New Kinnvika expeditions and funding
New popularized research descriptions
Latest articles on sea level rise:
New paper makes prediction for 2100 and reconstruction of past 2000 years - Many implications for past temperatures and IPCC scenarios significantly underpredicting rise.Anthropogenic cause of sea level rise since 1850 - deforestation affecting sea level well before fossil fuel impacts became severe - new in GRL.
The ClimATIC project arrange a Climate Change Adaptation Seminar
in Rovaniemi on the 4th of February 2009. ClimATIC is a three year international project partfunded by the Northern Periphery Programme. It involves community stakeholders working in partnership with public and academic institutions from five regions of northern Europe to explore the potential for different community sectors to develop adaptation capacity, and deliver real adaptations that provide local economic and social advantages. The knowledge gained will be made available through a variety of regional and international dissemination events such as this one and, in the long term, through the establishment of a formal training, education and advice service. ClimATIC project partners and experts from Finland will give presentations about project and related activities. The Seminar is free and will be conducted in English.New socio-economic position open for PhD student /post doc or in the Clim-Atic project looking at business adaptation to climate change in Lapland - contact me directly to discuss this
Work
Welcome. My professional activities are in Glaciology and Climatology. I am Finland's first joint professor between 2 universities, I am based most of the time at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. but have a half time position at the Thule Institute, University of OuluMain projects at present are:
Kinnvika - you can read a blog from our spring 2007 expedition
Antarctic blue ice area paleoclimate - you can read a blog from our 2006/7 expedition
Clim-Atic - you can read about our project to make scenarios for the future in Lapland especially from the tourism angle here
I am also involved in the EU project to provide improved constraints on models of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), its website is here
The main question my group and I try to address are:
How are glaciers in Svalbard and Antarctica behaving now
What do ice cores from Svalbard and Antarctic tell us about climate history
What will changing climate do to glaciers in the polar regions
The tools we use to answer these questions are
Ice core chemical analysis to extract past climate information
Ground penetrating radar studies of glaciers to study their internal structure
Mathematical modelling and analysis of the climate records and glacier evolution
You can read more about these in the section
These are my research group and
projects
Aslak Grinsted has a slightly different take on some of the same articles,
you can find his page here
Currently I am the Finnish representative of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC ) Working Group on Arctic Glaciology.
We are actively developing finite element models of glacier flow using ELMER-ICE with CSC. Glaciers studied are Vestfonna in Svalbard and Scharffenbergbottnen blue ice area in Antarctica
I have also worked with ground penetrating radars funded by a Thule Institute project in close cooperation with the Geophysics departments of the Universities of Oulu and Helsinki, investigating glaciers in Sweden, Norway and Svalbard
The Arctic Centre has a very nice interdisciplinary teaching program
in Arctic
Studies which I am involved with in both teaching and in planning.
Two Arctic Studies Program students Stephan Gruber and Florian
Ludwig wrote a nice introduction to ground
penetrating radar in glaciology that may be useful for novices interested
in this new tool. Stefan Walter prouced a nice report in the ASP Basic Phase on the
impact of climate change on the skiing industry