geo-Marine Letters 19: 111-130.

Eldholm, O., Sundvor, E., Vogt, P.R., Hjelstuen, B.O., Crane, K., Nilsen, A.K. and Gladczenko, T.P., 1999. SW Barents Sea continental margin heat flow and Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano. Geo-Marine Letters 19: 29-37.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Eldholm, O., Faleide, J.I. and Vogt, P.R., 1999. Regional setting of Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano, SW Barents Sea margin. Geo-Marine Letters 19: 22-28.

Hjelstuen B.O., Eldholm, O. and Skogseid, J., 1999. Cenozoic evolution of the northern Vøring margin. Geological Society of America Bulletin 111: 1792-1807.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Eldholm, O. and Skogseid, J., 1997. Vøring Plateau diapir fields and their structural and depositional settings. Marine Geology 144: 33-57.

Hjelstuen, B.O., Elverhøi, A. and Faleide, J. I., 1996. Cenozoic erosion and sediment yield in the drainage area of the Storfjorden Fan. In: A. Solheim, F. Riis, A. Elverhøi, J.I. Faleide, L.N. Jensen and S. Cloetingh (Eds.), Impaction of glaciations on basin evolution: Data and models from the Norwegian margin and adjacent areas. Global and Planetary Change 12: 95-117.

Faleide, J.I., Solheim, A., Fiedler, A., Hjelstuen, B.O., Andersen, E. S., Vanneste, K., 1996. Late Cenozoic evolution of the western Barents Sea-Svalbard Continental Margin. In: A. Solheim, F. Riis, A. Elverhøi, J.I. Faleide, L.N. Jensen and S. Cloetingh (Eds.), Impaction of glaciations on basin evolution: Data and models from the Nowegian margin and adjacent areas. Global and Planetary Change 12: 53-74.

 

 

SPRING 2012

GEOV101 (10 stp) - Introduction to Geology

GEOV102 (10 stp) - Excursions and Practicals in Geology

 

AUTUMN 2011

GEOV108 (10 stp) - Introduction to marine geology and geophysics

 

AUTUMN 2010

GEOV108 (10 stp) - Introduction to marine geology and geophysics

 

SPRING 2010

GEOL201 (10 stp) - Marine geological and geophysical field and laboratorium course

GEOF363  (10 stp) - Advanced marine geology and geophysics

 

AUTUMN 2009

GEOL110 (10 stp) - Introduction to marine geology and geophysics

GEOL365 (5 stp) - Integrated interpretation of seismic and geophysical data