My research is focused on creating reconstructions of vegetation and climate for the Late glacial and Holocene period. I analyze pollen from sediments collected in lake and bog environments. Combining these records with sedimentological proxies such as X-Ray fractination, magnetic susceptibility and organic content, and a good chronology provides information on interactions between the landscape, climate and vegetation. Currently I am working on the Eidsberg Rock project, which focuses on impacts of the Viking Age in Eidsborg, Norway.

 

Popular science article

• Maaike Zwier; Criostóir Mac Cuirc (2020). How tiny algae highlight our current climate problems. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier (2020). Research on remote islands – Where your closest neighbor is an astronaut. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier (2021). A strong breeze and chance of storms: How we used pollen to create a wind forecast from 10,000 years ago. (external link)

Lecture

• Maaike Zwier (2021). Reconstructing past environments in the sub-Antarctic. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier (2022). Holocene vegetation and climate variability inferred from lake sediment records in the sub-Antarctic. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; Anne Elisabeth Bjune et al. (2024). Long-distance transported pollen record from sub-Antarctic Kerguelen shows Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind dynamics during the Holocene. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier (2022). Applications of palynology and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. (external link)

Academic article

• Maaike Zwier; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; Henko de Stigter et al. (2021). Pollen evidence of variations in Holocene climate and Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind strength on sub- Antarctic South Georgia. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; Tobias Schneider et al. (2024). Holocene changes in the position of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies recorded by long-distance transport of pollen to the Kerguelen Islands. (external link)
• Chrystal McMichael; Nina Witteveen; Simon Scholz et al. (2021). 30,000 years of landscape and vegetation dynamics in a mid-elevation Andean valley. (external link)
• Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; William J. D’Andrea; Lea Toska Oppedal et al. (2022). Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Maaike Zwier; Anne Elisabeth Bjune; Willem van der Bilt (2021). Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds and Holocene climate variability on sub-Antarctic South Georgia. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; Jostein Bakke et al. (2023). Long-distance transported pollen record from sub-Antarctic Kerguelen shows Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind dynamics during the Holocene. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Anne Elisabeth Bjune; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt et al. (2022). Holocene vegetation and climate variability inferred from lake sediment records in the sub-Antarctic. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Christian Quintana (2023). Terrestrial paleo proxies. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier (2024). Pollen studies in the (sub-)Antarctic: exciting applications. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; Tobias Schneider et al. (2023). Exotic pollen reveals Holocene wind dynamics in the sub-Antarctic. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; Jostein Bakke et al. (2022). Palynological evidence of Holocene climate variability and Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind dynamics in the sub-Antarctic. (external link)
• Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; William Joseph D`Andrea; Maaike Zwier et al. (2023). Holocene leaf wax isotopes from South Georgia reveal unprecedented shifts in Southern Westerlies during Common Era. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Anne Elisabeth Bjune; Willem van der Bilt (2020). Pollen inferred Holocene vegetation and climate variability on sub-Antarctic South Georgia. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; Jostein Bakke et al. (2022). Holocene vegetation variability on sub-Antarctic islands: Palynological inferred climate reconstructions.. (external link)
• Maaike Zwier; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt; Jostein Bakke et al. (2022). Palynological evidence of Holocene climate variability and Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind dynamics in the sub-Antarctic. (external link)

Conference poster

• Maaike Zwier (2020). Holocene climate variability on sub-Antarctic South Georgia. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Maaike Zwier (2024). Winds of change : A multi-proxy approach to constrain Holocene climate and wind dynamics in the sub-Antarctic. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

The CHANGE project.

Effects and responses to changing environments in the Sub-Antarctic (CHANGE) is a three-year project funded by the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen.

https://www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/131735/change-project