Research outputs


ROCS research outputs

The scientific staff at ROCS are engaged in various research activities across genres and media, often in transdisciplinary perspectives. Below you find a highlighted overview of some of the activities, including peer-review publications, conferece papers, podcasts, and exhibitions. 

 

Aradóttir, N., Benediktsson, Í. Ö., Ingólfsson, Ó., Sturkell, E., Brynjólfsson, S., Farnsworth, W. R., & Phillips, E. (2022). Drumlin formation within the Bustarfell drumlin field, northeast Iceland: integrating sedimentological and ground‐penetrating radar data. Journal of Quaternary Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3481

Aradóttir, N., Ívar Örn Benediktsson, Ólafur Inǵólfsson, Skafti Brynjólfsson, Farnsworth, W. R., Margrét Mjöll Benjamínsdóttir, & Lena Björg Ríkharðsdóttir. (2023). Ice‐stream shutdown during deglaciation: Evidence from crevasse‐squeeze ridges of the Iceland Ice Sheet. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms48(12), 2412–2430. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5636

Ben‐Yehoshua, D., Nína Aradóttir, Farnsworth, W. R., Ívar Örn Benediktsson, & Ólafur Inǵólfsson. (2023). Formation of crevasse‐squeeze ridges at Trygghamna, Svalbard. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms48(12), 2334–2348. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5631

Benediktsson, Í. Ö., Brynjólfsson, S., Ásbjörnsdóttir, L., & Farnsworth, W. R. (2023) Chapter 12 – Holocene glacier landscapes and landforms of Iceland. In Palacios, D., Hughes, P. D., Jomelli, V., & Tanarro, L. M. (eds.). European Glacial Landscapes: The Holocene. Elsevier.

Bendtsen, J., Vives, C. R., & Richardson, K. (2023). Primary production in the North Atlantic estimated from in situ water column data observed by Argo floats and remote sensing. Frontiers in Marine Science10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1062413

Farnsworth, W. R., & Allaart, L. (2023) Chapter 11 – Holocene glacier landscapes of the Svalbard archipelago. In Palacios, D., Hughes, P. D., Jomelli, V., & Tanarro, L. M. (eds.). European Glacial Landscapes. The Holocene. Elsevier.

De Marez, C., Ruiz‐Angulo, A., & Mathieu Le Corre. (2023). Structure of the bottom boundary current South of Iceland and spreading of deep waters by submesoscale processes. Authorea (Authorea). https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.170144096.67421303/v1

Lapointe, F., Retelle, M. J., Bradley, R. S., Farnsworth, W. R., Eivind Støren, Cook, T. L., & Rosario, J. J. (2023). Multi-proxy evidence of unprecedented hydroclimatic change in a high Arctic proglacial lake: Linnévatnet, Svalbard. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research55(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2023.2223403

Riddel, S. J., Erlendsson, E., Eddudóttir, S. D., Gísladóttir, G., & Farnsworth, W. R. (in press). A script born of sediment: vegetation and land use at the medieval monastery of Helgafell (Helgafellsklaustur) in western Iceland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.

 

Aradóttir, N., Benediktsson, Í.Ö., Ingólfsson, Ó., Brynjólfsson, S., Farnsworth, W.R., Benjamínsdóttir, M.M., Ríkharðdsdóttir, L.B. (2023, March) Geomorphological evidence of ice stream shutdown from the Icelandic Ice Sheet, NE Iceland. Geoscience Society of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

 Aradóttir, N., Benediktsson, Í.Ö., Ingólfsson, Ó., Brynjólfsson, S., Farnsworth, W.R., Benjamínsdóttir, M.M., Ríkharðdsdóttir, L.B. (2023, April). Geomorphological evidence of ice stream shutdown from the Icelandic Ice Sheet, NE Iceland. European Geoscience Union General Assembly, EGU, Vienna, Austria.

 Aradóttir, N., Benediktsson, Í.Ö., Helgadóttir, E.G., Ingólfsson, Ó., Brynjólfsson, S., Farnsworth, W.R. (2023, August). Formation of ribbed moraines during deglaciation of the Iceland Ice Sheet. The 4th International PalaeoARC Conference 2023, Akureyri, Iceland.

Bergsdóttir, A. (2023, March). Re-Collecting Earths: Seabeds as Archives of the World. Kiel Conference: Scales of Social, Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societies. Kiel, Germany.

