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Research

Reconstructing past climate and environmental change

Our research group works on reconstructing past climate and environmental change with a focus on marine records from the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. Our group studies the interactions between the oceans, the atmosphere, the land surface, and the cryosphere, by performing multi-proxy analyses of high-resolution sedimentary deposits. Our analytical techniques range from classical micropaleontology to inorganic and organic geochemistry. We also apply computational approaches, like time series analyses, to decipher patterns and research climate drivers. For more information on our active projects, see below. 

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Kvorning, AB, Heikkilä, M, Pearce, C, Seidenkrantz, MS, Simpson, GL, Meire, L, Kuijpers, A, Larsen, NK & Ribeiro, S 2025, 'A Holocene fjord record from Greenland reveals exceptional Atlantic water influence during minimum ice-sheet extent', Communications Earth and Environment, bind 6, nr. 1, 326. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02282-5
Schreiber, L, Ribeiro, S, Jackson, R, Kvorning, AB, Nota, K, O'Regan, M, Pearce, C, Seersholm, F, Seidenkrantz, M-S, Zimmermann, HH & Lorenzen, ED 2025, 'Holocene shifts in marine mammal distributions around Northern Greenland revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA', Nature Communications, bind 16, nr. 1, 4543. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59731-0
Ni, S, Müter, D, Charrieau, LM, Pirzamanbein, B, Choquel, C, Knudsen, KL, Seidenkrantz, MS & Filipsson, HL 2025, 'Morphological Insights From Benthic Foraminifera for Environmental Conditions in the Baltic Sea During the Last Interglacial', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, bind 40, nr. 3, e2024PA005063. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA005063
Böttner, C, Jakobsen, FW, Nielsen, T, Winsborrow, M, Polteau, S, Mazzini, A, Planke, S, Andresen, KJ, Millinge, OJS, Asif, MR, Laberg, JS, Hopper, J, Myklebust, R & Seidenkrantz, MS 2025, 'Natural hydrocarbon seepage at the Northeast Greenland continental shelf', Communications Earth and Environment, bind 6, nr. 1, 879. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02932-8
Wisher, I, Birch, T, Andreasen, R, Canosa, E, Norrehed, S, Reguer, S, Lemasson, Q, Oras, E, Johanson, K, Kinnaird, T, Birndorfer, T, Pedersen, JB, Scott, J, Pearce, C & Riede, F 2025, 'The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe', Antiquity, bind 99, nr. 408, s. 1464-1479. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10184
Wang, Y, Gélinas, Y, de Vernal, A, Mucci, AO, Allan, E, Seidenkrantz, MS & Douglas, PMJ 2024, 'High rates of marine organic carbon burial on the southwest Greenland margin induced by Neoglacial advances', Communications Earth and Environment, bind 5, nr. 1, 335. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01508-2
Harðardóttir, S, Haile, JS, Ray, JL, Limoges, A, Van Nieuwenhove, N, Lalande, C, Grondin, PL, Jackson, R, Skaar, KS, Heikkilä, M, Berge, J, Lundholm, N, Massé, G, Rysgaard, S, Seidenkrantz, MS, De Schepper, S, Lorenzen, ED, Lovejoy, C & Ribeiro, S 2024, 'Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis', Communications Earth & Environment, bind 5, 25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01179-5
Pérez, LF, Knutz, PC, Hopper, JR, Seidenkrantz, MS, O’Regan, M & Jones, S 2024, 'NorthGreen: unlocking records from sea to land in Northeast Greenland', Scientific Drilling, bind 33, nr. 1, s. 33-46. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-33-33-2024
Blattmann, F, Lupien, R, Uno, KT & de Menocal, P 2024, 'Wildfire and Environmental Feedbacks in the Western Sahel: Responses to Cenozoic Boundary Shifts', AGU Fall meeting 2024, Washington DC, USA, 09/12/2024 - 13/12/2024.
Falardeau, J, de Vernal, A, Seidenkrantz, MS, Fritz, M, Cronin, TM, Gemery, L, Rochon, A, Carnero-Bravo, V, Hillaire-Marcel, C, Pearce, C & Archambault, P 2023, 'A 1300-year microfaunal record from the Beaufort Sea shelf indicates exceptional climate-related environmental changes over the last two centuries', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, bind 625, 111670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111670
