Nalân Koç

Research director
E-mail
Phone+47 77 75 06 54
Cellphone+47 990 32 721
Work placeTromsø
Affiliation

Current activities

  • "Past Climate of the Norwegian Region-2 (NORPAST-2)" 2003-2006 NFR project.
  • "Norwegian Ocean Climate Project 2 (NOClim-2), Module B: Analyses of abrupt changes in the past", 2003-2006 NFR project.
  • "Patterns of Climate Variability in the North Atlantic - PACLIVA", 2002-2005 EU project.
  • "Marine Climate and Ecosystems in the Seasonal Ice Zone - MACESIZ", 2003-2006 NFR project.
  • "EPICA-MIS: Enhanced palaeoreconstruction and integrated climate analysis through marine and ice core studies.", 2004-2007, EU project.
  • IODP Arctic Coring Expedition - ACEX.
  • Svalbardkurset 2005.
  • IPY project SciencePub.
  • PAGES-Arctic2k Working Group.

Career

  • 1988: University of Bergen, Dept. of Geology Cand.Mag. (BSc) degree
  • 1990: University of Bergen, Dept. of Geology Cand. scient. (MSc) degree in Marine Geology
  • 1990-1993: University of Bergen, Dept. of Geology Doktor scient. (PhD) degree in Marine Geology
  • 1993-1995: University of Bergen, Dept. of Geology. Post.-doc. stipend (NFR)
  • June-Dec.1994: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, NY, U.S.A. Visiting scientist (NFR)
  • 1995-12.1998: Research scientist, University of Bergen, Dept. of Geology
  • 1999-02.2003: Research scientist, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø
  • Since 02.2003: Senior Research scientist, Norwegian Polar Institute
  • 2004-05.2009: Leader of Polar Climate Programme
  • Since 01.2006: Prof. II, University of Tromsø
  • Since 06.2009: Head of Centre for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems (ICE)

Areas of interest and expertise

  • Quantifying natural climate variability and understanding interhemispheric coupling
  • Understanding ocean-land-atmosphere interactions
  • Development of Tertiary diatom biostratigraphy and paleoceanography of the high-latitude North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean

I have developed transfer functions for quantitative estimates of past sea surface temperatures using marine diatoms for the Nordic Seas and the North Atlantic. My main research activities have focused on reconstructing past surface ocean variability through sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice cover reconstructions during the last interglacial-glacial cycle, the last deglaciation, the Holocene and Recent Past. I work both in the high-latitude North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean, and the Southern Ocean.

I have participated in several ODP and IODP cruises (Legs 151, 152, 162, 302) both as onboard and onshore scientist as a diatom biostratigrapher.