Kikki Flesche Kleiven
Position
Head of Department, Director of the Bjerknes Centre
Research groups
Research
Paleoceanography
is the study of the history of the oceans in the geologic past with regard to circulation, chemistry, biology, geology and patterns of sedimentation and biological productivity. Paleoceanographic studies using environment models and different proxies enable the scientific community to assess the role of the oceanic processes in the global climate by the re-construction of past climate at various intervals. Paleoceanographic research is also intimately tied to paleoclimatology.
Teaching
Historical Geology (Geol/Geov 105) V2005-V2009
Marine Geology (Geol110/Geov108) V2008-H2013
Introduction to Geology (Geov 101) V2013
Geodidatics (GEOVDID 200) V2014
Supervisor on The Norwegian Research School in Climate Dynamics (ResClim)
Lecturer on Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) 2014
Climatevise and Generation Green climateoutreach 2009-ongoing
Publications
Eirik Vinje Galaasen, Ulysses S. Ninnemann1, Nil Irvalı, Helga (Kikki) F. Kleiven, Yair Rosenthal, Catherine Kissel, David A. Hodell. Rapid reductions in North Atlantic Deep Water during the peak of the last interglacial period. Science 343; DOI: 10.1126/science.1248667, 2014
Irvali, N., Ninnemann, U.S., Kleiven, H.F., Galaasen, E.V., Morlely, A. and Rosenthal, Y. Evidence for regional cooling and East Greenland Ice Sheet changes during the demise of the last interglacial. To be submitted to Earth And Planetary Science Letters.
D. J. R. Thornalley, M. Blaschek, F. J. Davies, S. Praetorius, D. W. Oppo, J. F. McManus, I. R. Hall, H. Kleiven, H. Renssen, and I. N. McCave
Long-term variations in Iceland–Scotland overflow strength during the Holocene
Clim. Past, 9, 2073-2084, 2013
N. Irvalı, U. S. Ninnemann, E. V. Galaasen, Y. Rosenthal, D. Kroon, D. W. Oppo, H. F. Kleiven, K. F. Darling, and C. Kissel. Rapid switches in subpolar North Atlantic hydrography and climate during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e). Paleoceanography VOL. 27, PA2207, [doi:10.1029/2011PA002244], 2012
P. C. Tzedakis, J. E. T. Channell, D. A. Hodell, H. F. Kleiven and L. C. Skinner. Determening the natural length of the current interglacial. Nature Geoscience Published online 09 January 2012, [doi:10.1038/ngeo1358], 2012 PUBLISHED
Helga F. Kleiven, Ian R. Hall, I. Nicholas McCave, Gregor Knorr and Eystein Jansen. Coupled deep-water flow and climate variability in the middle Pleistocene North Atlantic. Geology. 39 (4): 343–346 [doi: 10.1130/G31651.1.] 2011
Clark, P.U., Delworth, T.L., Weaver A.J., H. F. Kleiven, Catherine Kissell, Carlo Laj, Ulysses S. Ninnemann, Thomas O. Richter, and Elsa Cortijo, Freshwater Forcing: Will History Repeat Itself? Science 320: 316-317 [DOI: 10.1126/Science.320.5874.316a] 2008
Helga (Kikki) Flesche Kleiven, Catherine Kissel, Carlo Laj, Ulysses S. Ninnemann, Thomas O. Richter, and Elsa Cortijo, Reduced North Atlantic Deep Water Coeval with the Glacial Lake Agassiz Freshwater Outburst, Science, 319: 60-64; (published online 4 December 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1148924] 2008
Projects
EU Large Scale Integrated project THOR (2009-2012)
Norwegian PI, Core Team Co Leader and Work Package Leader: Helga (Kikki) F. Kleiven:
EU Large Scale Integrated project Past4Future (2010-2014)
Work Package leader and Norwegian Co-PI: Helga (Kikki) F. KLeiven
SKD project (IMMUNITY) (2011-2014)
PI: Odd Helge Otteraa (UNI Klima); Team members from Geo: Helga (Kikki) F. Kleiven, Ulysses Ninnemann, Jostein Bakke and Atle Nesje
NFR Forskerprosjekt FRINAT NOCWARM (2011-2014)
PI: Helga (Kikki) F. Kleiven, Co-PI: U.S. Ninnemann
Team: O.H. Otteraa (Uni Bjerknessenteret, N), Y. Rosenthal (Rutgers, USA), A. Piotrowski (Cambridge, UK), C. Kissell (LSCE, F)
NFR project SNACS (2014-2016)
PI: Are Olsen, GFI, Team members from Geo: Helga (Kikki) Kleiven, Ulysses Ninnemann