Bergsdóttir, A. (2023, April). Samtvinnaðar Sögur af Sjávarbotni. Náttúrusýn á 21. öldinni: Fjölbreytni samfélags og náttúru, Reykjavík, Iceland.

Bergsdóttir, A. (2023, May). ROCS interdisciplinary research on human environments. University of Oslo’s Relics of Nature webinar.

Bergsdóttir, A. (2023, September). Navigating Uncharted Waters with a Motley Crew: The Challenges and Rewards of Breaking Disciplinary Boundaries. Transdisciplinarity in the Environmental Humanities. Seminar with the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. Oslo, Norway.

Bergsdóttir, A. (2023, September). Thinking at Sea. Relics of Nature workshop for collaborators. Reykjavík, Iceland.

De Marez, C. P. (2023, December). Oral Presentation. Icelandic Oceanography Symposium, Hafnafjörður, Iceland.

De Marez, C. P. (2023, September). About oceanic vortices in the Northwestern Indian Ocean and elsewhere. IES-NordVulk seminar, Reykjavík, Iceland.

Drumm, K. (2023, June). Phytoplankton communities as climate indicators. HAFRÓ, Hafnafjörður, Iceland.

Drumm, K. (2023, September). Creating reference indexes.  NOMP conference, Hafnafjörður, Iceland.

Drumm, K. (2023, November). Phytoplankton communities as climate indicators. KU seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Einarsson, Á., Farnsworth, W.R., Kjær, K.H., Larsen, N.K., Siggaard-Andersen, M-L. (2023, August). Palaeoecology of Lake Mývatn, Iceland. (Poster). The 4th International PalaeoARC Conference 2023, Akureyri, Iceland.

 Erlendsson, E., Riddell, S.R., Eyþórsdóttir, E.Á., Esch, J.R., Möckel, S.C., Farnsworth, W.R., Guðmundsdóttir, L., Gísladóttir, G. (2023, August). The Black Death in Iceland: environmental responses, climate and society. The 4th International PalaeoARC Conference 2023, Akureyri, Iceland.

 Eyþórsdóttir, E.Á., Erlendsson, E., Júlíusson, Á.D., Farnsworth, W.R. (2023, August). Two farms, two environmental legacies: comparing social standing and environmental impact. The 4th International PalaeoARC Conference 2023, Akureyri, Iceland.

Farnsworth, W.R. and Jackson, R. (2023, February). Linking ocean, climate and society: an update on the Icelandic ROCS project. GeoGenetics Symposium 2023, Bremen, Germany.

Farnsworth, W.R., Jackson, R., Aradóttir, N., Benediktsson, Í.Ö., Brynjólfsson, S., Erlendsson, E., Guðmundsdóttir, E.R., Ingólfsson, Ó., Kjær, K.H., Larsen, N.K., (2023, May). Tephra constrains natural and anthropogenic changes in postglacial Iceland sediments. PAGES VICS 2023, Bern, Switzerland.

Farnsworth, W.R., Aradóttir, N., Benediktsson, Í.Ö., Brynjólfsson, S., Erlendsson, E., Guðmundsdóttir, E.R., Ingólfsson, Ó., Kjær, K.H., Larsen, N.K., (2023, July). Network of lake records constrain deglaciation and Late Glacial expansion of the Iceland Ice Sheet. INQUA 2023 Roma, Italy.

Farnsworth, W.R., Allaart, L., Brynjólfsson, S., Ingólfsson, Ó., Kjellman, S.E., Schomacker, A. (2023, August). Dynamic ice margins during Northern Svalbard´s warm Late Glacial-Early Holocene. (Poster). The 4th International PalaeoARC Conference 2023, Akureyri, Iceland.

Farnsworth, W.R., Jackson, R., Aradóttir, N., Benediktsson, Í.Ö., Brynjólfsson, S., Erlendsson, E., Guðmundsdóttir, E.R., Ingólfsson, Ó., Kjær, K.H., Larsen, N.K. (2023, August). Tephra constrains natural and anthropogenic changes in postglacial Icelandic sediments. The 4th International PalaeoARC Conference 2023, Akureyri, Iceland.

Farnsworth, W.R. (2023, November). Tephra constrains natural and anthropogenic changes in Icelandic lakes. Institute of Earth Sciences Friday Seminar Series 2023, Reykjavík, Iceland.

Farnsworth, W.R., Alexanderson, H., Austermann, J., Larsen, N.K., Linge, H. (2023, November). Svalbard SEA-Chron: Sea levels from Eemian to Anthropocene. (Poster). Svalbard Science Conference 2023, Oslo Norway.

