Tel. +47 7390 4116
Jochen.Knies@ngu.no

Jochen Knies (PhD, University of Bremen; Team leader)

My research currently focuses on high-resolution geochemical and sedimentological investigations in coastal near settings of the Nordic Seas and the Arctic Ocean. The published concepts for assessing recent organic sedimentation processes, the reconstruction of Late Quaternary paleoproductivity changes and terrestrial organic matter input, as well as the modeling of quality and quantity of Tertiary source rocks and evaluating active and passive seepages of gaseous hydrocarbons in polar coastal environments have provided new insights into the carbon cycle of high northern latitudes.

Eiliv Larsen (Dr. Scient; Professor II, University of Bergen; Researcher)

My research has been concentrated on Quaternary geology (paleoenvironment/paleoclimate, glacial geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy). Currently, I am running projects supported by the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU), the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) and Norsk Hydro AS:

• GlaciPet: Ice ages: subsidence, uplift and tilting of traps – the influence on petroleum systems. (Funding to E. Larsen: NFR and Norsk Hydro AS, 2005-2009: 18.8 mill. NOK).
• SciencePub

Tel. +47 7390 4113
Astrid.Lysa@ngu.no

Astrid Lyså (Dr. Scient, University of Tromsø; Researcher)

My main interests focus on glacial geology, Late Pleistocene stratigraphy, climate change and sedimentary processes in northern regions. This includes projects both in the terrestrial and in the marine fjord and lake environments. Projects:
GlaciPet: Ice ages: subsidence, uplift and tilting of traps – the influence on petroleum system. My input concerns the late Pleistocene stratigraphy and glacial history based on terrestrial fieldwork in NW Russia.
ICG: International Centre of Geohazard: Landslides in soft clay slopes. My input is to deduce spatial and stratigraphic (chronological) extent of Holocene submarine slides along the coastal zone of Trondheimsfjorden and to understand the processes and factors that have triggered these events.
SciencePub

Achim A. Beylich (Dr. rer. nat., University of Halle-Wittenberg;
Assoc. Professor II, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Researcher)

My research is focused on controlling factors and mechanisms of denudative slope processes and fluvial processes, sediment budgets, and relief development in cold environments. I finished my PhD with a topic on sediment transfers and relief development in East Iceland at the Institute of Geography at the Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany (1996-1999). After my PhD time I continued and extended my process and sediment budget oriented studies with additional study sites in Iceland, Swedish Lapland and Finnish Lapland. From 1999 until my start at NGU in 2004 I have been Post-Doc and Visiting Scientist at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden, and at the Natural Research Centre of North-western Iceland. During my time at NGU I have extended and developed my investigations by adding Norwegian study sites. Research is currently carried out within the Projects ESF-NFR SedyMONT (ESF TOPO-EUROPE EUROCORES, 2008-2012), NFR/DAAD Biofilm, Bedload transport in steep mountain streems (NFR) and NGU Holocene landscape formation studies. Proposals related to SEDIFLUX. I am Chair of ESF SEDIFLUX and IAG/AIG SEDIBUD.

Kari Grøsfjeld (Cand. Scient, University of Oslo; Researcher)

Dinoflagellate cysts (dinocysts) are organic resting spores of a plankton group inhabiting the photic zone of the marine realm and the coastal region in particular.

My research applies dinocyst analysis as a method to understand sedimentological processes, hydrography and climates and to differentiate between glacial, deglacial and interglacial periods. Most of my work focuses on arctic environments.

Tel. +47 7390 4150
Bjorn.Follestad@ngu.no

 Etter at jeg sluttet som en av NGUs direktører i 1999 har jeg fått anledning til å ta opp igjen mine tidligere interesseområder ved NGU. Dette omfatter studier av glasiasjonshistorien innen Midt-Norge. Flere publikasjoner og kart som omhandler dette temaet er ferdigstilt. Videre arbeider jeg for at geologi skal inn i våre nasjonalparker. Det siste har jeg fått anledning til gjennom mitt verv som styreleder i Stiftelsen Folldal Gruver og stiftelsen iNasjonalparker. Sammen med aktører fra fylker og kommuner er det her utviklet og utgitt blant annet geologiske turkart. Moderne database- og animasjonsteknikker er tatt i bruk for at NGU fremover skal kunne vise betydningen av geologi for naturforståelsen.

