NOR CLI: Nordic Climate History
- Duration: 01.08.2024–30.07.2026, UiO:Energy and Environment, Researcher.
VICES: Volcanic Impacts on Climate, Environment and Society, Duration: 2022–2027, European Research Council Starting Grant, Researcher.
This joint project investigates the complexity of eruption-climate-society causalities in the historical past, from the late medieval times to the modern era. The project is hosted at the Institute of History and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern.
For more information, read here: https://www.hist.unibe.ch/forschung/forschungsprojekte/forschung_wirtschafts__sozial__und_umwelt_geschichte/vices/index_ger.html
THERA: Timing of Holocene volcanic eruptions and their radiative aerosol forcing
- Duration: 01.03.2019–28.02.2024, European Research Council Consolidator Grant, PI & Project Manager
Volcanic eruptions produce regional to global scale impacts on the climate system. There is growing evidence of a strong vulnerability of past economies and societies to volcanic impacts on climate drawn from numerous historical examples of “years without a summer”, famines and pandemics coinciding with volcanic extreme events. To mitigate and adapt to the climate effects of future large volcanic eruptions we need to better quantify the risk of these eruptions including 1) the probability of their occurrence and 2) their expected climatic impact.
The overarching goal of THERA is to generate the longest and most comprehensive reconstruction of the climate impact potential from past volcanic eruptions to understand the role of volcanism on climate. The unique ability to extract from these ice cores a complete record of all major volcanic eruptions for over 12,000 years, including such magnitudes scarcely recorded in recent times, offers an ideal opportunity to analyze the likelihood of these global-scale natural hazards.
For more information, read here: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/820047/results
VICS: Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society
- Duration: 2016-2023 (phase1 & 2), since 2025 (phase 3), PAGES (Past Global Changes) Working Group, Steering Committee Member
The PAGES VICS Working Group aims to use an interdisciplinary approach to (1) coordinate improved reconstructions of volcanic radiative forcing, (2) enhance our understanding of volcanically-induced climate variability, and (3) deepen our understanding of societal impacts and human responses to volcanic eruptions.
For more information, read here: https://pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/vics/intro