Audet, T, de Vernal, A, Mucci, A, Seidenkrantz, M-S, Hillaire-Marcel, C, Carnero-Bravo, V & Gélinas , Y 2023, 'Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages from the Laurentian Channel in the Lower Estuary and Gulf of ST. Lawrence, Eastern Canada: Tracers of Bottom-Water Hypoxia', Journal of Foraminiferal Research, bind 53, nr. 1, s. 57-77. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.53.1.57
Mitsunaga, B, Lupien, R, Ouertani, S, Stubbs, B, Deino, A, Kingston, J, Stockhecke, M, Brown, E & Russell, J 2023, 'High-Latitude, Indian Ocean, and Orbital Influences on Eastern African Hydroclimate Across the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, bind 38, nr. 12, e2023PA004671. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004671
Ni, S, Lu, Z, Zhang, Q, Groeneveld, J, Knudsen, KL, Seidenkrantz, MS & Filipsson, HL 2023, 'Last interglacial seasonal hydroclimate in the North Sea–Baltic Sea region', Quaternary Science Reviews, bind 312, 108152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108152
Falardeau, J, de Vernal, A, Seidenkrantz, M-S, Cronin, TM, Gemery, L, Chassiot, L, Fritz, M, Carnero-Bravo, V, Hillaire-Marcel, C & Archambault, P 2023, 'Microfaunal Recording of Recent Environmental Changes in the Herschel Basin, Western Arctic Ocean', Journal of Foraminiferal Research, bind 53, nr. 1, s. 20-48. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.53.1.20
Seppä, H, Seidenkrantz, MS, Caissie, B & Macias Fauria, M 2023, 'Polar bear's range dynamics and survival in the Holocene', Quaternary Science Reviews, bind 317, 108277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108277
Detlef, H, O’Regan, M, Stranne, C, Jensen, MM, Glasius, M, Cronin, TM, Jakobsson, M & Pearce, C 2023, 'Seasonal sea-ice in the Arctic’s last ice area during the Early Holocene', Communications Earth & Environment, bind 4, nr. 1, 86. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00720-w
Pearce, C, Özdemir, KS, Forchhammer Mathiasen, R, Detlef, H & Olsen, J 2023, 'The marine reservoir age of Greenland coastal waters', Geochronology, bind 5, nr. 2, s. 451-465. https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-451-2023
Liang, J, Guo, Y, Richter, N, Xie, H, Vachula, RS, Lupien, RL, Zhao, B, Wang, M, Yao, Y, Hou, J, Liu, J & Russell, JM 2022, 'Calibration and Application of Branched GDGTs to Tibetan Lake Sediments: The Influence of Temperature on the Fall of the Guge Kingdom in Western Tibet, China', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, bind 37, nr. 5, e2021PA004393. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004393
Andresen, CS, Sha, L, Seidenkrantz, MS, Dyke, LM & Jiang, H 2022, 'Early Holocene palaeoceanographic and glaciological changes in southeast Greenland', The Holocene, bind 32, nr. 6, s. 501-514. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221080758
Oksman, M, Kvorning, AB, Larsen, SH, Kjeldsen, KK, Mankoff, KD, Colgan, WT, Andersen, TJ, Nørgaard-Pedersen, N, Seidenkrantz, MS, Mikkelsen, N & Ribeiro, S 2022, 'Impact of freshwater runoff from the southwest Greenland Ice Sheet on fjord productivity since the late 19th century', Cryosphere, bind 16, nr. 6, s. 2471-2491. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2471-2022
West, G, Nilsson, A, Geels, A, Jakobsson, M, Moros, M, Muschitiello, F, Pearce, C, Snowball, I & O’Regan, M 2022, 'Late Holocene Paleomagnetic Secular Variation in the Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, bind 23, nr. 5, e2021GC010187. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010187
Lupien, RL, Russell, JM, Pearson, EJ, Castañeda, IS, Asrat, A, Foerster, V, Lamb, HF, Roberts, HM, Schäbitz, F, Trauth, MH, Beck, CC, Feibel, CS & Cohen, AS 2022, 'Orbital controls on eastern African hydroclimate in the Pleistocene', Scientific Reports, bind 12, 3170. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06826-z
Cohen, AS, Du, A, Rowan, J, Yost, CL, Billingsley, AL, Campisano, CJ, Brown, ET, Deino, AL, Feibel, CS, Grant, K, Kingston, JD, Lupien, RL, Muiruri, V, Owen, RB, Reed, KE, Russell, J & Stockhecke, M 2022, 'Plio-Pleistocene environmental variability in Africa and its implications for mammalian evolution', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), bind 119, nr. 16, e2107393119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107393119