Tel. +47 7390 4159
Ola.Fredin@ngu.no

Ola Fredin (PhD, University of Stockholm; Researcher)

My research are on the interactions between glacial-/post-glacial processes, Quaternary glaciations and landscape development. Currently I’m working mostly in Scandinavia and NW Russia. Current research topics include: 

• Glaciation history of Scandinavia and Russia (GlaciPet, SCIENCEPUB)
• Weathering of basement rocks in Norway, on-, and off-shore in collaboration with Norwegian Petroleum Directorate
• Reconstructions of the Fennoscandian ice sheets, including ice age build-up

To reach these research objectives I use a variety of tools including; mapping using remote sensing data, GIS analysis, morpho- and lithostratigraphy, terrestrial cosmogenic isotope dating and physical/chemical properties of soils. I also work on general Quaternary mapping at the Survey, and am currently implementing new digital workflow from aerial photo interpretation, field-work to final map.

Tel. +47 7390 4221
renata.viola@ngu.no

I am a geologist with an MSc in mineralogy and geochemistry. I worked from 1995 to 2000 as a consultant-engineering geologist, before acting as secretary of the Western Cape Branch of the Geological Society of South Africa. After moving to Norway, I have worked at the Geological Survey of Norway as a scientist in the hydrogeology group before taking up a position in the Landscape and Climate group as a project coordinator.Currently I am working in the Quaternary geological mapping projects as a GIS expert.

Harald Sveian (Siv.ing; NTH, Resarcher)

Karl Fabian (Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

My research interests encompass theoretical and applied geophysical studies with a focus on cross-disciplinary applications of magnetic measurements.  The aspects relevant for climate and environmental studies include

• Magnetostratigraphy, which uses either the global polarity timescale, or sedimentary paleointensity stacks to date rock units by means of magnetic reversal or intensity patterns. 
• Transport studies based on environmental magnetism.  Here rock and mineral magnetic techniques are applied to monitor the transport, deposition, or transformation of magnetic grains, which reflects more general environmental processes in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.
• Chronostratigraphy, which uses magnetic records together with other parameters to correlate sediment sequences and to create local high-resolution timescales, e.g. through orbital tuning of multi-parameter records.
• Mineral magnetism, which tries to understand fundamental  magnetic properties of the geomagnetic remanence carriers.
• Studies of the geomagnetic field on all time scales.  This also includes the question whether geomagnetic variations can influence climate, e.g. by modulating cloud formation.

Aurélien van Welden (PhD; University of Savoie (France); post-doc)

During my MsC research, I studied the evolution of clay mineralogy of sediments from Gulf of Lions margin (Southern France) in relationship with paleoenvironmental changes since 26 cal. kyr BP. During my PhD, I worked on the late Quaternary sedimentation dynamics related both to climate and tectonics in various environments: paleolake/paleodelta in the Andes of Merida (Venezuela), Late Quaternary lacustrine sediments from Lake Shkodra (Albania/Montenegro), marine/lacustrine sediments from Corinth Gulf (Greece). I also worked with acoustic imagery (HR/VHR seismic) on stratigraphy and the impact of eustatism and fault activity -during the last 130 kyr- on Gulf of Cariaco and Vargas district sedimentary archives (Venezuela).

I'm now mainly involved in SciencePub project. In June 2008 I participated in field trip to NW Russia.

Katja Laute (Dipl.-Geogr., Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

My main interests encompass geomorphological processes and landscape development in cold environments. I studied Geography (with main focus on Physical Geography and Geomorphology), Geology and Botany at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. My diploma thesis was entitled: “Sub-recent erosion and sedimentation within a paraglacial valley system in western Norway (Erdalen, Nordfjord).” 

I’m now a PhD student at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) within the ESF-NFR SedyMONT (2008-2012) project and I’m also working as project secretary for the same project. My PhD research focuses on quantitative analysis of storage elements as well as on sub-recent and contemporary sediment dynamics within two deglaciated, sub-Arctic valley systems in western Norway (Erdalen & Bødalen catchments, Nordfjord). A process-based approach will be used and a combination of different advanced methods (e.g. geophysical methods, DEM and GIS techniques) will be applied.

SedyMONT - Norway

Susan Liermann (Dipl.-Geogr., Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

My research interests comprehend geomorphological processes and landscape development in cold environments and their relationship to climate change.

The PhD work focuses on investigations and quantitative analysis of sediment transfer and sediment storage/deposition (lake sediments, fluvial valley fills) over different timescales in two sub-Arctic and glacier-fed valleys systems (Erdalen & Bødalen) in the Nordfjord area in western Norway. A wide range of different methods (e.g. georadar analysis, seismic refraction surveys, freeze coring, DEM and GIS techniques) will be applied.

SedyMONT - Norway

Soma Baranwal (Ph.D., I.I.T. Kharagpur, India)

Irene Maier (PhD Student)

Johan Faust (PhD Student)