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New DNRF chairperson:

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen new DNRF chairperson

The Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science, Christina Egelund, has appointed Professor…

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Professor at the section of Physics of Ice and Climate (PICE) at the Niels Bohr…

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives the Frontiers of Knowledge Award

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to five European pioneers who discovered the link between…

AI finds formula on how to predict monster waves

Long considered myth, freakishly large rogue waves are very real and can split apart ships and even…

Greenland ice sheet

Pay dirt for ice core scientists in East Greenland as they reach bedrock

An international research collaboration (EGRIP) headed by ice core scientists from the University o…

Gloomy climate calculation: Scientists predict a collapse of the Atlantic ocean current to happen mid-century

Important ocean current that redistribute heat, cold and precipitation between the tropics and the…

New research project:

More knowledge on the complexity of ice sheets will improve calculations of future sea-level rises

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded nearly DKK 42 million to Professor Christine Schøtt Hvidber…

Dorthe Dahl Jensen awarded the 2022 Seligman Crystal

Congratulations to Dorthe Dahl Jensen for being awarded the 2022 Seligman Crystal

New knowledge about ice sheet movement can shed light on when sea levels will rise

The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown…

Climate research:

The highest Greenland temperatures in 1000 years

Recent high temperatures on the ice sheet in central and northern Greenland lies are unique, when…