Climate dynamics, paleoclimate, and climate modelling.

Interdisciplinary research in Earth Sciences focused on understanding the dynamics of climate change on a wide range of timescales, including tectonic, orbital and millennial, by using a hierarchy of climate and ice sheet models combined with marine and terrestrial proxy data. 

ResearchGate profile

For an example see the recent Al Jazeera docmentary for one of my field courses:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/program/witness/2022/4/18/kerims-climate-odyssey-the-climate-change-classroom-on-the-sea

Teaching science of climate, weather and glaciology in the field to school children and the general public:

http://turspor.b.uib.no

https://www.ut.no/finn/?types=trip&id=8.1819&type=gruppe

A few media highlights:

https://www.nrk.no/urix/vil-avslore-gronlandsisens-hemmeligheter-1.13042282

http://www.dn.no/meninger/debatt/2014/05/23/Forskning-viser-at/det-svake-punkt

http://www.dn.no/magasinet/2016/08/26/2105/Dokumentar/-jeg-vurderte--slutte-som-klimaforsker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/greenland-is-melting

https://www.nrk.no/urix/norske-forskere-frykter-raskere-smelting-av-gronlandsisen-1.12606608

Introduction to Earth Science (GEOV101)

https://www4.uib.no/en/studies/courses/geov101 

 

OneOcean Field Course (SDG313/SDG913)

https://www4.uib.no/en/studies/courses/sdg313 

 

IceFinse (GEOV328)

https://chess.w.uib.no/activities/upcoming-activities-become-past-activities/icefinse-arctic-climate-research-and-fieldwork-2022 

https://chess.w.uib.no/2021/04/22/icefinse-field-course/ 

 

Causes and Consequences of Climate Change (SDG213)

https://www.uib.no/en/course/SDG213 

Interdisplinary course answering to UNs Sustinable Development Goal SDG-13 on Climate Action.

 

Causes of Climate Change

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/causes-of-climate-change/ 

Online course offereded through Future Learn first offerede 21st of September 2015

 

Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses

www.uib.no/rs/acdc

A yearly summer school offered to advanced PhD candidates and early career scientists focusing on current topics relating to climate dynamics and interdisciplinary research within paleoclimate.

ACDC2022 joint with GRISO: "Past and Future Climate of Greenland"

ACDC2020 + ACDC2021: cancelled due to covid, instead we offerered the "One Ocean Field Course" onboard Statsraad Lehmkhul

ACDC2019: "The Anthropocene"

ACDC2018: "Hemispheric Asymmetry in Climate"

ACDC2014: "The Dynamics of the Greenland Ice sheet", Arctic Station, Disko Island, West Greenland

ACDC2013: "The Dynamics of the last Deglaciation", Nyksund, Vesterålen, northern Norway.

ACDC2012: "Landscapes and Climate", Snøheim, Dovre, Norway.

ACDC2011: "Dynamics of Past Warm Climates", Friday Harbor, Washington State, USA.

ACDC2010: "Ice-Ocean Interactions", MIT FabLab, Lyngen, northern Norway.

ACDC2009: "Understanding the basic state, variability, forcing and stability of the Ocean overturning circulation in the past, present and future", Espegrend Marine Research Station, Bergen, Norway.

The summer schools are supported by SiU and ResClim.

2025

• Konstanze Haubner; Natalya Gomez; Erica Lucas et al. (2025). Local sea level changes due to Greenland ice sheet mass changes from 1970 to 2100. (external link)
• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2025). Bridging the gap between scientific understanding and local knowledge. (external link)
• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2025). Navigating Science in Greenland Amidst Political Pressure: Challenges and Opportunities. (external link)

2021

• Masa Kageyama; Louise C. Sime; Marie Sicard et al. (2021). A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127 ka: sea ice data compilation and model differences. (external link)

2003

• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Maureen E. Raymo; Peter H. Stone (2003). Reorganization of Miocene deep water circulation in response to the shoaling of the Central American Seaway. (external link)

2016

• Henning Åkesson; Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Nadine Steiger (2016). Marine ice sheet stability and climate interactions. (external link)
• Andreas Plach; Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2016). The Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Interglacial: Coupling ice and atmosphere. (external link)
• Andreas Plach; Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2016). Simulation of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS): Coupling atmosphere and ice sheet. (external link)
• Nadine Steiger; Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Faezeh M. Nick et al. (2016). Modelling marine-terminating glaciers in a warming climate. (external link)

