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