Hill, C.J., Benediktsson, Í.Ö., Farnsworth, W.R. (2023, August). Preliminary mapping of the 1991 surge of Skeiðarárjökull through structural glaciology and foreland geomorphology. The 4th International PalaeoARC Conference 2023, Akureyri, Iceland. (Poster).

Jackson, R. (2023, June/July). Oral Presentation. Symposium on Foraminifera and International Union for Quaternary Research Congress, Italy.

Jackson, R. (2023, June/July). Oral Presentation. Symposium on Foraminifera, Italy.

Jackson, R. (2023, June/July). Oral Presentation. International Union for Quaternary Research Congress, Italy.

Jackson, R., Ribiero, S., Guðmundsdóttir, E.R., Farnsworth, W.R., Stoner, J., Knutz, P.C., Kjær, K.H., Richardson, K. (2023, July). Deducing the timing of oceanic and ecosystem regime shifts south of Iceland across abrupt late Pleistocene climatic transitions: a multi-record, multi-method approach to geochronology. INQUA 2023 Roma, Italy.

Jackson, R. (2023, August). Oral Presentation. PaleoArc conference, Akureyri, Iceland.

Jackson, R., Ribiero, S., Guðmundsdóttir, E.R., Farnsworth, W.R., Stoner, J., Knutz, P.C., Kjær, K.H., Richardson, K. (2023, August). Timing is everything: multi-method chronological constraints on late Pleistocene marine regime shifts in south/southwestern Iceland. The 4th International PalaeoARC Conference 2023, Akureyri, Iceland.

Luther, R. (2023). Mud in the Earth System. [Artist talk]. Astrid Noacks Atelier - ANA, Copenhagen, Denmark

Schomacker, A., Alexanderson, H., Farnsworth, W., Furze, M.F.A., Kjellman, S.E., Kirchner, N., Noormets, R. (2023, July). Late Quaternary glacial history of the Sjuøyane archipelago, Svalbard. (Poster). INQUA 2023 Roma, Italy.

 

 

ArtHubCopenhagen/NAARCA. (Host). (2023, December). Dead and Life in Mud. In a Split Second of 2 Million Years. Talk at Astrid Noacks Atelier (ANA) with Rikke Luther & Karina Krarup Sand, Globe Institute. [Audio podcast].

Bergsdóttir, A., Drumm, K. & Jackson, R. (Hosts). (2022). ROCS - How do Scientific Collaborations Really Work? [Audio podcast]. https://open.spotify.com/show/7eQeNCjwgtPzflnWNanK26?si=e4c34fec6f4b4895&nd=1&dlsi=838fa18b07bb444a

Rawlings, A. (2022). (Host). Dr. Katherine Richardson in Conversation with Angela Rawlings. SPHERE Festival. Arctic Imagination Talk Series. [Recording of conversation event]. Listen here via Facebook

Testing Grounds. The Nordic Alliance of Artists' Residencies on Climate Action. (Host). (2023). Episode 4. Baltic Art Center - Artists' Role in an Age of Climate Crisis with Helena Selder (director of Baltic Art Center), Nomeda & Gerdiminas Urbonas (Art, Culture and Technology, MIT) and Rikke Luther. [Audio podcast]. https://naarca.art/testing-grounds-podcast/

 

 

Luther, R. (2023). Mud in the Earth System. [Exhibition]. (Katherine Bolt Rasmussen), Astrid Noacks Atelier - ANA, Copenhagen, Denmark

Luther, R. (2023). First There is A Mountain. [Exhibition]. (Tyra Dokkedahl og Stenka Hellfach), Blåvandshuk, Denmark

Rawlings, A. (2021). “kór” (Core) At Community of Sentient Beings. [Exhibition]. Hafnarborg Gallery.

Rawlings, A. (2022). Hvalslag. At Chill Survive Network (cur.). Chewing the Tundra [Exhibition].

Rawlings, A. (2022). Der er Hvaler i Mosen. At Kunsthal Maritim Æstetik (cur.).  Jordtegn [Exhibition]. Sostrup Slot.

Rawlings, A. & Shelley, A. (cur.). (2022). SPHERE Festival. Canadian Museum of Nature, Club SAW, & NAC stages.

 

 

 

The Nordic Biodiversity Framework workshop took place in Copenhagen on 10-11 December 2024 i collaboration with Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate and Nordic Council of Ministers. 

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