2019

• Jonathan Winfield Rheinlænder; David Ferreira; Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2019). How the Greenland-Scotland Ridge shapes the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and Northern Hemisphere climate. (external link)
• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2019). From Evidence to Action: Moving Knowledge to Policy & Practice. (external link)
• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2019). The Dynamics of DO-events. (external link)
• Chuncheng Guo; Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Mats Bentsen et al. (2019). Equilibrium simulations of Marine Isotope Stage 3 climate. (external link)

2018

• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2018). Frykter det er for seint å unngå skrekkscenarioet: - Det er en dødsdom. (external link)

2010

• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2010). Ligningen for lykke. (external link)

2013

• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; David Stephen Battisti; Iselin Medhaug et al. (2013). 40 klimaforskere inntar Nyksund. (external link)
• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2013). Understanding 400 ppm Climate: Past, Present and Future. (external link)
• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Trond Martin Dokken; Camille Li et al. (2013). Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic Seas. (external link)

2012

• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2012). Turspor – formidling av kunnskap om vær klima og geologi i fjellet. (external link)

2011

• Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Andreas Born (2011). Destabilization of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

(Follow link to Cristin for a complete list, or check Google Scholar)

Dokken, Trond Martin; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Li, Camille; Battisti, David Stephen; Kissel, Catherine. 
Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: Interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic seas. Paleoceanography 2013 ;Volum 28.(3) s. 491-502

Zhang, Zhongshi; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Ninnemann, Ulysses S. 
Increased ventilation of Antarctic deep water during the warm mid-Pliocene. Nature Communications 2013 ;Volum 4.

Bethke, Ingo; Li, Camille; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes. 
Can we use ice sheet reconstructions to constrain meltwater for deglacial simulations?. Paleoceanography 2012 ;Volum 27.

Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes. 
Melting of Northern Greenland during the last interglaciation. The Cryosphere 2012 ;Volum 6.(6) s. 1239-1250

Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Risebrobakken, Bjørg. 
Late Eemian warming in the Nordic Seas as seen in proxy data and climate models. Paleoceanography 2011 ;Volum 26

Pausata, Francesco S. Rocco; Battisti, David Stephen; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Bitz, Cecilia M.. 
Chinese stalagmite δ18O controlled by changes in the Indian monsoon during a simulated Heinrich event. Nature Geoscience 2011 ;Volum 4.(7) s. 474-480.

Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Braconnot, Pascale. 
Sea ice induced changes in ocean circulation during the Eemian. Climate Dynamics 2010 ;Volum 35.(7-8) s. 1361-1371

Raymo, M.E.; Lisiecki, LE; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes. 
Plio-pleistocene ice volume, Antarctic climate, and the global delta O-18 record. Science 2006 ;Volum 313. s. 492-495

Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Raymo, Maureen E.; Stone, Peter H.. 
Reorganization of Miocene deep water circulation in response to the shoaling of the Central American Seaway. Paleoceanography 2003 ;Volum 18.(1)

Raymo, M. E.; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes. 
The 41 kyr world: Milankovitch’s other unsolved mystery. Paleoceanography 2003 ;Volum 18.(1)

ILLU Science and Art - venue in Ilulissat, western Greenland, set up to facilitate research and art exchange and collaborations with local community and Avannaata Kommunia.

ClimateNarratives - Multi disciplinary research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council 2022-2026

Arctic DronePort - ARIA UK tipping point project studying Sermeq Kujalleq, 2025-2027

ice2ice - ERC Synergy grant on "Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Ice Sheet Sensitivity" 2014-2019

EISCLIM – Eurasian Ice Sheet and Climate interactions: Reconstructing and modelling the climate and ice sheet evolution of the last glacial cycle (NFR POLARPROG 2014-2017)

ClimVoTe – Coupled climate, volcanism, and ocean tectonics in deep time (NFR ISP-GEOFAG 2015-2020)

SiU - Partnership Program with North America 2012-2016

turspor - communication the science of climate, weather and glaciology (SparebankstiftelsenDnB)

DYNAWARM - Dynamics of past warm climates

Past4Future - Climate change – Learning from the past climate

NICE - Network for Ice sheet and Climate evolution 2007-2010

ARECTREC - Arctic records of climate change - dynamics, feedbacks and processes 2007-2011