Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (born 8 September 1958, Copenhagen, Denmark)^[1] is a Danish palaeoclimatology professor and researcher at the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Her primary field is the study of ice and climate, specifically the reconstruction of climate records from ice cores and borehole data; ice flow models to date ice cores; continuum mechanical properties of anisotropic ice; ice in the solar system; and the history and evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet.^[2]

Education

She has a M.Sc. In Geophysics (1984), and a Ph.D. in Geophysics (1988) from the University of Copenhagen.^[1]

Dahl-Jensen led the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project, which was a 14-nation research team which spent four years drilling and analysing the ice cores, the results of which were published in the journal Nature.^[3] The findings from this research revealed that "The NEEM core implies [contrary to most researchers' assumptions] that Greenland’s ice sheet lost at most one-quarter of its volume, and contributed no more than 2 metres of sea-level rise" which suggests that "Greenland is not as sensitive to climate warming as we thought,"

Current and up-coming projects

In 2015, a collaborative group of researchers from the U.S., Germany, and Denmark will study Renland, Greenland area for deep ice core drilling.

Another project in early stages is a deep ice core drilling project, also located in Greenland which is expected to shed light on the northeast Greenland ice stream and its contributions to a rise in sea level. This could give details on what to expect for future sea level rise due to ice sheet mass loss in Greenland.

Awards

• EU Descartes Prize (as part of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA)) (2008)
• Vega medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (2008)
• Amalienborgprisen (2009)
• Munch prisen (2009)^[1]
• Louis Agassiz Medal from the European Geosciences Union (2014) - awarded "for her outstanding scientific contributions in polar glaciology and her leadership in international projects that have extended climate records from Greenland ice cores back into the last interglacial."^[4]
• Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters^[5]

References

External links

• Niels Bohr Institute website
• https://www.cresis.ku.edu/content/news/newsletter/840
• http://www.nature.com/news/greenland-defied-ancient-warming-1.12265
• YouTube interview with Dahl-Jensen