Quaternary geology and Paleoclimate
We work with different geological processes that have occurred during the last millions years. This includes the study of marine sediments, carbonate and sediment deposits in caves, lake sediments and other deposits on the Earth’s surface.
About the research group
Welcome to the research group in Quaternary Earth Systems!
We work with different geological processes that have occurred during the last millions years. This includes the study of marine sediments, carbonate and sediment deposits in caves, lake sediments and other deposits on the Earth’s surface. Some of this research include process studies, while others are directed towards reconstructing climate change backwards in time and to understand how past climate has varied. The research group has several major projects with focus in, and around, the North Atlantic and the group has also projects in both polar regions, in the Himalayas, and in Russia. We have access to several research vessels, advanced coring equipment for both marine and terrestrial sediments and we have several advanced laboratories, for example Uranium-series laboratory, laboratory for cosmogenic nuclides, and a national infrastructure for sediment analyses, EARTHLAB. The aim of our research and teaching activities is to develop methods and techniques to better understand the geological history mainly during the ice age period (last 2.6 million years) and transfer this to palaeoclimatic reconstructions and increased process understanding.
Research infrastructures and laboratories
Forskningsinfrastruktur
Projects
Research Projects
PhD Projects
From Black Gold to the Green Battery?
Early Holocene insights into a warmer, wetter Arctic: glacier variability and surface changes
Holocene shifts in the frequency, magnitude and seasonality of floods across southern Norway
Reconstructing the Englacial Stratigraphy of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Holocene sub-polar glacier fluctuations and glaciovolcanic floods
Plio-Pleistocene deep sea temperature evolution
Mountain glacier-rock glacier interactions
Future Sea-level Contributions and Stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Master projects
People
Group manager
Ulysses Silas Ninnemann Professor, leader of Quaternary and Paleoclimate research group
Group members
Camille Marie Afonso PhD Candidate
Andreea-Gabriela Auer PhD Candidate
Jostein Bakke Professor, Director Centre for Integrated Earth Science Education and principal investigator EARTHLAB
Andreas Born Professor
Jo Brendryen Researcher
Jan Magne Cederstrøm PhD Candidate
Hao Ding PhD Candidate
Rebekka Frøystad PhD Candidate
Konstanze Haubner Postdoctoral Fellow, SEAS Programme, ClimateNarratives
Frida Snilstveit Hoem Postdoctoral Fellow
Nil Irvali Researcher
Eystein Jansen Professor, in Earth Sciences /Paleoclimatology. Also affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Kikki Flesche Kleiven Head of Department, Director of the Bjerknes Centre
Sher Rine Kong PhD Candidate
Yves Krüger Researcher
Robert Law Postdoctoral Fellow
Simon Pierre Lefèvere PhD Candidate, Quaternary geology and paleoclimate
Henriette Linge Professor
Marit Holten Løland PhD Candidate
Jenny Marianne Maccali Researcher
Johanna Christine Marquardt PhD Candidate
Anna Nele Meckler Professor
Pushpak Martin John Nadar PhD Candidate
Ina Nagler PhD Candidate
Katrina Nilsson-Kerr Postdoctoral Fellow, Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu Professor
Leonardo Pasqualetto Postdoctoral Fellow
Karlijn Ploeg PhD Candidate, Quaternary Geology and Palaeoclimate
Ellie Jane Pryor Postdoctoral Fellow
Therese Rieckh Postdoctoral Fellow
Benjamin Aubrey Robson Associate Professor, Geomatics and Remote Sensing
Ann Rowan Professor, Quaternary Geology and Palaeoclimate
Jarle Børve Sleire PhD Candidate
Victoria Emma Taylor Associate Professor
Daniel Thomas PhD Candidate
Willem G.M. van der Bilt Researcher
Philipp Immanuel Voigt PhD Candidate
Kurt Heinrich Wogau Chong Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow SEAS
George Edward Young PhD Candidate