The Danish IMAGES scientists include researchers from the following institutions:
The membership is operated from the University of Aarhus. Denmark has been a member since 1997 and is now paying a full contribution to the program (2000-2003).
The IMAGES-related scientific interests in Denmark are concentrated on studies in the North Atlantic and are mainly focussed on the last deglaciation and the Holocene. The following studies are either planned or in progress:
1. The North Icelandic shelf
Studies on the North Icelandic shelf (University of Aarhus) are concentrated on biostratigraphy (foraminifera and diatoms) and stable isotope studies of Lateglacial and Holocene deposits in the following IMAGES cores: MD992271, MD992272, MD992275 and MD992273 (see also Iceland report).
The last 2000 year record of the IMAGES cores MD992271 and MD992275 is included in the EU Commission funded project HOLSMEER (Late Holocene Shallow Marine Environments in Europe), involving UK, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Portugal. Studies of Holocene intervals of cores MD992271 and MD992275 are also going to be included in the coming EU-funded project, PACLIVA (Patterns of Climatic Variability in the North Atlantic), co-ordinated by Eystein Jansen, the Bjerknes Center, University of Bergen, Norway.
Other activities on the North Icelandic shelf are included in the PANIS-project "Palaeoenvironments on the North Icelandic Shelf" (see - http://www.hi.is/~jeir/panis.html), operated from the University of Iceland (Jón Eiríksson) and with participation from the University of Aarhus, Denmark (Karen Luise Knudsen). This project is funded by the Natural Science Research Councils in Iceland and in Denmark. At the University of Aarhus, two PhD.-students, one MSc.-student and three researchers are involved in the North Icelandic shelf projects. For abstracts and publication lists, see - http://www.hi.is/~jeir/panis.html.
2. The western North Atlantic, the West and East Greenland shelf
Palaeoenvioronmental research based on diatoms, dinoflagellates and foraminifera in the Holocene record of piston cores from the Atlantic/Greenland area is in progress at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (papers have been submitted). In addition, the University of Aarhus group is working on Late Holocene East Greenland shelf environments together with INSTAAR, Boulder Colorado, USA, as well as with the foraminiferal responce to heavy metal polution from mining in West Greenland in co-operation with the University of Copenhagen.
This year the following papers have been published or are in press:
3. The Skagerrak, eastern North Atlantic
Foraminiferal stratigraphy on IMAGES core MD992286 in the Skagerrak is in progress at the University of Aarhus in co-operation with the University of Stockholm, where sedimentological analyses are carried out. The entire core has been sampled, but at present we are mainly concentrating on the record covering the last 2000 years, which is included in the EU-funded HOLSMEER project (see above). Two researchers from the University of Aarhus are involved.
4. The Caribbean
During the summer 2002, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, obtained an IMAGES Giant Piston core (12.70 m) in the Caribien within the EU-CALYPSO programme. Studies of the Holocene of this core will be included in the coming EU-funded project, PACLIVA (Patterns of Climatic Variability in the North Atlantic), co-ordinated by Eystein Jansen, the Bjerknes Center, University of Bergen, Norway.
5. The Southwest Indian Ocean
The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland has applied, together with the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany, and the University of Oslo, Norway, for drilling in 2003 of six IMAGES Giant Piston Cores from the Southwest Indian Ocean (high resolution late Quaternary palaeoceanography).