Research groups
Research
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.
Outreach
For an example see the recent Al Jazeera docmentary for one of my field courses:
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
Teaching
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/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
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.
Publications
2026
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Endre Tvinnereim (2026). One Ocean Workshop: Azores to Nuuk | Faculty of Science and Technology | UiB. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Endre Tvinnereim; Ole Øvretveit et al. (2026). Fra Hans Egede til Donald Trump: Et seminar om Grønlands fortid og fremtid. (external link)
2025
- Konstanze Haubner; Natalya Gomez; Erica Lucas et al. (2025). Contribution to local sea level from ongoing Greenland ice sheet changes by 2100. (external link)
- 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). Newtok: The Water Is Rising. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Ronald Toppe; Malin Kvamme (2025). 40 students on their way to the Arctic - One Ocean Expedition. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; IVIK KRISTIANSEN (2025). Norsk uddannelsesskib kommer til Nuuk | KNR. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Endre Tvinnereim; Susan Roberts (2025). One Ocean Expedition: Sailing to Greenland for Science and Connection. (external link)
- Geir Lasse Taranger; Jostein Bakke; Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu et al. (2025). Meiningar, Ytring | Rosendalsveko 2025 – svar på innlegg frå Samarbeidsrådet for natursaker i Kvinnherad. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Karita Kajanto (2025). Sermeq Kujalleq - the impact of icebergs on seasonal melt in Ilulissat Kangia. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2025). Bridging the gap between scientific understanding and local knowledge. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2025). Bridging local narratives and scientific understanding of climate changes in the Arctic – a Nordic perspective. (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)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2025). Glaciers of Kalaallit Nunaat - bridging science and local knowledge. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2025). Bridging local narratives and scientific understanding of climate changes in the Arctic – a case study of a glacier-fed fjord in Kalaallit Nunaat. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu; Henning Åkesson (2025). Hardangerjøkulen - fortidshistorien og fremtidsutsiktene. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2025). Marine Terminating Glaciers - from the fjords of Norway to the fjords of Greenland. (external link)
- Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (2025). Bærekraft og klimahandling – hva er utfordringene og hva kreves av oss?. (external link)
See a complete overview of publications in NVA.
(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)
Projects
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