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EMERGE

INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN (UKBH)

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Responsible scientist

N. J. Anderson

E-mail:NJA@GEOGR.KU.DK
, Institute:
Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen,
Address:
Oester Voldgade 10
Copenhagen, Denmark
Phone: +45 35322522,
Fax: +45 35322501

20 years of experience of lake sediment-based methods of environmental monitoring, in United Kingdom and Scandinavia. PhD from University College London (1986), post-doc experience at the University of Umea (1987-1990), and senior research scientist at Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland (GEUS) from 1990 to 1995 In 1995 he was appointed to a research professorship at GEUS in the Environmental History & Climate Department. In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Geography at the University of Copenhagen with special reference to the area Global Change. Research activity: the development of diatoms as quantitative biological/environmental indicators and the usefulness of quantitative palaeolimnology as a management tool. For the last four years has been studying lake-climate interactions in west Greenland and how the biological structure of these lakes has changed since deglaciation. International activity: member of the editorial boards of Freshwater Biology and Journal of Paleolimnology, and was a member of the Natural Environmental Research Council (U.K.) Freshwater Sciences committee from 1992 to 1997. Presently, a Council member of the Freshwater Biological Association (U.K.). EC-projects: EDDI, Chill-10.000 and BIOMASS. Has published over 40 articles in the peer-reviewed international literature in the last 10-12 years and has presented more than 50 papers at international and national conferences and meetings.


Members


Tasks:

UKBH is responsible for co-ordinating all, and undertaking the majority of field sampling tasks in the Greenland Lake District. UKBH prepares sediment core and biological samples for specialist POP and metals analysis and arrange forward transport to the expert analytical laboratories. Sediment core lithostratigraphy and diatoms, and epilithic and sediment trap diatoms are analysed. EMERGE benefits from close links with national research programmes at UKBH including: Natural Science Research Council (SNF) "Global Change and its implication for biological structure of Greenlandic lakes" (1998-2000) and "North Atlantic programme: Climate driven changes in biological structure of North Atlantic lakes during the last 1000 years: a transect from the Faeroe Islands to Peary Land, North Greenland" (1999-2001); and The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland provide financial support for fieldwork. Data generated from these nationally funded programmes of research in Greenland are transmitted to the EMERGE database.


Lake Districts:


Recent Publications

Holocene lake sediment in West Greenland and their palaeoclimatic and palaeoecological implications

Anderson, N.J. & Bennike, O. (1997) Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 176, 89-94.

Historical changes in epilimnetic phosphorus concentrations in six rural lakes in Northern Ireland

Anderson, N.J. (1997) Freshwater Biology, 38, 427-440.

Separating the relative effects of climate and eutrophication on the diatom assemblages in a boreal forest lake (Kassjön, Northern Sweden)

Anderson, N.J., Odgaard, B.V., Segerström, U. & Renberg, I. (1996) Global Change Biology, 2, 399-405.

Diatom and lake productivity responses to agricultural development in a Northern Swedish, boreal-forest catchment

Anderson, N.J., Renberg, I. & Segerström, U. (1995) Journal of Ecology, 83, 809-822.

Aquatic community persistence and variability : a palaeolimnological perspective

Anderson, N.J. & Battarbee, R.W. (1994) In Giller, P.S., A.G. Hildrew & D. Raffeli (Eds.) Aquatic Ecology: Scale, Pattern and Process; Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford; pp. 233-259.

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