Main collaborators
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway (ice caps, surface mass balance, Norway)
- Norwegian Water & Energy Directorate (Norway, ice caps, glaciers, past, present, future)
- University of Lausanne (ice dynamics, modelling, deep learning, machine learning, deglaciation)
- Stockholm University (Greenland, ice-ocean, bathymetry, paleoglaciology, marine geology, sediments)
- University of Colorado Boulder INSTAAR (Patagonia, ice-ocean, paleoglaciology, ice dynamics, modelling, fjords)
- Unversité Paris Saclay (Patagonia, paleoglaciology, glacial geology, fjords)
- Dartmouth College (Greenland, bathymetry, ice dynamics, ice-ocean, modelling, basal motion)
- Carnegie Mellon University (global glacier modelling)
- University of Bergen & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (Scandinavia, Greenland, ice-ocean, deglaciation, glacial geology, paleoclimate, ethics, scientific integrity, science-policy)
Students
Evan Blanc, University of Nantes
Master's Degree Student in Earth Sciences and Planetary Science, Academic Year 2023-2024 Professional Internship: Reconstruction of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet Deglaciation Thesis: to be submitted [PDF] [Web] Evan Blanc is currently a second-year master's student in Earth Sciences and Planetary Science at the University of Nantes, France. Before focusing on terrestrial glacial dynamics, Evan gained experience in the field of planetary science, especially in Martian geomorphology during previous internships. These experiences strengthened his understanding of the geological and geomorphological processes that shape planetary surfaces, providing a foundation for addressing the complex dynamics of ice sheets on Earth. In his current internship project at the University of Oslo (Department of Geosciences), under the supervision of Henning Åkesson, Evan has delved into deep-learning based modeling to reconstruct the deglaciation of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet. He uses the Instructed Glacier Model (IGM), a Python-based glacier model to simulate past dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets. His work aims to provide new insights into the retreat and thinning of the Scandinavian ice sheet during deglaciation, highlighting the corresponding climatic conditions and offering an analogy to understand current glacier demise worldwide. This research enriches our understanding of past glacial dynamics, and can improve projections concerning the responses of ice sheets to current and future climate warming, as well as showcases the potential of deep-learning based models such as IGM applied to ice sheets and glaciers. Thomas Frank, Stockholm University
Master student 2019 - 2020. Thesis: Geometric controls of fjord glaciers dynamics [PDF] [Web] Thomas Frank is a PhD student at Uppsala University. He was a Master student at Stockholm University in “Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology” with previous education at the University of Innsbruck, the University of Iceland and the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS). In his Master thesis, he worked on numerical modelling of marine-terminating glaciers which can be found in e.g. Greenland and Antarctica and which were common features of past ice sheets. He investigated the role of fjord geometry on retreat dynamics, which has implications for future sea-level rise as well as for explaining the retreat patterns reconstructed of past ice sheets. To get in touch with Thomas, you can find him on Twitter. |
Jacinta Clay, Brown University
Fullbright Research Award 2019 - 2020, University of Bergen Jacinta Clay was a Fullbright Research Award recipient from Brown University in the US. She used the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) to investigate how Folgefonna ice cap in southern Norway will respond to different regional climate scenarios relating to modern climate change. This work was carried out together with Henning Åkesson (Stockholm University), Jostein Bakke, Kerim H. Nisancioglu, and Basile de Fleurian (University of Bergen). |
Nadine Steiger, University of Bergen
Master student 2015-2016. Thesis: The sensitivity of marine-terminating glaciers to model parameters and geometry [PDF] [Web] Nadine Steiger is currently a postdoc at LOCEAN/Sorbonne Université in Paris, after doing her PhD in physical oceanography at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is interested in polar regions and ice-ocean interactions. Previously during her Master’s in Oceanography and Meteorology in Bergen, she used a flowline model to study the retreat of Jakobshavn Isbræ – a marine-terminating glacier in Western Greenland. Now, her research focuses on ocean melting of ice shelves in Antarctica, for which she combines laboratory experiments, idealized numerical modelling and observations to study the flow of relatively warm water underneath these ice shelves. To read more about the laboratory experiments and cruises to Antarctica, please visit her PhD group’s webpage. |