Bjarne Holm Jakobsen

PhD, Head, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Organisation: : Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen

Education:

• M.Sc.in Geography in 1980, University of Copenhagen
• dipl. In education (pedagogikum) 1980, Lyngby Statsskole.
• Ph.D. in Physical Geography 1984, University of Copenhagen.
  

Science interests & Projects:

• Research areas: Soils, Arctic soils, soil erosion, global climatic change, geochemical cycling, Arctic, Holocene lake sediments and man-climate-landscape interactions in Arctic regions.
• Teaching areas: Physical Geography, soils and geochemical cycling, man and landscape in the Arctic.
• Recent scientific projects:
  1998-1999: Dynamics of Arctic soils: Physical and chemical processes in the active layer-permafrost system of Arctic soils. Funded by the Danish Research Councils as a two years continuation of the TUPOLAR- project: The Arctic landscape (1995-1997).
  1999-2001: Sulphide mineral oxidation - a source of heavy metal pollution in Arctic ecosystems. Danced/MIKA.
  

Selected Activities:

• Member of the board of directors for the AGeocenter Copenhagen
• Secretary General of the Royal Danish Geographical Society
• Member of the board for GRAS A/S (Geographical Ressource Analysis and Science A/S)
• Member of the International Permafrost Association/International Union of Soil Sciences Cryosols Working Group and member of a task force on a Northern Circumpolar Soils Database.
• Member of the terrestrial working group within the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP).
• Chairman of the board for the Niels Kingo Jacobsen Travelling Fund
  

Selected publications:

• Lacelle, B, Tarnocai, C, Waltman, S., Kimble, J. and Jakobsen, B.H. (1997): North American Soil Organic Carbon Map. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, USDA and Instituto National De Estadistioa E Informatica, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen.
• Lacelle, B., Tarnocai, C., Waltman, S., Kimble, J., Swanson, D., Naumov Ye.M. Jakobsen, B.H. (1997): Northern Circumpolar Soil Map. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, USDA, V.V. Dukochayev Soils Institute, Insttute og geography, University of Copenhagen.
• Rasch, M. Jakobsen, B.H. & Nielsen, N. (1997): Geomorphology and sedimentary record of three cuspate forlands as indicators of late Holocene sea.level changes, Disko, West Greenland. Geografisk Tidsskrift/Danish Journal of Geography, Vol. 97:33-46.
• Elberling, B. & Jakobsen, B.H. (1998): Variations in soil solutions of Arctic brown soils at zackenberg, Northeast Greenland. Earth Cryosphere, Vol. 1 (Jan.-March), pp 79-85.
• Jakobsen, B.H. (1999): Jordbundsforhold. In Gronlands Okologi - En Grundbog. Atuakkiorfik, 1999.
• Jakobsen, B.H. (2000): Jordbundsgeografi (30-32) Jorderosion i Sydgronland (142-145). In Topografisk Atlas Gronland, Atlas over Danmark, Serie II Bd.6. Eds. B.H.Jakobsen, Jens Bocher, Niels Nielsen, Rolf Guttesen, Ole Humlum, Erik Jensen (eds.), 278 pp. Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab og Kort&Matrikelstyrelsen, Kobenhavn 2000.
• Elberling, B. & Jakobsen, B.H. (2000): Soil Solution measurements using in-line chambers with tension lysimeters. Can. J. Soil Sci. 80, pp 283-288.
• Rasch, M., Elberling, B, Jakobsen, B.H. & Hasholt, B. (2000): High-Resolution Measurements of Water discharge, sediment and Solute Transport in the River Zackenbergelven, Northeast Greenland. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, vol. 32, issue 3, pp 336-345.
• Hanne H. Christiansen, Ole Bennike, Jens Bocher, Bo Elberling, Ole Humlum and Bjarne H. Jacobsen (2002): Holocene environmental reconstruction from deltaic deposits in northeast Greenland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 17(2):145-160.
  

CONTACTS

Address: Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K. Denmark.

Tel: (45) 35322500

e-mail: bhj@geogr.ku.dk