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Celebration of John Inge Svendsen and his remarkable career at University of Bergen – from Bømlo to Bolshoye and back

Celebration of John Inge Svendsen and his remarkable career at University of Bergen – from Bømlo to Bolshoye and back Thursday 9 February 2023 – Auditorium 5 and on zoom

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Celebration of John Inge Svendsen and his remarkable career at University of Bergen – from Bømlo to Bolshoye and back

 Thursday 9 February 2023 – Auditorium 5 and on this Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/61867154460?pwd=cTY3YWxlY1Y1UGpIWjlGUk1MZG5sQT09

 Program:

12:00   Welcome  
            Greetings from head of the department Atle Rotevatn
            Greetings from the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research: Nele and Kerim

12:15  Atle Nesje and Jostein Bakke
           Highlights from John Inge`s scientific career

12:45  Haflidi Haflidason:
           Fra Bolshoye Shchuchye til Sør Mesna

13:00  Inger Alsos Greve:
           Ancient DNA from Polar Ural and elsewhere: how close are we to reconstructing past ecosystems?

13:30  Elisabeth Thomas:
           Western Siberia experienced rapid shifts in moisture source and summer water balance during the last declaration an early Holocene

14:00  Anna Hughes:   
           Towards a palaeoglaciology of the Eurasian ice sheets

14:30  Carl Regnell:
            Pulling the plug – the role of ice-dammed lakes on the final demise of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet

15:00  Jan Mangerud:
           All Eurasian ice sheets melted away 50-60 ka ago

15.30  Coffee

15:45  Eiliv Larsen:
            Volcanic impact on glacial events in Jan Mayen

16:15  Stein Bondevik
            Human occupation on a growing Tapes beach ridge at Longva, Western Norway

16:45  Richard Gyllencreutz:
            Chirp sonar mapping of the Ikka Fjord column garden

17:15  Herbjørn Heggen:
            From the ice ages in Russia to geohazard mapping in Norway

 Closing remarks by John Inge Svendsen

18:00   Aperitif in EARTH LAB including slide show by Jan Mangerud
19:30   Dinner at Wessel Stuen (by invitation, sign up link will be sent out later)