Kurt H Kjær

Biographic Data

ID2784690
NAMEKurt H Kjær
GIVEN NAMESKurt H
FAMILY NAMEKjær
SIGNATUREKJÆR K H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Copenhagen
ORCID0000-0002-8871-5179
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Holocene ice margin variations of the Greenland Ice Sheet and local glaciers around Sermilik Fjord, southeast Greenland

    Open AccessNicolaj K Larsen, Marie-Louise Siggaard-Andersen et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2022

    Understanding the long-term difference in the response times of ice sheets, peripheral ice caps and glaciers may provide information about their respective sensitivities to climate change. However, there are only a few places where the history of local glaciers, ice caps (GICs) and the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) have been recorded in the same area. In this study, we use proglacial threshold lake records from four sites around Sermilik Fjord, in s…

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity

    Open AccessEric Capo, Charline Giguet-Covex et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2021

    The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely applied nowadays, knowledge gaps remain in this field and there is therefore still research to be conducted to ensure the reliability of the sedimentary DNA signal. Building on the most recent literature and seven original case studies, we synthesize the state-of-the-art an…

  • Promises and perils of sand exploitation in Greenland

    Open AccessMette Bendixen, Irina Overeem et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Early human dispersals within the Americas

    Open AccessJ Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Lasse Vinner et al.ARTICLEScience2018

    Complex processes in the settling of the Americas The expansion into the Americas by the ancestors of present day Native Americans has been difficult to tease apart from analyses of present day populations. To understand how humans diverged and spread across North and South America, Moreno-Mayar et al. sequenced 15 ancient human genomes from Alaska to Patagonia. Analysis of the oldest genomes suggests that there was an early split within Beringia…

  • A 2000-year record of ocean influence on Jakobshavn Isbræ calving activity, based on marine sediment cores

    Open AccessDavid Johannes Wangner, Anne Jennings et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2018References: 20

    The Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced significant mass loss in recent years. A substantial component of this is attributable to the retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers, which lose mass through increases in calving, submarine melting and terrestrial meltwater discharge. In terms of iceberg production, Jakobshavn Isbræ is the largest marine-terminating glacier in Greenland, yet relatively little is known about its history before the fir…

  • Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor

    Open AccessMikkel Winther Pedersen, Anthony Ruter et al.ARTICLENature2016

    During the Last Glacial Maximum, continental ice sheets isolated Beringia (northeast Siberia and northwest North America) from unglaciated North America. By around 15 to 14 thousand calibrated radiocarbon years before present (cal. kyr bp), glacial retreat opened an approximately 1,500-km-long corridor between the ice sheets. It remains unclear when plants and animals colonized this corridor and it became biologically viable for human migration. …

  • Impact of multiple glacier surges—a geomorphological map from Brúarjökull, East Iceland

    Open AccessKurt H Kjær, Niels J Korsgaard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2008

    Please click here to download the map associated with this article. Simultaneously with geological field investigations at the surge-type glacier Brúarjökull in August 2003, aerial photographs covering the central part of the glacier including the Kringilsárrani area were recorded with the purpose of mapping glacial landforms. A glacial geomorphological map has been completed at a scale 1:16,000 including more than 20,000 landforms from an area o…

  • Late Quaternary ice sheet history of northern Eurasia

    Open AccessJohn Inge Svendsen, Helena Alexanderson et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Science Reviews2004

  • De-icing progression of ice-cored moraines in a humid, subpolar climate, Kötlujökull, Iceland

    Open AccessJohannes Krüger, Kurt H KjærARTICLEThe Holocene2000References: 10

    Modes and rates of de-icing ice-cored moraines under humid subpolar conditions have been determ ined for two dead-ice fields of different age representing a mature and a final stage of collapse in the Kötlujökull terminus region, south Iceland. The melting processes considered are backwasting, defined as the lateral retreat of near-vertical ice walls, or steep, ice-cored slopes, and downwasting, defined as the thinning of the ice core by melting …